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There's no feeling in the game similar to overcoming the Urge, dying, and discovering Withers is way more than you'd ever expected him to be. I had my eyes filled with tears the whole scene (after killing Orin, and as a Baal assassin, having met our.. other acquaintance) But that night of saving throws....that had me on the edge of my seat, equally unforgettable... Oh when finally dawn arrived and we could both breath...
my dark urge playthrough did not change the game at all, where are people getting this? It felt like a regular origin character run but you got to fully customize them
FYI, the reason the Dragonborn used by default for the Dark Urge is white is because, the White Dragons in DND are some of the most evil of all Dragons, yet is the archetypical wolf in sheep clothing kinda thing. And note that the model has white skin with red blood hues. Love those kind of small details Larian put in.
@@italianspartacus yes. Though it's green's usually that are the most deceitful and manipulative. Whites tend to be rather brutish and almost pointlessly violent.
@@Quandry1 I would like to add a few things that I find interesting. The white dragon are more beast like. The red dragons are really into collecting wealth. The black dragons are the most cruel. The metallic dragons usually have quite a personality. The copper dragons are pranksters and the brass dragons are annoyingly talkative. There are also gem dragons. They are generally regarded as neutral and their personalities are quite different depending on their species.
@@thedevilsbiscuit6368 the urge is so far from my playthrough more of a murder hobo simulator than actually evil, just lol murder everyone hardly feels particularly evil, more like an edgie teenager thinking they're being a badass as they derail someones game
I'd like to see more origins similar to the Dark Urge. It's not locked into a certain person, so it's nice to create a custom character and get some more story options. I was thinking how nice the Wyll story elements would be as a warlock that did not need to be Wyll.
I agree. Having to deal with a patron in a more in-depth way would be a really great addition. For example, perhaps there could have been an origin where Raphael was your patron.
Not that you're necessarily calling Wyll a bad character...but I am. I feel like the premise of Wyll is good, and the voice performance was awfully good as well. But the writers never focus on Wyll's flaws (self-righteousness and borderline-slavish selflessness) which would have deepened his character. Case in point: even the great sin that damned him to be a warlock was...selflessly saving the life of another person. What if Wyll did something unambiguously selfish instead? Would have lent his character some humanity.
I did this as my first playthrough and I do not regret it one bit. I resisted the dark urge against the innocents while still being brutal to those who I thought deserved it. Brilliant writing by Larian. 🙌🏼
Playing a Vengenace Paladin with Dark Urge trying to resist the urges was one of the best roleplaying experiences i've had. It had great moments and synergized perfectly with other characters in the party, specially with Shadowheart.
I was curious if the Oath of Vengeance would world work with a Dark Urge, especially one trying to resist. I have been considering multi-class options for my Durge, and was seeing some nice class synergy with what I was doing, but was worried if being a Durge character would cause me to break my oath too often. So thank you for answering that question.
So where was it that you broke your oath? For me my vengeance oath broke actually pretty late and for something totally different from bhaal. Which felt great. It was my own choice. Just like how the knight talks. It was deciding to agree to a pact with Gortash
I multiclassed my fighter into Oath of Vengeance Paladin around Act 3. Planning on going to fight Orin with divine strength as a man not bound by his dark urges.
@@kyokonightstorm5844 managed not to break my oath! Was straight Vengeance Paladin from start to end. I think only very specific events trigger the oath break for Venegence Pally.
Yea, Dark Urge is great. A lot of people have been opposed to it because it sounds to them like a murder hobo version of the game, but it's really not. It's a great chance for a light/redemption arc if you resist and a great chance for deep lore on certain characters/history if you indulge. It will change the game significantly, but a playthrough both with and without are certainly worth your time.
The climax of the dark urge playthrough if you continue to resist (the one at the temple of Bhaal) is probably the best scene in the game. Too bad I was spoiled the ending, I thought I wouldn't want to play it precisely because I thought it was a murderhobo playthrough and didn't avoid spoilers like I should've
@@thephoenix4093 that’s because what you actually find it’s his dead body In a costum character playthrough Orin was able to kill him. They don’t show or mention about it in the main story, but you can find a book about what happened in Orin’s room
I'm on my 3rd playthrough with The Dark Urge. First one was giving in to the urge with Minthara. The second one is rejecting the urge with Karlach and Wyll. Now I'm playing a psycho that is killing (almost) every single being in Faerun.
The squirrel thing is hilarious when you dont have speak with animals. My favorite reaction afterwards being “You all saw it! It was coming right at me!”
I think Dark Urge is a perfect second playthrough character. Even Sven said he doesn’t recommend dark urge for your first playthrough of the game. It is super cool to compare the differences after having already done a regular playthrough of the game.
My first playthrough was a Rogue as the Durk Urge. It was perfect. I went completely blind into BG3. Edit: You don't have to lose access to vendors or quests. It didn't happen to me, maybe because I resisted the Dark Urge for some time and embraced it in Act III. Also Minthara is the best partner for Dark Urge.
I actually chose Dark Urge as my first playthrough, cannot recommend it enough its such a cool roleplaying experience to do. I played it so i slowly gave in to the urge, so i saved the tieflings , but killed the nightsong, then finally challenged Orin to become Bhaals chosen. it was really cool having people like Wyl and Karlach warm to my characters initial good nature, only to turn sour toward the finale, meanwhile having Vampire ascendant Astarion and Dark Justiciar Shadowheart supporting me. Phenominal writing by Larian
Paladin gets exclusive dialogue in the dark urge route and you only break your oath depending on whether you revel in the actions you took while things were out of your control or not. Paladin is definitely a valid option.
I feel it's important to stress that Oathbreaker Paladin does pair very well with the Dark Urge. Only steer clear of Pally if you don't plan to break your oath. My own DU playthrough is with a Pally/Warlock, and it works great. But, BHAAL BELOW, it's nasty business. "Dark Urge is a shocking playthrough" (15:06) is very true. Get ready to feel shitty about your choices/actions... 🙂 This game is truly spectacular!
Monk Durge is so interesting because it feels like you have this disguise of a calm, peaceful, enlightened warrior struggling to keep a monster under control. And it gives a good playthrough some foundation to build on, your amnesia gives the Monk philosophy more room to guide you.
I would highly recommend playing paladin Dark urge if you enjoy roleplaying as a person who chose to live with their regret and chose to remain an oathbreaker out of principle. SPOILERS below I made a Paladin and became an oathbreaker after murdering Alfira and for my characters roleplay he chose to keep that guilt of murdering an innocent and being an oathbreaker and chose to abandon the gods out of principle made for an amazing playthrough, at the very end of the game when the narrator mentions that one kill you could not prevent just felt perfect for my character. He went and was a pragmatic anti-hero/hero, a bit inbetween, would yell, intimidate, get answers and results but would also be a selfless hero to the innocent, trying to atone, get answers and chose to never get closure for the murder of Alfira and it was straight up just epic.
i think most players should play it when it’s their first time playing Baldurs Gate 3 . the fact there’s different endings depending on your actions throughout the game like embracing baals gift or not or just the fact that there’s a sense of mystery at the start where you don’t understand why you want to kill is so intriguing
The squirrel bit is actually just part of any playthrough. I was expecting a light tap but my guy did exactly what yours did & I got the same dialogue from shadowheart as a regular sorcerer.
As Tav, Astarion says something different though. As dark urge, he seems amused and teases you a bit and as Tav, he approves but gets upset because you killed his snack lol
Oathbrealer Paladin makes so much sense for Dark Urge. Breaking the oath is perfectly in line with this origin. The necromancy that comes with Oathbreaking works with the themes as well.
The Dark Urge ties the game to Baldur's Gate 1 andf 2 so well that I think I agree with the theory that The Dark Urge was probably originally supposed to be the main character. It's the character that really explains why this is "Baldur's Gate 3" and not the first game in some new D&D series.
I mean, we get Jaheira, Minsk Bhaal, and freakin Baldurs gate itself. I'd say even with Tav it worthy of being called bg3. I do agree that durge adds more ties and is probably the original tho
@@Fierth Without spoilers, I am thinking of many additional moments that very much tie the Dark Urge into the events of Bhaalspawn Crisis from several of the original games. That Minsc and Jaheira potentially appear in BG3 (and Viconia DeVir) feels more like fan service than a "sequel." Especially given that Minsc and Viconia appear so late in the game and Jaheira doesn't become recruitable until later in Act 2. For that matter, Drizzt Do'Urden appeared in the original games, but I would not say that that made the Baldur's Gate games in any way sequels to Drizzt stories. It was more they wanted to include him, as a famous charascter, for the fan service of it.
@@Pandaemoni Minsc should be dead after 120 years. So he's total fan service. I'm on the fence about bhaalspawn stuff. I haven't played through it fully myself but it could be breaking the lore of the old games to fit in as directly connected from that angle.
Lawful neutral is a person who believes in honor, order, rules, and tradition, but often follows a personal code in addition to, or even in preference to, one set down by a benevolent authority. So they are not interested in follow any Gods or governments definitions of what honor and order is.
couldnt disagree with this vid more sparty- I say play a paladin, a good cleric, a folk hero, no save scumming, Full RP - the fall to evil or the rise to redemption! harder obviously but more worthwhile. If you plan on embracing the darkness within then I recommend rogue/rogue multiclass, necromancer or druid of spores. I want to also point out that if you play REAL smart, and keep your urge quiet and sly you can absolutly pull a Machiaveli/Palpatine and sway 'good' people to the dark. You just have to work out what motivates them deep down and present them with choices to access their deepest desires while doing great evil. Ive managed to achieve this and I converted Gale, Karlack and even wyll to the dark, Asterion is easy of course, as is shadowheart. I think Laezell wanted me dead at the end to be fair - but im willing to bet you can turn here genuinely evil too.
So I did basically everything you say not to do in this video. I played a dark urge paladin as my first run and I had so much fun with it. I resisted the urge and the game hurt me for it in all the most wonderful ways. The pay off at the end of that plot line was all the sweeter for it.
I didn’t pick it because I saw Dragonborn and didn’t want to be that race for my first play through. Guess I should have clicked on it to see that it was more wide open 😢
oath of the ancients doesnt conflict with dark urge since the times you do kill someone they were out of your control due to urges taking over. so seems like its only when you choose to do it is when the oath breaks
While im sure some of the choices would break your oath Im under the impression you have to choose to opt in. I did my first run with minimum save scumming playing a Vengeance Paladin Dark urge and absolutely loved it. Its a great dichotomy for fighting the urge. Ultimate good and ultimate evil in one body fighting for control Ill even say the one kill you have no control over became my favorite moment in the game. Subjecting myself to judgement to the rest of the party. Being spared and wearing the dead characters unique back item for the rest of the game. Swearing to never let the urge control me again.
You can avoid the first murder. While in camp just drop some strong poison at your feet and stand in it and eventually you will fail your saves and die. When you die don't revive, just do long rest while you are dead. The butler even remarks about the lengths you went to trying to avoid the murder.. Larian knew people would try that and included dialogue for it.
@@nunya_bizniz But the butler kills Alfira instead if you're not able to. The only way to spare her is to save your game before you take any long rest, then, if it's the night Alfira turns up, reload that previous save, go to her location in the Grove, and, using NON-LETHAL damage, knock her out. Then the game will send you a dragonborn bard for your to kill instead of her.
@@Quandry1I was referring to paladin in general, not specifically my subclass, and I still played them like your typical heroic paladin. Just had leaned towards stuff where vengeance was involved. Though Ill admit i broke character once when I was asked to destroy the myconid grove for an admittedly good reason
@@digifan02 With the Alignment lock removed. Paladin has lost a lot of that ultimate good concept in general. Now they are more holy warriors of a sort. So a typical Paladin is a bit different these days. Though I think you're meaning a bit more of the classic Paladin. Though keep in mind that vengeance was often something that broke their tenants. Which is one of the reason I like the more modern version of Paladin's better. they fit more varied ideals. as for the Myconid colony I'm guessing your talking about Glut. I have a game on pause at that point right there as I'm stuck between choosing not siding with him, and siding with him so that I could get a certain quest reward I'm to understand he gives because it would be a nice boon on my Monk that I'm playing in that game.
Did the defauly Dark Urge after some restarts for testing different builds. White Dragon Born (male) Storm Sorcerer Completely embraced all the evil choices.
It gives you an easier time in Act 3 as you can bypass some puzzles. I also found a Dark Urge druid is brainlessly OP as you can use slayer form and then owlbear form to tank through most combat.
Thanks for explaining that, I saw a video on RUclips of shaddowheart kicking a squirl like that and enjoying it. and I thought she was just crazy and didn't want her in my party anymore, now I realize that person was just playing her as the dark urge
YES!!! The Dark Urge is the best character. I never seen the squirrel moment till I did my play through of it and my jaw hit the floor. The rewards do lend themselves to certain play styles, but it is an amazing play through and has some surprises for certain
I recommend Ancients paladin if you want to go paladin. Tenets are more lenient (so far) as long as you don't break your word. Yes, Timber hurt. Karlach had choice words for me. I think one turning point is if you try to hide it from your companions or be honest from the start. All of them have at least one ticking threat going on.
"don't play a paladin"... too late. I played my first playthrough as a Vengeance oath paladin. (Maybe spoilers ahead?) I thought I would eventually turn to an oath breaker... but no. Somehow I was able to stay true to my oath up until the end, resisting the urge every time (except the ones you don't have a choice) and just being honest. Lover surviving, great "good" endings all over the place, so it's definitely doable, and even a great choice/challenge for a paladin. After finishing the game some more runs, I think in fact that the dark urge is the DEFAULT character's origin. Because (spoiler) it's way more tied to BG1 and 2 than any other origin. Great video, by the way!
I've been having a great time playing an exiled Lolth-sworn drow resisting the Urge. The tension between what I want to do and what the Urge demands is really fun. I absolutely agree that it's best as a second playthrough, though. Knowing just how intrusive the Urge is compared to a normal playthrough enhances the experience for me.
I don't know how people can only play this once. I'm on my fourth play through and I'm finally playing dark urge. I'm struggling with dark urge because I want to see different outcomes but I love most characters in the game.
already had that problem in my second playthrough, which was supposed to be generally good but more selfish than my lawful good first. I just can't hurt people! xD but I wanna try Durge someday...
6:58 you can actually save this individual, the only caveat to this is you have to know beforehand who your going to kill and exactly when your going to kill them, making it extremely difficult to save said person on a first Durge playthrough, if you decide to play Durge again saving this person is very easy
Oath of vengeance paladin is a great way to play dark urge. It's really really fitting i think. And if you lean into the urge, oathbreaker can be exactly appropriate for the role play. If you plan to fight the urge and you fail sometimes, paladin rarely having to buy redemption adds extra weight to that role play too
I love Durge but I wish that you would get more rewards for it. When you play a good or neutral character you gain a lot from the npc but you don’t gain nearly as much for being evil and doing things that would warrant a reward, maybe it’s just me but I feel they should balance it a bit more.
Still to this day, I think dark urge is more annoying than anything. It only ever seems to occur in the moments that would benefit me, only to ruin my day. That one bit in the camp where we have to kill is the one reason I hate the thing because it doesn't let us fight it, it just makes us do it, I would have gladly taken a choice where we could have fought the urge to avoid doing nonconcent murder for one day of exhaustion or fatigue. I would glady take that challenge. This is why I think BG3 might have needed more time, especially with all the updates that came after.
Cleric could be evil. I played Durge wild magic sorcererer/tempedt cleric Teamant/field warlock/ evoction wizard=D so I get a lot "evil cleric things", thats bliss to have alot interactions as multiclass + wild magic chaos
My Dark Urge character is a Lolth Sworn drow Spore Druid, I unalive people so I can spread my spores and re-alive them as my servant. What can I say i am a real fungi.
I'm pretty tempted to do a dark urge bard playthrough, any experience on that? Writing those dramas and tragedies ;-) Currently close to finish my Tiefling Fighter game (1st time Baldurs Gate series at all) and want to do a separate Warlock playthrough, but that could come after the Dark Urge.
I would say the Dark Urge is the canon story as it's connected to what happens in BG1 and BG2. So if you want to learn more about what happens after BG2 Dark Urge is a most play.
DEFINITELY doing a Dark Urge as my second playthrough. Thinking of doing a Ranger/Cleric thing. Like multiclasses into Cleric at some point due to sort of being in a "panic" about what do to do about that inner darkness. Have NO IDEA if that will fit well with the story, but it sounds fun.
I did a warlock dark urge fully indulging in the evil play through and it was my favorite one so far. It felt like I was the intended main character. I was also amazed at how many things the game lets you do and the story doesn’t break. Romanced minthara too and she’s perfect love for a dark urge.
I went with “Incompetent Urge” for my first playthru. I did it blind (no guides; no google) & ended up failing to help the tieflings not out of malice but out of dipshittery. I also didn’t help Minthara or the Druids. Fucked myself on all angles unintentionally. Failed to lift the shadow curse. So help me, I need to play this 3rd act as less of a bumbling idiot. …the irony of playing a high Intelligence character 😂
im doing a dark urge no manual save taction playthrough where im trying to spare everyone i fight with non lethal... people are dying and im feelin real bad
Yes I lost gale haha, I did not expect it to kill him but oh well, now I hope will does not leave me otherwise I have no caster and idk if I can even do a play through without a caster
Assuming you haven't played the game yet, you should absolutely ignore everything you possibly can about what the Dark Urge playthrough actually entails and just pick it. Don't ask any questions, don't stop to collect 200 dollars, just pick that as your origin, customize your race and class, and go for it.
Thanks for these BG3 vidoes, they really help me decide what I want to do on my playthroughs after the first one. If this game doesn't get GOTY then the various award givers will have lost all credibility in my opinion.
You can 100% go through the Durge playthrough without actually unalive anyone important to any storyline. But this does require a lot of metagaming, where you knock out the npc before you longrest for the cutscene to happen. This will spawn in an npc that will never appear in the game otherwise, that will take the unaliving instead of the important character.
I plan for 3 playthroughs. My first was dark urge, resisting it. Second is dark urge feeding into it and being evil. Third will be whichever origin character I didn’t get much of in my other two play throughs
I'm planning a dark urge playthrough second, as a more morally ambiguous playthrough. My first playthrough is as a very paladin paladin, and it's so much fun. I really wish the Dark Urge was presented as the "main character", it really is. It's so easy to imagine the character creation screen with 3 tiers of icons to choose from: Dark Urge, Origin, and Custom
Great video on the dark urge. You kept it very spoiler free, when you said the emerald grove I did not think it would be that example. I think a second play through is perfect for the dark urge, but like you said if you’re only going to do one play through go dark urge because everyone should play it at least once.
Yes, yes and yes. Got around 600 hours in bg3 and dark urge was for sure the one i would call the Original, that was meant to be played as the player. so its worth it - 10000%
I think people thinking that urge is immediately an evil run are mistaken. You can fight your urges... and loose to them... and try again... it's tragic and interesting. First playthrough with Dark Urge playing an asshole that ends up helping people cuz they have friends they need to be alive and a gf that is murderous but on evil peeps so.... a chaotic conflicted character.... a githyanki wizard... it just makes so much sense
My first character is The Dark Urge. The squirrel attacked Shadowheart and she kicked it. And I was also very shocked when I "went to bed" in the Camp for the first time!
As someone who has played Dark Urge Paladin, I would like to say that [NON-SPECIFIC SPOILER] The one murder you are forced to commit does not count as violation of your Oath, but killings made because you failed the save to resist do (I think) so it is a play through where you will very likely savescum, but it is not a guaranteed Oathbreaker run
I took the dark urge as a recovering drug addict who was trying to get on the wagon. Having a lot of fun shipping shadowheart with it. Makes for wonderfully toxic relationship
Honestly, I'd just go dragonborn paladin and break my oath as Dark Urge and keep messing things with evil smites, makes it fun to think you broke your oath because of chapter 3 spoilers.
7:05 You can avoid the first murder. The night it is going to happen, drop some strong poison at your feet and stand in it. Eventually you will fail saves and die. Do not revive. Long rest while dead. The butler even remarks on your successful attempt to avoid the murder.
On my first playthrough now, went paladin dark urge. It was great when i killed that character. I was wondering how i was going to break my oath and then BAM. I was totally surprised too which was amazing. Being a oathbreaker locks you out of respec'ing which was a minor inconvenience since i was still learning how to play. You can multiclass still, i took 3 levels of warlock but the build was meh. I ended following a redemption path, and now i restored my oath, taking an oath of vengeance and with 3 levels of rogue. Combined with great weapon Im putting up crazy damage and loving it.
Oh shit this channel is so up my alley. I also did a lawful good ranger playthrough as my very first and it was extremely satisfying. And I very much want to see the exact opposite spectrum of interactions as well as learn as much as possible about the previous games (and play them). I think from watching one video about BG1 I figured out what the dark urge story is. I’m assuming you’re the same type of thing as your main character in the original game
i have been playing dark urge and i would recommend playing it 2nd as much fun as it is and the reason is because there is lots of things you may miss out on without knowing if you do atleast 1 play through you can figure out some stuff before hand with items that may change how evil you wanna be without missing important items
Really appreciate your willingness to give a synopsis of the video you are about to present forgoing viewer attention for just releasing a quality product need 1,000 more like you thanks
I call it the Intrusive Thoughts Simulator. I'm finding it super rewarding from a role-play standpoint to play a Loth-sworn Drow resisting the Urge. I care more about this "evil" character than any of the good ones I've made so far.
as the narrator Amelia Tyler said herself, “play your good guy play through, and when your’re done, play a dark urge play through” this is the way i experienced the game and i completely recommend it. play the game as you normally would, and then when you play it again, embrace the dark urge. let it take over
It's so weird to me that one of the main points of emphasis is vendors--in terms of things that impact my experience, *vendors* isn't on that list (other than the obvious story element Dammon is connected with). Otherwise, I appreciate you going through what it's all about.
After having access to "the Mantle" once, it is really hard to go back to a non-Urge custom origin. Such an amazingly fun item to have, especially on martial characters.
Id just started DU playthrough last night and watching this before booting up again. I had just done the gameplay from your final sample segment and yeah... HO. LY. SHIT. This playthrough is gonna be intense... until at least Act 3. Then it will be in the tavern, not in tents. Having done one very in depth playthrough myself now, I need to start binging content on how The Emperor is actually evil. Like a mind flayer with the highest possible deception/persuasion stats in Faerun because he remembers but doesn't feel his humanity. How he snacked on Stelmane. How he mind controlled half the city and betrayed his own core principles as founder all while believing himself to be the good guy the entire time. Even when he turns against you to destroy Faerun. How he sees himself gaining power as the real and only "salvation" of the land/goal, because he's so self absorbed and sees every other lifeform as less than bacteria. How he is the one that tadpoled us in the beginning, after killing the other mindflayers in that room. How he was on/piloting that crashed Nautiloid as a mission from Gortash to steal the Prism after dominating the Elder Brain, and how he was pretending to be enthralled to be able to seek the Prism for himself. How we are intended to be his "beautiful weapons". How he doesn't need to be anywhere near the Prism to retain autonomy because it was Ansur that gave him that gift not Orpheus. It's annoying that the game claims it's The Emperor protecting us when it's Orpheus the entire time and The Emperor is just a stow away keeping his super soldiers (Tav and co) under close observation and constant mind control. We should either be able to kill him early without negative consequence and then have Orpheus take on the same role thereafter until we can get the hammer - only this time we would be independent thinkers without The Emperor's constant deception. YES DO THAT. I know I know it all. But I would still binge the shit out of that shit like Alt Shift X did on YT for Game of Thrones. Like how Im watching this after committing to D.U. playthrough already.
I am going monk for dark urge. My character became a monk to learn to fight this urge. I really want to finish my first playthrough first though. Can't wait to do this urge game though
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There's no feeling in the game similar to overcoming the Urge, dying, and discovering Withers is way more than you'd ever expected him to be.
I had my eyes filled with tears the whole scene (after killing Orin, and as a Baal assassin, having met our.. other acquaintance)
But that night of saving throws....that had me on the edge of my seat, equally unforgettable...
Oh when finally dawn arrived and we could both breath...
my dark urge playthrough did not change the game at all, where are people getting this?
It felt like a regular origin character run but you got to fully customize them
@@samw9906 - you sure you actually played the game? Who's your Daddy? Who's your sista?
@ChristmasLore boss from Bg1 and one of the big 3, although him being daddy is scrupulous at best due to how your bloodline works
FYI, the reason the Dragonborn used by default for the Dark Urge is white is because, the White Dragons in DND are some of the most evil of all Dragons, yet is the archetypical wolf in sheep clothing kinda thing. And note that the model has white skin with red blood hues. Love those kind of small details Larian put in.
Yeah all the chromatic ones are evil and metallic are good right?? I'm still new to the Lore!
@@italianspartacus Yep!
@@italianspartacus yes. Though it's green's usually that are the most deceitful and manipulative. Whites tend to be rather brutish and almost pointlessly violent.
@@Quandry1 I would like to add a few things that I find interesting. The white dragon are more beast like. The red dragons are really into collecting wealth. The black dragons are the most cruel. The metallic dragons usually have quite a personality. The copper dragons are pranksters and the brass dragons are annoyingly talkative. There are also gem dragons. They are generally regarded as neutral and their personalities are quite different depending on their species.
@@italianspartacus For Dragons, the color of dragonborn scales typically don't mean anything per alignment.
Larian did a great job of making the evil deeds in this game feel very evil. Poor Tieflings :(
Not even close to the most evil stuff you are encouraged to do by the urge
@@thedevilsbiscuit6368 the urge is so far from my playthrough more of a murder hobo simulator than actually evil, just lol murder everyone hardly feels particularly evil, more like an edgie teenager thinking they're being a badass as they derail someones game
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Its a refreshing change from 2 where the evil character was kind of just a dick.
Poor squirrel…
I'd like to see more origins similar to the Dark Urge. It's not locked into a certain person, so it's nice to create a custom character and get some more story options. I was thinking how nice the Wyll story elements would be as a warlock that did not need to be Wyll.
I agree. Having to deal with a patron in a more in-depth way would be a really great addition. For example, perhaps there could have been an origin where Raphael was your patron.
@@jasonquigley2633 or a deep one.. or a fae lord.
Yeah, my first playthrough was as a warlock and my patron was really missing from the story
Not that you're necessarily calling Wyll a bad character...but I am. I feel like the premise of Wyll is good, and the voice performance was awfully good as well. But the writers never focus on Wyll's flaws (self-righteousness and borderline-slavish selflessness) which would have deepened his character. Case in point: even the great sin that damned him to be a warlock was...selflessly saving the life of another person. What if Wyll did something unambiguously selfish instead? Would have lent his character some humanity.
You mean, like every RPG protagonist ever?
All the fallout Games, All the Kotor games, Mass Effect, The original BG games...
I did this as my first playthrough and I do not regret it one bit. I resisted the dark urge against the innocents while still being brutal to those who I thought deserved it. Brilliant writing by Larian. 🙌🏼
that might be the answer. going full evil just doesn't seem worth it with all the companions you'll lose and everything.
Same man, mix the dark urge having amnesia complimenting the first playthru and not knowing whats going on it just made everything all the better
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that's a good take. then again, I already played twice as a good person now....
Playing a Vengenace Paladin with Dark Urge trying to resist the urges was one of the best roleplaying experiences i've had. It had great moments and synergized perfectly with other characters in the party, specially with Shadowheart.
I was curious if the Oath of Vengeance would world work with a Dark Urge, especially one trying to resist. I have been considering multi-class options for my Durge, and was seeing some nice class synergy with what I was doing, but was worried if being a Durge character would cause me to break my oath too often.
So thank you for answering that question.
So where was it that you broke your oath? For me my vengeance oath broke actually pretty late and for something totally different from bhaal. Which felt great. It was my own choice. Just like how the knight talks. It was deciding to agree to a pact with Gortash
I multiclassed my fighter into Oath of Vengeance Paladin around Act 3. Planning on going to fight Orin with divine strength as a man not bound by his dark urges.
@@kyokonightstorm5844 managed not to break my oath! Was straight Vengeance Paladin from start to end. I think only very specific events trigger the oath break for Venegence Pally.
@@Blastanker you are in for some good roleplay!
Yea, Dark Urge is great. A lot of people have been opposed to it because it sounds to them like a murder hobo version of the game, but it's really not. It's a great chance for a light/redemption arc if you resist and a great chance for deep lore on certain characters/history if you indulge. It will change the game significantly, but a playthrough both with and without are certainly worth your time.
There is such a satisfying internal dilemma if you resist the Urge. Trying to be good and failing and continuing to try. It's really gratifying.
True! I'm deep into act 3 and managed to keep my relationship with Laezel through it all.
The climax of the dark urge playthrough if you continue to resist (the one at the temple of Bhaal) is probably the best scene in the game. Too bad I was spoiled the ending, I thought I wouldn't want to play it precisely because I thought it was a murderhobo playthrough and didn't avoid spoilers like I should've
The pacifist paradox: players are more keen on showing compassion in a game when it is more difficult to do so
The dark urge is actually in the base game if you play as a custom or any other origin. You can find him vibing in Orin's room.
He really is just laying around in there
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Sibling rivalry
wouldn't he be a major character though? he's one of the main antagonists's brother
@@thephoenix4093 that’s because what you actually find it’s his dead body
In a costum character playthrough Orin was able to kill him.
They don’t show or mention about it in the main story, but you can find a book about what happened in Orin’s room
I'm on my 3rd playthrough with The Dark Urge. First one was giving in to the urge with Minthara. The second one is rejecting the urge with Karlach and Wyll. Now I'm playing a psycho that is killing (almost) every single being in Faerun.
Ah the true 3 alignments: Good, Evil, and Murderhobo
Wait, minthara lived in your giving in to the urge run?
Youre clearly doing something wrong.
@@naiveideen1638yeah. Second playthrough Here and I can't play anything else than the sadistic murderhobo
@@SitWithItBob Murderhobo is just chaotic neutral, don't worry they're not evil
@@SitWithItBob exactly!
The squirrel thing is hilarious when you dont have speak with animals. My favorite reaction afterwards being “You all saw it! It was coming right at me!”
i remember casting speak with animals, then going to talking to it, then my guy immediately kicks it lmao
I was playing a Durge and was trying to be good. So imagine my shock when walking near the squirrel and he fucking punts it.
@@MrKingJsonliterally 😭
I think Dark Urge is a perfect second playthrough character. Even Sven said he doesn’t recommend dark urge for your first playthrough of the game. It is super cool to compare the differences after having already done a regular playthrough of the game.
My first playthrough was a Rogue as the Durk Urge. It was perfect. I went completely blind into BG3.
Edit: You don't have to lose access to vendors or quests. It didn't happen to me, maybe because I resisted the Dark Urge for some time and embraced it in Act III. Also Minthara is the best partner for Dark Urge.
I actually chose Dark Urge as my first playthrough, cannot recommend it enough its such a cool roleplaying experience to do. I played it so i slowly gave in to the urge, so i saved the tieflings , but killed the nightsong, then finally challenged Orin to become Bhaals chosen. it was really cool having people like Wyl and Karlach warm to my characters initial good nature, only to turn sour toward the finale, meanwhile having Vampire ascendant Astarion and Dark Justiciar Shadowheart supporting me. Phenominal writing by Larian
Paladin gets exclusive dialogue in the dark urge route and you only break your oath depending on whether you revel in the actions you took while things were out of your control or not. Paladin is definitely a valid option.
I feel it's important to stress that Oathbreaker Paladin does pair very well with the Dark Urge. Only steer clear of Pally if you don't plan to break your oath.
My own DU playthrough is with a Pally/Warlock, and it works great.
But, BHAAL BELOW, it's nasty business. "Dark Urge is a shocking playthrough" (15:06) is very true. Get ready to feel shitty about your choices/actions... 🙂 This game is truly spectacular!
Never have I had so much fun being an absolutely vile and evil villian.
"Play Dark Urge second if you plan on playing twice"
Me, who has 10 builds already planned: _Interesting_
Monk Durge is so interesting because it feels like you have this disguise of a calm, peaceful, enlightened warrior struggling to keep a monster under control. And it gives a good playthrough some foundation to build on, your amnesia gives the Monk philosophy more room to guide you.
I didn't think about that, I was just thinking it'd be more gruesome if he did it all with his bare hands.
Bard Durge is Patrick Bateman. Edit: Maybe not, though - Not sure if I agree with it now that I've said it...
I would highly recommend playing paladin Dark urge if you enjoy roleplaying as a person who chose to live with their regret and chose to remain an oathbreaker out of principle. SPOILERS below
I made a Paladin and became an oathbreaker after murdering Alfira and for my characters roleplay he chose to keep that guilt of murdering an innocent and being an oathbreaker and chose to abandon the gods out of principle made for an amazing playthrough, at the very end of the game when the narrator mentions that one kill you could not prevent just felt perfect for my character. He went and was a pragmatic anti-hero/hero, a bit inbetween, would yell, intimidate, get answers and results but would also be a selfless hero to the innocent, trying to atone, get answers and chose to never get closure for the murder of Alfira and it was straight up just epic.
i think most players should play it when it’s their first time playing Baldurs Gate 3 . the fact there’s different endings depending on your actions throughout the game like embracing baals gift or not or just the fact that there’s a sense of mystery at the start where you don’t understand why you want to kill is so intriguing
The squirrel bit is actually just part of any playthrough. I was expecting a light tap but my guy did exactly what yours did & I got the same dialogue from shadowheart as a regular sorcerer.
As Tav, Astarion says something different though. As dark urge, he seems amused and teases you a bit and as Tav, he approves but gets upset because you killed his snack lol
Oathbrealer Paladin makes so much sense for Dark Urge.
Breaking the oath is perfectly in line with this origin. The necromancy that comes with Oathbreaking works with the themes as well.
The Dark Urge ties the game to Baldur's Gate 1 andf 2 so well that I think I agree with the theory that The Dark Urge was probably originally supposed to be the main character. It's the character that really explains why this is "Baldur's Gate 3" and not the first game in some new D&D series.
I mean, we get Jaheira, Minsk Bhaal, and freakin Baldurs gate itself. I'd say even with Tav it worthy of being called bg3. I do agree that durge adds more ties and is probably the original tho
@@Fierth Without spoilers, I am thinking of many additional moments that very much tie the Dark Urge into the events of Bhaalspawn Crisis from several of the original games. That Minsc and Jaheira potentially appear in BG3 (and Viconia DeVir) feels more like fan service than a "sequel." Especially given that Minsc and Viconia appear so late in the game and Jaheira doesn't become recruitable until later in Act 2. For that matter, Drizzt Do'Urden appeared in the original games, but I would not say that that made the Baldur's Gate games in any way sequels to Drizzt stories. It was more they wanted to include him, as a famous charascter, for the fan service of it.
I had kinda the same feeling actually yes
@@Pandaemoni Minsc should be dead after 120 years. So he's total fan service. I'm on the fence about bhaalspawn stuff. I haven't played through it fully myself but it could be breaking the lore of the old games to fit in as directly connected from that angle.
@Quandry1 if you actually talk to Minsc you find out why he's still alive.
Lawful neutral is a person who believes in honor, order, rules, and tradition, but often follows a personal code in addition to, or even in preference to, one set down by a benevolent authority. So they are not interested in follow any Gods or governments definitions of what honor and order is.
couldnt disagree with this vid more sparty- I say play a paladin, a good cleric, a folk hero, no save scumming, Full RP - the fall to evil or the rise to redemption! harder obviously but more worthwhile.
If you plan on embracing the darkness within then I recommend rogue/rogue multiclass, necromancer or druid of spores.
I want to also point out that if you play REAL smart, and keep your urge quiet and sly you can absolutly pull a Machiaveli/Palpatine and sway 'good' people to the dark. You just have to work out what motivates them deep down and present them with choices to access their deepest desires while doing great evil.
Ive managed to achieve this and I converted Gale, Karlack and even wyll to the dark, Asterion is easy of course, as is shadowheart. I think Laezell wanted me dead at the end to be fair - but im willing to bet you can turn here genuinely evil too.
So I did basically everything you say not to do in this video. I played a dark urge paladin as my first run and I had so much fun with it. I resisted the urge and the game hurt me for it in all the most wonderful ways. The pay off at the end of that plot line was all the sweeter for it.
Didnt watch, but my first char was a durge.
Absolutely. Worth. It.
Such an intense experience, i have not had that in a cinematic game like this ever
Also, having played it, i know so much i want to explore differently
I didn’t pick it because I saw Dragonborn and didn’t want to be that race for my first play through. Guess I should have clicked on it to see that it was more wide open 😢
oath of the ancients doesnt conflict with dark urge since the times you do kill someone they were out of your control due to urges taking over. so seems like its only when you choose to do it is when the oath breaks
While im sure some of the choices would break your oath Im under the impression you have to choose to opt in. I did my first run with minimum save scumming playing a Vengeance Paladin Dark urge and absolutely loved it. Its a great dichotomy for fighting the urge. Ultimate good and ultimate evil in one body fighting for control
Ill even say the one kill you have no control over became my favorite moment in the game. Subjecting myself to judgement to the rest of the party. Being spared and wearing the dead characters unique back item for the rest of the game. Swearing to never let the urge control me again.
You can avoid the first murder. While in camp just drop some strong poison at your feet and stand in it and eventually you will fail your saves and die. When you die don't revive, just do long rest while you are dead. The butler even remarks about the lengths you went to trying to avoid the murder.. Larian knew people would try that and included dialogue for it.
Vengeance paladins aren't ultimate good. They lean towards law but are more neutral or even evil in some cases.
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But the butler kills Alfira instead if you're not able to.
The only way to spare her is to save your game before you take any long rest, then, if it's the night Alfira turns up, reload that previous save, go to her location in the Grove, and, using NON-LETHAL damage, knock her out.
Then the game will send you a dragonborn bard for your to kill instead of her.
@@Quandry1I was referring to paladin in general, not specifically my subclass, and I still played them like your typical heroic paladin. Just had leaned towards stuff where vengeance was involved. Though Ill admit i broke character once when I was asked to destroy the myconid grove for an admittedly good reason
@@digifan02 With the Alignment lock removed. Paladin has lost a lot of that ultimate good concept in general. Now they are more holy warriors of a sort. So a typical Paladin is a bit different these days. Though I think you're meaning a bit more of the classic Paladin. Though keep in mind that vengeance was often something that broke their tenants. Which is one of the reason I like the more modern version of Paladin's better. they fit more varied ideals.
as for the Myconid colony I'm guessing your talking about Glut. I have a game on pause at that point right there as I'm stuck between choosing not siding with him, and siding with him so that I could get a certain quest reward I'm to understand he gives because it would be a nice boon on my Monk that I'm playing in that game.
Did the defauly Dark Urge after some restarts for testing different builds.
White Dragon Born (male)
Storm Sorcerer
Completely embraced all the evil choices.
It gives you an easier time in Act 3 as you can bypass some puzzles. I also found a Dark Urge druid is brainlessly OP as you can use slayer form and then owlbear form to tank through most combat.
Im such a coward. Im so afraid to be a meanie in these games.
Thanks for explaining that, I saw a video on RUclips of shaddowheart kicking a squirl like that and enjoying it. and I thought she was just crazy and didn't want her in my party anymore, now I realize that person was just playing her as the dark urge
YES!!! The Dark Urge is the best character. I never seen the squirrel moment till I did my play through of it and my jaw hit the floor. The rewards do lend themselves to certain play styles, but it is an amazing play through and has some surprises for certain
I mean, I'd still be an oath breaker, Dark Urge. I'd wanna see how well I can handle it
I recommend Ancients paladin if you want to go paladin. Tenets are more lenient (so far) as long as you don't break your word.
Yes, Timber hurt. Karlach had choice words for me.
I think one turning point is if you try to hide it from your companions or be honest from the start. All of them have at least one ticking threat going on.
"don't play a paladin"... too late. I played my first playthrough as a Vengeance oath paladin. (Maybe spoilers ahead?) I thought I would eventually turn to an oath breaker... but no. Somehow I was able to stay true to my oath up until the end, resisting the urge every time (except the ones you don't have a choice) and just being honest. Lover surviving, great "good" endings all over the place, so it's definitely doable, and even a great choice/challenge for a paladin. After finishing the game some more runs, I think in fact that the dark urge is the DEFAULT character's origin. Because (spoiler) it's way more tied to BG1 and 2 than any other origin. Great video, by the way!
I've been having a great time playing an exiled Lolth-sworn drow resisting the Urge. The tension between what I want to do and what the Urge demands is really fun. I absolutely agree that it's best as a second playthrough, though. Knowing just how intrusive the Urge is compared to a normal playthrough enhances the experience for me.
I don't know how people can only play this once. I'm on my fourth play through and I'm finally playing dark urge. I'm struggling with dark urge because I want to see different outcomes but I love most characters in the game.
already had that problem in my second playthrough, which was supposed to be generally good but more selfish than my lawful good first. I just can't hurt people! xD but I wanna try Durge someday...
6:58 you can actually save this individual, the only caveat to this is you have to know beforehand who your going to kill and exactly when your going to kill them, making it extremely difficult to save said person on a first Durge playthrough, if you decide to play Durge again saving this person is very easy
I’m doing a dark urge playthough but hasn’t done a murder even though I’m about to leave act 1.
No compliments I want that robe!!!
I ONLY downloaded the Death domain cleric mod, and am currently playing the cleric/oathbreaker dark urge, and its so different and evil and fun.
Oath of vengeance paladin is a great way to play dark urge. It's really really fitting i think. And if you lean into the urge, oathbreaker can be exactly appropriate for the role play. If you plan to fight the urge and you fail sometimes, paladin rarely having to buy redemption adds extra weight to that role play too
I love Durge but I wish that you would get more rewards for it. When you play a good or neutral character you gain a lot from the npc but you don’t gain nearly as much for being evil and doing things that would warrant a reward, maybe it’s just me but I feel they should balance it a bit more.
My first playthrough was a Dark Urge and I loved it.
Tbh the squirrel had it coming.
Not that its very good, but slayer form benefits significantly from extra attack and somewhat from a thief's extra bonus action.
Still to this day, I think dark urge is more annoying than anything. It only ever seems to occur in the moments that would benefit me, only to ruin my day. That one bit in the camp where we have to kill is the one reason I hate the thing because it doesn't let us fight it, it just makes us do it, I would have gladly taken a choice where we could have fought the urge to avoid doing nonconcent murder for one day of exhaustion or fatigue.
I would glady take that challenge. This is why I think BG3 might have needed more time, especially with all the updates that came after.
Cleric could be evil. I played Durge wild magic sorcererer/tempedt cleric Teamant/field warlock/ evoction wizard=D so I get a lot "evil cleric things", thats bliss to have alot interactions as multiclass + wild magic chaos
100% making a Shadow Monk DU play through. Someone with a very dark past who is seeking to destroy the one who placed him on his path.
My Dark Urge character is a Lolth Sworn drow Spore Druid, I unalive people so I can spread my spores and re-alive them as my servant. What can I say i am a real fungi.
Short answer "Yes."
as a wise man said "“What is better: to be born good or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?” - Paarthurnax
My first playthrough I punted the squirrel by accident with my non-Durge Druid 😭😂
Question: Will I get as much out of The Dark Urge if I never played the older games? I know the basic story though.
I'm pretty tempted to do a dark urge bard playthrough, any experience on that? Writing those dramas and tragedies ;-) Currently close to finish my Tiefling Fighter game (1st time Baldurs Gate series at all) and want to do a separate Warlock playthrough, but that could come after the Dark Urge.
I would say the Dark Urge is the canon story as it's connected to what happens in BG1 and BG2. So if you want to learn more about what happens after BG2 Dark Urge is a most play.
Doesn't it break the canon of those games because the ending has the MC either murder all Spawns or imprison them?
@@elandilaurelius4849 There is a side quest in act 3 that reveals what choices was the canon one in BG2.
@@dribrom Was there a third ending in BG2 that had all spawns survive? Because both endings I remember essentially see them wiped one way or another.
@@elandilaurelius4849 You will run into Sarevok and he has a little speech about what happened. Don't want to spoil it more than that.
@@dribrom Ah gotcha
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DEFINITELY doing a Dark Urge as my second playthrough.
Thinking of doing a Ranger/Cleric thing. Like multiclasses into Cleric at some point due to sort of being in a "panic" about what do to do about that inner darkness.
Have NO IDEA if that will fit well with the story, but it sounds fun.
I did a warlock dark urge fully indulging in the evil play through and it was my favorite one so far. It felt like I was the intended main character. I was also amazed at how many things the game lets you do and the story doesn’t break. Romanced minthara too and she’s perfect love for a dark urge.
You can multi class as oath breaker. You cannot re-spec
I went with “Incompetent Urge” for my first playthru. I did it blind (no guides; no google) & ended up failing to help the tieflings not out of malice but out of dipshittery. I also didn’t help Minthara or the Druids. Fucked myself on all angles unintentionally. Failed to lift the shadow curse. So help me, I need to play this 3rd act as less of a bumbling idiot.
…the irony of playing a high Intelligence character 😂
im doing a dark urge no manual save taction playthrough where im trying to spare everyone i fight with non lethal... people are dying and im feelin real bad
Yes I lost gale haha, I did not expect it to kill him but oh well, now I hope will does not leave me otherwise I have no caster and idk if I can even do a play through without a caster
Funny enough, kicking the squirrel isn't a Dark Urge unique option.
Assuming you haven't played the game yet, you should absolutely ignore everything you possibly can about what the Dark Urge playthrough actually entails and just pick it. Don't ask any questions, don't stop to collect 200 dollars, just pick that as your origin, customize your race and class, and go for it.
RANGER "awh trees" FIGHTER/BARBARIAN "Lets throw down punk!" Got me giggling😂😂😂
Thanks for these BG3 vidoes, they really help me decide what I want to do on my playthroughs after the first one.
If this game doesn't get GOTY then the various award givers will have lost all credibility in my opinion.
You can 100% go through the Durge playthrough without actually unalive anyone important to any storyline. But this does require a lot of metagaming, where you knock out the npc before you longrest for the cutscene to happen. This will spawn in an npc that will never appear in the game otherwise, that will take the unaliving instead of the important character.
It's the only origin that really ties you into the background of the story. Otherwise you're just some rube.
I plan for 3 playthroughs. My first was dark urge, resisting it.
Second is dark urge feeding into it and being evil.
Third will be whichever origin character I didn’t get much of in my other two play throughs
I'm planning a dark urge playthrough second, as a more morally ambiguous playthrough. My first playthrough is as a very paladin paladin, and it's so much fun. I really wish the Dark Urge was presented as the "main character", it really is. It's so easy to imagine the character creation screen with 3 tiers of icons to choose from: Dark Urge, Origin, and Custom
Started a DU run, and mam, they don't mess around, when they say evil they aren't kidding 😂 so fun
Great video on the dark urge. You kept it very spoiler free, when you said the emerald grove I did not think it would be that example. I think a second play through is perfect for the dark urge, but like you said if you’re only going to do one play through go dark urge because everyone should play it at least once.
Yes, yes and yes. Got around 600 hours in bg3 and dark urge was for sure the one i would call the Original, that was meant to be played as the player. so its worth it - 10000%
I think people thinking that urge is immediately an evil run are mistaken. You can fight your urges... and loose to them... and try again... it's tragic and interesting. First playthrough with Dark Urge playing an asshole that ends up helping people cuz they have friends they need to be alive and a gf that is murderous but on evil peeps so.... a chaotic conflicted character.... a githyanki wizard... it just makes so much sense
My second character was Bard dark urge human named Lohse!
My first character is The Dark Urge. The squirrel attacked Shadowheart and she kicked it. And I was also very shocked when I "went to bed" in the Camp for the first time!
As someone who has played Dark Urge Paladin, I would like to say that
[NON-SPECIFIC SPOILER]
The one murder you are forced to commit does not count as violation of your Oath, but killings made because you failed the save to resist do (I think) so it is a play through where you will very likely savescum, but it is not a guaranteed Oathbreaker run
I went in blind. Dark urge Paladin. No regrets.
I took the dark urge as a recovering drug addict who was trying to get on the wagon. Having a lot of fun shipping shadowheart with it. Makes for wonderfully toxic relationship
Honestly didnt think about it, but i might play Paladin Oath of Devotion. It sounds really fun to resist the urge and redeem yourself and your oath
Honestly, I'd just go dragonborn paladin and break my oath as Dark Urge and keep messing things with evil smites, makes it fun to think you broke your oath because of chapter 3 spoilers.
7:05 You can avoid the first murder. The night it is going to happen, drop some strong poison at your feet and stand in it. Eventually you will fail saves and die. Do not revive. Long rest while dead. The butler even remarks on your successful attempt to avoid the murder.
LOL now that is hilarious. Is it safe after this to long rest or do you have to do this every night?
Drow owns its all day
On my first playthrough now, went paladin dark urge. It was great when i killed that character. I was wondering how i was going to break my oath and then BAM. I was totally surprised too which was amazing. Being a oathbreaker locks you out of respec'ing which was a minor inconvenience since i was still learning how to play. You can multiclass still, i took 3 levels of warlock but the build was meh. I ended following a redemption path, and now i restored my oath, taking an oath of vengeance and with 3 levels of rogue. Combined with great weapon Im putting up crazy damage and loving it.
Oh shit this channel is so up my alley. I also did a lawful good ranger playthrough as my very first and it was extremely satisfying. And I very much want to see the exact opposite spectrum of interactions as well as learn as much as possible about the previous games (and play them). I think from watching one video about BG1 I figured out what the dark urge story is. I’m assuming you’re the same type of thing as your main character in the original game
Good video. Thanks
my dark urge was literally an oath breaker paladin
Easy yes. First playthrough and I didn't regret it one bit
Worth it? It’s different, I like that you get choices and sometimes your literally fighting an urge like a serial killer.
i have been playing dark urge and i would recommend playing it 2nd as much fun as it is and the reason is because there is lots of things you may miss out on without knowing if you do atleast 1 play through you can figure out some stuff before hand with items that may change how evil you wanna be without missing important items
Really appreciate your willingness to give a synopsis of the video you are about to present forgoing viewer attention for just releasing a quality product need 1,000 more like you thanks
I think the dark urge is more compelling if you resist.
I call it the Intrusive Thoughts Simulator. I'm finding it super rewarding from a role-play standpoint to play a Loth-sworn Drow resisting the Urge. I care more about this "evil" character than any of the good ones I've made so far.
as the narrator Amelia Tyler said herself, “play your good guy play through, and when your’re done, play a dark urge play through”
this is the way i experienced the game and i completely recommend it. play the game as you normally would, and then when you play it again, embrace the dark urge. let it take over
It's so weird to me that one of the main points of emphasis is vendors--in terms of things that impact my experience, *vendors* isn't on that list (other than the obvious story element Dammon is connected with). Otherwise, I appreciate you going through what it's all about.
After having access to "the Mantle" once, it is really hard to go back to a non-Urge custom origin. Such an amazingly fun item to have, especially on martial characters.
Id just started DU playthrough last night and watching this before booting up again.
I had just done the gameplay from your final sample segment and yeah... HO. LY. SHIT. This playthrough is gonna be intense... until at least Act 3. Then it will be in the tavern, not in tents.
Having done one very in depth playthrough myself now, I need to start binging content on how The Emperor is actually evil. Like a mind flayer with the highest possible deception/persuasion stats in Faerun because he remembers but doesn't feel his humanity. How he snacked on Stelmane. How he mind controlled half the city and betrayed his own core principles as founder all while believing himself to be the good guy the entire time. Even when he turns against you to destroy Faerun. How he sees himself gaining power as the real and only "salvation" of the land/goal, because he's so self absorbed and sees every other lifeform as less than bacteria.
How he is the one that tadpoled us in the beginning, after killing the other mindflayers in that room. How he was on/piloting that crashed Nautiloid as a mission from Gortash to steal the Prism after dominating the Elder Brain, and how he was pretending to be enthralled to be able to seek the Prism for himself. How we are intended to be his "beautiful weapons". How he doesn't need to be anywhere near the Prism to retain autonomy because it was Ansur that gave him that gift not Orpheus.
It's annoying that the game claims it's The Emperor protecting us when it's Orpheus the entire time and The Emperor is just a stow away keeping his super soldiers (Tav and co) under close observation and constant mind control. We should either be able to kill him early without negative consequence and then have Orpheus take on the same role thereafter until we can get the hammer - only this time we would be independent thinkers without The Emperor's constant deception.
YES DO THAT. I know I know it all. But I would still binge the shit out of that shit like Alt Shift X did on YT for Game of Thrones. Like how Im watching this after committing to D.U. playthrough already.
Wait... Yes do what!? What question did I ask?! Hahahah
Dark Urge feels like intended main character
Durge is the definitive way to play the game for me. Coming from bg1 and 2, it really felt like the natural follow up.
I am going monk for dark urge. My character became a monk to learn to fight this urge. I really want to finish my first playthrough first though. Can't wait to do this urge game though