I was at least half expecting the dog to play fetch with me when he brought me the ball in camp, but was still pretty delighted when he did. What I did not expect, however, was that after teaching him this trick he would then "fetch" the leather armor I threw down to cover up the cloudkill vent and helpfully give it back to me as I was trying to cross, killing my party.

Baldur's Gate 3 was a massive commercial success. And not a single microtransaction or season pass in sight, imagine that!

Imagine respec is disabled but dialogue line is still there:
- I wish to change my class
- No.

The difference between "Ranged Spell Attack" and "Spell Attack Rolls" is that the latter also applies to melee spells, such as Shocking Grasp. Ranged Spell Attacks are the ones that have disadvantage if your character is Threatened.

Volo is another 'quite good' option to remove tadpole as he extracts your eye but replaced it by a very very useful eye that can see invisible character.

I was actually shocked the passage of time wasn't taken into account when resting.  My first time playing I did the entire Nautiloid Crash Region on one rest because I really thought everyone would turn into squid monsters if I took too long.

Despite all the camp supplies available in Baldur's Gate 3 . . . not a week goes by without several posts on Reddit from players who have run out of food, can't rest, and are desperately seeking help.  I honestly don't know how they manage it . . but somehow they do!

Minsc simply joins your party wayyy too late into Act III to have any real agency in the story.  Sure, he hits hard but you only have him for a little while before the end of the game.

I’m 73 yrs old and I’ve played tons of computer games over the years, mostly story driven.  My most recent being GW3 and Black Desert which presented skill roadblocks that I couldn’t overcome. I’m not quick with the controller so I end up having my daughter play and I watch for many of the current games. This was the first game that I felt I could do things myself. No button smashing. I love the story. I took a break and want to delete all my previous attempts and start from scratch again. After watching this video, I feel more excited about picking it up again. I knew this was the right game for me because I love playing DnD tabletop and have read most of the related books. I found the Baldur’s Gate game very familiar and plunged in happy as a clam. Still there are many new things for me to learn but I feel I can play this one to the conclusion and then do it again with different choices! Love it!!! 😊❤

"you're introduced to many different terms that mean the same thing
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so youre captured by mindlfayers and get infected by an illithid tadpole and now you have to escape the ghaik ship"

1:30:20

There are actually quests that are timed, that will fail if you rest during the quest. Rescuing Nere is one of these,  to avoid spoiling anything too severe.

I'm starting to get the feeling that this channel is really into RPGs.

8:47 Hey, no need to crap on rat killers. My Father, his father, and his father's father are a proud lineage of rat killers. Sure we might not be "Saving the village from a goblin raid", but when you wake up tomorrow and there's not nibbles in your loaf of bread, or grain sacks spilling everywhere, you'll thank us.

As someone with a chronic (potentially terminal, if I don't take care of myself) illness, Karlach's breakdown after Gortash made me more emotional, and feel more seen, than I ever thought a video game could do. I've never seen chronic/terminal illness portrayed so real and raw as that.

Baldur's Gate 3 is the the cRPG evolved through AAA presentation and production. As if it comes from an alternate universe where Dragon Age Origins was the most influential RPG of 2000s.

the level was capped at 12 because, if you play dnd, you know that high level spells are not only absurdly powerful. they just arent something easy to compensate for in a video game, some of them can even stump a DM.

1:42:17 This feels a bit like oversimplification of Wyll's backstory. He didn't want to help people, he had to make a deal with a devil in order to save Baldur's Gate from cultists which seemed to be successfully performing a ritual of summoning Tiamat, a dragon that would level the whole city if the ritual was to be finished.

One of my main and really only criticisms of baldur's gate 3 is NPCs, specifically, companions, have little to no agency once they are a part of your story. There should be no reason. Shadow heart doesn't go into the temple of Shar with or without you. Gale should force himself to be at the initial motherbrain area and you have to talk him down from blowing himself up. Halsin should do the antishadow ritual with or without you. Once they're in you're party, they're amazing characters if you play their game, but are otherwise mannequins if you chose to outright ignore them

You summarized it perfectly. BG3 is a game where you have to answer "Who will I trust?" But 4 out of 5 options lead to nowhere or actually harm you. You never had a real choice.  Meanwhile your NPC companions have choices that do havily impact on their personal plots.

Ironically, this design does reflect perfectly my experience playing DnD, where the GM is more worried about the story of his/her NPCs and world than the PCs. So kudos Larion, they did recreate the 5e experience perfectly

Making a Rock Lee vs Gaara reference amidst this gargantuan review is why you’re one of my favorite YouTubers