Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Story & Character Discussion Durge Ending - Evil - THAT WAS IT??

First, I saved the city, romanced Astarion, he stayed as a spawn, and I got that god-awful mocking scene with him burning in the sun and everyone doing nothing about it. Then the annoying one-liners that mean nothing- roll credits.

I had heard that the Durge playthrough was interesting and that Ascended Astarion got more dialogue. So I decided to combine them and go evil to explore different choices.

Was interesting till Act 3, as per usual, but I was thinking like, "at least I'll get a different ending" and I pushed through it.

Well, I took over the brain after betraying The Emperor and I swear to gods, I thought my game glitched with how quickly it ends. I'm on my throne and *BLIP* *credits roll*

...what? That's it? Yay Bhaal's happy and...yeah?

So I was mad I got nothing from all my efforts, so I reloaded. Did the whole fight again and chose this time to kill the brain.

Well this time, I got the dock scene. I was expecting no less than what I got last time which was already kind of bad but at least I get some time to talk to my romance after? Maybe? But no...

If you didn't resist your Urge up until that point, you still get a blip of dialogue from people but then your eyes go red, there's a small thing about you saving the city, and then credits roll...again.

No romance conversation, nothing from Shadowheart or Minthara or Astarion just...nothing.

I'm lead to believe that you get SOMETHING if you resist Bhaal and I have a save I can reload to experience that but honestly? Why bother?

I've now seen 3 iterations of the ending of the game and everything is just so. Damn. Unsatisfying.

How in the world did they think endings where no one says anything meaningful, no options to talk to your companions or romance, no final goodbye or "what are your plans now?", no explanation on your affect on the city other than "you're heroes now" like...it just screams while they were writing this up that someone in the room was like "WRAP IT UP! WE NEED THIS GAME TO END!"

defy Bhaal after the Orin fight. It does not mean you have to suddenly be nice - in a dialogue choice afterwards you can say that you finally can kill for your own pleasure instead of Bhaal's. Which makes you a pretty horrible person and a good match with Ascendant Astarion. You still get the "you are the Heroes of Baldur's Gate" speech, wich is funny considering you are a villain at heart and might already plan to drench all of Faerûn in blood. But at least you can have a talk with your LI afterwards.

I agree that the pro-Bhaal ending is very unsatisfying - why do I have to take over my companions, especially my LI? There still could have been room for a talk afterwards with them, even if your are a super villain.

But then why include dialogue from Astarion saying "we could have it all, my love" and then enthrall him anyway?

I've definitely noticed a trend in them proposing options and then not following through. People have whole questlines that don't go anywhere.

Example: they seem to hint at the possibility of you obtaining the Crown for Gale and its literally his quest line if you don't have him blow up and you convince him to defy Mystra. I'm thinking "cool! That brings up interesting implications!"

But...no. All it does is give you an ending dialogue where Gale says he's going to fish it out of the Harbour and become a God la-dee-da. Like...k. His mission amounts to nothing like...yay.

the brain with the Emperor together, he will just say "In my name" and have you as thrall. There is no ending that lets you mutually rule over the brain with anyone else.

Defying Mystra does not seem to have any consequences. Just like all the tadpoles in your brain.

If you show up to her with the crown and say you're going to challenge her, you get an anime battle staredown after which she just.. deletes you and it ends there.

I didn't raze the world in Bhaal's name, I will raze it in ours.

I got the Slayer form, went to camp to talk to everyone about it. I also still had the night orchid. So I give her the flower, she makes her joke, everything's great. Then I tell her about my new beautiful form and let's just say the tone of her response was... slightly different. Then I went to Astarion and he told me the Slayer stinks. Which, fair. It does look like it doesn't exactly smell of roses.

Or Gortash being a fan.

lost the duel to Orin to see what'd happen, and after Bhaal resurrected me and said I was worthless to him, she said that even the Lord of Murder has lost faith in me and that her commiserations would be wasted on me.