#i did tell gale to leave camp and go die alone tho and i found that funny

[bananastarion]

I think it's a testament to how well written the characters of Baldur's Gate are, that I can't bring myself to be evil in any of my playthroughs.

You have to understand, every game I've played since childhood I always choose the most evil and chaotic possible things to do. From Skyrim to Zoo Tycoon, it doesn't even matter what the game is about, I will find a way to play it in the most fucked up way possible and quite literally cackle maniacally at the suffering of little virtual people. I like to push the game mechanics and my own creativity to its farthest limits. I basically play the dark urge in every game I get into, and in games where it's harder to be evil, I download mods that allow me to be worse. One time I was drunk and told my friends what I did to my sims, and they seemed genuinely disturbed by my dedication to simulated sadism. Honestly, the way I played the sims wasn't all that different from what Cazador did to his spawn, maybe worse. I always figured if I ever finally played DND, I'd naturally play an evil character.

But not in BG3. I can't bring myself to be evil in BG3. I tried, and the guilt was unbearable. I can't cut off Karlach's head... I can't let the goblins kill the tieflings... if this were like any other game, these sort of things would be priority #1 for me, and I'd find it hilarious. But I just care too much about this world and all the characters in it. They're too real to me, and I'd never be that cruel in real life. I never thought a game could do that to me.