I’ve been loving Baldur’s Gate 3, despite the growing pains that come with playing such a punishing game with only a bare minimum knowledge of 🧸the mechanics. After spending a full day getting my ass kicked in a goblin camp, I followed my colleague Jade King’s advice and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:droppe♛d my difficulty le🦂vel to Narrative so I can actually get on with the game. Now, instead of sitting in front of my PC, groaning in frustration with my head in my hands, I’m completely sold. I’ve never played a game that’s made me feel as if 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:every choice I make really matters,🀅 or at the very least where I can’t predict what ending my choices will get me. I am constantly stressed about making the best decision for the people around me, because there is no binary good or evil path for me to walk. That’s a truly extraordinary feat.
The runtime, though, is daunting, with a single campaign likely taking up to 100 hours or more. I have no idea how I’m going to finish this game before Starfield comes out, another RPG with life-ruining potential. How am I suppose🌠d to balance wanting to spend all my time playing this game with having a social life, going to the gym, eating meals,🐓 and touching grass? I’m not sure, and I’m not even far into act one yet, but I’m already hyped to finish my first playthrough and start the game all over again, this time playing as the Dark Urge. Oh, what a playthrough it will be.
For the 💦uninitiated, Baldur’s Gate 3 gives you a number of Orꦬigin characters you can play as. These are essentially pre-made characters you can select during character creation, and each has a personal backstory and exclusive quests. If you make a custom character, you can recruit each of these Origin characters as companions to your party, and they’ll all have their own opinions about the actions you take, affecting how they view you. Playing as them, though, helps you better understand their lore and background and gives you insight into just how deeply each character has been written. There’s one character, however, that you cannot recruit as a companion, and that’s the Dark Urge. The Dark Urge is fully customisable, and you can pick whatever race, class, appearance and gender you want while playing as this Origin. What you can’t customise, however, is the Urge itself.
The Dark Urge has an unknown history, having woken up with no memories and a sadistic, evil urge to kill. There is a voice in your head that fills your mind with evil thoughts and pushes you to commit horrible, vile, downright disturbing acts throughout your playthrough. Indulge in your baser urges, and bad things happen. Sometimes, you’ll do evil things without being able to stop yourself. The Dark Urge is all about fighting against your thoughts and trying to do the right thing, while knowing that giving in could result in a terrible outcome – your companions massacred, inn𓆉ocents dead, quests prematurely ended because you murdered everybody involved.
I didn’t want to play as the Dark Urge during my first playthrough, for obvious reasons. When I play RPGs, I always go for the most humane approach, because I like winning and I always want to get the best possible. Subsequent playthroughs are where I get real weird with it, just to see how far the developers are willing to go when it comes to roleplaying an evil character. The Dark Urge is absolutely perfect for that, and while I’m sure over the years I’ll get to the rest of the Origin characters, I’m absolutely dying to see what happens when I go full villain. I’m sure that, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:like columnist Mike Drucker, I’ll find myself struggling with exactly how dark the game gets when you don’t fight against your tempt🐽ations to be cruel, but there’s no better way to see just how dark Baldur’s Gate 3 can get.