I’m a very anxious person, and somewhat of a perfectionist when it comes to role-playing games.🐻 People always say it’s about the journey and not the destination, but when it comes to most games, the journey has to be perfect if you want to reach the perfect destination. When I play games for the first time, I’m always trying to get the best possible ending, whi🦩ch means I make all my choices in service of getting the most canonically accurate one with the least harm done to innocents, where the maximum number of characters like me and approve of my actions, and there’s a happy ending. I do this with every game, because its usually easy to tell what actions will get you the ending you want.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is not like most games, and I am constantly stressed about making the right choice because it is so hard to tell if I’m doing the right thing or not. Early in act one, you’re tasked with either helping Tiefling refugees in a Druid encampment or massacring them – 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:obviously, I chose to help them, because I want to be a good guy. I thought I did everything right, going straight to the goblin camp as I was told to so I could find Halsin and kill enough goblins that the road would be safe for the fleeing Tieflings. The Tieflings ended up still having to leave their safe shelter bec♋ause the Druids went thr🅰ough with their ritual, but I assumed that was the best possible outcome, because I did the right thing.
Scrolling through Twitter made me realise I could have done more. There was an optional side mission where you can investigate Kagha, which would have led you to being able to stop the ritual the Druids were carrying out. In my playthrough, Kagha is unharmed and free to do what she wants, and I can’t help but wonder if that’s going to bite me in the ass later. If I’d done more, wouꦕld things be better for the Tieflings and the grove? Will she come back later in the story and mess my shit up? There’s no way for me to know.
Because of this, I’ve gotten even more anxious when it comes to every single quest and side quest. If I don’t do this, I wonder, will I have lost out on a powerful ally? Would an entire population suffer because I didn’t step in when I could have? Am I siding with the right people or the wrong ones? Nothing in Baldur’s Gate 3 is cut and dry, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:every choice does really matter.
Even though I want to help the most people possible, I’m afraid that somewhere, unintended consequences are happening that will send me down a path I don’t want to be on. Right now I’m in the Underdark, and I’ve discovered that there’s an entire slave colony of Deep Gnomes that need to be saved somewhere. I am treading carefully, trying to figure out how to help them without accidentally doing something I didn’t mean to. I’m actively fighting the urge to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:save scum to get the best outcome, because I do still want t𝔉o enjoy the journey and not just the destination, but ♈boy, is it hard.
I don’t want to rely too heavily on guides for the best outcome, because why bother? Baldur’s Gate 3 is all about the choices we make, and that’s why it’s an incredible game. But much like in real life, sometimes shit happens that you didn’t mean to make happen, and you just have to get on with it. I want to stop fixating on what could have been and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:deal with what has already happened, but it’s hard to do that when I can se▨e exactly how other people are playing online and start to wonder, should I have done that instead? Maybe this will be less of a problem when I do my Dark Urge playthrough and my goal is to mess everything up as thoroughly as I can just to see what will happen, but for now, Baldur’s Gate 3 is killing my need to always do the right thing. I mean that in the best way.