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Baldur's Gate 3
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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)
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The lack of companions is what killed my full-Evil run. Those three are all you can get, and you're walking on thin ice with two of them. Even Minthara thinks you've gone too far, and she's fully down with slaughtering innocents for personal gain. So you lose a full 2/3rds of the available companions, with the only replacements being hirelings with no benefit to the story. It's too late now, but I'd liked to have seen replacement companions for evil characters, you lose out on so much doing this run that it feels like the game is pigeonholing you into a certain playstyle.
i mean, isn't that kind of a universal consequence of being evil? it's very much in the spirit of immersive roleplay to be abandoned by most of your friends when you start acting like a maniacal asshole. the only people who will stick around are those who don't know you well enough or don't care and are only following you because they got paid to do that
the message the game is sending is simple - if you want friends to stick around, don't be evil. and if you want to be evil, prepare to be alone
Evil people have evil friends too, it just would have been nice for some replacement companions to be there for evil-aligned PCs. The way the game is, you cut yourself out of a good chunk of the game's content for making decisions that the game lets you make. For the completionists out there, this just feels like punishment.
the game is a completionist punishment all across the board though! you really can't see everything in one playthrough
True enough, it just would have been nice to have more companion options for evil playthroughs, the way it is just barely gives you a full party. Of course this is all moot, since they're not doing any more content updates.