r/BG3 • u/Feeling-Classroom729 • 3d ago

Bg3 Hot Take Edition

I'm feeling spicy and I want to hear some of your hot takes about the game. Perhaps, I'll see the game from a fresh perspective and/or learn something new.

There's no limit to the hot takes you can share.

I'll go first.

Despite Araj's negative reputation, I think she's one of the best merchants in the game. In act 2, she carries the risky ring and the ring of free action, which is already amazing. But she also offers unique elixirs in act 2. In act 3, she sells sanguine explosives, which is basically a level 4 fireball that you can buy for less than 20 gold. Getting the unstable blood condition from her in act 3, can also be powerful if you build around it. The +2 to strength is super powerful if you're willing to torture Astarion, but even without that, she's still an amazing npc. She's a little pushy with Astarion, but she ultimately accepts his no. So, I don't stay mad at her.

I don't think completing a "good run" automatically makes your character good aligned. Basing your decisions around not making your favorite npcs sad is not a sound moral compass. I think there are more morally neutral people out there than people are willing to admit. It isn't a bad thing to be morally neutral. Jaheira is canonically true neutral in the older games, and people love her.

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u/rinhanarin 2d ago edited 2d ago

Durge's Narration and story and the whole Bhaal cult are insufferably edgy. Everyone starting with Orin and ending with disembodied voices in the temple talk a lot about blood-violence-sacrifices, ripping someone's guts out and profane assassinations or whatever, and I guess it does the job because it kills me with how boring it all is. It doesn't do anything for me, and I wish internet edgelords who love it would stop being dicks and stop saying that no other story matters when Durge exists.

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u/EfficiencyInfamous37 2d ago

I agree to a certain extent. the game feels like it wants to be telling a story about being tempted into evil gradually, but the evil in the game is so insanely over the top that it feels ridiculous to not be immediately repulsed by it.

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u/rinhanarin 2d ago

I've been told that BG3 made the whole Bhaal worship way over the top in comparison to BG1/2 where it was more subtle and unsettling, so apparently it's just A Choice, and the "Previous games were about Bhaalspawn, so deal with it" argument doesn't justify it much.