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@@Omnis2Glad someone else said it; I was beginning to think I was the only one who thought this. Nothing against JK S., but here wasn’t his best efforts.
This video reminded me of "The Making of Oblivion". You know a game is special when the making of is just as special. I'm grateful to have had the privilege of playing both masterpieces.
@logical1510 I grew up playing I think morrow wind but I was born in 05 so I wasn't playing long by time I got Skyrim and I still have it to this day I replay it every few months to a year
Matt Mercer is such a humble dude. "I am a voice actor for video games and cartoons." is really selling himself short. "I improv 20-30 voices for 4 hours every week while simultaneously writing the narrative for a group of nerdy ass voice actors." "I've written two 5e source books." "I'm one of the few humans that can really rock a vest correctly"
And has a degree in computer science! Really needed a guy that loves fantasy but also has a clue about the technical side of things to pull a game like this off.
Me too, I love the game so much, I restarted it numerous time (Not satisfied with my character or because I missed somthing moving to another Act) and I discover new things at each playthrought. Definitely my pick for GOTY.
@@Chad-Dion People who still get angry at Mass Effect’s (fixed) ending are too soft or too attached to Shepard lol. It’s more heart-wrenching to have Shepard die at the end; it’s war, not everyone will have their happy closure. The entire game literally hinted that they would have to be sacrificed at the end ( the images of family, children, their PTSD.) I understand the choppy cut was weird before they fixed it, but I wish they could have kept them dying instead of succumbing to the complaints.
ME3@@winniesomethin ME3 ending was not bad because shep died , it was because it was more or less the fact that you had so many choices throughout the game , things that really mattered and the ended had little to no way to reflect that
I truly think one of the keystones of the success of this was the care they took in faces. You spend so much time talking to people in that face to face, and while it is not 1:1, they nailed so many things, in concert with amazing commitment to voice acting. The lips, the eyebrows, the jaw inflections. They did better than any AAA studio at making you feel that you were speaking to a personality, not a dialog wheel. 10/10
Fr the eyes and facial expression aren't lifeless I was smoking w my mom an she watched me play a little bit and she was talking about how she was supposed how real it looked
holy shit maggie robertson did an amazing job as orin. usually characters that are needlessly and joyfully obsessed with murder and violence get annoying really quickly, but she did such a great job that I was disturbed by the character (in a good way)
@@storiesfromtheabyss9808 Yeah she's so annoying. Just kept waiting for a dialogue option like "stow the threats bitch, you look like you weigh about 90 lbs."
@@davidparkes7741 and those game studios never actually played the game, scared it would be a giant slap to the face, but eventually they will, enjoy the game because it's objectively very good and they can learn to improve theirs. Sadly most game studios are now run by marketers and business men that only care about short term numbers. Why would it matter to them if a game is good or bad, as long as it's profitable? I just hope devs would just stop working for those big names.
And many studios did not like this high standard, because now they will have to sweat when creating games)) a regular pipeline like AC’s will no longer work)
@@strelok5317Man, i wish people give a shit to AAA developers like Arkane and Eidos Montreal when they were releasing games like Prey, Dishonored 2 and Deus Ex MD. Now we won't get that many game because it doesn't sell well.
Wow, this game looks SO MUCH BETTER now than when these Behind the Scenes were shot. You can just tell that an absolutely incredible amount of work and passion went into BG3. GOTY for sure. Maybe Game of the Decade.
my mind just got blown realizing Matt Mercer is the voice of minsc for bg3.. it was literally perfectly executed, down to the bass in his voice, the roll of the tongue. perfect.
I have utmost respect towards Swen Vincke. For ages he wanted to make BG3 and when he finally got the chance, he did it. This is how you do a sequel. This is how you fill your RPG worlds. Legendary work from the whole team.
Ok Sven Vincke is now my favorite video game developer ever. His passion for Dungeons & Dragons and Baldur's Gate is so amazing, and it shows in the end product.
all actors resemble so much the in game characters it is insane! Not just the movements of course (that are captured) but also the hair, and other facial characteristics
The levels of passion and care here are just off the charts and it shows in the final product. I can honestly say this is one of the best RPG's I've had the pleasure to play in a very long time. 200+ hours and I'm still not even close to calling it quits and already looking forward to my next playthrough.
I remember stopping my co-op partner and asking them to come to the ledge in front of the ruins near the crash site, and when they arrived they asked what was there. And I was like "look, ain't the view cool?"
Larian, va’s , devs , everyone at the studio involved in anyway with this project… I can’t thank you enough for your approach, and your no apologies prioritization/focus towards the authentic immersive escapism that BG three is! It is mind-boggling amazing, thank you for this true role-playing experience
I must say, I've never EVER gotten so emotional over a game, not only sad, but I've grieved with my companions and I've laughed with them. Truly the most amazing game ive ever played ♥️
This is the best game I’ve ever played. No game has ever made me start a second playthough the very next day. Just pure perfection, so much to do, so many different story routes. Loved it, 10/10. Interesting to see they changed Gale’s character design, I definitely prefer what they changed it to.
A truly special game. This is the first time I've had 2 playthroughs running at the same time, over a 100 hours in and honestly feel I could easily put in another 100 hours
In the same way Skyrim captivated my 11 year old self I’m so thankful BG3 came to occupy my adult life and I will be revisiting this game for years to come, and better yet it’s not lovable for its buggy clunky charm, it’s a finished, perfect product!
One of my biggest complaints is they've created this beautiful game yet the camera is so restrictive you miss half of the amazing views and hard work put into the design, gonna have to mod it on my next playthrough
Agreed. I knew he was doing everything for Isobel, and he has a history of changing allegiance to serve himself, so I was really hoping we could persuade him to side with us
I loved all three acts Act 1 has gives u some independence while also keeping it linear to some extent Act2 is mostly linear which isnt bad for a change. Act 3 then your dumped into this vast area and said " goodluck out there" I think i saw a lot of ppl overwhelmed with the Act3 content and its easy to miss a lot of stuff there compared to other acts imo
Thank you to everyone involved in making this game. Made me feel like a big kid again. Loved every minute of the 120 hour playthrough. Ready to start my dark urge run next weekend!
No way Maggie Robertson was the VA for Orin?! No wonder I loved her character so much. Every time I learn something new about the cast and crew of Larian and BG3, it just makes me appreciate it and love it so much more.
13:40 I absolutely love this - it isn't just whether they like or dislike your choices and will follow you aimlessly, they react so well to things and sometimes they want something, and you can try to talk them out of it, but they can just say basically F**k you, it's my decision.
I think it is a natural outgrowth of their approach where everyone is not a companion but an 'origin character', who can themselves be the protagonist. but you're right I've never seen party members with so much agency. I think the last few well-written bioware games (DA2 and DA:I) actually did a good job of that. and those had one advantage of characters having real preferences instead of being playersexual/pansexual, which is the only thing that homogenizes everyone in BG3 a bit. I would love to see another RPG like DA2 that isn't a save-the-world-adventure but follows peoples' lives over years, and how it works the party into that is interesting. and it has probably the craziest thing any party member has ever done in a game, which you have no influence over
This game is such an ...absolute..masterpiece. This is the game we dreamed of as kids in the late 80s and into the 90s. I hope there will be more games like this from here on out but I doubt that will happen. The gaming industry has become a cesspool of greed but luckily we have companies like Larian (and a couple of others) that still makes games for the love of gaming. If anyone from Larian happens to read this, I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart. And thanks for this upload DanAllenGaming, you earned another sub.
The fact that I found this area so overwhelming is a testament to its scale and authenticity. I truly felt like I'd just stepped into a city; this major trading hub. And for the first time in the game, it was like there was too much for me to simply save and do over. It is a unique experience every time.
Adam Smith, lead writer…. There aren’t words to express how amazing of a job he did. And the rest of the writers, devs and actors. Genuinely never seen more heart put into any other game.
I entered the city, got lost, got overwhelmed and started a new character. Got to the city and... well I have 4 characters who started act 3. I have no idea where to go from there. lol. Orin is my favorite villain so far! Ketheric's delivery of lines though is unmatched. The pure weight of the voice of the actor; the cadence, the simple straight through control just feels epic.
This game, hands down, is an absolute master piece. I have not been this engrossed in a game since playing Dragon Age Origins for the first time. I love this game to pieces, I have already planned my next several campaigns.
full performance capture is extremely expensive, basically the same cost as a small-scale film shoot. look into how the Avatar movies are made if you wanna learn more about it, though that's a more extreme version where it literally is a full on normal film shoot with all the actors together. whereas you would be shocked how little voice actors make, and VA sessions can be done very quickly. and to do full performance capture you need somebody who is a normal trained actor and not just a VA. BG3 is by probably an order of magnitude the largest game ever to use it, and it's only used for some stuff (there is 180 hrs of cinematics after all). but the amount of mocap they have is truly insane, there are rpgs 1/5 the size of this that only use algorithmic stuff for conversations (although that can be done well, the witcher 3 for example). going from this to starfield is like going from a real conversation to a wax museum
@@QGfk1 what you say is true, but all these AAA companions can 100% do it with the amount of money they make from mtx. The sad thing is they don’t want to because they want to spend little resources in making their games. Only a few would do mocap voice work. CdPr, fromsoft, Larien and rockstar are few that would
BG 3 is probably the most amazing game I have ever played. Seeing the passion that this entire team had for their project shows me how it got to this point. Larian I have been a gamer for 40 years and your game consistently blows my mind. This game reminds me of that sense of wonder and imagination gaming USED to invoke with me as a kid, so thank you Larian for making me feel that way again
These guys make my heart happy. Not just a game but they genuinely exude a sense of fun excitement and comradeship. They seem to really enjoy their work and I've not heard a peep of gossip that there are the common troubles rife in the industries. Their fun with eschother and their work makes the game uplifting to play, and exciting.
Haven't finished the game yet but after meeting Orin I talked to so many npc's and I was like "you're Orin, aren't you?" and half the time I was right, haha!
I’m not even a gamer, just someone who occasionally watches game play throughs on UA-cam so I can enjoy the storytelling. I never thought I would be into something like this, but holy shit I’m beyond impressed. I’ll never play the game myself, but every play through I’ve watched so far has blown my mind! Incredible game. You know it’s good when a non gamer has fallen in love with it. (Also, team shadowheart, baby!!!!!)
Can’t remember ever giving a damn about who was involved in making a game and how it was done in 20 years… until this one. That’s something! Amazing work of art from everyone involved. 👏
I can pick his voice out pretty easily most of the time due to the amount of Critical Role I watch, but he's totally able to pull one over on even long time viewers. If I'd heard Victor the Blackpowder Merchant out of context, I'd have never guessed.
Most of the VA's are legendary performers, Matt Mercer who voiced Minsc is the dungeon master of Critical Role and their web series made into an animated series called "The Legend of Vox Machina". He is also the VA for McCree in Overwatch.
This game is insane. When the guy says "when you reach Baldur's gate, and you will very soon" I was like, well I've bean playing on my first playthrough for 135h and I just reach the outside of the city. There's some much things happening in this experience and I love every second of it
Same bro, by the time I was in the city I was touching 120 something hours, max leveled just fucking off as true heroes should, going around saving shit. 😅
I’m completely obsessed with this game. I can’t thank Larian and the entire team enough for creating this masterpiece. I feel like I need to buy it twice… three times… the replayability is infinite.
Everytime i learn more about Baldur's Gate, how it was made and the thought that went into it continues to blow my mind more. This game seems to have nearly infinite possibilities, and while I know it is limited, the amount of things you can do is amazing. I still love staying in the dark about choices and different outcomes because it juts means I'll hopefully be surprised by things my next playthrough! I imagine almost no playthrough can be the same, though many similar.
Seeing that I haven’t gotten out of act 1 yet (making sure that I get everything possible) it’s fun to know that eventually I’ll run into Lady D again.
I feel like Act3 was a little bit lacking in content but then again, it's already super huge. Act3 for me was just like...I just want to end this to do a re-run. Great work! I love it!
The writing and characters are superb. But I must admit, the cinematics and all the dialog in the game that was voiced won me over because I do a lot of reading at work so having this being voiced was so good. Less reading in a game lol
BG3 is an incredible game. The story telling, design, freedom of choices, art, music, and acting felt so real. Everything felt like it was touched by love for the craft.
This game is a masterpiece, beyond anything an ordinary gamer like myself could even fathom would grace our fingertips. When I tell you Ive played over 360 hours and still get chills from the Ketheric Thorm speech and fight each time. I play the entire scene when Myrkul gets summoned. Orin makes me uneasy, makes my blood curdle, like I am nothing but blood and flesh ready to be torn and blistered at her leisure with no other purpose than her pleasure. Gortash seems like he is 10 steps ahead of everyone and honestly I was intimidated from fighting him so I didnt interact much with him lol. I hurried to demolish the steel legion and his fight was a bit lack luster. All of the companions feel like real people with real ties to the world. The conversations feel so alive as if they would play out in real life. Hiding behind giggles or intimidation tactics so you don't get too close or just eager to get close right away like the big sweetie Karlach who hasn't been able to embrace anyone for years. You have to be extremely talented to be able to express superior acting only through voice lines. I just cant explain it enough myself but excellence to the highest degree
I’ve been wanting to watch this video for 11 months but can’t. I’ve been playing Baulders Gate and on one of the hardest mod-packs I’ve ever played. Have a group of friends I play with, and we haven’t even finished Act 1. Because we all have to be online and don’t want to go too far alone and if we die we start over. So the ones that have more time than others (including me), replay the beginning multiple times, with multiple different runs. The amount of dialogue and work that’s been put into this, and being able to play it again and again and again, new run after new run, and getting dialogue or new options just in the beginning, is so amazing and mind boggling. Don’t get me wrong I’ve played it without mods as well but we just love the game that much, we’ve replayed the beginning so many times and haven’t even finished the underdark. But when we do finish the entire game I’m going to come back to this video and watch the behind the scenes. And update my comment. Thank you Larian Studios, and all the actors involved, you’ve made a masterpiece!
I've watched this many times. And I'm always a blubbering mess watching it! I picked up the original games from around age 10-15 (2000-05) and played them sooo many times, and Larian just..ah they did an amazing job. Bringing it to life! The difference between playing a game made with passion and a game not... you can feel it! All the voice actors did fucking amazing and so true to the originals too - including the writing. And now Lae'zel, Shadowheart and Astarion are just as iconic as Jaheria, Minsc or Imoen. Before playing BG3 I didn't know there was such a strong connection to BG2. Thank you Larian. I mean, rightly so, they won Game of the Year, but it's so much more than that! I would of been obsessed even if only 100 people played it. I can't wait to see what Larian does next, but they'll always be an incredible studio who made an original BG fan extremally happy.
I've started playing on computers in the 80's with my old Sinclair ZX81, and until now, I've never met such a game like Baldur's gate 3. The Bard's tales, Eyes of the Beholder, BG1 and 2, Skyrim, Fallout(s), Witcher(s), were great games but this one is on another level.
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I always have chills when JK Simmons speaks his lines as Ketheric
it makes a big impact in game.
Simmons had the most uninspired and flat performance of anyone. Really not his best work, imo.
Hard disagree, he is incredible
@@Omnis2
Yeah didnt save him when Karlach Got enlarged twice and beat him to death.
@@Omnis2Glad someone else said it; I was beginning to think I was the only one who thought this.
Nothing against JK S., but here wasn’t his best efforts.
You know a game is good when the devs are constantly interviewed about their creation
It’s rare you see vids like this now a days
agree 100%!
They have a great marketing team, that’s for sure.
@@EmDaMo u look good on ur profile pic!😊
This video reminded me of "The Making of Oblivion". You know a game is special when the making of is just as special. I'm grateful to have had the privilege of playing both masterpieces.
@logical1510 I grew up playing I think morrow wind but I was born in 05 so I wasn't playing long by time I got Skyrim and I still have it to this day I replay it every few months to a year
Matt Mercer is such a humble dude. "I am a voice actor for video games and cartoons." is really selling himself short. "I improv 20-30 voices for 4 hours every week while simultaneously writing the narrative for a group of nerdy ass voice actors." "I've written two 5e source books." "I'm one of the few humans that can really rock a vest correctly"
Absolutely
Also he voice acting in anime like he is literally jotaro from Jojo's Bizarre Adventures and levi from Attack on Titan
@m0rianne hug me bring it in, WOOO, would you loosen up would ya? hug me, bring it in WOOOOOO
He's 2 of the coolest anime characters. Levy and trafalgar law
@m0riannea cringe lord who can buy your house out from under you BECAUSE he plays a pen and paper game.
Calling Gale a wizard that just wants to go home had me rolling. He really is the most relatable.
Gale is such a mood.
I just love that one of Larian's heads is constantly walking around in armour. Man lives and breathes the fantasy genre
And has a degree in computer science! Really needed a guy that loves fantasy but also has a clue about the technical side of things to pull a game like this off.
Not since Mass Effect series I have been so wowed by a game.
Top notch, levels above other current games.
Me too, I love the game so much, I restarted it numerous time (Not satisfied with my character or because I missed somthing moving to another Act) and I discover new things at each playthrought. Definitely my pick for GOTY.
and this one had a great ending...
Not since mass effect have i banged so many of my companions.
@@Chad-Dion People who still get angry at Mass Effect’s (fixed) ending are too soft or too attached to Shepard lol. It’s more heart-wrenching to have Shepard die at the end; it’s war, not everyone will have their happy closure. The entire game literally hinted that they would have to be sacrificed at the end ( the images of family, children, their PTSD.) I understand the choppy cut was weird before they fixed it, but I wish they could have kept them dying instead of succumbing to the complaints.
ME3@@winniesomethin ME3 ending was not bad because shep died , it was because it was more or less the fact that you had so many choices throughout the game , things that really mattered and the ended had little to no way to reflect that
So good to see Maggie Robertson again! Lady Dimitrescu was iconic and I didn't know she was in this!
I came to see if that was her
Plus Neil Newbon(Karl Heisenberg) as Astarion
@@izumikuronuma2068 from re8? Thats crazy
The crossover of having Neil AND Maggie in the game was amazing, considering they played Heisenberg and Lady D.
I truly think one of the keystones of the success of this was the care they took in faces.
You spend so much time talking to people in that face to face, and while it is not 1:1, they nailed so many things, in concert with amazing commitment to voice acting. The lips, the eyebrows, the jaw inflections.
They did better than any AAA studio at making you feel that you were speaking to a personality, not a dialog wheel. 10/10
Fr the eyes and facial expression aren't lifeless I was smoking w my mom an she watched me play a little bit and she was talking about how she was supposed how real it looked
Maggie Robertson making herself a video game legend is so incredible to watch… please don’t ever stop!!
Look at JK Simmons during his voice acting. He's also just ACTING. Incredible
I always get goosebumps when he speaks, dude has a incredible voice.
holy shit maggie robertson did an amazing job as orin. usually characters that are needlessly and joyfully obsessed with murder and violence get annoying really quickly, but she did such a great job that I was disturbed by the character (in a good way)
Had the opposite effect on me...... i was.....aroused lol orin romance when
She drove me nuts but not because of the voice actor, it was more of just her entire motivation made me cringe.
@@thedoomslayer5863but my noble from menzobarranzan won't be happy
Orin? I can fix her.
@@storiesfromtheabyss9808 Yeah she's so annoying. Just kept waiting for a dialogue option like "stow the threats bitch, you look like you weigh about 90 lbs."
Masterpiece.
I hope this game really has set a new standard.
It did!
I hope so, though many game studios disagree.
@@davidparkes7741 and those game studios never actually played the game, scared it would be a giant slap to the face, but eventually they will, enjoy the game because it's objectively very good and they can learn to improve theirs. Sadly most game studios are now run by marketers and business men that only care about short term numbers. Why would it matter to them if a game is good or bad, as long as it's profitable? I just hope devs would just stop working for those big names.
And many studios did not like this high standard, because now they will have to sweat when creating games)) a regular pipeline like AC’s will no longer work)
@@strelok5317Man, i wish people give a shit to AAA developers like Arkane and Eidos Montreal when they were releasing games like Prey, Dishonored 2 and Deus Ex MD. Now we won't get that many game because it doesn't sell well.
never would've guessed gortash was voiced by jason isaacs
i immediatly could tell. Ive watched harry potter and the patriot too many times
@@MrmerryPippin-tw6rv Same it was instant recognition!
@@MrmerryPippin-tw6rvI realized it when Admiral Zhao was talking to Tenzin.
@@nickv1212 That too!
There was literally a trailer about it lol
Wow, this game looks SO MUCH BETTER now than when these Behind the Scenes were shot. You can just tell that an absolutely incredible amount of work and passion went into BG3. GOTY for sure. Maybe Game of the Decade.
It's hands down, going to get Game of the Year. If it doesn't, then corruption has won.
I'd say Game of the Games (for now).
Matt mercer as minsc! omfg, that one blew my mind. So great to have one of critical roles finest in the game.
Imagine if we get a critical role dlc sometime in the future!!
He did an amazing job, at first I thought they brought back Jim Cummings from BG1 and 2.
Same! I loved him in critical role, he’s such an amazing DM and his voice acting is top notch. You can really see how much he loves DND
Sorry, there’s THREE confirmed Resident Evil actors in this game?!?! I thought it was just Maggie and Neil!
my mind just got blown realizing Matt Mercer is the voice of minsc for bg3.. it was literally perfectly executed, down to the bass in his voice, the roll of the tongue. perfect.
I have utmost respect towards Swen Vincke. For ages he wanted to make BG3 and when he finally got the chance, he did it. This is how you do a sequel. This is how you fill your RPG worlds. Legendary work from the whole team.
Ok Sven Vincke is now my favorite video game developer ever. His passion for Dungeons & Dragons and Baldur's Gate is so amazing, and it shows in the end product.
The voice acting was amazing for this game.
19:08 "You're a halfling hero. There's no problem that's too big for you"
*Staff laughs in the background 😂
My mind immediately went to Halsin and I though "oh, dear. . ."
all actors resemble so much the in game characters it is insane! Not just the movements of course (that are captured) but also the hair, and other facial characteristics
The levels of passion and care here are just off the charts and it shows in the final product. I can honestly say this is one of the best RPG's I've had the pleasure to play in a very long time. 200+ hours and I'm still not even close to calling it quits and already looking forward to my next playthrough.
270hr, 2 playthrough, and still Act2 is not finished!
They did this game so beautifully, the effort they put in to it, the voice actor choice was immaculate, just everything was chefs kiss!
One day J.K. Simmons is trying to expose Spiderman, the next he is leading an army of absolutes.
They did a great job with the city. I just wish you had more control over the camera so you could see it better!
I remember stopping my co-op partner and asking them to come to the ledge in front of the ruins near the crash site, and when they arrived they asked what was there. And I was like "look, ain't the view cool?"
@@ThisIsAHandleOrSomething awesome thanks!
Can confirm that mod offers amazing views and is really useful for cinematic screenshots, a must have@@ThisIsAHandleOrSomething
It drives me completely insane. Can’t look up, am i a dog with a cone on my head?
I see a mod for that now I can see building top like I'm looking up and can also zoom in characters faces
Larian, va’s , devs , everyone at the studio involved in anyway with this project… I can’t thank you enough for your approach, and your no apologies prioritization/focus towards the authentic immersive escapism that BG three is! It is mind-boggling amazing, thank you for this true role-playing experience
The fact that the character who throws a fireball at civilians is Astarion is just fitting.
I could bear him saying INGNIS!
I must say, I've never EVER gotten so emotional over a game, not only sad, but I've grieved with my companions and I've laughed with them. Truly the most amazing game ive ever played ♥️
the voice act was so good. every single of them was pure joy to hear
This is the best game I’ve ever played. No game has ever made me start a second playthough the very next day. Just pure perfection, so much to do, so many different story routes. Loved it, 10/10. Interesting to see they changed Gale’s character design, I definitely prefer what they changed it to.
A truly special game. This is the first time I've had 2 playthroughs running at the same time, over a 100 hours in and honestly feel I could easily put in another 100 hours
In the same way Skyrim captivated my 11 year old self I’m so thankful BG3 came to occupy my adult life and I will be revisiting this game for years to come, and better yet it’s not lovable for its buggy clunky charm, it’s a finished, perfect product!
This game made me love games again. Felt like so many lost what games were supposed to be about.
One of my biggest complaints is they've created this beautiful game yet the camera is so restrictive you miss half of the amazing views and hard work put into the design, gonna have to mod it on my next playthrough
THISSSSSS
mod it using native camera! game feels better with k&m
Yeah got it now, i modded on my next playthrough and it was awesome :D@@iPlayDotaReligiously
Baldur's Gate 3, game of the year... Fuck yeah!❤
decade
century
eternity
it was really sad beating Ketheric and looting him and all he had on him the whole time was a letter from his daughter. I was like ouch.
Agreed. I knew he was doing everything for Isobel, and he has a history of changing allegiance to serve himself, so I was really hoping we could persuade him to side with us
I loved all three acts
Act 1 has gives u some independence while also keeping it linear to some extent
Act2 is mostly linear which isnt bad for a change.
Act 3 then your dumped into this vast area and said " goodluck out there"
I think i saw a lot of ppl overwhelmed with the Act3 content and its easy to miss a lot of stuff there compared to other acts imo
Thank you to everyone involved in making this game. Made me feel like a big kid again. Loved every minute of the 120 hour playthrough. Ready to start my dark urge run next weekend!
No way Maggie Robertson was the VA for Orin?! No wonder I loved her character so much. Every time I learn something new about the cast and crew of Larian and BG3, it just makes me appreciate it and love it so much more.
Just got to Act 2 and I think it's safe to say that BG3 is one of the best games I've ever played
Larian is King of games. BG3 is probably in the top 3 best games ever made
13:40 I absolutely love this - it isn't just whether they like or dislike your choices and will follow you aimlessly, they react so well to things and sometimes they want something, and you can try to talk them out of it, but they can just say basically F**k you, it's my decision.
I think it is a natural outgrowth of their approach where everyone is not a companion but an 'origin character', who can themselves be the protagonist. but you're right I've never seen party members with so much agency. I think the last few well-written bioware games (DA2 and DA:I) actually did a good job of that. and those had one advantage of characters having real preferences instead of being playersexual/pansexual, which is the only thing that homogenizes everyone in BG3 a bit. I would love to see another RPG like DA2 that isn't a save-the-world-adventure but follows peoples' lives over years, and how it works the party into that is interesting. and it has probably the craziest thing any party member has ever done in a game, which you have no influence over
This game is such an ...absolute..masterpiece. This is the game we dreamed of as kids in the late 80s and into the 90s. I hope there will be more games like this from here on out but I doubt that will happen. The gaming industry has become a cesspool of greed but luckily we have companies like Larian (and a couple of others) that still makes games for the love of gaming. If anyone from Larian happens to read this, I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart. And thanks for this upload DanAllenGaming, you earned another sub.
The fact that I found this area so overwhelming is a testament to its scale and authenticity. I truly felt like I'd just stepped into a city; this major trading hub. And for the first time in the game, it was like there was too much for me to simply save and do over. It is a unique experience every time.
YES!! Thank you! I need all the "Bonus Features" and backstage stuff. Your interviews have been delightful and riveting. Excellent work. Thank you.
Yes. I need a “the making of” I’m fascinated by the depth, artistry, and technical complexity.
This game is insane. I already appreciate its insane details but this makes me appreciate them even more. Thank you larian for this gift of a game
Adam Smith, lead writer…. There aren’t words to express how amazing of a job he did. And the rest of the writers, devs and actors. Genuinely never seen more heart put into any other game.
I entered the city, got lost, got overwhelmed and started a new character. Got to the city and... well I have 4 characters who started act 3. I have no idea where to go from there. lol. Orin is my favorite villain so far! Ketheric's delivery of lines though is unmatched. The pure weight of the voice of the actor; the cadence, the simple straight through control just feels epic.
Same.
This game, hands down, is an absolute master piece. I have not been this engrossed in a game since playing Dragon Age Origins for the first time. I love this game to pieces, I have already planned my next several campaigns.
I dont get why more studios dont do this, like attach a mocap as they record their lines so we get better facial expressions
full performance capture is extremely expensive, basically the same cost as a small-scale film shoot. look into how the Avatar movies are made if you wanna learn more about it, though that's a more extreme version where it literally is a full on normal film shoot with all the actors together. whereas you would be shocked how little voice actors make, and VA sessions can be done very quickly. and to do full performance capture you need somebody who is a normal trained actor and not just a VA. BG3 is by probably an order of magnitude the largest game ever to use it, and it's only used for some stuff (there is 180 hrs of cinematics after all). but the amount of mocap they have is truly insane, there are rpgs 1/5 the size of this that only use algorithmic stuff for conversations (although that can be done well, the witcher 3 for example). going from this to starfield is like going from a real conversation to a wax museum
@@QGfk1 what you say is true, but all these AAA companions can 100% do it with the amount of money they make from mtx. The sad thing is they don’t want to because they want to spend little resources in making their games. Only a few would do mocap voice work. CdPr, fromsoft, Larien and rockstar are few that would
The 2 Norse God of War Games had this, and it does make an amazing difference.
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such an amazing cast, im still not over oogling over this game and I dont think I ever will stop
That Lawrence guy is probably the first time I've seen a videogame writer that really does look like a writer.
5:00 I just realized she's the same voice actor of Lady Dimitrescu
same XD
2/2, she's on a run
and Astarion is Heisenberg
@@RealArcalian Holy, I actually didn't realize this until I saw your comment
BG 3 is probably the most amazing game I have ever played. Seeing the passion that this entire team had for their project shows me how it got to this point. Larian I have been a gamer for 40 years and your game consistently blows my mind. This game reminds me of that sense of wonder and imagination gaming USED to invoke with me as a kid, so thank you Larian for making me feel that way again
These guys make my heart happy. Not just a game but they genuinely exude a sense of fun excitement and comradeship. They seem to really enjoy their work and I've not heard a peep of gossip that there are the common troubles rife in the industries.
Their fun with eschother and their work makes the game uplifting to play, and exciting.
the voices are INCREDIBLE
After playing this game for well over two hundred hours..I have a profound respect for the developers and writers involved with this project.
They could not have pick anybody better for any role than who they picked.
Old school BG fan.
Even older D&D player, and i give it the Chef's Kiss.
Haven't finished the game yet but after meeting Orin I talked to so many npc's and I was like "you're Orin, aren't you?" and half the time I was right, haha!
Damn, Matt did justice to Minsc's voice for sure.
These Voice actors are amazing. Their talents have kept me immersed in the game. I believe a good portion of the game's success is thanks to them.
I’m not even a gamer, just someone who occasionally watches game play throughs on UA-cam so I can enjoy the storytelling. I never thought I would be into something like this, but holy shit I’m beyond impressed. I’ll never play the game myself, but every play through I’ve watched so far has blown my mind! Incredible game.
You know it’s good when a non gamer has fallen in love with it.
(Also, team shadowheart, baby!!!!!)
Can’t remember ever giving a damn about who was involved in making a game and how it was done in 20 years… until this one. That’s something! Amazing work of art from everyone involved. 👏
I did _not_ know Matt Mercer was in this game. As if I wasn’t already incredibly impressed!
You can actually kind of hear it in some soft-spoken lines, but Matt is a really versatile voice actor when you see his resumé !
I can pick his voice out pretty easily most of the time due to the amount of Critical Role I watch, but he's totally able to pull one over on even long time viewers. If I'd heard Victor the Blackpowder Merchant out of context, I'd have never guessed.
The voice acting in this game is insane! Congratulation and thank you Larian for creating this masterpiece!
Thank you everyone at Larian for making such an amazing game. I will never forget it or forget what all of you have done. Eternal gratitude.
You could say Ketheric Thorm was truly "Invincible"
Most of the VA's are legendary performers, Matt Mercer who voiced Minsc is the dungeon master of Critical Role and their web series made into an animated series called "The Legend of Vox Machina". He is also the VA for McCree in Overwatch.
BG 3 is my favorite game since Mass Effect 1 and 2. You can see the passion in the staff eyes. Bravo, Larian! And keep it up!
This game is insane. When the guy says "when you reach Baldur's gate, and you will very soon" I was like, well I've bean playing on my first playthrough for 135h and I just reach the outside of the city. There's some much things happening in this experience and I love every second of it
Same bro, by the time I was in the city I was touching 120 something hours, max leveled just fucking off as true heroes should, going around saving shit. 😅
I’m completely obsessed with this game. I can’t thank Larian and the entire team enough for creating this masterpiece. I feel like I need to buy it twice… three times… the replayability is infinite.
The moment Matt shows up the world is always more adventurous and okay.
He said play “Astarion or a vampire”. Makes me wish they could have actually worked a way for us to be one at the beginning of the game 🥺
I love how this team wiped the floor with their "competition" triple A studios
My jaw literally dropped when i finally entered the lower city proper for the first time. Been chasing that high ever since.
Getting to baldurs gate gave me social anxiety with how full and bustling it was! and i love cities! well done!
Thank you larian and team this is an absolute gem
Im so thankful that Larian released this Masterpiece.
Everytime i learn more about Baldur's Gate, how it was made and the thought that went into it continues to blow my mind more. This game seems to have nearly infinite possibilities, and while I know it is limited, the amount of things you can do is amazing. I still love staying in the dark about choices and different outcomes because it juts means I'll hopefully be surprised by things my next playthrough! I imagine almost no playthrough can be the same, though many similar.
I listened to different actors for a few seconds, and then I put a like! Guys, these are great voices and great work with voices! Bravo!
This game just took GOTY from Zelda TotK
BG3 taught an entire industry how it’s done!
So that's where the ex lore master from ESO went! Working on the game matches up for when he left ZOS. I love that man!
Seeing that I haven’t gotten out of act 1 yet (making sure that I get everything possible) it’s fun to know that eventually I’ll run into Lady D again.
Hope you enjoy it toroughly. Its the most polished part of the game. The rest will leave a bad aftertaste
Update since I posted this… still in act 1
Thankyou for this masterpiece 1 of my favourite parts is when you save the night song the angel looks epic in that cutscene
How is it that you get such exclusive content? I feel that this should be on the official Larian-channel. Love all your interviews as well!
All of these videos are from the Larian channel. Some of them are really old.
I feel like Act3 was a little bit lacking in content but then again, it's already super huge. Act3 for me was just like...I just want to end this to do a re-run. Great work! I love it!
Not gonna lie, seeing the city so beautifully realized felt amazing as a long time dnd player. Seeing the realms so perfectly realized was incredible.
The city definitely blew me away. The moment I entered Act 3, I could not get over how beautiful it looked.
0:23 At some point, we just said "Can't we just connect everything??" -- Bethesda, please take note. It can be done, and you should have done it.
Now when I play the game I can only think of the VA face instead of the characters. They truly brought everything to life
THANK YOU for hiding/biiping the spoilers. Thank you A LOT!!
I can’t wait to be the 50yr old playing Baldur’s Gate 4 and being blown away
They're not making anymore baldurs gate games
I had no idea how many famous actors performed for this game wow.
The writing and characters are superb. But I must admit, the cinematics and all the dialog in the game that was voiced won me over because I do a lot of reading at work so having this being voiced was so good. Less reading in a game lol
BG3 is an incredible game. The story telling, design, freedom of choices, art, music, and acting felt so real. Everything felt like it was touched by love for the craft.
This game is a masterpiece, beyond anything an ordinary gamer like myself could even fathom would grace our fingertips. When I tell you Ive played over 360 hours and still get chills from the Ketheric Thorm speech and fight each time. I play the entire scene when Myrkul gets summoned. Orin makes me uneasy, makes my blood curdle, like I am nothing but blood and flesh ready to be torn and blistered at her leisure with no other purpose than her pleasure. Gortash seems like he is 10 steps ahead of everyone and honestly I was intimidated from fighting him so I didnt interact much with him lol. I hurried to demolish the steel legion and his fight was a bit lack luster. All of the companions feel like real people with real ties to the world. The conversations feel so alive as if they would play out in real life. Hiding behind giggles or intimidation tactics so you don't get too close or just eager to get close right away like the big sweetie Karlach who hasn't been able to embrace anyone for years. You have to be extremely talented to be able to express superior acting only through voice lines. I just cant explain it enough myself but excellence to the highest degree
I’ve been wanting to watch this video for 11 months but can’t. I’ve been playing Baulders Gate and on one of the hardest mod-packs I’ve ever played. Have a group of friends I play with, and we haven’t even finished Act 1. Because we all have to be online and don’t want to go too far alone and if we die we start over. So the ones that have more time than others (including me), replay the beginning multiple times, with multiple different runs. The amount of dialogue and work that’s been put into this, and being able to play it again and again and again, new run after new run, and getting dialogue or new options just in the beginning, is so amazing and mind boggling. Don’t get me wrong I’ve played it without mods as well but we just love the game that much, we’ve replayed the beginning so many times and haven’t even finished the underdark. But when we do finish the entire game I’m going to come back to this video and watch the behind the scenes. And update my comment. Thank you Larian Studios, and all the actors involved, you’ve made a masterpiece!
I've watched this many times. And I'm always a blubbering mess watching it! I picked up the original games from around age 10-15 (2000-05) and played them sooo many times, and Larian just..ah they did an amazing job. Bringing it to life! The difference between playing a game made with passion and a game not... you can feel it! All the voice actors did fucking amazing and so true to the originals too - including the writing. And now Lae'zel, Shadowheart and Astarion are just as iconic as Jaheria, Minsc or Imoen. Before playing BG3 I didn't know there was such a strong connection to BG2. Thank you Larian. I mean, rightly so, they won Game of the Year, but it's so much more than that! I would of been obsessed even if only 100 people played it. I can't wait to see what Larian does next, but they'll always be an incredible studio who made an original BG fan extremally happy.
THESE PEOPLE ARE LEGENDS!!!! THANKS LARIAN!
I've started playing on computers in the 80's with my old Sinclair ZX81, and until now, I've never met such a game like Baldur's gate 3. The Bard's tales, Eyes of the Beholder, BG1 and 2, Skyrim, Fallout(s), Witcher(s), were great games but this one is on another level.