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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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I have no problems save scumming, but I never suspected they'd literally design one of the main 6 characters to be missable over a single fucking failed skill check. I thought for sure I'd see him later.
Consequences of your decisions is what makes this game special. You're going to have a bad time going forward with this game if you cannot deal with the fomo.
What the hell do you mean consequences of my actions? I didn't do something dumb, I tried to save him. And it's not like a cool piece of armor or weapon was locked behind a skill check, it's a whole damn character. Arguably the best thing about this game is the characters and their dialogue. Now one of them is gone through no fault of my own. I can understand locking Minthara behind killing the druids and then not allowing you to have Karlach or Wyll in the party. That makes sense. I'd definitely view that as a consequence of my actions. But that's not what I'm upset about. I'm upset that one of the six main characters was locked behind a random skill check! It's dumb. They could've just as easily made it so he pops up again later at a different portal if you fail the first time, but no. So don't say this was a "consequence of my actions." If I was playing Dark Urge and chopped his hand off the argument would be better, but I'm not. I was playing a high strength character and used my inspirations and still failed due to no fault of my own and now one of the characters is just completely inaccessible. That's a massive chunk of content. Hundreds if not thousands of lines of dialogue I can't get to partake in because of a fucking random chance. So don't fucking say it's a consequence of my actions.
Wait till this guy hears about Minthara
I literally mentioned Minthara in the post.
Sorry, for clarification: you can save the tieflings and druids and still recruit Minthara
I wasn't aware, but I don't think you can kill the tie flings and keep Karlach and Wyll, that would be a fine example of losing characters due to the "consequences of my actions" still and I see no problem with it.