The Baldur’s Gate 3 community has highlighted some of the toughest choices they’ve had to make throughout the game.
As an RPG, Baldur’s Gate 3 lives and dies by its ability to allow players to make meaningful choices that impact the game and its story. With so many divergent options available, it’s no wonder it’s emerged as one of the biggest success stories of 2023.
From the start of Act 1, you are faced with several moral questions that have no clear answer. Should you free the beautiful elf from an Eldritish prison? Should you destroy a camp full of refugees? Should you gouge out your eye for a random woman? These are difficult questions, with no right or wrong answers.
However, some of these questions are more complex than others, and now that most players have completed the first two acts and then restarted the game without finishing it, they are starting to discuss which ones were the most difficult to take.
Baldur’s Gate 3 players highlight gaming’s biggest moral dilemmas
For a player, the decision to have Karlach take the squid pill and become a mind flayer was particularly difficult, because of how it changed her.
Which choice made you the most morally conflicted? byu/AugustusClaximus inBaldursGate3
They said: “She was so certain she wanted to become a mind flayer just to live another day, I had to give in. It’s also incredibly powerful to have her as a throwzerker mind flayer in the final fight.”
“But at the afterparty, I really regretted that decision. She seems satisfied with her choice but she seems to be 1000 leagues away. It’s obvious that every brain she eats dilutes what Karlach was and she just slowly becomes an empty shell.”
Another player said it was difficult to decide what to do with the vampire’s offspring, as well as Shadowheart’s parents in Act 3.
“So many of them seem incredibly dangerous but killing prisoners for crimes they haven’t yet committed and may never commit is also not right.”
“What to do with Shadowheart’s parents seemed like a no-win situation too but I could walk away from that decision by telling her to choose (she chose to keep her parents alive for me).”
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