It’s a path for those, who either want to be Murderhobos
Since I changed my act 3 playthrough into Dark Urge – and I am still at act 1 – I have a question, since you reviewed it. If Dark Urge’s instincts are embraced, do they ever become more inventive? I mean, until now Dark Urge just wants to viscerally torture everyone and there is next to no narrative payoff for that. (I mean, you can e.g. kill Pandirna in her shack and there won't be any distrust / drama among the tieflings later. It basically removes NPC from game, and that's it.)
He never got any though to e.g. try to seed discord to make people kill each other, play mind games with people, or anything much besides attempting to shove their hands in others’ innards. That is… kinda murderhobo-flavour boring, actually and it doesn't really fulfill the promise of socio-/psychopathic killer playthrough.
Does it ever change? as it is I am considering to switch into a 'good' DUrge playthrough because I am less than impressed with its evil side right now.
Unfortunately the Dark Urge is not exactly subtle. Evil path in BG 3 is pretty bad overall as it is, no matter who you play as.
Dark Urge wants to kill everything and everyone as brutally as painfully as possible, due to
There is no pay off for most of the acts. From what I have gathered, all that matters is that you kill 2 npcs, which gives you a bit of reward, but it’s not worth it. Ignoring them is easy and often recommend, as you lose on approval and magic items.
Good Dark Urge is similar to Tav, but with more depth. I definitely enjoyed the scene with your chosen romance and Dark Urge in Act 2, it was well done. Sadly, it’s only one of few acts like this.
Right now playing as a good Dark urge and resisting it is strictly superior to evil playthrough for a multitude of reasons. I think that’s the best way to play, that or other origin character.
