Click this link http://sponsr.is/BigDanGaming and use my code BIGDANGAMING to get 25% off your first payment for boot.dev. That’s 25% your first month or your first year, depending on the subscription you choose. How evil can you truly be in Baldur’s Gate 3? This is something I wanted to see for myself so in my last playthrough I decided to make every bad decision I possibly could. What’s up everyone - Big Dan here - and in this video we’re going to analyze every bad choice you can make in Baldur’s Gate 3. But this one is going to be a bit different from my other worst playthroughs. As I was planning out my run - I realized something. It wasn’t going to be possible to cram every bad choice into a single playthrough because some of these choices are mutually exclusive. For instance - if you raid the Emerald Grove - then Wyll leaves your party - locking you out of some juicy evil outcomes later in the game. Or the fact that we can kill Lae’zel like 8 times throughout the course of the game. So instead of doing a single run, I’ll be incorporating choices from multiple different characters - to show you as many bad outcomes as I possibly can. This is going to be a LONG video so I’ve put timestamps in the description if you want to explore a particular choice. So buckle up - grab some iced coffee and let’s take a look at every bad decision you can make in Baldur’s Gate 3. 0:00 Introduction 2:39 Character Creation - Dark Urge 3:18 Having Gale's Arm for Lunch 4:13 Lae'zel Death No. 1 4:42 Tormenting the Tieflings 5:24 Kagha vs Arabella 6:45 Alfira :( 7:21 Gnome Tossing 7:48 Karlach and Scratch :( 9:27 Lae'zel Death No. 2 10:07 Shadowheart vs Lae'zel (Death No. 3) 11:08 Astarion's Fatal Midnight Snack 12:00 What Happens If You Refuse to Give Gale Artifacts 12:58 Princess Gut 13:40 Killing Halsin 14:18 Raid the Emerald Grove 15:11 Kill Minthara (Dark Urge) 16:14 HAG EYE 18:42 Betray Mayrina 20:53 Lae'zel Death No. 4 21:32 Lae'zel Death No. 5 22:17 Lae'zel Death No. 6 23:51 Blow Up Githyanki Creche 25:07 Underdark Shenanigans 26:43 True Soul Nere and Philomeen 29:59 ACT TWO - Killing Isobel and Jaheira 33:55 Moonlantern 34:21 Betraying Minthara 35:53 Wulbren Dies in Prison 36:12 More Bad Choices in Moonrise 37:12 Nightsong vs Shadowheart (GONE WRONG) 39:46 Confronting Ketheric & Zevlor Death 40:30 Kill Mizora and Doom Wyll 42:10 Gale's Secret (BAD) Ending 43:50 Don't Lift Shadow Curse 44:27 ACT THREE 44:53 Kill the Emperor (Game Over) 46:51 Eat Astral-Touched Tadpole 48:31 Betray Shadowheart 49:31 Shadowheart Kills Her Parents 50:59 Astarion Bad Endings 55:45 Sell Wyll's Soul 56:58 Act 3 Side Quests 57:36 Wulbren vs Gondians 1:00:54 Osker's Bad Endings 1:03:09 Sacrifice Volo 1:04:31 Betray Nightsong 1:07:01 The Hag Returns 1:07:50 Confronting Orin 1:10:07 Confronting Gortash 1:10:46 Raphael's Deal 1:12:30 Kill Orpheus & Lae'zel Death No. 7 1:14:48 Karlach Becomes Mind Flayer 1:16:21 Betray Karlach and Seize the Crown 1:19:08 Seize Crown as Dark Urge 1:21:34 Gale's Sacrifice 1:25:24 Karlach's Bad Endings 1:25:38 Conclusion
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I love how trough this vile and monstrous playtrough you always have a little "astarion approves" flair in the corner whenever you do something evil. Astarion truly is the most reliable moral compass of the game.
At the end of the game if you let the emperor kill the netherbrain and you are a mindflayer, there’s a prompt where you can kill him and eat his brain with the dialogue option “there can only be one.”
Not killing Nightsong and Isobel in act 2 lets you backstab them in such a spectacular and awful fashion in act 3 that even Bane would be envious.
"The death of a child: A timeless tragedy that never grows old" - dang, I just got that line :'D
In act one you missed the opportunity where you can just take the idol of Silvunas from the grove. This causes the tieflings and the druids to fight and kill each other. This is indeed the easiest way to destroy the grove. no goblin horde needed.
karlach's VA performance when you let Wyll get taken to the hells by killing Mizora is so heartwrenching, her work is so good
Interestingly, if Mayrina is killed by your hands, either accidentally from AoE or directly, when you use the Bitter Divorce to bring back Connor he smells the blood on you and breaks the control of the wand screaming Mayrina's name before attacking you. It was pretty chilling to encounter by accident when I fried her unintentionally with the electric AoE damage from my Storm Sorcerer/Tempest Cleric playthrough.
Truly a masterpiece when the game requires multiple "bad choice" runs. This is not a joke when I say a game like this hasn't been made for 20 years. Promised, yes, but actually delivered? No. This game will be a high water mark for most people when it comes to comparing RPGs of the future. That's why other developers are so upset.
I absolutely love how your other "I made all the bad choices so you don't have to" videos are only 10-30 minutes but this one is a hour and a half long. I'm supposing the reason why is because there are SO many decisions to make in BG3.....best RPG ever hands down.
There is also suprisingly bad ending for Laezell I got on my first playthrough. If you dont go into creche at all, Laezell will never learn about Vlakith being evil. At the start of ACT 3 Vlakith appears in camp and orders Lazeal to kill prince Orin. When you then get to the part where emperor munches his brain. She actually approves with its my quens will to let him die and than after you defeat Elder brain she recites the oath and red dragon comes for her at takes her to Vlakith. As she doesnt know that ascended are immidietly killed and eaten by Vlakith.
You didn't show the best line when turning on Zevlor, which is: "Don't worry, you won't have to watch when the goblins find the children." and the look of pure horror on his face.
I think a worse choice for the end of act 2 is letting Shadowheart spare nightsong, then turning over nightsong to lorrokan and turning Shadowheart over to Viconia in act 3. Those are both more deliberately evil
Gale just absolutely deleting the big bad of Bg3 is pretty badass not gonna lie.
making karlach transform just to stab her to death is absolutely brutal, wow “this was all i had…”
Giving the noblestalk to the husband is the most evil thing tbh
The fact that there are some choices you missed in a video of this length is a testament to how much the game has to offer
As someon3e who's too much of a wimp to even hurt fake character's feelings i appreciate this as also being someone who want's to see everything a game has to offer.
I’m surprised Ethel actually tries to remove it! I figured she was lying so I never let her try, but you actually learn a good bit of information from her attempt and analysis of the power behind your parasite.
Killing someone just for laughs, doesn't make you evil, just a psychopath. And because of that, you missed the true evil option. Rescuing the dwarf and then giving him noblestalks heals him from his feeblemindness, making his wife very miserable
after that scene with the drow's blood, you also have the option to coerce a romanced astarion into sleeping with you immediately after he tells you he doesn't want to anymore because it brings up too much trauma from being used that way in the past :|