What Baldur's Gate 3 is Like For Someone Who Doesn't Really Play Games
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Published 2024-03-26
Baldur's Gate 3 is a game with an unprecedented amount of player choice. There are so many ways to interact with the world, and that made me wonder: what would it be like for someone who learning the ins and outs of video games? So, I had my wife play it to find out, and now you can watch to also find out.
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All Comments (21)
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hope you enjoy this entry of my wife's journey in her gaming education. been a lot of fun to see how she has grown as a player and applied logic learned from other games to this one, and yeah, we had a lot of fun making this, so I hope that shows! anyway, we're gonna have a second kid any day now, so until I'm back, have a good one.
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- Likes space to think - Enjoys creative freedom - Likes non-violent solutions - Wants occasional bursts of adrenaline I think your wife is a Hitman player
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Can’t believe the Lady You Live With has finally evolved from someone who doesn’t play games into someone who doesn’t really play games! Big step!
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9:27 The answer is simple. Faces made with sliders are almost impossible to animate properly. You can notice that basically all games with sliders for character creation have little to no face animations. As opposed to BG3, where your character's face and expressions take the central stage in basically every conversation.
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Its crazy to me that older players hate games for hand holding, but like this lady, every person i try to get into games there first comment is "IDK what to do its not telling me a detailed to do list of objectives." Kinda leaves game designers fumbling.
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Wait, Lady did not pick up Gale, Wyll AND Karlach???? She was stuck with the whole Mean Girl clique as a first impression of companions, oh no!! D:
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The actor who plays Lae' Zel has a series of herself playing bg3, and she does not know much about video games. It's a really fun series to watch and made me realize how many things can be confusing about the game that I hadn't even though of.
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Wizard: Studies magic Sorcerer: Inherits magic through bloodline Warlock: Is given magic by a powerful entity There you go.
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It's so funny to me that while playing BG3, removing the parasite clearly felt like a McGuffin plot device designed to move the story forward while you enjoy the game, but your wife very much viewed it as a singular task she had to accomplish
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The Lady >I< Live With has just discovered Stardew Valley. I had to explain WASD controls to her, which of course I didn't realise would be unintuitive to the uninitiated. I'm excited to see how she grows.
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Lady trying to knock the tieflings unconscious as to not kill innocent folk and then Lae’zel just killing them anyway is so in-character for her
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I am really sad Lady missed out on meeting Karlach, Wyll and Gale. They are so much more likable initially than Laezel, Shadowheart and Astarion
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I will say as a woman who grew up playing video games I never really understood how hard it was to learn video games until I played Civilization 6, Crusader Kings 3 and Planet Zoo. The kind of system knowledge required to feel confident while playing those games is immense and for some reason my knowledge of most video game genres just didn’t transfer over very well.
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I didn't even think about controlling the other party members...as a DM, I was just grateful that someone was doing the numbers for me.
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Your wife's sudden epiphany that she married a massive nerd made me laugh so hard, my partner was the same when we watched the D&D 2023 movie together and I was pointing out all of the easter eggs XD
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when a new player joins my campaign, I tell them to think of a character entirely based on aesthetic. It's impossible to expect someone to parse the countless small but important decisions they make when actually making a character sheet. It's much easier to start from vibes, then steadily learn the mechanics after. Something like "I want to be a thief prowling through the night, stealing from the rich to give to the poor!" is one of the sweetest things to hear from a new player.
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While I appreciate the lessons we can learn from someone new to gaming, the lady you live with doesn't strike me as someone new to games- she strikes me as someone who doesn't enjoy them. Maybe they're just not for her, and that's okay.
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"Please don't put that in the video." I hope like any good, and loving husband your very next thought was. "First thing going in the video" and then built the whole video outward from the squirrel death. lol
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I think the biggest take away from that not all media can be made for everyone. Baldur's gate is the most approachable CRPG but it's still a CRPG, very mechanical hevy, very choice-heavy, and usually very violent heavy. It's not a genre most inside vider games play. But that's fine.
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It's funny that she listens to the game. For me, if someone in a game tells me not to do something, I will find every possible way to do that thing.
