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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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I find Gale problematic (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/baldurs_gate_3

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I'm not even talking about bugs. Opinion based on act1 and very beginning of act2 experience.

1. Dialog and player choices feel railroaded as heck, options are suddenly lovelove or rude as fuck. Quality of dialog writing is very different from other parts of the game.
1. His story is r/rpghorrorstory level problematic. From DM perspective his backstory and associate npc's are especially bad choices.
It wouldn't bother as much if either was better, but both in current state just sticks out to me.

My partner thinks this character must be some executives personal OP character shoe horned in to game despite criticism.

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sidenote: His story would work far better if he was delusional insane person. Instead its literal game over with "certain choices", if you take him out of the portal.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The choices that lead to an early game over are pretty clear about the size and scale of the solution you are taking. If you make those choices, it's not Gale's writing that is at fault.

Saying he is arrogant is also weird... He's confident, sure. But look at other mages like Rolan and Lorrorakan. They are arrogant. Gale is a man who used to be arrogant and full of hubris and is wrestling with the choices that led him to be where we find him at the start of the game. He clearly does not like who he was in the past, if you take the time to talk to him and he is constantly wrestling with choices you and he make in the course of the campaign.