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Baldur's Gate 3
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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)
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Dude even Gortash/Orin/Ketheric are all at odds with eachother and they have a very clear, shared goal in mind. Your evil character is just a crazy person who wants a bunch of power for themselves without even having the dead three as a common connection to the other characters so yea, it’s gunna be real fuckin’ hard to make friends. For sure you’re gunna have people with you who you simply had to buy out and with whom you can’t build meaningful relationships.
I could see maybe an ending where you force the three chief assholes to work together but to help you undo their mess. It would be a lot of work for something not many would even bother with and I’m doubtful you’d get them as companions or be able to have a meaningful relationship with them in such a short time.
Anyway, the game isn’t pigeonholing you so much as reality is. Being self-centered is an inherently dead-end way to live in so many ways and the loss of friends and intimacy is a big part of that.
Those three are exactly what an evil group should look like and I doubt any of the posters in this thread want a truly evil character experience where you truly have no one you can trust or confide in or develop a degree of shared vulnerability with to bond. It’s stressful AF to live like that. The majority of people don’t play games for that experience and there isn’t enough RoI on the psychopaths that do to make it worthwhile. Maybe someone will make a mod to simulate it. I’d never even look at it. Even simulated evil-light in the form of the durge was painful for me.
Exactly! I do want to do a durge run as my second playthrough but you damn well know I’m going to take ‘em in the “overcome your evil nature” route.