Baldur’s Gate 3 could be the brand new king of RPG consideration to element, in addition to champion of the sentiment, “Properly, properly, properly, if it is not the results of my very own actions.” Case and level: there is a hidden sport over scene for shedding a late sport plot vital merchandise, one Larian went out of its solution to hold you from misplacing. Spoilers as much as the start of Act 3 forward.
Baldur’s Gate 3’s remaining act sees you gathering the three Netherstones required to convey the gussied-up Thoughts Flayer hivemind, the Absolute, to heel. You’ve got actually acquired no incentive to lose them out of your stock, however you possibly can drop them or depart them in containers. They’re going to all the time be ready on your return, nonetheless, and also you critically cannot use the “throw” motion on a Netherstone, stopping you from, say, tossing one right into a bottomless chasm.
YouTuber BOB_BestOfBugs, nonetheless, realized that there is nothing stopping you from placing a Netherstone right into a container like a crate or a sack (essential to the Shadowboxing speedrun tech) after which eliminating that container. I used to be in a position to replicate the trick in my very own sport, however curiously I solely acquired the sport over on shedding my second Netherstone, so be careful for probably smooth locking your self right here.
What follows is essentially the most luxurious kind of “you tousled, large time” scene you would presumably ask for, shades of firing a mining laser that wipes out all of humanity in System Shock and its remake.
Your Prism mind buddy, The Emperor, admonishes you for throwing away your one probability at victory, and also you’re in a short time teleported to the Absolute’s extra-planar courtroom the place it turns you and your occasion into Thoughts Flayers, adopted by an enormous fats sport over and the accompanying textual content, “You’ve got succumbed to Her, now a part of the Grand Design…”
I completely love this. It is the kind of intricate consideration to element and humorousness that basically units Baldur’s Gate 3 other than different RPGs. That sensibility is what let all my associates miss main characters, play the sport utterly improper (so far as I used to be involved), and simply hold chugging.
It would not have been stunning if Baldur’s Gate 3 as an alternative hit you with a “do not suppose that is a good suggestion” bark and refused to allow you to throw away a plot-critical merchandise, however I like that Larian went the additional mile to make the story reply to participant self-sabotage. I’ve to marvel if there are much more hidden scenes and sport overs ready to be discovered, and what audacious gamers must do to see them.