@K.C-2049honestly it’s so refreshing to be proven wrong and even end up having fun along the way. That’s how I felt about this game initially. I actually didn’t like it at first but now it’s my most played Steam game 🙃 I have a problem now.
Yeah, this is pretty much exactly what happened to me, everyone was explaining exactly what this game was and I was just thinking “this game sounds awful”… then it won GOTY and I was like “fine I’ll play it”… now I can’t stop
Im not a big turn based dude, but slemhkw, Larian pulls me in. I think the fact theres so much variwty compaded to toher games of the genre which are basically pressing a button every other turn. Theres stealth, throwables, weird builds. The characters are great, and therws so much variety in character creation. Tue only other gane that captured me like this with turn based combat was Mutant Year Zero.
@@archbishopofthecrusades9579 the character writing is what really made this game so good for me, while the turn-based combat system is fun, it's not my favorite, that aside the story and writing are absolutely unbelievable I can't think of any other game that exists that focuses so much on character development and outcomes based on player decisions and makes it so complex and intricate, most “decision focused” games your choices don't actually matter, that's not the case with this game and some decisions can absolutely destroy your relationship with some characters which I absolutely love
I had the opposite, I was so hyped to play it as a massive crpg fan but I was massively disappointed. The game isn’t bad, it’s just a pretty solid 6/10 for me. Would take Pathfinder or PoE any day over this
She appears if you have companions to be kidnapped or not. But generally, if you have Lae'zel, Gale, Minthara and Halsin one of them will get abducted by Orin. Unless you romance one and the other 3 are in your party all the time one of them will get taken. The rule is it can't be them if one they are your romanced companion or in your active party. After the patch which allows you to have Minthara and Halsin it is possible to have all 4 of them present in your camp.
@@02091992able Thats exactly what he meant by saying its a saftey npc, yes u will meet her regardless but if you dont have anyone to be kidnapped it will be here, thats her sole purpose. Yes usually you would have an npc to be taken but some people either just didnt recruit everyone, depending on ur choices some leave and if ur unlucky shadowheart ends up killing laezel too, which might make it that u wont have a companion to be taken.
I do wish they did something with her, she just kind of hung around my camp doing nothing and kept talking about her paring knife and making some food because the game picked Halsin to be grabbed for some reason.
I have watched at least 4 play throughs in their entirety on top of my own, with 100+ hours of watching extra content sprinkled in…and I’ve never seen those two random townspeople dueling. I love this game
@@Childofbhaal well honestly my first playthrough I did alot of save scumming 😂 second playthrough a little save scumming but I literally take my time to explore an try to figure out every last dialog option an secret .
@@Childofbhaal by the way not sure if you know or not but if you kill the dwarf with the bubble bang or whatever you call it you can get his wife to adopt one of the stray cats in baldurs gate.
The move at 11:44 is actually genius from an AI Enemy's Ally been standing in cloudkill, which dealt damage at the start of that enemy's turn, so other decided to push it out with an attack, dealing 7 damage instead of cloudkill 5d8 or more damage, which could have killed instead
That's what I thought, but its also crazy that the AI went "yeah, I'ma shoot eldritch blast at my boy rq to save him". The AI in this game are exceptional.
I say this as a certified bg3 enjoyer, but it is SO funny how quickly the AI in this game can go from "save my buddy from cloudkill via eldritch blast" to "i can't path towards the party to melee, and even though me and all my buds do have a ranged attack we will instead waste our turns hopping and dashing back and forth across a chasm". Which I'm not complaining about, because it saved my hide against the merregon firing squad and was very funny to watch. BUT THE COMPANION PATHFINDING ON THE OTHER HAND
@@Butchcavalier Me, playing a Ranger: My Wolf is gonna tank Nere and Shovel is gonna desecrate his corpse, ATTACK!!!! Shovel and the Wolf are chilling on the other side of the Underdark with Gale's Raven. Crap. Oh hey, may as well try out Gale's shock aura! Proceeds to electrocute all the Deep Gnomes. I had no choice but to throw Barcus in the lava for shits and giggles before a reload.
@@sokar_rostau bc of this comment, I went on to the wiki to find out who the hell Shovel is. 200 hours of gameplay and I would have missed this entirely without this comment lol. Just goes to show how much content and replayability BG3 has
@@MilkManSteveI was so excited to use speak to animals for the first time a bit into the game, the first animal I spoke to was a raven who told me that nobody loved me. Never used the spell again 😭
I used to hate turn based combat, third person games are the only ones I used to play. I hadn't even heard of DnD before. When I heard BG3 beat spiderman 2 in the awards i had to find out what made this so special. Four hours in and it just opened up a whole new world for me, the exploration and the time i spend was so worth it. I felt like I was back to being that kid who used to get so engrossed in something that the world around me just fades into the background. I didn't realise i had to learn to have fun again, and this masterpiece of a game triggered it in me. Unlike other games which are pretty predictable in their story and gameplay, this game actually demanded my attention, i couldn't just mindlessly wander around doing the same side mission in 100 different locations. This game will always be one of the best experience I've ever had, it taught me something really valuable, you're not necessarily having fun just because you apportion your time to have "fun" . To have fun is to let go, to allow yourself be immersed and focused on something that may seem so trivial and unproductive to others...
@@mintkit1064 I've heard great things about Elden Ring. I'm gonna play that once I finish BG3. Pretty sure I'll enjoy it, since I had so much fun playing Sekiro..
I genuinely think most glitches seem to be multiplayer related, at least after they significantly patched Act 3. Some of the most hilarious stuff I've never been able to replicate in my singleplayer campaign because I have no friends.
It's nature, my friend, new things are also dangerous things, you can stick to your ways and tiptoe to an early grave or you can have some fun, one requires an open mind and courage, and not everyone has these qualities.
even before finishing Act 3, I started another playthrough LOL..... This game can so many possibility, Squid face playthrough, Good Dark Urge playthrough, Good Tav playthrough, Evil Dark Urge playthrough.......etc. This game is not all about abilities and power level up, sometimes I decide to choose "not so powerful" build just because I want to really indulge in role playing.
I'm on a multiplayer run with a friend right now and it's his first playthrough and he's playing so chaotic that I'm seeing interactions I never knew were in the game. This game is so goddamn good
My friend didn't like that it wasn't a direct sequel to BG2 so she complained about it every time it got brought up. Then her son got it and while she watched him play she was like, "Wait... it's actually kind of cool."
Can only save in rivington dame not showing up at avengers assemble, The monks in baals thingy is supposed to be 5 but its infinite Oh and the whole halsin cant unequip sword and druid and summed stuff bugs Thats all the bugs i encountered I know that nost of them are patched but dame was recent,had to get something from github to fix it lol
The kid is a failsafe for Orins kidnapping to ensure that in case you don't have a spare companion with low friendship, she could always have a hostage to try forcing you into killing Gortash first
Even if you had properly toggled non lethal he still dies, and your character shouts something to the effect of, “That wasn’t meant to kill him! Is this the absolute’s doing?!” Only way to save him is later in the prison, to my knowledge anyways.
I think the greatest thing baldurs gate 3 does , better than anyone, is keep the freedom fair and consistent, and small interactions that make sense. Like the game rewards you for being smart and creative, and thats something that goes a long way. When I had to deal with priestess gut, i couldnt do itt for the first few times in a straight up fight cux she would call the guards, so I used silence on her and voila, she can no longer call the fucking guards. Like it was so simple and made such sense I was like "Why did i not think of this shit before" Or the fact that in the city, when im fighting enemies, I could just use a spell to toss one of them out and then the entire fucking city watch would fight with me , instantly making a boss fight into a cakewalk. This game rewards freedom and creativity so much, on top of doing everything else well.
Honestly my favourite experiences with games, or any other form of media, is when I think they will suck and I'm proven wrong. That moment when it sets and you're like "wait, I'm actually having fun" is just great.
nostalgia can be a sequel with movie and/or games can set expectations to high, at least to some degree. So if it doesnt measure up to how a person felt it should be, the crash from their disappointment is almost seeing an addict trying to quit cold turkey. I try not to get all "kid on xmas morning" since a persons own memories, and hype can be what creates the most disappointment and anger. But there still are some major stinkers that the developers missed the mark so badly they a donkeys A$$**** and thought they hit a bullseye.
i love this game so much. all of the characters are so well built out and are so unique, even side characters that you may never even see. also i just love astarion
Baldur's Gate 3 is a truly rare breed of narrative-choice-driven role-playing game that has long gotten the short end of the stick over the course of game-design history, usually manifesting in forms like Fallout: New Vegas... as truly spectacular, once-in-a-generation roleplaying experiences that needed to be patched up by fans to truly shine because at launch they were unfinished and broken. Western RPGs tend to have that problem more often than other genres; designers who make them are often extremely ambitious to the point that they want to stretch the medium of videogames to their absolute limits, but they also often aren't provided the time or budget to make that ambition reality (and polish it at the same time). BG3 is the exception to the rule, a case where that level of ambition met circumstances that allowed for both the time *and* the budget, and while it wasn't 100% perfect at launch, it was a lot farther along than the genre usually gets and achieved strong enough success that it's been actively supported by the devs for a lot LONGER than a game like this would usually be allowed to... and still is! There's been some strong contrarion pushback, and some frankly toxic discourse cropping up (when is there not?), but at the end of the day, it's just a historic title in the genre, a showcase of what could be done if more developers with the same level of ambition had what they needed to make it real. Perfect? No. As a fan of BG1 and 2, I even have some problems with the writing choices made at certain points. But regardless of those, I am beyond overjoyed that this game exists, and look forward to revisiting it over and over as the years go by.
@@MilkManSteve Nice. I feel like playing as a human is extremely boring though, given we're all humans in real life I wanna be someone else entirely when making a character in a fantasy game so no human for me, I am also put off by the dragonborn and the half-orcs races as a whole, they look cool, but I also wouldn't want their faces. XD I might try half-elf. But my personal favorites are tieflings, drows and elves, gnomes are also pretty cute, halflings too, Githyankis look pretty amazing too. Dwarves are meh, I would probably try them once only. But tieflings looks pretty amazing, and I'm always sad to know that they are not well liked in the dnd universe, by the fans they are well loved though. But pretty much my entire runs are 1/3 tieflings, 1/3 drows, one third high elves, with one gnome ranger evil dark urge who is as cute as psycho. XD
@@Karomix3 I always want to have a visually appealing looking character, I mean I'm gonna spend minimum 50+ hours with them, making them looking ugly on purpose will only be funny for so long. Human is definitely the most boring though, the fact that almost every race besides Human has their own special dialogue for certain scenes is such an amazing detail that I missed because I was human.
@@MilkManSteve Yeah, humans also have pretty faces, ngl I'm not the most impressed with some of the elven faces, especially the men, they all look like guys in their 40's at most, while you can at least have elf woman who has a teenager face, the half-elves men are prettier, and it irks me. Those dialogues can also happen if you play as one of the Origins character, for example if you play as Astarion he will have some Elf answers. But the party already have Gale and Wyll as humans, which I find that it sucks because why 2, we have one elf, one half-elf, one tiefling and one githyanki, why did we need 2 humans? On top of me thinking Wyll is the most boring character out of the main 6, I wish they swapped him for Alfira or that scrapped companion that was supposed to be a halfling werewolf if I recall correctly. But the worst part of the game is pratically the character customization, too many good options, which means I literally have separate runs of literally every starting class at the beginning, and 2 are clerics. XD Also I didn't do a Rogue one because I already am doing an Astarion run. All those runs are still in Act 1, because some I deleted and redid, like my first Astarion run and first created character run, then deleted a couple more, and since I only had the game since december, well, I keep finding stuff at my own pace which means that then I try it in the other runs to have it all, and well if I ever finish the game it might be in 2025 at the space that I'm going. Funniest part is that I'm not even using mods to make characters, not sure I can on my Playstation 5, but I just find some looks interesting, and believe me, I'm lucky if I don't pretty much take over an hour and a half to just make one character, I got many runs where when I get free from my pod on the nautiloid my game tells me I have been playing this run for 1h22 minutes, when I know very well that I spent it all on my character, because what if I use this tattoo, this color for it, this skin color, ect, ect. Especially the hair and the eyes, my god. XD I'm not not gonna play anything else but this and League of Legends for a very long time I feel, and I'm not complaining at all. XD
Whenever people used to claim "sometimes I feel like a I've played a different game from my friend based on how their playthrough went" I always thought it was an exaggeration. I've since recently experienced that personally for myself and boy were they not exaggerating. It's truly remarkable just how different people's playthroughs can be. Sure there's choices that don't change anything like kicking a squirrel, but some choices truly have a ripple effect throughout the rest of the game.
It’s so good that after Act 1, my husband was so invested in watching me play that we started from scratch and played THE WHOLE THING in couch co-op. It was wonderful! 💙
I missed so many interactions in my first playthrough, that now in my second playthrough I spent half the time doing things I *missed* in the first playthrough.
I really enjoyed this video, makes me wish i could experience the game for the first time again. Its still after 1200h fun, but nothing beats the first chaos run.
Love when people can admit hey, I can still change an opinion, but mostly hearing you and your friends laughing hard at the game is what gaming is really about. Anyone can beat a game, dying laughing with your friends becomes more and more rare as you go.
I used to be mad because I'm such a huge Spider-Man 2 fan and didn't even want to give it a chance and immediately said it was shit. Then watched some gameplays and was like "should I buy? Doesn't look that bad". And since I got it, god damn the way I fell in love with the characters and the voice actors, (Astarion specifically :')) And started understanding what is so great about it. The amount of different outcomes etc. that has been put into this game amazes me. So this, and Spider-Man 2, became my ultimate favourite game of this year. Thanking Larian and Insomniac games for such an amazing gaming experience man.
Just because I was never into step by step fights it took me 20 hours to get used to them and understand what gem I was playing. Now I'm on my third run with 300 hours in the game and I understand that I still haven't seen the half of it!
Truueee, like I say in the vid I never really hated, just didn't believe it could be as good as people said and also didn't wanna spend $60 at the time to find out.
I love this game so much. its far from perfect (there's no such thing as a perfect game) but with the amount of content, the attention to detail, and the story and characters more than make up for it. When it comes to games some of my most memorable and favorite moments in games are when something clearly unintended happens, whether it be characters glitching together during intense cutscenes or the infamous duckface glitch, they are part of the gaming experience, and i hope they never die
This! I was fully convinced that Tears of the Kingdom was gonna win goty. It exceeded all my expectations for what I wanted it to be. Then I played BG3 and I just knew. 2023 was a blessed year for games
I used to not wanna play it because it just looked boring but I got into DND, my friends pressured me and I heard more about it and... I gave in. Now I am getting close to 100+ hours after a month or 2
I dunno... this is one of those games that if you dare say it sucks strange ticking packages start showing up at your doorstep, a friend of mine tried it out a PAX and just said "Nah not my thing" Some dude actually wanted to punch him...such a weirdo world we live in....
When I wrote on BG3's le subreddit that the combat is easy even on Tactician, they wanted to crucify me. Apparently it's normal, for example, to assume that on the default difficulty the Act 2 inn fight (where the bro tries to kidnap the cleric) is something you're supposed to lose. I literally had to replay the fight three times on Tactician trying to lose it to see what happens, because the ghouls kept killing themselves Benny Hill chasing after the cleric (who just kept running in a circle healing herself every time she got damaged) triggering opportunity attacks from my team. And the boss dude was so bossy, my fighter Tav could've killed him on the first round of combat. I had more and worse problems with BG3 than an average last gen console player had with Cyberpunk 2077, but that also made me a target, because BG3 apparently had no bugs whatsoever on release. Let's just ignore I had a fucking save delete itself on me and I had to replay the entire Githyanki Creche from the very start as a result (I blame it on the combat being so easy I had no reason to make backup saves and just used the quick save). Or how non-lethal takedowns didn't work at all on release.
For anyone wondering, the little brat that wouldn't go away is a failsafe for if the player doesn't have any kidnappable companions. There's actually a TON of failsafe NPCS all throughout the game, and lots of them are so rare that it's hard to even get them intentionally, let alone organically.
there's gotta be some correlation between being a "baldur's gate hater" before ever trying the game and not being able to murder Yenna being a big issue
Bro yelling at the books in the wizard store had me actually rolling and my gf kept asking “what’s so funny?!” And I was like “I YELLED AND BLEW UP HER FUCKING BOOKS!” We’re finally starting our own play through
To keep it brief, I have my pet peeves with this game, it had GREAT moments where I could see why its praises are sung when it comes to storywritting. But there were so many times during my first playthrough where I genuinely felt burnt out or like I wanted to fucking die due to how frustrating it could be at times, and I'm not saying 'frustrating' for the right reasons like missing an attack or a roll, I'm not that petty.
The fact that this video exists cracks me up how is anyone trashing this game it has some bugs on split screen in act3 otherwise it has run perfectly. I feel second hand embarrassment for the haters..
@@MilkManSteve I wasn't trying to make excuses, the AI usually does this with shove First time I've seen it deal damage with an action so the ally takes less damage, though
Dialogue options haven’t mattered this much since a while, maybe Disco Elysium. For example, if you want to have a relationship with Karlach you have to find pieces special Metal to help her touch people again. When you finally achieve it, you have the option of hugging or kissing her but choose to not sleep with her in act 2 and then move to act 3, she then decides to politely tell you that you can still my GREAT friends. I know this, because my smooth brain messed it up big time and I deleted the save file for extra space.
I saw easy click and point Gameplay. I thought it was an easy game. I buy said easy game yay.... I don't know what is DnD... I don't know what is turn-based. I don't know what is dice rolls... I don't know what strategy is... I don't understand what's happening... I struggled.................. hard... I hated my life and the game......... But then... The struggle became obsession. The companions the drug. The story the remedy I needed... But now more than ever.... I need an OUT of this addiction!!!
Listen... I saw Minthara and went holy shit this chick is hot, ill do whatever you say, which led to alot more genocide than I wouldve preferred. The shadowheart thing I just had mad charisma and was like, y'know what shadowheart you really are being way too loyal to this god of yours, why don't you just be yourself. And so, we have these results.
@@grymmoire The companion options without interference actually change depending on what behaviour you previously encourage! Its a really cool feature, for example if you say to Laezel that her queen might not actually be all that great then let her pick her own choice when she talks to voss she will realise vlaakith is evil. Same thing happens with astarion ascending, shadowheart killing alylin, Wyll killing karlach ect
@@grymmoire found this stuff out later on, for a first playthrough I wanted a nearly fully blind experience, which led to a lot more dead main characters than anticipated. But it made me love the ones I did have a lot more so it all worked out.
I started my fifth playthrough and... this game is a complete mess. An amazingly fun mess. I found out if you knock Shadowheart out in the Nautiloid the game will always crash when getting to the beach. Also, if you knock Minsc out before the dialogue in the sewers without triggering combat (stealth ftw) and make a long rest, he skips the entire cutscene of the Emperor refusing to protect him, starts the Boo cutscene immediately and joins the party. If you knock Minthara out in a similar way in Act 1, she can be recruited in Act 2, but if you recruit Halsin they'll both use the same tent for the entire game. The traveler chest of my previous run (the Honour one) got so filled with trash that I'm st the risk of crashing the game if I press "Take All". The chest of the mundane is bugged and it has some Schrodinger arrows of Ilmater that are both in the chest and in my inventory at the same time. It's when you beat this game four times that you start seeing all the oversights, mistakes and jank this game has, and the best of it is, it only makes the game better, not worse. I love this mess and the imperfections only make it a more beautiful masterpiece.
Yeah, this is a game that's really hard to hate. Once you accept that you don't have to meta-game everything and just enjoy the story, it's basically the most fun game in the world. The only way you wouldn't like the game is if you just honestly don't really like the story.
Listen, I am coming from a place of respectfully harsh criticism for you. It's because I care. People should play the games they love most because they find it enjoyable, like good games ought to be. Not because of speculation from TH-camr gaming channels whom find it appealing or not. I can appreciate you making this video, but to those of us that already knew how good this game was, whenever a hateful TH-cam video went up about BG3 (and especially if the narration was just regurgitating articles written already by other shills) the channel found itself placed in the trash folder faster than spam. It's healthy to have conflicting opinions and conversations but most of the hater content is the same nonsense. Your prior opinions shared the same lazy pattern of doubt and hate. This video seems like a clumsy grasp at views from the community after some disparaging comments. A feeling of " See? I like it now. " Vibes I do hope you are enjoying the game, it seems you are. But going foreword gather data and make an opinion for yourself, not clickbait titles, rather than follow the herd like cattle. We will be here for you G. Data doesn't lie, people lie. This is too damn good of a channel to let that happen. I will be back for the next video, MMS because I find this channel enjoyable, like a good game ought to be. Thank you. cheers
I played it. At first I did not like it, then I loved it, in chapter 3 I hated it again, then I reached the end game and I hated it even more, finished it and I loved when I finally uninstalled it :P This was an emotional ride through the washing machine.
>has an opinion
>challanges his own opinion
>get proven wrong by himself
>owns the mistake
>triumphs
@K.C-2049honestly it’s so refreshing to be proven wrong and even end up having fun along the way. That’s how I felt about this game initially. I actually didn’t like it at first but now it’s my most played Steam game 🙃 I have a problem now.
Character development
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something that all twitter users need to do tbh
Yeah, this is pretty much exactly what happened to me, everyone was explaining exactly what this game was and I was just thinking “this game sounds awful”… then it won GOTY and I was like “fine I’ll play it”… now I can’t stop
Im not a big turn based dude, but slemhkw, Larian pulls me in. I think the fact theres so much variwty compaded to toher games of the genre which are basically pressing a button every other turn. Theres stealth, throwables, weird builds. The characters are great, and therws so much variety in character creation. Tue only other gane that captured me like this with turn based combat was Mutant Year Zero.
@@archbishopofthecrusades9579 the character writing is what really made this game so good for me, while the turn-based combat system is fun, it's not my favorite, that aside the story and writing are absolutely unbelievable I can't think of any other game that exists that focuses so much on character development and outcomes based on player decisions and makes it so complex and intricate, most “decision focused” games your choices don't actually matter, that's not the case with this game and some decisions can absolutely destroy your relationship with some characters which I absolutely love
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I had the opposite, I was so hyped to play it as a massive crpg fan but I was massively disappointed. The game isn’t bad, it’s just a pretty solid 6/10 for me. Would take Pathfinder or PoE any day over this
@@legitplayin6977 loser
Yenna is a "safety npc" the game needs her in case the player doesn't have any companion to be kidnapped
She appears if you have companions to be kidnapped or not. But generally, if you have Lae'zel, Gale, Minthara and Halsin one of them will get abducted by Orin. Unless you romance one and the other 3 are in your party all the time one of them will get taken. The rule is it can't be them if one they are your romanced companion or in your active party. After the patch which allows you to have Minthara and Halsin it is possible to have all 4 of them present in your camp.
@@02091992able Thats exactly what he meant by saying its a saftey npc, yes u will meet her regardless but if you dont have anyone to be kidnapped it will be here, thats her sole purpose.
Yes usually you would have an npc to be taken but some people either just didnt recruit everyone, depending on ur choices some leave and if ur unlucky shadowheart ends up killing laezel too, which might make it that u wont have a companion to be taken.
And you can get rid of her by letting Orin kill her
explains why I can't kill her, while I was able to kill both Withers and Mizora....
I do wish they did something with her, she just kind of hung around my camp doing nothing and kept talking about her paring knife and making some food because the game picked Halsin to be grabbed for some reason.
I have watched at least 4 play throughs in their entirety on top of my own, with 100+ hours of watching extra content sprinkled in…and I’ve never seen those two random townspeople dueling. I love this game
I walked into the art show and they were yelling at eachother, next second they say "let's go take this outside", you can assume the rest
So far I've completed this game twice an currently on my third playthrough with over 1400 hrs and am still finding new things.
@@dionsherman3824How in gods name does 2-3 playthroughs take 1400 hours? I did a normal playthrough and then Honor mode and it was like 120 total
@@Childofbhaal well honestly my first playthrough I did alot of save scumming 😂 second playthrough a little save scumming but I literally take my time to explore an try to figure out every last dialog option an secret .
@@Childofbhaal by the way not sure if you know or not but if you kill the dwarf with the bubble bang or whatever you call it you can get his wife to adopt one of the stray cats in baldurs gate.
The move at 11:44 is actually genius from an AI
Enemy's Ally been standing in cloudkill, which dealt damage at the start of that enemy's turn, so other decided to push it out with an attack, dealing 7 damage instead of cloudkill 5d8 or more damage, which could have killed instead
That's what I thought, but its also crazy that the AI went "yeah, I'ma shoot eldritch blast at my boy rq to save him". The AI in this game are exceptional.
I say this as a certified bg3 enjoyer, but it is SO funny how quickly the AI in this game can go from "save my buddy from cloudkill via eldritch blast" to "i can't path towards the party to melee, and even though me and all my buds do have a ranged attack we will instead waste our turns hopping and dashing back and forth across a chasm". Which I'm not complaining about, because it saved my hide against the merregon firing squad and was very funny to watch. BUT THE COMPANION PATHFINDING ON THE OTHER HAND
@@Butchcavalier Me, playing a Ranger: My Wolf is gonna tank Nere and Shovel is gonna desecrate his corpse, ATTACK!!!!
Shovel and the Wolf are chilling on the other side of the Underdark with Gale's Raven.
Crap. Oh hey, may as well try out Gale's shock aura! Proceeds to electrocute all the Deep Gnomes.
I had no choice but to throw Barcus in the lava for shits and giggles before a reload.
@@sokar_rostau bc of this comment, I went on to the wiki to find out who the hell Shovel is. 200 hours of gameplay and I would have missed this entirely without this comment lol. Just goes to show how much content and replayability BG3 has
Even the ANIMALS have amazing voice acting
It's true, although I didn't use talk to animals much
@@MilkManSteveI was so excited to use speak to animals for the first time a bit into the game, the first animal I spoke to was a raven who told me that nobody loved me. Never used the spell again 😭
@@bonjouritsready and the scottish eagles who tell me im dirty and smell 😭😭
I used to hate turn based combat, third person games are the only ones I used to play. I hadn't even heard of DnD before. When I heard BG3 beat spiderman 2 in the awards i had to find out what made this so special. Four hours in and it just opened up a whole new world for me, the exploration and the time i spend was so worth it. I felt like I was back to being that kid who used to get so engrossed in something that the world around me just fades into the background. I didn't realise i had to learn to have fun again, and this masterpiece of a game triggered it in me. Unlike other games which are pretty predictable in their story and gameplay, this game actually demanded my attention, i couldn't just mindlessly wander around doing the same side mission in 100 different locations. This game will always be one of the best experience I've ever had, it taught me something really valuable, you're not necessarily having fun just because you apportion your time to have "fun" . To have fun is to let go, to allow yourself be immersed and focused on something that may seem so trivial and unproductive to others...
Well said brother
Might it recommend Elden Ring if you havent played it?
You may enjoy it a bunch too
@@mintkit1064 I've heard great things about Elden Ring. I'm gonna play that once I finish BG3. Pretty sure I'll enjoy it, since I had so much fun playing Sekiro..
Yeah no. Larian really said “what if we made it good” and also “what if we listened to our players. Like all the time”
you know its gonna be a banger when it opens up with a barrage of stock images, that's my favorite Steve video genre
I don't have a folder of them for nothing
It's ok we all knew you were wrong. No need to apologize.
real shit
I find it hilarious that, unfortunately, for his views, he loved it. The rabid hate for this game is from such a vocal minority.
This game is just absolutely off the wall. If you ask “what can I do in this game?” The answer is “yes”
baldurs gate 3 is the breaking bad of video games, you either love it or you haven't given it the time of day
Yenna, the child, is a failsafe, for orin kidnapping in act 3 lol. If you have no spare companions for her to kidnap she kidnaps yenna
I found this out later on but sadly I had gale in my camp and he was stolen instead... and then died to a cloud kill during the boss fight
That is also if you have all of the possible companions to be kidnapped as either romanced or in your active party. Halsin, Minthara, Gale or Lae'zel.
I genuinely think most glitches seem to be multiplayer related, at least after they significantly patched Act 3. Some of the most hilarious stuff I've never been able to replicate in my singleplayer campaign because I have no friends.
Arabella and yenna became my must protect characters in my playthroughs, i cant let either die. They need to be protected at all costs
I'll tell you what, it's REALLY hard to get one of them to die
SHE BROUGHT HER OWN PARING KNIFE 😭
I never understand how someone can make up their mind about something they've not tried or experienced. People hold themselves back living like that.
For a long time I've seen people just follow what the majority says and stick with it. Always bothered me and confused me because of this.
It's nature, my friend, new things are also dangerous things, you can stick to your ways and tiptoe to an early grave or you can have some fun, one requires an open mind and courage, and not everyone has these qualities.
even before finishing Act 3, I started another playthrough LOL..... This game can so many possibility, Squid face playthrough, Good Dark Urge playthrough, Good Tav playthrough, Evil Dark Urge playthrough.......etc. This game is not all about abilities and power level up, sometimes I decide to choose "not so powerful" build just because I want to really indulge in role playing.
The fact everyone who plays this game has a different detailed experience is incredible
Didn’t even mention origin character play through lmao
I'm on a multiplayer run with a friend right now and it's his first playthrough and he's playing so chaotic that I'm seeing interactions I never knew were in the game. This game is so goddamn good
This video basically sums up my exact experience of not really getting the hype and immediately becoming obsessed
i like the guy who laughs like "hyuuuh hyuuh hyuuugh"
We need to Uplift more Spiderman 2 fans like this
LMAO, I was never as bad as those guys, I thought this game def deserved GOTY over spidermid 2 even before playing it
"ARE YOU SENSITIVE?!?!?!"
*BOOM*
This is why I love Baldur's Gate. 2:39
I saw that option and had to click it, the results were as good as I could have hoped for
My friend didn't like that it wasn't a direct sequel to BG2 so she complained about it every time it got brought up. Then her son got it and while she watched him play she was like, "Wait... it's actually kind of cool."
You ran into so many bugs. I have 3 in 2 playthroughs. Nuts.
The multiplayer tends to have more bugs than the solo play.
Some are annoying, some are hilarious. :)
Can only save in rivington
dame not showing up at avengers assemble,
The monks in baals thingy is supposed to be 5 but its infinite
Oh and the whole halsin cant unequip sword and druid and summed stuff bugs
Thats all the bugs i encountered I know that nost of them are patched but dame was recent,had to get something from github to fix it lol
I had over 100 in two playthroughs
I played only solo so far and haven’t had any game ending bugs and only one bug early on
The kid is a failsafe for Orins kidnapping to ensure that in case you don't have a spare companion with low friendship, she could always have a hostage to try forcing you into killing Gortash first
Yeah found this out later on, still lame though that she won't leave even after someone else was taken hostage
Even if you had properly toggled non lethal he still dies, and your character shouts something to the effect of, “That wasn’t meant to kill him! Is this the absolute’s doing?!” Only way to save him is later in the prison, to my knowledge anyways.
Ahh I see, in my original run thats how I saved him but good to know we wouldve had the same results regardless
I think the greatest thing baldurs gate 3 does , better than anyone, is keep the freedom fair and consistent, and small interactions that make sense.
Like the game rewards you for being smart and creative, and thats something that goes a long way.
When I had to deal with priestess gut, i couldnt do itt for the first few times in a straight up fight cux she would call the guards, so I used silence on her and voila, she can no longer call the fucking guards. Like it was so simple and made such sense I was like "Why did i not think of this shit before"
Or the fact that in the city, when im fighting enemies, I could just use a spell to toss one of them out and then the entire fucking city watch would fight with me , instantly making a boss fight into a cakewalk.
This game rewards freedom and creativity so much, on top of doing everything else well.
Honestly my favourite experiences with games, or any other form of media, is when I think they will suck and I'm proven wrong. That moment when it sets and you're like "wait, I'm actually having fun" is just great.
nostalgia can be a sequel with movie and/or games can set expectations to high, at least to some degree. So if it doesnt measure up to how a person felt it should be, the crash from their disappointment is almost seeing an addict trying to quit cold turkey. I try not to get all "kid on xmas morning" since a persons own memories, and hype can be what creates the most disappointment and anger. But there still are some major stinkers that the developers missed the mark so badly they a donkeys A$$**** and thought they hit a bullseye.
Respect for admitting being wrong, congrats on coming around, and welcome to the community.
'let's not do anything hilarious'
Neil Newborn fucking killed it
3:15 you could also change to another character that is Stealthed, and go steal explosive powder, and she ll be all confused
Did this in every single run afterward because it's so much easier and hilarious
i love this game so much. all of the characters are so well built out and are so unique, even side characters that you may never even see. also i just love astarion
Baldur's Gate 3 is a truly rare breed of narrative-choice-driven role-playing game that has long gotten the short end of the stick over the course of game-design history, usually manifesting in forms like Fallout: New Vegas... as truly spectacular, once-in-a-generation roleplaying experiences that needed to be patched up by fans to truly shine because at launch they were unfinished and broken. Western RPGs tend to have that problem more often than other genres; designers who make them are often extremely ambitious to the point that they want to stretch the medium of videogames to their absolute limits, but they also often aren't provided the time or budget to make that ambition reality (and polish it at the same time).
BG3 is the exception to the rule, a case where that level of ambition met circumstances that allowed for both the time *and* the budget, and while it wasn't 100% perfect at launch, it was a lot farther along than the genre usually gets and achieved strong enough success that it's been actively supported by the devs for a lot LONGER than a game like this would usually be allowed to... and still is!
There's been some strong contrarion pushback, and some frankly toxic discourse cropping up (when is there not?), but at the end of the day, it's just a historic title in the genre, a showcase of what could be done if more developers with the same level of ambition had what they needed to make it real.
Perfect? No. As a fan of BG1 and 2, I even have some problems with the writing choices made at certain points.
But regardless of those, I am beyond overjoyed that this game exists, and look forward to revisiting it over and over as the years go by.
Love your tiefling character, she looks amazing.
Thank you so much! My first run was human but after I tried tiefling customizations out they are my new favorite by far
@@MilkManSteve Nice. I feel like playing as a human is extremely boring though, given we're all humans in real life I wanna be someone else entirely when making a character in a fantasy game so no human for me, I am also put off by the dragonborn and the half-orcs races as a whole, they look cool, but I also wouldn't want their faces. XD I might try half-elf. But my personal favorites are tieflings, drows and elves, gnomes are also pretty cute, halflings too, Githyankis look pretty amazing too. Dwarves are meh, I would probably try them once only. But tieflings looks pretty amazing, and I'm always sad to know that they are not well liked in the dnd universe, by the fans they are well loved though. But pretty much my entire runs are 1/3 tieflings, 1/3 drows, one third high elves, with one gnome ranger evil dark urge who is as cute as psycho. XD
@@Karomix3 I always want to have a visually appealing looking character, I mean I'm gonna spend minimum 50+ hours with them, making them looking ugly on purpose will only be funny for so long. Human is definitely the most boring though, the fact that almost every race besides Human has their own special dialogue for certain scenes is such an amazing detail that I missed because I was human.
@@MilkManSteve Yeah, humans also have pretty faces, ngl I'm not the most impressed with some of the elven faces, especially the men, they all look like guys in their 40's at most, while you can at least have elf woman who has a teenager face, the half-elves men are prettier, and it irks me. Those dialogues can also happen if you play as one of the Origins character, for example if you play as Astarion he will have some Elf answers. But the party already have Gale and Wyll as humans, which I find that it sucks because why 2, we have one elf, one half-elf, one tiefling and one githyanki, why did we need 2 humans? On top of me thinking Wyll is the most boring character out of the main 6, I wish they swapped him for Alfira or that scrapped companion that was supposed to be a halfling werewolf if I recall correctly. But the worst part of the game is pratically the character customization, too many good options, which means I literally have separate runs of literally every starting class at the beginning, and 2 are clerics. XD Also I didn't do a Rogue one because I already am doing an Astarion run. All those runs are still in Act 1, because some I deleted and redid, like my first Astarion run and first created character run, then deleted a couple more, and since I only had the game since december, well, I keep finding stuff at my own pace which means that then I try it in the other runs to have it all, and well if I ever finish the game it might be in 2025 at the space that I'm going. Funniest part is that I'm not even using mods to make characters, not sure I can on my Playstation 5, but I just find some looks interesting, and believe me, I'm lucky if I don't pretty much take over an hour and a half to just make one character, I got many runs where when I get free from my pod on the nautiloid my game tells me I have been playing this run for 1h22 minutes, when I know very well that I spent it all on my character, because what if I use this tattoo, this color for it, this skin color, ect, ect. Especially the hair and the eyes, my god. XD I'm not not gonna play anything else but this and League of Legends for a very long time I feel, and I'm not complaining at all. XD
Whenever people used to claim "sometimes I feel like a I've played a different game from my friend based on how their playthrough went" I always thought it was an exaggeration. I've since recently experienced that personally for myself and boy were they not exaggerating. It's truly remarkable just how different people's playthroughs can be. Sure there's choices that don't change anything like kicking a squirrel, but some choices truly have a ripple effect throughout the rest of the game.
It’s so good that after Act 1, my husband was so invested in watching me play that we started from scratch and played THE WHOLE THING in couch co-op. It was wonderful! 💙
I missed so many interactions in my first playthrough, that now in my second playthrough I spent half the time doing things I *missed* in the first playthrough.
See u in 1000 hours brother
Godspeed.
Already at almost 200 in a month, pray for me
i got to 1000 by the end of 2023. help me
I really enjoyed this video, makes me wish i could experience the game for the first time again. Its still after 1200h fun, but nothing beats the first chaos run.
Love when people can admit hey, I can still change an opinion, but mostly hearing you and your friends laughing hard at the game is what gaming is really about. Anyone can beat a game, dying laughing with your friends becomes more and more rare as you go.
Amen brother
Not gonna spoil how but you can kill Yenna, the orphan girl in your camp, in story events
I found this out later on but sadly I had gale in my camp and so he was stolen instead... and then prompty died to a cloud kill on accident
500 hours and I still haven’t finished the game. It’s pretty fun. 10/10
Minthara blows me aways too... best girl!
I used to be mad because I'm such a huge Spider-Man 2 fan and didn't even want to give it a chance and immediately said it was shit. Then watched some gameplays and was like "should I buy? Doesn't look that bad".
And since I got it, god damn the way I fell in love with the characters and the voice actors, (Astarion specifically :')) And started understanding what is so great about it. The amount of different outcomes etc. that has been put into this game amazes me. So this, and Spider-Man 2, became my ultimate favourite game of this year. Thanking Larian and Insomniac games for such an amazing gaming experience man.
Just because I was never into step by step fights it took me 20 hours to get used to them and understand what gem I was playing. Now I'm on my third run with 300 hours in the game and I understand that I still haven't seen the half of it!
Most ppl hate games cos its the cool hype train to hate. Funny how trying something might just make you a fan.
Truueee, like I say in the vid I never really hated, just didn't believe it could be as good as people said and also didn't wanna spend $60 at the time to find out.
I don't hate it... I also don't think it's the Greatest thing since sliced bread either. It's good in its own way but it's not my flavor of D&D.
"is he still breathing?" got me xD
Dude, you've had some hilarious moments XD I'm crying and I couldn't stop laughing because of the passive attack situation
Im glad you found it as funny as we did, I was still laughing my ass off editing it
The ending though.
Dwarf: I've named this arrow, Karma!
I thought I was safe so far from the edge, I was wrong
It's always a joy when I reload a save from the middle of dialogue only to find my pc in the floor
I love this game so much. its far from perfect (there's no such thing as a perfect game) but with the amount of content, the attention to detail, and the story and characters more than make up for it. When it comes to games some of my most memorable and favorite moments in games are when something clearly unintended happens, whether it be characters glitching together during intense cutscenes or the infamous duckface glitch, they are part of the gaming experience, and i hope they never die
The child got its head cut off in my game. It was wild.
Looks like it did numbers for your channel too! Can't imagine you'd look back at it with anything but fondness
It did indeed, game will always hold a special place in my heart
It topped review scores and game awards across the board in THE YEAR A 3D ZELDA CAME OUT. You shouldv'e known lol
This! I was fully convinced that Tears of the Kingdom was gonna win goty. It exceeded all my expectations for what I wanted it to be.
Then I played BG3 and I just knew. 2023 was a blessed year for games
I used to not wanna play it because it just looked boring but I got into DND, my friends pressured me and I heard more about it and... I gave in. Now I am getting close to 100+ hours after a month or 2
Bros laugh is something to behold
Is this in a good or bad way
Seeing the guy get absolutely yeeted off the windmill never ceases to make me laugh
U can kill kids in the game but that specific one is possibly a main storyline enemy in disguise
I dunno... this is one of those games that if you dare say it sucks strange ticking packages start showing up at your doorstep, a friend of mine tried it out a PAX and just said "Nah not my thing" Some dude actually wanted to punch him...such a weirdo world we live in....
When I wrote on BG3's le subreddit that the combat is easy even on Tactician, they wanted to crucify me.
Apparently it's normal, for example, to assume that on the default difficulty the Act 2 inn fight (where the bro tries to kidnap the cleric) is something you're supposed to lose. I literally had to replay the fight three times on Tactician trying to lose it to see what happens, because the ghouls kept killing themselves Benny Hill chasing after the cleric (who just kept running in a circle healing herself every time she got damaged) triggering opportunity attacks from my team. And the boss dude was so bossy, my fighter Tav could've killed him on the first round of combat.
I had more and worse problems with BG3 than an average last gen console player had with Cyberpunk 2077, but that also made me a target, because BG3 apparently had no bugs whatsoever on release. Let's just ignore I had a fucking save delete itself on me and I had to replay the entire Githyanki Creche from the very start as a result (I blame it on the combat being so easy I had no reason to make backup saves and just used the quick save).
Or how non-lethal takedowns didn't work at all on release.
For anyone wondering, the little brat that wouldn't go away is a failsafe for if the player doesn't have any kidnappable companions. There's actually a TON of failsafe NPCS all throughout the game, and lots of them are so rare that it's hard to even get them intentionally, let alone organically.
that same lady (that you saved from the drowning prison) glitched out like that for me too ! lol i was so worried
She was tweakin for sure
there's gotta be some correlation between being a "baldur's gate hater" before ever trying the game and not being able to murder Yenna being a big issue
Listen, my camp wasnt exactly filled with people fit to raise a child
That book part at 2:48 is one of my favorite parts in Baldur’s Gate 😂😂😂
I am just happy to hear you had fun :D
In the end, isn't that preferable to forcing yourself through something that sucks?
definitely, one of my favorite games of all time now
Bro yelling at the books in the wizard store had me actually rolling and my gf kept asking “what’s so funny?!” And I was like “I YELLED AND BLEW UP HER FUCKING BOOKS!” We’re finally starting our own play through
i can't understand why people hate something without even try it
Omg you actually made THE Tav XD gotta be first time I’m seeing someone play as him XD just beautiful 👌
To keep it brief, I have my pet peeves with this game, it had GREAT moments where I could see why its praises are sung when it comes to storywritting. But there were so many times during my first playthrough where I genuinely felt burnt out or like I wanted to fucking die due to how frustrating it could be at times, and I'm not saying 'frustrating' for the right reasons like missing an attack or a roll, I'm not that petty.
All this game needs is a honest chance and it hooks just about everyone. Its insane the depth of things you are allowed to do in this game.
The fact that this video exists cracks me up how is anyone trashing this game it has some bugs on split screen in act3 otherwise it has run perfectly. I feel second hand embarrassment for the haters..
11:40 moved away from enemies to increase accuracy and pushed the ally out of cloud kill
The idea isn't half bad
AI was cooking
@@MilkManSteve I wasn't trying to make excuses, the AI usually does this with shove
First time I've seen it deal damage with an action so the ally takes less damage, though
Watching the two guys fight was fucking hilarious.
I wasn't bouta intervene in their beef
I've played this game for like 150 hours and every video I watch I see things in the game I've never experienced before
Glad you gave it a shot and enjoyed it. Always good to be open minded.
Guys, 0:49 is just not an image that should pass the algorithm
No snitching
i love people converting
Babe wake up new milkman steve video got posted
Dialogue options haven’t mattered this much since a while, maybe Disco Elysium. For example, if you want to have a relationship with Karlach you have to find pieces special Metal to help her touch people again. When you finally achieve it, you have the option of hugging or kissing her but choose to not sleep with her in act 2 and then move to act 3, she then decides to politely tell you that you can still my GREAT friends.
I know this, because my smooth brain messed it up big time and I deleted the save file for extra space.
I saw easy click and point Gameplay.
I thought it was an easy game.
I buy said easy game yay....
I don't know what is DnD...
I don't know what is turn-based.
I don't know what is dice rolls...
I don't know what strategy is...
I don't understand what's happening...
I struggled.................. hard...
I hated my life and the game.........
But then...
The struggle became obsession.
The companions the drug.
The story the remedy I needed...
But now more than ever....
I need an OUT of this addiction!!!
This was literally me, I thought this game sucked and then my friend convinced me to play it and I was not prepared for how good it was
I mean, turn-based combat still works as a great substitute for melatonin when you're trying to get a good night's sleep.
It's so attractive when people are open to changing their opinion 😭
LMAO, I'm blushing
Having Minthara and White Hair shadowheart is crazy
Listen... I saw Minthara and went holy shit this chick is hot, ill do whatever you say, which led to alot more genocide than I wouldve preferred. The shadowheart thing I just had mad charisma and was like, y'know what shadowheart you really are being way too loyal to this god of yours, why don't you just be yourself. And so, we have these results.
@@MilkManSteve You can recruit Minthara on a good playthrough now. Also Shadowheart will choose to reject Shar on her own if you don’t interfere.
@@grymmoire The companion options without interference actually change depending on what behaviour you previously encourage! Its a really cool feature, for example if you say to Laezel that her queen might not actually be all that great then let her pick her own choice when she talks to voss she will realise vlaakith is evil. Same thing happens with astarion ascending, shadowheart killing alylin, Wyll killing karlach ect
@@grymmoire found this stuff out later on, for a first playthrough I wanted a nearly fully blind experience, which led to a lot more dead main characters than anticipated. But it made me love the ones I did have a lot more so it all worked out.
@@grymmoire In mine Shadowheart killed her parents all on her own without interference.
I started my fifth playthrough and... this game is a complete mess. An amazingly fun mess. I found out if you knock Shadowheart out in the Nautiloid the game will always crash when getting to the beach.
Also, if you knock Minsc out before the dialogue in the sewers without triggering combat (stealth ftw) and make a long rest, he skips the entire cutscene of the Emperor refusing to protect him, starts the Boo cutscene immediately and joins the party.
If you knock Minthara out in a similar way in Act 1, she can be recruited in Act 2, but if you recruit Halsin they'll both use the same tent for the entire game.
The traveler chest of my previous run (the Honour one) got so filled with trash that I'm st the risk of crashing the game if I press "Take All".
The chest of the mundane is bugged and it has some Schrodinger arrows of Ilmater that are both in the chest and in my inventory at the same time.
It's when you beat this game four times that you start seeing all the oversights, mistakes and jank this game has, and the best of it is, it only makes the game better, not worse. I love this mess and the imperfections only make it a more beautiful masterpiece.
Never played the game. Never had any type of interest in dnd. I’m fully obsessed. This games deserves all the awards and praise. So good ❤
I think the only reason you cant kill yenna is because she isnt exactly who she says she is. IYKYK
I may not at all know what I’m doing, but this game is probably the most fun I’ve had playing a game in a bit
This guy laughs like Jimmy Carr and I'm all for it
Bro is the loudest eater in human history
Yeah, this is a game that's really hard to hate. Once you accept that you don't have to meta-game everything and just enjoy the story, it's basically the most fun game in the world. The only way you wouldn't like the game is if you just honestly don't really like the story.
I bought the game when it came out and didn't actually play it till 2 months ago and now I have 5 playthroughs
I hates the dice system until i started to actually play the game.
Listen,
I am coming from a place of respectfully harsh criticism for you. It's because I care.
People should play the games they love most because they find it enjoyable, like good games ought to be.
Not because of speculation from TH-camr gaming channels whom find it appealing or not.
I can appreciate you making this video, but to those of us that already knew how good this game was, whenever a hateful TH-cam video went up about BG3 (and especially if the narration was just regurgitating articles written already by other shills) the channel found itself placed in the trash folder faster than spam.
It's healthy to have conflicting opinions and conversations but most of the hater content is the same nonsense.
Your prior opinions shared the same lazy pattern of doubt and hate.
This video seems like a clumsy grasp at views from the community after some disparaging comments.
A feeling of " See? I like it now. " Vibes
I do hope you are enjoying the game, it seems you are. But going foreword gather data and make an opinion for yourself, not clickbait titles, rather than follow the herd like cattle. We will be here for you G.
Data doesn't lie, people lie.
This is too damn good of a channel to let that happen.
I will be back for the next video, MMS because I find this channel enjoyable, like a good game ought to be.
Thank you. cheers
bros posting n shit
Oh he crazy
i think the glithces are from multiplayer, cause i played the entire game and never had one
Definitely
"games with way too much hype" and you put up a picture of gollum... who the hell was hyped for that shit?!
They revealed it at a summer game fest once, I knew it existed, good enough for me.
@@MilkManSteve true lol
.....If Beavis and Butthead played D&D...... very entertaining. More please.
I love this fucking game to the very depths of my being. hahaha
I'm glad you didn't screw yourself out of the joy of experiencing it for yourself. 😄
Doesnt really matter the difficulty, even in honour mode the AI doesnt seem to know that cloud of daggers does damage :D
I played it. At first I did not like it, then I loved it, in chapter 3 I hated it again, then I reached the end game and I hated it even more, finished it and I loved when I finally uninstalled it :P This was an emotional ride through the washing machine.