"So, what this stream means is picking the worst narrative options when choices are presented" *immediately descends into ignoring loot and shoving companions off ledges*
luke 10 min after saying there not gonna jump into chasms because that obviously a bad choice: "how about next time you control her, you make her jump into a chasm"
One of my favourite TikToks included a DM reading the character sheets and his reactions these characters were as follows: Halsin: You want to do WHAT as a bear? Astarion: Please don’t fuck the bear.
Hell yeah, Luke. Everyone hates on Lae'zel, but not only is she one of the best characters in the game, she also has the best VO actress in my opinion. Wish she was nominated for an award too, she really deserves it!
Agreed! It took me a while to warm to her, but Lae'zel is such a great, interestingly written character and Devora Wilde did an amazing job. Her performance added so much. (edit: grammar)
Ellen is a treasure. I named my Kingdoms of Amalur character after her and whenever I bring up somebody checking out Stray I strongly recommend her playthrough where she has to stop multiple times because of sheer uncontrollable joy.
Please both channels do several episode play throughs fully as your d and d characters. Would be amazing. I know one was done but love to see everyone take turns in pairs or groups and have a go
“He was very nice about it but it must have been very weird.” Ellen I can promise Neil has had worse/weirder encounters 😂 I absolutely adore him. I’d love to see you guys interview any of the cast!
Ah, but recruiting Astarion would have opened the path for many more subsequent bad choices, like donating all of your blood. Which I suppose Ellen's Tav wouldn't have been against, seeing how she donated all of her brain to the illithid.
As an item hoarder in games this episode absolutely got under my skin, lol. Idea for the next video, roll a 🎲 for the dialog choices. Makes the game very funny at times
@@holyrod2001 I picked gale as my first player character long before the game came out, when the lads and I spent a good ol while debating which characters (or origins) we'd be building for it, Since Gale is exactly how I play wizards anyways, its been working perfectly lol, since his personality is so close to the first wizard I made in d&d, he basically feels like my brainchild and i love him lol
I'm honestly surprised this video managed to be over two hours long, seeing as Luke's initial definition of "good choice" was "in any way interact with the game."
I've always loved this channel and its presenters. This video is exactly the reason why. I love that y'all truly enjoy what you do. Your "content" is just you doing what you want to do. I've watched alot of gaming channels over the years, and yours is one that never fails to bring me joy. Thank you for all y'all do.
Look. I realise how hard the "no good decisions" thing would make this, but this stream was so much fun!! I would be chuffed to bits if this could return 😁
Ellen, that was probably one of the least embarrassing interactions anyone has had with Neil Newbon. One that I love was on a stream of him doing signings for people, and after making a lot of jokes, he learned that there is in fact a Scottish clan named the McButts clan. McButts was the recipient of the signed picture and was in the stream. Apparently, he eventually met them face-to-face. 😂
You guys ever been clicking too fast on a conversation and you choose an option without seeing it? On my second playthrough I have an item called "gale's hand"
As hilarious as this was, I do hope Ellen does her own run where she recruits everyone because the companions are a highlight as they're really well written and acted. Her reaction to speaking to all the animals would be great.
You can resurect her once you've recruitwd her as a companion but you don't have to. However Lae'zel is insanely prone to getting herself killed, like there are at least 5 times she will die without your intervention. And there are also several times where she will decide to stop being your companion and attack you if you make certain choices in the game.
I'm literally only a few minutes in but I had no idea the UI for controller is soooo horrible! I'd have no hope lol! Ellen's joy at the opening cutscene was wonderful.
it's not that bad once you get your head around it - keeps the screen clean, too. only issues ive found is that you have to use the wrong stick to select a song to perform or you insta-cancel it because you're using the movement stick.
@@Ich3Oh yeh I'm not good with controllers, I dread to think what terrible crimes i would accidentally commit just from hitting the wrong option ha ha!
This idea takes way more restraint than playing normally. Only letting yourself make bad choices in a game this big is super restrictive. I'm getting stressed just watching. I'm amazed at their restraint.
It was funny but I i also wish they had stuck with the initial plan laid out in the beginning. It would have given them more opportunities to make bad choices
@@Ich3Oh Saying "literally" 5e is a bit of a stretch, it definitely takes a lot of creative liberty with the rules lol (partly because they reworked a lot of it to be more "gamey" rather than RP, or to account for mechanics they didn't include, such as how spell sniper is a completely different feat due to the fact that cover mechanics aren't ingame, and partly just because they took a lot of liberty with the bonus action economy especially lol) I can see why they'd ask, a lot of things that are viable in tabletop aren't viable in BG3 (especially sad about the changes to the Divination Wizard's Portent getting a massive nerf, and Polymorph getting reduced to the sorry state that it is in game lol), but BG3 also reworks a lot of other stuff to make builds that aren't viable in Tabletop, work in BG3, such as the changes to Tavern Brawler, making full strength monk builds very fun to play.
Radials are much easier to navigate with a controller, though I can imagine hotbars are better with a keyboard and mouse. Trying to play FFXIV on PS5, using a controller for hotbars that were clearly designed for a mouse, was borderline painful.
Yeah, game is definitely better with hotbars on PC, though i like having my radials set up anyways so that i can lean back and use a controller for a bit if im just exploring, because it supports input hotswap. What weirds me out, is the game uses a different font if you're using a controller, than a M&K.
That begining fight I dont understand. Why does the mindflayer think you are on theirs side and will help them escape. They just put a thing in your eye arent you trying to escape from the mindflayers?
Mindflayers typically have great psychic control over their 'thralls'. This one thought it was giving commands to a mostly mindless servant, rather than somebody who still had free will. And since their ship had landed in one of the hells, it would make sense for anyone to try to escape - thrall or no.
The tadpole it put in your eye is SUPPOSED to allow them psionic control over you, turning you into a slave for the Illithid, until eventually it grows, destroys your brain, and turns you into a mindflayer yourself. It believed you to be one of it's thralls, controlled by an Elder Brain that forms a hive mind, however it is a plot point that the tadpole you (and your companions) received, is not your typical Illithid tadpole, and you are able to keep your mind, and control over your body (otherwise it wouldn't be a very fun play lol)
After 250+ hours i completed my first full playthrough, I'm now restarting as a DURGE run with all my previous knowledge, can't wait to be more brutal on my run, after trying my best to appease all companions
Does it count as a dark urge run, if no ones playing as the Dark Urge lol They may be making bad choices, but the Durge is.... next level bad choices lol
Literally only a couple of buttons you need to play this game and Luke tells Ellen to ignore the second most important one seconds in. You *do* need to use the trigger radials to play this game, as well. Lmao.
@@ChrisOsberg What's the context? Did you let him bite you and not stop him at a certain point? I've played multiple playthroughs and have never gotten killed by him.
@@ChrisOsberg Don't blame him, blame the terrible D20 roll you got if you tried to get him to stop. He lost control of his hunger, you can't blame him for that. He'd been living off wildlife and the occasional criminal.
"So, what this stream means is picking the worst narrative options when choices are presented"
*immediately descends into ignoring loot and shoving companions off ledges*
They went with the Evil Ellen choice in more ways than one.
"I'm gonna take his boots, like an absolute weirdo."
Corazon, wearing Jaques Darkfall's boots: And I took that personally.
It's also canon Dob took those boots and hid them in the lake, to be found by Merilwen afterwards
luke 10 min after saying there not gonna jump into chasms because that obviously a bad choice: "how about next time you control her, you make her jump into a chasm"
I love how the ending of this would make even a computerized DM buried their head in their hands in frustration. "You want to do WHAT?"
One of my favourite TikToks included a DM reading the character sheets and his reactions these characters were as follows:
Halsin: You want to do WHAT as a bear?
Astarion: Please don’t fuck the bear.
Stream starts at 1:01! Chaos begins not long after.
Thank you.
Thank you Angel :D
A legend as always. So happy I'm not the only one who likes posting when stream starts
Thanks my dude
Hell yeah, Luke. Everyone hates on Lae'zel, but not only is she one of the best characters in the game, she also has the best VO actress in my opinion. Wish she was nominated for an award too, she really deserves it!
Agreed!
It took me a while to warm to her, but Lae'zel is such a great, interestingly written character and Devora Wilde did an amazing job. Her performance added so much.
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"This sphincter is already in use!" Amazing start, guys xDD
Well you know the old saying: You can lead a goblin horde to open gates, but you can't make them rush through
"It's sphincters all the way down" 😂😂
Ellen is a treasure. I named my Kingdoms of Amalur character after her and whenever I bring up somebody checking out Stray I strongly recommend her playthrough where she has to stop multiple times because of sheer uncontrollable joy.
10 min into the stream in unison:
"This sphincter is already in use"
God, I love them to bits
Please both channels do several episode play throughs fully as your d and d characters. Would be amazing. I know one was done but love to see everyone take turns in pairs or groups and have a go
Love when Andy playing as corazon stole from Mike playing as an Egbert like character.
@@CIS115DKmy fave was the way Mike just kept going "why are you passing sleight of hand checks?!" And Andy's classic "don't worry about it"
“STOP!”
*Stone column falls from the sky, killing the gnome instantly.*
I almost peed.
“He was very nice about it but it must have been very weird.” Ellen I can promise Neil has had worse/weirder encounters 😂 I absolutely adore him. I’d love to see you guys interview any of the cast!
Neil has CAUSED worse/weirder interaction. McButts comes to mind. 🤣
Ellen: I'm just gonna cantrip my way.
Me: Just gonna "Jane" your way through. ❤
Big Princess Bride vibes the way Luke just hurls himself off a cliff after Ellen lol
Luke would be pleased to know that you can fully side with the goblins, just not yet at this particular fight lol
Alternative title to the stream: “It is time to be a Dob TO THE MAX.”
Watching them stumble through combat felt akin to watching Jar Jar Binks bumble his way into destroying dozens of droids.
Ah, but recruiting Astarion would have opened the path for many more subsequent bad choices, like donating all of your blood. Which I suppose Ellen's Tav wouldn't have been against, seeing how she donated all of her brain to the illithid.
He probably would have high approval because he does enjoy chaos and bad choices
As an item hoarder in games this episode absolutely got under my skin, lol. Idea for the next video, roll a 🎲 for the dialog choices. Makes the game very funny at times
Gale saying he'll perish around 1:15:47 still haunts me.
I'm playing as Gale in our MP run through of this game, so that hurt lol
@@_b1ack0ut4 lol, I'm also playing as Gale. He's not my favorite companion, but I love him
@@holyrod2001 I picked gale as my first player character long before the game came out, when the lads and I spent a good ol while debating which characters (or origins) we'd be building for it, Since Gale is exactly how I play wizards anyways, its been working perfectly lol, since his personality is so close to the first wizard I made in d&d, he basically feels like my brainchild and i love him lol
1:03:29 Ellen seems to cast Tasha's Laughter on herself as well lol
BTW, I need a Let's Play of Baldur Gate III where Ellen talks with all the animals.
I'm honestly surprised this video managed to be over two hours long, seeing as Luke's initial definition of "good choice" was "in any way interact with the game."
This stream is dedicated to Bugbear the Goblin.
RIP Bugbear, forever in our hearts.
Technically bugbear isn’t a goblin, they’re a bugbear which is a goblinoid race
Wow, just leaving Gale to die in the sigil somehow feels worse than the Dark Urge option
At least you get something out of the situation with the Durge option. 😂
Luke missing an attack with a whole desk destroyed me.
I've always loved this channel and its presenters. This video is exactly the reason why. I love that y'all truly enjoy what you do. Your "content" is just you doing what you want to do. I've watched alot of gaming channels over the years, and yours is one that never fails to bring me joy. Thank you for all y'all do.
53:36 The Intellect Devourers are like "We're going to starve."
Look. I realise how hard the "no good decisions" thing would make this, but this stream was so much fun!! I would be chuffed to bits if this could return 😁
Ellen, that was probably one of the least embarrassing interactions anyone has had with Neil Newbon. One that I love was on a stream of him doing signings for people, and after making a lot of jokes, he learned that there is in fact a Scottish clan named the McButts clan. McButts was the recipient of the signed picture and was in the stream. Apparently, he eventually met them face-to-face. 😂
@28:55 - "Intellect Devourer, I was fine." Any relation to Philip Fry? His poor little Brain Slug starved to death. 😝
I’m doing an evil/dumb co op playthrough too, but I still kept the companions alive, because otherwise the game just feels empty
"Good dragon, what a good dragon." Merylwen emerges. 😂
"Oh, Astarion... this feels so wrong." BECAUSE IT IS! I just wish they'd realized they can take his underwear too.
You guys ever been clicking too fast on a conversation and you choose an option without seeing it? On my second playthrough I have an item called "gale's hand"
I kinda want to do this next time I play an RPG. I used to like trying to break games when I was younger. Dunno why I stopped.
So from every picture I’ve seen of the O2 Gamepad, I’ve only seen stairs.
Are there elevators for us disabled players?
As hilarious as this was, I do hope Ellen does her own run where she recruits everyone because the companions are a highlight as they're really well written and acted. Her reaction to speaking to all the animals would be great.
I'm at 19:20 and I've got tears from laughing. This is GREAT!
Luke and Ellen's dedication to the bit is so endearingly funny and thouroughly entertaining
I feel like I'm watching Amelia Tyler's stream again... and then Ellen does the voice at 56:45
Love that Lukes character actually looks like him 🤣
I want to play more of this. So many games atm
Lovely to see more BG3 content from you guys, even though the split screen made me feel a bit sick 😂
Even in video game D&D they cast cheez It, for all the good it did one of them mere seconds later
Please continue this!
Priceless, please do a follow up!
if you push lae'zel off the cliff, is she just not in the rest of the game? if so, then that's pretty impressive commitment to player choice
You can resurect her once you've recruitwd her as a companion but you don't have to. However Lae'zel is insanely prone to getting herself killed, like there are at least 5 times she will die without your intervention. And there are also several times where she will decide to stop being your companion and attack you if you make certain choices in the game.
I'm literally only a few minutes in but I had no idea the UI for controller is soooo horrible! I'd have no hope lol! Ellen's joy at the opening cutscene was wonderful.
it's not that bad once you get your head around it - keeps the screen clean, too. only issues ive found is that you have to use the wrong stick to select a song to perform or you insta-cancel it because you're using the movement stick.
@@Ich3Oh yeh I'm not good with controllers, I dread to think what terrible crimes i would accidentally commit just from hitting the wrong option ha ha!
so there were a lot of bad choices and yet no choice to throw collect every item to throw into a lake, surely the worst choice anyone can make
Well I guess now I get to see what the worst choices are in the game. Thanks for doing the things I never would 🤣
52:22 THAT ACTUALLY SOUNDS LIKE ELLEN
To be a playthrough of bad choices, I would have gone with a githyanki bard and also a gnome barbarian.
We need a super cut of every time Ellen lost it over making a bad choice.
Throwing your sword was a bad choice, so keeping to the theme.
This idea takes way more restraint than playing normally. Only letting yourself make bad choices in a game this big is super restrictive. I'm getting stressed just watching. I'm amazed at their restraint.
This was so much funnier than I even thought possible.
OXTRA BG3 CONTENT! something to make up for accidentally breaking the side panel of my PC
The bad choice when leveling up is to multiclass. In most cases multiclassing before level 4 or so is a bad choice.
couldnt do that on explorer difficulty, unfortunately (no multiclass on easy, for some daft reason)
In 90% of cases, MCing in dnd is a terrible idea, the mechanic definitely feels like it was an afterthought in 5e.
@@_b1ack0ut4 it certainly needs the support of custom items but the roleplay of a bardbarian is so good so i care less about the gameplay impact
I love this, but setting the challenge to "narrative choices" and then immediately trying to kill everyone outside of chats is top DnD behaviour
What a stream, I can't believe you've done this. And this, and this, and that etc.
It was funny but I i also wish they had stuck with the initial plan laid out in the beginning. It would have given them more opportunities to make bad choices
Gamepads are back everyone!
Luke as a DM?? I've gotta see that. I know he left OX, but I'd love to see at least a one-shot where Luke DMs, and Johnny is a player.
Oh, gods, this is gonna be a beautiful mess.
Leaving Us is the worst choice, and damn, it hurt to watch. 13:18 LUKE NO!
Loved this stream, guys! Thanks!
49:00 🤣
Thanks for the awesome content! Stay safe & sane! 🙂
Are the builds similar enough to D&D where you can make a Bard with a focus on strength and athletics to be a pushing-people-over master?
it's literally d&d 5e so yes
@@Ich3Oh Saying "literally" 5e is a bit of a stretch, it definitely takes a lot of creative liberty with the rules lol (partly because they reworked a lot of it to be more "gamey" rather than RP, or to account for mechanics they didn't include, such as how spell sniper is a completely different feat due to the fact that cover mechanics aren't ingame, and partly just because they took a lot of liberty with the bonus action economy especially lol)
I can see why they'd ask, a lot of things that are viable in tabletop aren't viable in BG3 (especially sad about the changes to the Divination Wizard's Portent getting a massive nerf, and Polymorph getting reduced to the sorry state that it is in game lol), but BG3 also reworks a lot of other stuff to make builds that aren't viable in Tabletop, work in BG3, such as the changes to Tavern Brawler, making full strength monk builds very fun to play.
Omg they made each other in game 😭
To be fair, not freeing gale was a great idea lol
Gotta love the irony in the starting screen
This was as funny as the Soulsbourne intellectuals stream amazing 😂😂😂
Hooray for the goblin hoard!
I cannot believe I missed this
got that same twin bun hairstyle for Yvenya, my BG3 version of my current D&D Warlock.
Luke’s character looks like Zac Efron
I cannot stop giggling watching this
This was entertaining, Hate to see what the ending is.
They've been Infinity Ward, forced to make Call of Duty games under the watchful eye of the Illithids for all eternity
Man I despise the radial menus in this game. The hot bar in DoS2 was so much cleaner & easier to navigate.
It doesn't have any radial menus on PC. At least when playing with mouse + keyboard which is by far the best way of playing this game.
Radials are much easier to navigate with a controller, though I can imagine hotbars are better with a keyboard and mouse. Trying to play FFXIV on PS5, using a controller for hotbars that were clearly designed for a mouse, was borderline painful.
Yeah, game is definitely better with hotbars on PC, though i like having my radials set up anyways so that i can lean back and use a controller for a bit if im just exploring, because it supports input hotswap. What weirds me out, is the game uses a different font if you're using a controller, than a M&K.
hm... I first thought this was a good idea, but having Ellen go through the game without companions isn't the first experience I would wish for her.
More of this, please!
❤❤❤
That begining fight I dont understand. Why does the mindflayer think you are on theirs side and will help them escape. They just put a thing in your eye arent you trying to escape from the mindflayers?
Mindflayers typically have great psychic control over their 'thralls'. This one thought it was giving commands to a mostly mindless servant, rather than somebody who still had free will. And since their ship had landed in one of the hells, it would make sense for anyone to try to escape - thrall or no.
The tadpole it put in your eye is SUPPOSED to allow them psionic control over you, turning you into a slave for the Illithid, until eventually it grows, destroys your brain, and turns you into a mindflayer yourself. It believed you to be one of it's thralls, controlled by an Elder Brain that forms a hive mind, however it is a plot point that the tadpole you (and your companions) received, is not your typical Illithid tadpole, and you are able to keep your mind, and control over your body (otherwise it wouldn't be a very fun play lol)
After 250+ hours i completed my first full playthrough, I'm now restarting as a DURGE run with all my previous knowledge, can't wait to be more brutal on my run, after trying my best to appease all companions
It's called a DARK URGE run, and it's great.
Does it count as a dark urge run, if no ones playing as the Dark Urge lol
They may be making bad choices, but the Durge is.... next level bad choices lol
one persons bad choice is anothers good choice....
Literally only a couple of buttons you need to play this game and Luke tells Ellen to ignore the second most important one seconds in.
You *do* need to use the trigger radials to play this game, as well. Lmao.
I hate smug arrogant characters that have no integrity. So my favorite part was the one with Astarion.
Astarion's arrogance is just a mask, he's quite charming and actually caring, once you peel back the centuries of trauma he has suffered.
@@disableddragonborn Yeah, well, I trusted him, and he killed me. 😝
@@ChrisOsberg What's the context? Did you let him bite you and not stop him at a certain point? I've played multiple playthroughs and have never gotten killed by him.
@@disableddragonborn Yep, that's it
@@ChrisOsberg Don't blame him, blame the terrible D20 roll you got if you tried to get him to stop. He lost control of his hunger, you can't blame him for that. He'd been living off wildlife and the occasional criminal.
My gosh, Luke's really throwing for content in this one.
Shadowheart is my girlfriend in the game so seeing them gaslight her hurts! 😭🤣
The only truly bad choice is not playing this game- or killing the doggo or owlbear cub- you monster.
The O2?? Woah!! Just like that Fortnite map!!!
Wow! Ellen's embarrassing story she put on tiktok was directed at Neil Newbon!
Gamepad. Looks quite empty..
well it was the middle of a weekday in london - anyone that can afford to use it is either working, asleep, or has their own set-up...