Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Story & Character Discussion It's odd following along as someone else plays

It's been a couple of months since I finished my first playthrough of BG3, and now my brother is playing his copy. He's just got into act 2, and he's been telling me what's been happening as he goes, while I'm telling him about my game of The Witcher. I played bard, he's playing paladin, but it's just quite strange hearing about his game because it's so different from mine.

In the wilderness, But in the Underdark, He's very keen to avoid any spoilers so I'm not explicitly mentioning anything he hasn't seen. All the awesome things he hasn't mentioned, I don't know if he's not seen them or if he just didn't mention them because they're not important!

It's just odd following someone else along by text messages, when they seem to be getting such different results. Makes me wonder how different my second game will be, too

First time RPG player I see.

Often the very selling point of those games is that you can do multiple playthroughs that will be different every time you play.

Personally I have seen it happen much outside Tim Cain-adjacent games (Fallout1&2, and troika stuff like Arcanum or Vampires).

BG3 allows for enough freedom and has so much missable content that it is quite likely that different players will have different experiences - player agency is very much at the heart of game’s design. I not sure how well it translates for multiple playthroughs - but you can judge it by yourself.

Baldur's Gate 3 can feel like a whole different game when you later decide to go on a much darker path, won't spoil anything but here is an interesting tip for a future playthrough if you've not tried it already.

The Dark Urge, while default character is dragonborn it is 100% customizeable to your own preferences from race to body type and all.

I played BG3 with a friend after having played full release a few times and she wasn't familiar with RPGs or gaming in general and her way to navigate the game was fascinating, and at times frustrating. She REALLY overestimated the approval system.

Not my first video game RPG, but the first one in a long time that I've talked to someone in detail about and planned to replay. I think the last RPG I replayed in full might have been Deus Ex - and that's only a partial RPG. Maybe VTM Bloodlines. They just take so long to go through in full! I planned to do a second run of Skyrim, but my mods broke and it never happened. But also, not many of my friends play the same games as me so I never really get to talk about them in any detail.

I'm definitely planning a durge run next. I was going to play as Astarion, but someone on here told me his story is much better if he's not the player character.

Early on in BG3 my brother I was just thinking "why?!"