Since people were curious, this edit includes stream 1 and 2 of Baldur's Gate! You can watch them over on my stream channel Part 1: ua-cam.com/video/CEx1K4Gom9Y/v-deo.html Part 2: ua-cam.com/video/eG8HNfww510/v-deo.html
Well, I'm sure the next time the druids have a band of refugees show up at their door, they'll just turn them away instead of letting them in. The grove is basically a religious commune for Worshippers of Sylvanus. And you just stole the consecrated idol of their god (and remember, in this setting, gods are *very* real) to impress a child. Like, as far as the druids know? it was the refugees. You've pretty much lent credence to the shadow druids. I mean, Kagha is a shadow druid plant- playing on the other druids fears of the goblin warband just a stones throw away to try and radicalize them. Before she was involved the grove willingly opened it's doors to help these people- fed and watered them off of their own limited supplies (They are druids. They live in the middle of nowhere by choice. They don't farm and there are no corner stores. They survive entirely on hunting and foraging and even with druid powers it's a lot of work.)
Astarion having a default Charisma of only 10 feels like the biggest joke of the entire game. Like, the _one_ characters whose background story as a vampire spawn involves is him having spent the past 170 years being basically prostituted by Cazador his vampire master, being forced to rely on seduction and manipulation to survive, the guy that even various NPCs and even the Narrator remark about how beautiful he is canonically... But instead of the game devs making him a Bard, he's the DEX-based Rogue (I mean, he's a darn good Rogue, but) with the potential Arcane Trickster subclass (which needs INT as base attribute). When I played an Origin run as Astarion, I respecced him slightly and lowered his CON from 15 to 14 and his WIS from 13 to 12 and used that to upgrade his CHA to 12. Astarion being a Rogue is the anomaly here... because when did he learn _that?_ If he was a magistrate while alive -- although the writers chucked the rest of his tentative background story from the earliest stages of the games back in 2020 into the dumpster and changed "corrupt" into "tragic", which gave him more depth, so maybe him claiming at first meeting that he's a magistrate in Baldur's Gate is him serving you a double-lie instead of just a single lie (as he hasn't been whatever profession or status he had while alive for the past nearly 200 years).
@@TF2CrunchyFrog I think Larian tried to build every companion the best suited for combat they could be, so Astarion dumping charisma makes sense in a min max mentality.
@@TF2CrunchyFrogor all his charm is well…superficial. His skills don’t actually lie there. At least that’s how I took it. He’s all this pomp and circuses but by now it’s just…flat
@@BiRiostbh I agree. Feels like he always not taking things serious, like always joking around, so in a sense you usually don't trust him for anything with his attitude, it's not someone you would trust or take a word irl. Guy tells you "only a sip" and proceeds to suck you dry like a capri sun 😂
Volo canonically only survived his writing of "Volo's Guide to Monsters" because his editor literally messaged every monster ahead of time to tell them some dumbass is going to come over and try to interview them, and to humor him and let him leave because he doesn't bathe much and tastes very bad.
He is also absolutely convinced that Abyssal Chickens are "an unclean scourge" that "few have seen, and which fewer still have survived". They are not much stronger than a dog, but are also utterly blind and too bad at flying to actually stay airborne (literally. "Bad Flier" is their only trait.) He documented the monsters of _actual hell_ and the thing that spooked him the most is _their poultry._
Side Note 8 from Elminster Aumar: "Ye may, though ye're obviously unaware, young volo, how often and for how long I have been telling dragons, Mind Flayers, and even goblins how truly vile Volothamps taste, raw or cooked. Ye're welcome."
If anyone is wanting to have Astarion drink from them each night, you can get the 'Amulet of Silvanus' under a rock on the small beach by the Druid groves sacred idol. It allows you to cast lesser restoration once per day which can cure your bloodless debuff, so Astarion will get his happy buff without you having to take a minus to checks.
The Narrator, Amelia Tyler, in some of her actual, real outtakes; “That could be the tagline for the entire game: *Frantic Bi Energy.* Well, I’M exuding it, so… well cast? I’m a BARD! I can f*ck my way through any problem!” “I seduce the door. Done it. I’ve got splinters in places you DO NOT wanna know about but I’m through.” “We LIVE in horny jail. You can’t SEND us there. We’ve got the keys!”
@@mancamiatipoola A twink is a slender man often with somewhat feminine facial features. A himbo tends to be an attractive man who isn't particularly bright, think the male equivalent of a bimbo
@@mancamiatipoolaA "himbo" is a dude that's nice, strong, and fucking stupid. Think Kronk. A twink is... a bit harder to explain? Kinda like a femboy... basically a skinny, usually pale dude that looks a little fruity
Well, no longer true but shockingly only 26% of players have made it to Act 3. Or maybe not. Maybe some people play this game less than the 40 hours a week I do.
I'm really glad they have a bunch of special interactions exclusive to Barbarians, considering that they're the class that's notorious for not being able to do anything outside of combat.
@@danzansandeev6033I prolly gonna play bard cus that class looks the most fun, literally u can play music and people will pay attention to you and in dialogues bards can make the most fun interactions.
@@fseiba6718 I would actually recommend bard as first play through. It excels at pretty much everything, no surprise since it is supposed to be Jack of all trades class. Just know beforehand that your role wouldn’t be dealing biggest amount of damage. You are support and pretty good at that. Sure you can go college of swords or valor, but imo you will never reach same heights as true martial class.
Whats worse is that so far (like 10+ mins into video so far) she hasn't even used rage so.. she is literally just hacking and slashing. Haven't even seen her use any spells from cleric.. hopefully she realizes the game is hell when when you use your class spells and attributes etc ahaha. But I will agree that it seem lariat almost made the storyline (or many of them) with bird in mind, which does kinda make sense, since barss will usually be the best talker characters. I know other charisma based characters/classes can obviously also excel at talk and etc but they did make the bard stuff really well. But its all made really well, so yeah.
Swords bard with dual hand crossbows slaps, its fun in multiplayer cause your friends have to sit there on your turn and watch you shoot over and over and over
Maybe not so straight? Orientation is a spectrum. Even bisexual people can be attracted to one gender sexually and romantically, to another - only romantically. Just an example
Pretty sure Gale tries to shoot his shot with all the female NPCs in Act 1 too. Within earshot of each other even. Unsurprisingly, they don't appreciate it very much.
24:03 Wait.... wait wait, you got Astarion's "stargazing" cutscene (which is triggered if you camp soon after letting Laez'el talk to Zorru), but because the camp was in a frikkin _cave_ the dialogue actually changed and he said he was enjoying the view of the ceiling instead of the _stars??_ o_O That's weird. Not as romantic than gazing at the stars, but funny.
The funniest parts of Shen's streams of BG3 was how incredibly lucky she was with the rolls when they didnt matter, as opposed to when she really needed the high rolls and watching her and Chat lose it simultaneously. not including the Out of pocket crap they did in Act 1...
Like that's just D&D in a nutshell. My party leads off the evening with a nat 20 on a check to make sure the front door's secured fully when they have to leave a relic inside the house but leave for a debutante ball they're attending, but then flub six different checks during the party that would have made their plot move forward. This happened THIS MONTH.
I literally love every single party member. I love Astarion’s flamboyance, Shadow’s air of mystery, Lae’zel’s sharp wit, Gale for his charm, Karlach bc she’s absolutely precious and Wyll just bc he wants to protect the people even if it means sacrificing himself.
@@richardshiflett5181Ngl I merced Minthara and only learned she was a potential party member an hour afterwards after realizing that no other npc had lootable underwear
@@anobjectatrest5975 I only knew from seeing UA-cam videos with her in other peoples parties, but I am playing a good character so can’t get her in my team. Felt kinda bad about leaving her in the nude though 🤔 but her clothes will look good on Astarion so 🤷♀️
@hinasakukimi he gets there. At the beginning he's a bit.. violent, but you can talk him down from things and voice your opinions. I have a softer Astarion currently
So about Gale saying to Astarion that he tastes absolutely awful: He's not wrong. If you try to use Astarion's Vampiric Bite skill on Gale he will get POISONED and tell Gale that his blood tastes like bile. Gale approperiately tells Astarion that he warned him and that he should ask before biting. Makes me wonder what happens if you play Gale as your Origin and Astarion visits you at night.
I know this was commented 5 months ago so you might've figured it out already but my sister played as origin Gale and had Astarion bite him and after biting Gale he immediately gets up, basically says that Gale tastes nasty and yells at Gale. It is a very funny interaction.
I’ve playing with my wife and I always take him because rogues are so handy to have around, and this has led to her constantly calling him my vampire boyfriend. I mean, she’s not wrong.
Idk because shen has shown on stream that she likes her men pathetic and women that find HER pathetic so i think that if she lets astarion go through with the ritual she'll lose some interest in him lol
My first character in BG3 is a Bronze Dragonborn Paladin, who has a jaw like an anvil and shoulders like a barn door. It's hilarious when ordinary humanoids threaten me, because the facial animations look exactly like someone who is an enormous lightning breathing dragon man would when a Gnome smack talks him.
"He's got one job and he's failing at that one job" is a perfect embodiment of how Action Economy and 5e Martials function (or, more exactly, don't function).
if you aint got advantage, or the enemy sleeping or frozen in place, you aint hitting. unless the enemy is attacking you. then somehow they manage to hit my 30-ish AC pally for crits more often than not >.>
@@seanwilliams7655 flanking makes the game slower and just overall more boring. if u like it u can just play with flanking. also flanking is a nightmare for dms
@@ilikedinosaurs392 speedruns to sex. the % refers to any other content the run aims to accomplish before getting to the sex. just % alone is short for "any %", meaning the runner is not concerned with any other content in this attempt.
I imagine Astarion standing there with a look of horror on his face the entire time as he watches the Barbarian smash open locks, smash doors and smash traps that Astarion as a Rogue could've easily lockpicked or safely disabled (although Rogues now need a trap disabling toolkit to do that, which are much harder to randomly find than lockpicks so you're better off buying a few from a vendor, boo). Just click on Astarion's character portrait, un-group the characters and let Astarion scout a room full of traps and hope he wins his perception checks Then just right-click on a trap and select "disable". Astarion has Lockpicking and Stealing (Slight of Hand) Expertise for a reason, he gets a double bonus plus his high DEX bonus for a +7 even at level 1!
I think I will never not go for Astarion in my game plays. I love elves, I love vampires, I love sad backstories, I have a "I can fix them" helper syndrom ... he is just too perfect. Tho it is hard to resist muscle mommy Karlach or Gale or Wyll xD
Funny enough, I played Barbarian too, and when I got to the magic mirror door, I Intimidated it into opening. I was like "Open, or I'll smash you with a nearby brick", and the mirror was like "daddy chill", and opened up. I laughed so hard.
"if you fancy Astarion, you might want to consider therapy.... He's so damaged, I MUST have him. Enjoy the fantasy and THEN call a therapist. It's a two step thing innit, it's very important you do both." -the narrator
Lately, the idea to want to try this game has been bothering, because of so much coontent, videos and how many of my friends are playing it yet it hasn't been wnough to convience me. Yet, this wonder of a woman, with just her chaotic whacky self, with her dumb choices, contagious wheezing laughter and so on, did it on finally convincing me to try it out. I love you Shen!!
Gotta ask, what is he? Killed him in a "fuggit murder the whole grove" mood and he dropped an interesting ring without changing form to his original thing.
@@syrusalder7795 interesting. I killed him later, at Last Light, and he did not go quietly. Oh, definitely use Speak with Animals on him and do the ability check options with him.
@@WolfHreda i did that but he never changed into anything other than an ox. Weird. Maybe it was bugged coz the druids and tieflings were doing some minor race war crimes at the time and they kinda killed him for me?
@@syrusalder7795 In your next run: Speak to the Ox at the grove, kill the goblins so the refugees continue on their way, speak to the Ox again in the stable in Last Light in act 2. Not a hard fight at all but Dammon might die so quicksave.
"One last thing - don't shout out you moves like that. It spoils the surprise for your foes." I don't know, it seemed to work well for Wong Fei Hung (as far as I'm able to find, that's actually a historically accurate thing the movies get right about him)
the barbarian options are insane. Shempai your reactions are so funny, i wish i could play like this without having to micromanage everything and constantly restart...
Ah yes another story of Shenpai putting her son in dangerous situations. That will scar Voxer for life. But this time Voxer has a rage problem. What could go wrong? 😂
So, in my deranged hyperfixation, I’ve created a Rocky Horror fancast of the Baldur’s Gate 3 companions. Astarion is obviously Frank. Gale and Shadowheart are Brad and Janet because they’re the most basic human looking of the companions-I know Shadowheart’s only half human, but we work with what we have. Minthara is Riff Raff because she’s the most edgy, murdery companion and Riff Raff commits the most murders. Lae’zel is Magenta because she pairs well with Minthara with the whole “my species is superior schtick, and we had to cast the only actual alien in the group as one of the aliens. For Rocky, the choice was between Halsin and Karlach because they’re both big and muscular, and I decided Halsin should play that role, since I have Astarion as Frank and Shadowheart as Janet, and since Astarion and Shadowheart will be willing to share a romanced player character with Halsin but not each other, and Frank and Janet are both attracted to Rocky but Frank doesn’t want to share him, it fits with the characters’ dynamic. Karlach is instead playing Eddie, with Wyll as Columbia, because the two of them quickly become close if you recruit them both, and Karlach would definitely have the time of her life zooming around on that motorcycle-not to mention that one of her horns is broken, which fits with Eddie’s head trauma. Plus, tell me Wyll wouldn’t look awesome in Columbia’s golden top hat. Finally, Jaheira and Minsc are Dr. Scott and the Criminologist, as the two non-romanceable companions and the two Rocky Horror characters who don’t get to hook up with anyone. Minsc is specifically the Criminologist because I think he and Boo would have a great time narrating everything, and Jaheira is Dr. Scott because she seems to have her shit a bit more together than everyone else, which fits the straitlaced Dr. Scott. The minor roles are played by the hirelings.
I've gone through the whole game with only Shadowheart, Astarion, and Karlach in my party. I had NO IDEA you meet Gale so early!! Never even ran across him!
As a fellow bisexual, I really appreciate the options this game gives you. I look forward to playing it when the full version is available on my system.
"It's all for the greater good in the end" said Tav while trailing behind him the faint mist of bloodlessness. Astarion smirks behind. Poetry. Subbed, thanks for the amazing laughs. Hope there's more coming (lol)
Oh thank god I’m not the only one who loves Astarion. Gaining his approval is such a pain because you have to be an asshole which is perfect for Voxer. Love the dynamic
it's really funny, genuinely because I didn't even try and get Astarions approval I just chose whatever I thought worked and even though Astarion disagreed with SO MANY THINGS I said he still wanted Voxer so I'M CONFUSED ON WHAT HAPPENED THERE
@@AeroViroSAME! I’m still in Act 1 really exploring everything I can and the fact he was like “wanna fuck?” It wasn’t intentional but now I love him and didn’t think I would be into vampires.. THIS GAME IS UNFAIR
i love watching bisexual people scream about video game characters and the release of baldurs gate 3 has opened an infinite source of this genre of content. you guys have no idea how mad i am that i only have a shitty laptop that definitely could not run this game 😭😭😭😭😭
Please let Astarion do his job as a Rogue and let _him_ pick locks, sneak around and pilfer items, and find and disable traps (you have to buy or find him a trap disabling toolkit first, though). That's what he is really good at. Otherwise he's just running after you looking pretty. He wants to show off his Rogue expertise! Same goes for the other companions... they're not just there for combat, they can talk to NPCs in your stead, decipher arcane writings and whatnot if you select them and let them interact with an NPC or item!
I love how I have to lower all the settings on my dumb office PC looking ass and then when I watch these videos I'm like oh... so that's how it's supposed to look like
You too feel my pain bwing torn between Shadowheart and Astarion 😭 I also love Karlach but she's unavilable having been claimed by my friend in our run together
Barbarian Voxer was the best thing I''ve ever witnessed and this video made me so happy. This week's been so tough, but your video made me so happy. Thank you so much for your editing, Shen!! This video is awesome.
Since people were curious, this edit includes stream 1 and 2 of Baldur's Gate!
You can watch them over on my stream channel
Part 1: ua-cam.com/video/CEx1K4Gom9Y/v-deo.html
Part 2: ua-cam.com/video/eG8HNfww510/v-deo.html
are you going to do other edit like this one for your following adventures in BG3 ?
You say some people were curious....were they perhaps.... BI curious!?!
Well, I'm sure the next time the druids have a band of refugees show up at their door, they'll just turn them away instead of letting them in.
The grove is basically a religious commune for Worshippers of Sylvanus. And you just stole the consecrated idol of their god (and remember, in this setting, gods are *very* real) to impress a child. Like, as far as the druids know? it was the refugees. You've pretty much lent credence to the shadow druids.
I mean, Kagha is a shadow druid plant- playing on the other druids fears of the goblin warband just a stones throw away to try and radicalize them. Before she was involved the grove willingly opened it's doors to help these people- fed and watered them off of their own limited supplies (They are druids. They live in the middle of nowhere by choice. They don't farm and there are no corner stores. They survive entirely on hunting and foraging and even with druid powers it's a lot of work.)
No
@@tamnickyle ?
I think everyone deserves to know that the genital options were called, for a _very_ brief amount of time, *Dungeon or Dragon.*
Ok we need a petition to bring this back
Thats hilarious
If anyone calls their genitals a "dungeon" or "dragon" I'm not talking to them anymore.
@@maximumforce8275 booo. You must be boring.
@@maximumforce8275his dungeon be on my dragon till i baldurs and gate (;
"Remove all Charisma"... At 10, you already had a modifier of 0 on Charisma. What you did, by lowering it even further, is give him _negative_ rizz.
Astarion having a default Charisma of only 10 feels like the biggest joke of the entire game. Like, the _one_ characters whose background story as a vampire spawn involves is him having spent the past 170 years being basically prostituted by Cazador his vampire master, being forced to rely on seduction and manipulation to survive, the guy that even various NPCs and even the Narrator remark about how beautiful he is canonically...
But instead of the game devs making him a Bard, he's the DEX-based Rogue (I mean, he's a darn good Rogue, but) with the potential Arcane Trickster subclass (which needs INT as base attribute).
When I played an Origin run as Astarion, I respecced him slightly and lowered his CON from 15 to 14 and his WIS from 13 to 12 and used that to upgrade his CHA to 12.
Astarion being a Rogue is the anomaly here... because when did he learn _that?_ If he was a magistrate while alive -- although the writers chucked the rest of his tentative background story from the earliest stages of the games back in 2020 into the dumpster and changed "corrupt" into "tragic", which gave him more depth, so maybe him claiming at first meeting that he's a magistrate in Baldur's Gate is him serving you a double-lie instead of just a single lie (as he hasn't been whatever profession or status he had while alive for the past nearly 200 years).
@@TF2CrunchyFrog I think Larian tried to build every companion the best suited for combat they could be, so Astarion dumping charisma makes sense in a min max mentality.
@@TF2CrunchyFrogor all his charm is well…superficial. His skills don’t actually lie there. At least that’s how I took it. He’s all this pomp and circuses but by now it’s just…flat
He just like me fr 👏😭
@@BiRiostbh I agree. Feels like he always not taking things serious, like always joking around, so in a sense you usually don't trust him for anything with his attitude, it's not someone you would trust or take a word irl. Guy tells you "only a sip" and proceeds to suck you dry like a capri sun 😂
Can't believe they added an RPG adventure to this dating sim
What's _your_ favorite route?
@@4Re_mind flayer in act 1. Sucks that you die tho.
It's so immersion for what amounts to a mini-game, as well. Gwent, eat your heart out.
Volo canonically only survived his writing of "Volo's Guide to Monsters" because his editor literally messaged every monster ahead of time to tell them some dumbass is going to come over and try to interview them, and to humor him and let him leave because he doesn't bathe much and tastes very bad.
Holy shit really?
Sometimes, DnD 5e Lore is hilarious. Like did you know that there are SPACE HAMSTERS and SPACE SEAGULLS.
I've recently read a book on Miniature Giant Space Hamsters, they are terrifying.
He is also absolutely convinced that Abyssal Chickens are "an unclean scourge" that "few have seen, and which fewer still have survived".
They are not much stronger than a dog, but are also utterly blind and too bad at flying to actually stay airborne (literally. "Bad Flier" is their only trait.)
He documented the monsters of _actual hell_ and the thing that spooked him the most is _their poultry._
Side Note 8 from Elminster Aumar:
"Ye may, though ye're obviously unaware, young volo, how often and for how long I have been telling dragons, Mind Flayers, and even goblins how truly vile Volothamps taste, raw or cooked. Ye're welcome."
I have a feeling Karlach will melt Shen on the spot
Both figuratively *and* literally.
Karla is best girl.
If she doesn't make a mortal mistake of playing as her, that is.
@@TheArklyte i'm playing as her what does this mean :C
It happens to literally everyone
If anyone is wanting to have Astarion drink from them each night, you can get the 'Amulet of Silvanus' under a rock on the small beach by the Druid groves sacred idol. It allows you to cast lesser restoration once per day which can cure your bloodless debuff, so Astarion will get his happy buff without you having to take a minus to checks.
you can ask shadowheart to cast the lesser restoration spell on you too
god bless
The Narrator, Amelia Tyler, in some of her actual, real outtakes;
“That could be the tagline for the entire game: *Frantic Bi Energy.* Well, I’M exuding it, so… well cast? I’m a BARD! I can f*ck my way through any problem!”
“I seduce the door. Done it. I’ve got splinters in places you DO NOT wanna know about but I’m through.”
“We LIVE in horny jail. You can’t SEND us there. We’ve got the keys!”
Is there a video with her outtakes? I so want to see this
@@daleyhuard3675just search for Baldur’s gate outtakes. Simple as that there are 4 vids
@@daleyhuard3675 yup. just youtube search "baldur's gate 3 narrator" and you'll get it
@@daleyhuard3675yes there are 4 of them!! Baldurs gate narrator outakes
@@daleyhuard3675 ua-cam.com/video/7g5VvEPFucE/v-deo.htmlsi=wQmUno2BCRqvISK7
"Half elf comes in twink or himbo" is probably my favorite phrase I have heard today lol
I dont know what any of those terms mean. Care to explain?
@@mancamiatipoola A twink is a slender man often with somewhat feminine facial features. A himbo tends to be an attractive man who isn't particularly bright, think the male equivalent of a bimbo
@@mancamiatipoolaA "himbo" is a dude that's nice, strong, and fucking stupid. Think Kronk.
A twink is... a bit harder to explain? Kinda like a femboy... basically a skinny, usually pale dude that looks a little fruity
@@mancamiatipoolatwink is a small pretty usually gay guy, while a himbo is a very muscular and kind, but very dumb guy
@@Nightmareslain4 Gale is the groups himbo and Astarion is the twink
Karlach is the female equivalent of a himbo, not sure if that has a name 🤔
Voxer: *is gay*
Shen: Wha- why did that happen??????
Also Shen: *makes Voxer romance the vampire*
"90% of players didn't made it past Act 1"
"The other 10% didn't made it past character creation"
😂😂😂😂
Well, no longer true but shockingly only 26% of players have made it to Act 3. Or maybe not. Maybe some people play this game less than the 40 hours a week I do.
Shen not knowing to switch to Astarion for lockipicking but also managing to succeed on them as Voxer is very amusing
I'm really glad they have a bunch of special interactions exclusive to Barbarians, considering that they're the class that's notorious for not being able to do anything outside of combat.
And bards are in fact really the best in dialogue just like in the game)
@@danzansandeev6033I prolly gonna play bard cus that class looks the most fun, literally u can play music and people will pay attention to you and in dialogues bards can make the most fun interactions.
@@fseiba6718 I would actually recommend bard as first play through. It excels at pretty much everything, no surprise since it is supposed to be Jack of all trades class. Just know beforehand that your role wouldn’t be dealing biggest amount of damage. You are support and pretty good at that. Sure you can go college of swords or valor, but imo you will never reach same heights as true martial class.
Whats worse is that so far (like 10+ mins into video so far) she hasn't even used rage so.. she is literally just hacking and slashing. Haven't even seen her use any spells from cleric.. hopefully she realizes the game is hell when when you use your class spells and attributes etc ahaha.
But I will agree that it seem lariat almost made the storyline (or many of them) with bird in mind, which does kinda make sense, since barss will usually be the best talker characters. I know other charisma based characters/classes can obviously also excel at talk and etc but they did make the bard stuff really well.
But its all made really well, so yeah.
Swords bard with dual hand crossbows slaps, its fun in multiplayer cause your friends have to sit there on your turn and watch you shoot over and over and over
As a straight man I can confirm that Astarion and Halsin made me question my sexuality.
I got news for you buddy… 😂
Maybe not so straight?
Orientation is a spectrum.
Even bisexual people can be attracted to one gender sexually and romantically, to another - only romantically. Just an example
Then you are not straight
As a girl I ain't questioning anything, Shadowheart and Karlach just reinforced how bisexual I am
@@laniakeas92 paraphrasing the 20th president of the United States James A. Garfield - "I'm straight until I'm horny".
Watching she be earthshatteringly bisexual is more entertaining than it should be
it's why her Hades playthrough is one of my favorites!! lmaoo
SAME@@nikkolio
I love how every character has this deep backstory with emotional twists and turns...and then there's Gale...Gale eats shoes.
he just like me fr fr
I met Gale while I was playing the Dark Urge; he is really a... handy chap.
Pretty sure Gale tries to shoot his shot with all the female NPCs in Act 1 too. Within earshot of each other even. Unsurprisingly, they don't appreciate it very much.
@@conspiracypanda1200no that’s Wyll
@@conspiracypanda1200 i dont think Gale cares for other females aside from the protagonist he already bagged a Goddess
Why does Wyll's introduction cutscene feel like he's about to be introduced as a new challenger in Smash Bros
Wyll SEALS THE DEAL!
For his neutral special, he wields an ELDRITCH BLAST.
@@Envy_DragonWyll is PACT AND LOADED
@@michaelk9279HE IS PACTING
Well... That's pretty much what he is 😂
"The Blade of Frontiers" Seals the Pact!
24:03 Wait.... wait wait, you got Astarion's "stargazing" cutscene (which is triggered if you camp soon after letting Laez'el talk to Zorru), but because the camp was in a frikkin _cave_ the dialogue actually changed and he said he was enjoying the view of the ceiling instead of the _stars??_ o_O That's weird. Not as romantic than gazing at the stars, but funny.
that was supposed to be about the stArs??
The funniest parts of Shen's streams of BG3 was how incredibly lucky she was with the rolls when they didnt matter, as opposed to when she really needed the high rolls and watching her and Chat lose it simultaneously. not including the Out of pocket crap they did in Act 1...
It's the one with the lever that gets me most. Like 20 minutes on a perception check on a lever with no payoff for a while.
Like that's just D&D in a nutshell.
My party leads off the evening with a nat 20 on a check to make sure the front door's secured fully when they have to leave a relic inside the house but leave for a debutante ball they're attending, but then flub six different checks during the party that would have made their plot move forward. This happened THIS MONTH.
I literally love every single party member. I love Astarion’s flamboyance, Shadow’s air of mystery, Lae’zel’s sharp wit, Gale for his charm, Karlach bc she’s absolutely precious and Wyll just bc he wants to protect the people even if it means sacrificing himself.
Minthara tho
@@richardshiflett5181Ngl I merced Minthara and only learned she was a potential party member an hour afterwards after realizing that no other npc had lootable underwear
@@anobjectatrest5975 I only knew from seeing UA-cam videos with her in other peoples parties, but I am playing a good character so can’t get her in my team. Felt kinda bad about leaving her in the nude though 🤔 but her clothes will look good on Astarion so 🤷♀️
Halsin because he's hot, Minthara because she's the funniest character in the game
Astarion is the perfect "I can fix him" character
if youre playing regular tav its "i can fix him" if youre playing as durge its like "im going to try and fix him but he will probably make me worse"
I don't even want to fix him, I think I want to keep him as is - like he's kind but he's just smarmy
i wouldn't say he's kind lol @@Sophie_Anne_21
@hinasakukimi he gets there. At the beginning he's a bit.. violent, but you can talk him down from things and voice your opinions. I have a softer Astarion currently
@@Sophie_Anne_21 i think that's what people mean when they say they can fix him 😂😂 because astarion as is is... well, he needs a lot of work
So about Gale saying to Astarion that he tastes absolutely awful: He's not wrong. If you try to use Astarion's Vampiric Bite skill on Gale he will get POISONED and tell Gale that his blood tastes like bile.
Gale approperiately tells Astarion that he warned him and that he should ask before biting. Makes me wonder what happens if you play Gale as your Origin and Astarion visits you at night.
Aw man, I was gonna use Gale as a cop out for getting the Happy status on Astarion real quick, damn 😭
I know this was commented 5 months ago so you might've figured it out already but my sister played as origin Gale and had Astarion bite him and after biting Gale he immediately gets up, basically says that Gale tastes nasty and yells at Gale. It is a very funny interaction.
Astarion- *Exists*
Shen- *Melts in bisexual panic* I want him.
If this is just from act 1 alone, I wonder what will happen as the journey continues
Karlach will happen >:)
I’ve playing with my wife and I always take him because rogues are so handy to have around, and this has led to her constantly calling him my vampire boyfriend.
I mean, she’s not wrong.
Idk because shen has shown on stream that she likes her men pathetic and women that find HER pathetic so i think that if she lets astarion go through with the ritual she'll lose some interest in him lol
Never in the three decades I've been alive have I ever felt anything at all for the whole vampire thing
Until Astarion
same here!!! I'm a WEREWOLF FAN 100%... until Astarion XD
Same!!
The fact that Shen completed the shadow druid quest and they dont need to steal the idol anymore is hilarious
A "bightmare"
With Bi - temarks 🤤🤤😗😗
Bidur's Gate 3
Yes
A bite-mare, in fact.
I knew Shen would have problems with this one. Bonk -> Horny Jail.
I think you mean Horny Solitary Confinement for Shen.
RIP CHEEMS
to quote Amelia Tyler, Narrator of the game
"You can't send us to the horny jail, we already live there. we have the keys."
Bladur inspires me.. My parents said if i get 50K followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally
Begging...
Its actually crazy how on-brand Shen's Barbarian roleplay is so far ❤
Bro, the amount of luck in this video. Natural 20's, critical hits, Shadowheart hitting something. It's insane
Barbarian: *smashes locked book*
Book: opens
Bard: *slowly pulls pants back up*
"It's a Sleight of Hand check! *HAND!!"*
"That could be the tagline for the entire game. Frantic Bi Energy!" one of the outtakes done by the narrator
Can't wait for her to meet Karlach, I would be very surprised if Shen didnt just explode out of bi overload
Karlach: "I wanna ride you till you see stars"
Shen: *Devolves into murmurings of the word Mommy*
I know I did 😂
Every companion in this game does it for me.
Every. Single. One of them.
If you don’t know a fun fact about Baldurs Gate 3, here’s one.
Heisenberg from Resident Evil Village and Astarion have the same english voice actors.
Heisenberg, as in, "that Boulder punching asshole."? Damn, he has range!
Noooooo why would you do this now I want him even more 😭
holy shit
The fact that Astarion is voiced by Neil Newbon is amazing, I love his personality. 😂
He also did the mocap~
Shen's inner scalie came out upon seeing Dragonborn
This is why the Dream Guardian can't be a Dragonborn.
They would be too powerful otherwise.
@@jtlego1My inner Scalie, AyAAyAAd after seeing, and hearing Double, Trouble for the, first time.
It was my general interaction on two fronts because I'm also a huge dragon nerd so two buttons were pressed
My first character in BG3 is a Bronze Dragonborn Paladin, who has a jaw like an anvil and shoulders like a barn door. It's hilarious when ordinary humanoids threaten me, because the facial animations look exactly like someone who is an enormous lightning breathing dragon man would when a Gnome smack talks him.
"He's got one job and he's failing at that one job" is a perfect embodiment of how Action Economy and 5e Martials function (or, more exactly, don't function).
The best kind of martial is a caster
if you aint got advantage, or the enemy sleeping or frozen in place, you aint hitting.
unless the enemy is attacking you. then somehow they manage to hit my 30-ish AC pally for crits more often than not >.>
@@godsplayingfield this is why it was a bad idea to get rid of flanking rules.
nah flanking hurts martials as well and its also pretty boring@@seanwilliams7655
@@seanwilliams7655 flanking makes the game slower and just overall more boring. if u like it u can just play with flanking. also flanking is a nightmare for dms
Within 3 weeks sex% is down to a sub 4 minute time
I love this game
Edit : 2 minutes
I can't believe the DnD game birthed actual Professional Sex Havers.
2 minutes now lmao
@@conspiracypanda1200 before or after Fallouts speedruns?
What does this mean??
@@ilikedinosaurs392 speedruns to sex. the % refers to any other content the run aims to accomplish before getting to the sex. just % alone is short for "any %", meaning the runner is not concerned with any other content in this attempt.
Shen, going back through the footage to edit: "WHY DID I LOOT LITERALLY EVERYTHING, I SPENT SO MUCH TIME"
I imagine Astarion standing there with a look of horror on his face the entire time as he watches the Barbarian smash open locks, smash doors and smash traps that Astarion as a Rogue could've easily lockpicked or safely disabled (although Rogues now need a trap disabling toolkit to do that, which are much harder to randomly find than lockpicks so you're better off buying a few from a vendor, boo). Just click on Astarion's character portrait, un-group the characters and let Astarion scout a room full of traps and hope he wins his perception checks Then just right-click on a trap and select "disable". Astarion has Lockpicking and Stealing (Slight of Hand) Expertise for a reason, he gets a double bonus plus his high DEX bonus for a +7 even at level 1!
I think I will never not go for Astarion in my game plays. I love elves, I love vampires, I love sad backstories, I have a "I can fix them" helper syndrom ... he is just too perfect. Tho it is hard to resist muscle mommy Karlach or Gale or Wyll xD
After finishing his quest I literally feel the same way, I have fallen in love with this wet cat of a man
@@AeroViro WET CAT 💀 accurate
@@AeroViroAs someone who considers him a favorite: Agreed on that. He's an utterly drenched cat of a man.
@@cgkase6210Him being a wet cat of a man could also explain why he is my favorite ... cats are my favorite animals xD
It’s as if the gods made him to ruin us. (If you know you know)
Funny enough, I played Barbarian too, and when I got to the magic mirror door, I Intimidated it into opening. I was like "Open, or I'll smash you with a nearby brick", and the mirror was like "daddy chill", and opened up. I laughed so hard.
"if you fancy Astarion, you might want to consider therapy.... He's so damaged, I MUST have him. Enjoy the fantasy and THEN call a therapist. It's a two step thing innit, it's very important you do both." -the narrator
Lately, the idea to want to try this game has been bothering, because of so much coontent, videos and how many of my friends are playing it yet it hasn't been wnough to convience me.
Yet, this wonder of a woman, with just her chaotic whacky self, with her dumb choices, contagious wheezing laughter and so on, did it on finally convincing me to try it out. I love you Shen!!
Fun fact: That Strange Ox is not, in fact, a Druid. Don't fight him until you're at least level 5, though. He's a rough one.
Gotta ask, what is he? Killed him in a "fuggit murder the whole grove" mood and he dropped an interesting ring without changing form to his original thing.
@@syrusalder7795 interesting. I killed him later, at Last Light, and he did not go quietly.
Oh, definitely use Speak with Animals on him and do the ability check options with him.
@@WolfHreda i did that but he never changed into anything other than an ox. Weird. Maybe it was bugged coz the druids and tieflings were doing some minor race war crimes at the time and they kinda killed him for me?
@@syrusalder7795 In your next run: Speak to the Ox at the grove, kill the goblins so the refugees continue on their way, speak to the Ox again in the stable in Last Light in act 2. Not a hard fight at all but Dammon might die so quicksave.
@@raphaelforkel7759 I'm on act 3 now of my run and I completely missed that the ox was at last light inn. Dammit
I love how the character creation section of the video is just her screaming in Bi
24:05 Astarion: "What happened to the sun?"
Voxer: "Easy, white chocolate..."
Anytime voxer passes the intelligence check i just think: " Oh it's his turn with the braincell" XD
"One last thing - don't shout out you moves like that. It spoils the surprise for your foes."
I don't know, it seemed to work well for Wong Fei Hung (as far as I'm able to find, that's actually a historically accurate thing the movies get right about him)
the barbarian options are insane. Shempai your reactions are so funny, i wish i could play like this without having to micromanage everything and constantly restart...
0:15 Hardest decision of Shen’s life 😆
I am 15 min in, and watching Shen just not Rage the whole time so far is sending me into Jupiter's abysmal atmosphere XD
12:47
13:27
its so nice to see shen discover the joy of the barbarian lockpick:D
My expectations were exceeded, and now my day is brighten beyond measure. Thank you for this video. Could not stop smiling the whole way through.
Ah yes another story of Shenpai putting her son in dangerous situations. That will scar Voxer for life. But this time Voxer has a rage problem. What could go wrong? 😂
Crazy how things change throughout the different play throughs I watch. Nothing ever goes the same and I love it! Great game
I am so happy someone decided to channel Frank-N-Furter into a vampire we can seduce.
I never thought about it that way, but now that you bring it up... the similarities are uncanny.
He is frank n futher if he was in a y2k barbie movie
What have you done?!
So, in my deranged hyperfixation, I’ve created a Rocky Horror fancast of the Baldur’s Gate 3 companions. Astarion is obviously Frank. Gale and Shadowheart are Brad and Janet because they’re the most basic human looking of the companions-I know Shadowheart’s only half human, but we work with what we have. Minthara is Riff Raff because she’s the most edgy, murdery companion and Riff Raff commits the most murders. Lae’zel is Magenta because she pairs well with Minthara with the whole “my species is superior schtick, and we had to cast the only actual alien in the group as one of the aliens. For Rocky, the choice was between Halsin and Karlach because they’re both big and muscular, and I decided Halsin should play that role, since I have Astarion as Frank and Shadowheart as Janet, and since Astarion and Shadowheart will be willing to share a romanced player character with Halsin but not each other, and Frank and Janet are both attracted to Rocky but Frank doesn’t want to share him, it fits with the characters’ dynamic. Karlach is instead playing Eddie, with Wyll as Columbia, because the two of them quickly become close if you recruit them both, and Karlach would definitely have the time of her life zooming around on that motorcycle-not to mention that one of her horns is broken, which fits with Eddie’s head trauma. Plus, tell me Wyll wouldn’t look awesome in Columbia’s golden top hat. Finally, Jaheira and Minsc are Dr. Scott and the Criminologist, as the two non-romanceable companions and the two Rocky Horror characters who don’t get to hook up with anyone. Minsc is specifically the Criminologist because I think he and Boo would have a great time narrating everything, and Jaheira is Dr. Scott because she seems to have her shit a bit more together than everyone else, which fits the straitlaced Dr. Scott. The minor roles are played by the hirelings.
Shen understands the most important rule of D&D: if it can't be solved with brute strength, it's not a real problem.
Shen is my internal monologue in character creation.
I love that Shen responses are just as Unga Bunga as Voxer responses.
between all the characters, I absolutely love the Narrator's/DM's voice.
OMG I nearly choked on my dinner when you said "he is KENOUGH" HAHAH.
I can hear the bi panic when, “show nudity” option came up
Makes me wish I could get a next generation console or better computer to play this game, but money’s not the best right now
Same bro.
@@BuckyDK 125 actually.
And unlike Warzone, it is optimized
Have you tried slinging crack on any particular corner?
@@godturkey4098 that made me laugh way more than it had any reason to
i got a GTX 1060 and its running just fine, shits fucking optimized and its a turned based game, even going 30fps wont hurt the experience
Shen screaming, crying in bi and laughing uncontrollably... This is exactly what I expected and I loved every bit of it 🤣
Alfira being such a precious bean is THE reason I can't do a Durge playthrough.
You can here Shen got slowly FERAL though out the video.
"Slowly"? Shen was like a bursting dam right off the bat.
This popped up in my recommendations, and is my introduction to your content. I was DYING the entire video. This is amazing!
After seeing the hades play through i was WAITING for this video i love seeing shen just foam at the mouth 😂😂
Barbarian Voxer gives me life, he's so funny
This is the third stream where the chat immediately suggests getting Astarion naked 😂
I've gone through the whole game with only Shadowheart, Astarion, and Karlach in my party. I had NO IDEA you meet Gale so early!! Never even ran across him!
Shen in the Unexpectables: sweet, quiet, polite
Shen on her own channel: * angry bisexual gremlin *
Remind yourself that horniness is an insidious killer.
*slow and insidious killer.
(also ayy Darkest Dungeon reference)
@@PlanetEarth1369 Oh no, it's not slow at all. It is the *exact opposite* of slow.
Horny is the mind killer...
As a fellow bisexual, I really appreciate the options this game gives you. I look forward to playing it when the full version is available on my system.
2:32 "Excuse me, I have an Intelligence of 6, I know what I'm doing." - Grog Stongjaw
“We will defeat you with the power of friendship and also this gun I found!”-Tav probably.
"It's all for the greater good in the end" said Tav while trailing behind him the faint mist of bloodlessness. Astarion smirks behind.
Poetry.
Subbed, thanks for the amazing laughs. Hope there's more coming (lol)
Oh thank god I’m not the only one who loves Astarion. Gaining his approval is such a pain because you have to be an asshole which is perfect for Voxer. Love the dynamic
it's really funny, genuinely because I didn't even try and get Astarions approval I just chose whatever I thought worked and even though Astarion disagreed with SO MANY THINGS I said he still wanted Voxer so I'M CONFUSED ON WHAT HAPPENED THERE
@@AeroViroSAME! I’m still in Act 1 really exploring everything I can and the fact he was like “wanna fuck?” It wasn’t intentional but now I love him and didn’t think I would be into vampires.. THIS GAME IS UNFAIR
15:39 A full mood. The grip he has is insane.
I feel like this is mostly Astarion fangirling barbarian-style with some grunting, roaring and explosions thrown in
i love watching bisexual people scream about video game characters and the release of baldurs gate 3 has opened an infinite source of this genre of content.
you guys have no idea how mad i am that i only have a shitty laptop that definitely could not run this game 😭😭😭😭😭
“IS THIS THE BEAR FUCKER” 😭 I found out about this game through that scene imagine how surprised i was
Fun fact Shen, did you know the Baldurs Gate 3 sex% speedrun is only about 3 minutes long :D
Has anyone manager a slut% run yet?
Please let Astarion do his job as a Rogue and let _him_ pick locks, sneak around and pilfer items, and find and disable traps (you have to buy or find him a trap disabling toolkit first, though). That's what he is really good at. Otherwise he's just running after you looking pretty. He wants to show off his Rogue expertise!
Same goes for the other companions... they're not just there for combat, they can talk to NPCs in your stead, decipher arcane writings and whatnot if you select them and let them interact with an NPC or item!
Shen is gonna melt when she meets karlach
Thank you for giving this amazing CRPG a try! I hope you can upload your VOD, I promise to watch them all.
"There's something weird going on here. Something rancid." You're getting rizzed by a disaster vampire man.
30:58 And that's my entire Baldurs Gate experience right there. Constantly terrified of missing half the game.
male dragonborns chest is bonk worthy
The barbarian ripping doors down is one of the interesting thing I liked with my recent duo run. Also Astraion killed me but I was able to rez myself.
I knew you would absolutely love this game the moment it released.
Of course the first option we see is a nudity option. 10/10.
Your response to the blood drinking scene just got you a subscriber in me. xD I am too weak when it comes to Astarion and Gale. =P
I love how I have to lower all the settings on my dumb office PC looking ass and then when I watch these videos I'm like oh... so that's how it's supposed to look like
I really hope we get a full play through!! This is amazing content
You too feel my pain bwing torn between Shadowheart and Astarion 😭 I also love Karlach but she's unavilable having been claimed by my friend in our run together
Got to a part where I either spend the night with Astarion or Shadowheart and I haven't logged onto the game since because I want them both
@@woebegoneclown I chse Shadowheart for my multiplayer run and I'll be choosing Astarion for my solo run ^^
Barbarian Voxer was the best thing I''ve ever witnessed and this video made me so happy. This week's been so tough, but your video made me so happy. Thank you so much for your editing, Shen!! This video is awesome.
Please keep uploading videos of this game I'm begging you Shen
Missed a lot streams of this cause i didn't want spoilers. But yes, i knew that shen would have the bisexual dilemma 😂