Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Please stop revealing Antagonists. Don't spoil the game before its release.

Both of these points are quite true. A good mystery can absolutely be enjoyed again because if it's a good mystery then there's enjoyment to be derived from from seeing all the hints and breadcrumbs that you missed on a first read. However that doesn't mean spoiling doesn't take something away. There's pleasure to be found in the first experience, of not knowing where things are going and possibly even putting the clues together ahead of time. I think that using the antagonists like this, can easily remove that fun from a first playthrough.

I also just think that the antagonists are the wrong characters to use for the marketting in general. Because these three antagonists don't have a meaningful presence in act one, we're not going to be building a relationship with them, and I think honestly that with how the game is constructed, we're just not gonna be building an emotional bond to them as players or as characters. They're going to obstacles to be overcome more than anything else. I think it would have been better therefore to focus on the companions we've not yet met. There's less chance of spoiling story beats later into the game and they're the characters we as player and PC are going to be building an emotional attatchment to and, in the case of the Origin Companions, playing as. Hell, it would be a great opportunity to properly introduce and explain Jaheira and Minsc to newcomers to the franchise. Brief trailers like this that can contextualise who they are and why we should be excited about them. Because as someone who only just dipped their toe into BG1, I know enough to know they're important, but I don't really know WHY beyond 'they were old, well-loved companions.'