Now got a bit of a way into BG3 and have a rough handle on how things work, even to the point of remembering to do things in combat other than just panic, scream, and hit stuff with the largest weapon I have. Just curious: is there any benefit to playing this game like an arsehole? I always have - ThreadSky

mikebrooks668.bsky.social • 87 days ago

Now got a bit of a way into BG3 and have a rough handle on how things work, even to the point of remembering to do things in combat other than just panic, scream, and hit stuff with the largest weapon I have.

Just curious: is there any benefit to playing this game like an arsehole? I always have

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acrozatarim.bsky.social•87 days ago

I have no idea, as that would require me to be mean to NPCs, and a game has to work *really hard* if it's gonna convince me to even mildly inconvenience someone not immediately hostile even if they don't really exist.

My Dark Urge was the type to actively fight the urge the whole way through.

callunasims.bsky.social•87 days ago

I haven't played it as an evil character until my current run and it's so hard for me ngl. My last attempt with Durge was redeeemd Durhe so this time I'm FORCING the evil. So sorry to Barcus BTW I tried to get you down 😭 I accidentally clicked the wrong button while walking over nooo

vem-osca.bsky.social•87 days ago

My first run often meant inadvertently pissing off people because I hadn't worked out how to steal stuff, and then them responding with... force. I missed a lot because of that. Part of it was not knowing the mechanics. I also rushed and missed a LOT because I didn't want to get mindflayered.

vem-osca.bsky.social•87 days ago

2nd go, I played a Lolth-sworn Drow & made decisions which felt natural both for the character AND myself. I wasn't trying to play the hero, & when you see how a lot of people treat drow, well, why be nice to these people?

I just couldn't kill Karlach, hurt random animals or harm the grove/Tiefs.

papaglitch.bsky.social•87 days ago

The only benefit is you can use it as therapy

amaurylaunay.bsky.social•87 days ago

There are a bunch of interactions where being aggressive will let you intimidate people out of a fight.
Siding with villains makes some encounters easier. There's also a vendor in the late game selling really strong gear that is locked behind a truly evil quest.

ravenqueenhrefna.bsky.social•87 days ago

You can do some real dark, despicable, unredeemable shit in this game, and it doesn’t pull its punches or spare you details. If you make the horrible choices, it will show you the horrible consequences.

And then you can keep making everything worse.

Go Dark Urge if you wanna do truly evil shit.

ravenqueenhrefna.bsky.social•87 days ago

*irredeemable*

alanraccoon.bsky.social•86 days ago

I guess the main benefit would be immersion? Like if you want to make your character an asshole they give you dialogue options for that, but I always feel bad when I hurt fictional character’s feelings so I usually avoid them 😭

darkfader13.bsky.social•87 days ago

Not sure about benefit, but can definitely get some interesting storylines 😅

mikebrooks668.bsky.social•87 days ago

dialogue options to be an utter mercenary or just a total dick to people, but being nice seems to advance the story and get them to give me stuff anyway, plus impresses most of my companions (other than Lae'zel).

mikebrooks668.bsky.social•87 days ago

Right now my half-drow fighter is wandering around saving people, asking for no reward and not picking fights unless they have to, and everyone loves them. I got stern with a child pickpocket though, and now Mol won't talk to me and I can't complete those quests, so there seems no upside to it.

princejvstin.com•87 days ago

You CAN play as evil at the beginning, but like most games of this type, it doesn't lean into it all that well. (there is an out and out evil companion you can recruit, but even there, it eventually softens the blow).

Although--are you playing the Dark Urge origin?

mikebrooks668.bsky.social•87 days ago

Nope, I decided not to go full arsehole for my first-ever RPG!

princejvstin.com•87 days ago

okay. I wound up doing that on my first run...and boy, did that turn out to be a ride.

mikebrooks668.bsky.social•87 days ago

I saw something about how if you play as dark urge, when you encounter the angry squirrel you just automatically boot it into the rocks, and I'm not sure that's how I want to spend my free time.

rivouk.bsky.social•86 days ago

Have you saved the child by the Harpies, or the one who tried to steal the idol yet?

mikebrooks668.bsky.social•86 days ago

Yup, saved both of them. But I shouted at Silfy when she tried to pick my pocket, so Mol hates me.

rivouk.bsky.social•86 days ago

I've only caught Silfy in the act once, and didn't shout at her, so I didn't know that happens...
I find it quite hard to be truly malevolent in BG3 - I've only managed to bring myself to leave Shadowheart in the pod once, and I felt bad for doing it!

wickerdolphin.bsky.social•87 days ago

A friend and I started a playthrough as total Mercenary Jerks but had a crisis of conscious near the end of Act 1 and thanks to some smooth talking swept our misdeeds under the rug and pretended we were The Good Guys all along.

It actually kinda worked.

Definitely best as a Playthrough 2 or so tho

jonathandbeer.bsky.social•87 days ago

I'm doing a classic good hero for my first run, but I will definitely play it again as the Dark Urge, as apparently there is a huge amount of material if you go that route (both if you immediately give in to the urge, or seek redemption).

drsvg.bsky.social•87 days ago

I think one of the nice things about the game is that you can play it as a super nice Good Guy, as an Arsehole, and as an Evil Arsehole, and you will get a good amount of reactivity for each path (the evil route used to be a bit meh, but they've added a lot of content now).

electricgoonie.bsky.social•87 days ago

Oh man, you'd love my friend. She causes chaos in there for funzies.

ghost-of-laika.bsky.social•87 days ago

More or less no. There's very little benefit of being an ass. It mostly gives you less story options and worse outcomes with few notable exceptions. In the early game when you're saving a person you can give them up for power, a few situations later like that too but not exactly. That's it.

c2d.neocities.org•87 days ago

I’m not sure if this is evil. But I play like a really bad good guy. That way I can trigger both rewards and get double the value.

maddzhaus.bsky.social•87 days ago

Ah! Yes, in two situations: you want to unlock the darkest Durge storyline, or you want the full experience with Minthara the Funniest Person I know.

Sure you can save her without being evil, but that was patched in so the full Minthara experience is tuned to being evil and/or an asshole

maddzhaus.bsky.social•87 days ago

Some of the games strongest themes get reinforced by seeing some of the bad ends as well, assuming you’re shooting for multiple play throughs

That said, yeah, being nice to people/tends/ to get you farther than being a dick to them. Which is fair!

eightbittony.bsky.social•87 days ago

I've never managed play any computer rpg in asshole mode. Just can't. Even if i want to explore alternate dialog options, I have to save, pick the asshole option, and reload.

mikebrooks668.bsky.social•87 days ago

It probably says something for you that you don't want to be a dick to non-existent people in a setting where someone has explicitly given you the option of being a dick to them if you want.

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eightbittony.bsky.social•87 days ago

I hated the possessed weapon quest in Skyrim, at the point you realise there's only one solution and it's evil, you're stuck. You can't drop a quest, and you can't finish it. #stillmad

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