one note about dark urge paladins. If you are a dark urge the oath breaker guy makes a comment about you having broken your oath in the past. The dark urge also gets a unique cutscene that hints that they initially did live a normal life before embracing bhaal. the idea is that your character made a paladin oath (perhaps out of fear of their urges) that was broken when they embraced bhaal. Orin mind wiping you essentially resets the oath which is why you start off with an in tact oath in bg3 as a durge paladin.
I think the dark urge is supposed to be the canon choice for character selection. I wont say anything more for spoiler reasons but it definitley has more of a baldurs gate 1 and 2 flavor.
You missed very interesting interactions with Raphael and his servant in the shop, from which you understand that Bhaalspawn stole the Crown from Mephistopheles, the archdevil. So our guy literally went for greatest snatch in BG history to then startup a new religion. One of the most interesting backgrounds to play tbh.
i think the dark urge paladin is a really cool idea you are a person with honor and want to do good but you have a inner darkness that forces you to kill and will force you to break your oath only makes the evil playstyle more evil
I am just confused by one thing… so can you not customize your dark urge play through character? It’s one of the origin characters as a white dragonborne. But like I see everyone with different customized characters as dark urge. I was assuming it’s a mod or pre-release thing you can do.
If you have played the first 2 Baldur's Gate games you absolutely have to as the Dark Urge is connected to your main characters in those games. I would say that the Dark Urge is the canon playthrough
I like the idea of the Dark Urge. I always liked the whole man versus himself kind of theme. The tragic hero. This is probably one of the only paths in the game that actually rewards some evil choices. With all the rest, you lose a lot more content than you gain. Though, this path is probably best when you keep in line with the theme of man versus himself, and not one of chaotic evil.
Just a suggestion, you named this video should you play as a dark urge then provide full spoiler for the story, you should name this dark urge playthrough review or something, I wanted to watch this before starting dark urge playthrough
What is your take on the choice? I was disappointed that all I got was the one usage of the Power Word: Kill. Astarion respects you as equal now, other party members are disappointed and angry. The Destroyer form stays weak as earlier, so there is no real perk here for giving in to Bhaal. Refusing Bhaal will take away your Destroyer form (if not played during battle correctly and stay in second form afterwards), party members are happy and Astarion treats you as his belonging (not as equal). Probably, you Jaheira will leave you if you side with Bhaal, maybe you need to fight and kill her. Even in evil play through, it's not obvious to choose Bhaal. The story is great, but the rewards are mediocre to say the least, just as it was in the previous Baldur's Gate parts. At the point of the choice, the Destroyer form is very weak and one usage of the spell is not enough to choose it, especially from a roll playing standpoint. Is there some more repercussions after siding with Bhaal storywise?
I started dark urge early due to getting a un fixble bug on my first play where my 3 companions got silenced and no way to fix it it reapplyes itself and then i was not able to speak with my companions didnt get to swap or nothing currently act 1 urge and its already more fun that before.
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My favorite is playing as a Dark Urge female Lolth Sworn Drow assassin style rogue.
I played the dark urge and killed every single npc and ally I could. Was really fun.
one note about dark urge paladins. If you are a dark urge the oath breaker guy makes a comment about you having broken your oath in the past. The dark urge also gets a unique cutscene that hints that they initially did live a normal life before embracing bhaal. the idea is that your character made a paladin oath (perhaps out of fear of their urges) that was broken when they embraced bhaal. Orin mind wiping you essentially resets the oath which is why you start off with an in tact oath in bg3 as a durge paladin.
I think the dark urge is supposed to be the canon choice for character selection. I wont say anything more for spoiler reasons but it definitley has more of a baldurs gate 1 and 2 flavor.
How on Faerun are there Bhallspawn left after the BG2 finale?!
Dark Urge definitely best first playthrough for good gu playthrough ;p
You missed very interesting interactions with Raphael and his servant in the shop, from which you understand that Bhaalspawn stole the Crown from Mephistopheles, the archdevil. So our guy literally went for greatest snatch in BG history to then startup a new religion. One of the most interesting backgrounds to play tbh.
i think the dark urge paladin is a really cool idea you are a person with honor and want to do good but you have a inner darkness that forces you to kill and will force you to break your oath only makes the evil playstyle more evil
Anyone else getting KOTOR vibes from seeing how similar Dark Urge is to Revan?
I am just confused by one thing… so can you not customize your dark urge play through character? It’s one of the origin characters as a white dragonborne. But like I see everyone with different customized characters as dark urge. I was assuming it’s a mod or pre-release thing you can do.
WHY WOULD YOU IMMEDIATELY SPOIL IT IF THIS VIDEO IS TO HELP PEOPLE DECIDE IF THEY SHOULD DO THIS PLAYTHRU????? So fucking pisses
If you have played the first 2 Baldur's Gate games you absolutely have to as the Dark Urge is connected to your main characters in those games. I would say that the Dark Urge is the canon playthrough
I like the idea of the Dark Urge. I always liked the whole man versus himself kind of theme. The tragic hero. This is probably one of the only paths in the game that actually rewards some evil choices. With all the rest, you lose a lot more content than you gain.
Though, this path is probably best when you keep in line with the theme of man versus himself, and not one of chaotic evil.
You can play as a paladin dark urge and not break oath so long as you choose good options. Vegence paladin is pretty hard to break oath.
Would be nice to get spoiler free versions of videos
playing dark urge and romancing karlach. man oh man did it choose hard mode.
Alfara got murked night 1
Warning! He just straight up spoils the whole Dark Urge plot line….
It’s frustrating trying not to piss off my companions when I do things like kill the squirrel, but overall the Dark Urge is fun
Just a suggestion, you named this video should you play as a dark urge then provide full spoiler for the story, you should name this dark urge playthrough review or something, I wanted to watch this before starting dark urge playthrough
What is your take on the choice? I was disappointed that all I got was the one usage of the Power Word: Kill. Astarion respects you as equal now, other party members are disappointed and angry. The Destroyer form stays weak as earlier, so there is no real perk here for giving in to Bhaal. Refusing Bhaal will take away your Destroyer form (if not played during battle correctly and stay in second form afterwards), party members are happy and Astarion treats you as his belonging (not as equal). Probably, you Jaheira will leave you if you side with Bhaal, maybe you need to fight and kill her. Even in evil play through, it's not obvious to choose Bhaal. The story is great, but the rewards are mediocre to say the least, just as it was in the previous Baldur's Gate parts. At the point of the choice, the Destroyer form is very weak and one usage of the spell is not enough to choose it, especially from a roll playing standpoint.
Is there some more repercussions after siding with Bhaal storywise?
I was on the fence about a dark urge campaign until I watched this. Now I want to play as it. Let's murder everything.
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I started dark urge early due to getting a un fixble bug on my first play where my 3 companions got silenced and no way to fix it it reapplyes itself and then i was not able to speak with my companions didnt get to swap or nothing currently act 1 urge and its already more fun that before.
I would even say Dark Urge is a true protagonist of BG3 like Fane was for DOS2