#my ‘hood’ playthroughs have always been much shorter/faster because. well. your path is clear.

[areyouwho-ithinkyouare]

people who haven’t played baldur’s gate 3 in it’s early access but who PLAN to buy it at release i really cannot express how much more interesting the story is (at least in the 1st act that we’ve had in EA) if you play a non-good character. You don’t have to be fully evil but there is so much extra content you dont see if you just go in,kill the villains, save the good guys.

#also there are a load of WAYS you can choose to be not-good and they all offer you a different experience and a different story #you can be a classic murder-hobo or you can be a backstabbing little cretin or a true evil villain #and there are so many options and paths and events you can experience in different ways depending on your flavour of evil #whereas if you play it as a good character… there might be SOME variation but it’s nothing major #nothing that really alters the way the story unfolds #there’s an ending where you TELL the good guys you’re gonna work against them #and there’s a completely SEPERATE ending where you tell them you’ll protect them but actually double-cross them #and there’s an ending where you tell them you’ll help them and then tell the bad guys you’ll help THEM and then actually you just #kill them all #and those all FEEL like seperate stories and they set you up for the rest of the game (act 2 and beyond) in very different positions #and the game also gives you like. decent justifications for making more ‘evil’ choices which is RARE #it’s rare for a game to say ‘you might only survive if you’re evil’ which obviously isn’t true but it sets that idea up #so that you can RP a character who maybe isn’t outright sadistic evil #but who is willing to do what it takes to survive #idk dude the whole thing is just. much more interesting if you allow yourself to make morally questionable choices. #my ‘hood’ playthroughs have always been much shorter/faster because. well. your path is clear. #and if you want to really dig in and see all of what the game has to offer….. you’ve gotta get away from the main path #my first play through was good #and in the bit where you break into the bad guy’s base for the final confrontation i just. #went through room by room killed everyone and was like. cool job done i guess. #COMPLETELY missed some really interesting cutscenes and RP moments that give you chances to shift the whole final arc of that plotline