Game of the YEAR? | Baldur's Gate 3 First Impressions

[Music] guys if you clicked on this video then you already know what this is Boulder's Gate 3 is finally here if you're new here welcome in my name is Taylor I'm a secret Dungeons and Dragons nerd and I am so excited to jump into this game I have been waiting forever I have avoided any and all spoilers somehow I did watch the panel from hell but I skipped the ending of it so I they said they were going to be big spoilers so I skipped that so I have no clue what this is about I'm going to be recording sort of a first impression slash initial gameplay of this video I'll probably chop it up and do a couple of segments and I'm just really excited to jump into it I'm Gonna Leave the gameplay footage as raw as possible unless my computer goes boom which it might because it's download took like five hours so we'll see fingers crossed um but yeah I'm super excited I have no idea what class I'm playing I'm just gonna wing it I have some ideas but I just just I can't decide so it's gonna have to be a last minute decision I might chop up character creation or fast forward or something because knowing me I'll spend an hour in it and no one wants to see that but otherwise let's jump in all right let's start uh wait let me check the settings real quick because my computer is not the greatest thing in the entire world so I think I want to turn the settings down here yeah Ultra probably not the greatest thing for us um with these settings let's try am I risking it if I do high okay I'm gonna set it to medium just because I don't want to have any issues with this but when I play on my own maybe I will turn it back up when I'm not filming because my computer she does what she can but she's not the greatest so and if you see me jumping in and out I might just be checking like where my camera is because I'm not sure where it needs to be for this I have not watched anyone play it yet because I don't want spoilers but let's go let's go let's go okay um we're gonna try balanced even though it might be rough but that's okay what the heck no don't block I got a Windows security alert is it trying to block this game no thank you don't you dare I waited a long time for this okay shut up it might be a good time to add that I don't know the story to this at all I know nothing about the story is that us was that us oh my God he looks like Cthulhu okay gross This Is Us right we have to get that thing in our eye I don't want that please don't sir oh my God that would be terrifying oh I did also make the settings so that we can see nudity [Music] so I may blur or chop based on what gets shown because not that I'm monetized on YouTube anyway but still um we are gonna accept tutorials because I've never played a Baldur's game game oh my gosh look she is already so pretty but that's not we're gonna do a custom oh no [Music] okay so what's the difference okay so those two are male I want a tiny I'm tiny in real life so okay here's where I'm a little torn I'm either going to be an elf a half elf or a Dro probably what do the tieflings look like um I'm always honestly I'm always like a dark elf but I'm okay so I think it's either Dro or elf and it might oh wait I should look at her proficiencies it might be like oh see this is where I get a little okay proficiency with the Rapier short sword and hand crossbow can see in the dark saving throws um longer short bow Longbow okay saving throws dark vision okay so they have really similar things um here's the thing I do have some classes in mind I'm thinking either gloomstock or Ranger Spore Druid or maybe potentially a warlock because I never do like a mage play I I always do a Rogue assassin but I know I want to stereo on on my team so and I feel like it's probably a harder class to play so I don't think I'm gonna do that okay so we have the Lost sworn draw raised by Lil's cult in the city of menso Barons these droves embody the virtues of their corrupted and merciless Gods LOL marks her followers with bright red eyes so those in the underdark will learn to fear them on site or sell durine dro indro can be found seeking allies from all over feyron aiming to settle their conflict with loath in each other by any means necessary because I think a drill would be cool for a sport Druid and maybe an elf or a gloomstalker what are their sub races hi elf areas of the mystical feywild High Elves value magic in all its forms and even those who do not study spellcraft cannot manipulate the weave but you come with a can trip or the wood elf these else found their reclusive lives on the feyron forest Decades of training and archery yes are enhanced by otherworldly swiftness flea to foot your moving speed so this would be good for a gloomstalker and then I'm thinking a drove first for druid maybe the Lost sworn I tend to play chaotic neutral a lot of the times um how do you oh here we go I was like how do you edit their appearance appearance oh God this is gonna take me forever I'm so sorry [Music] [Music] before I do this maybe I should decide what class I want to do because this is gonna like affect what else I play and I'm gonna spend all this time making her just to Danger okay so we know the reason I was thinking warlock is because they said these would play a story like which you follow let me go to the Druid so Druids channel the elemental forces of nature ensure a deep kinship with animals Mastery of wild shape allows them to transform into beasts they do get spells which is nice just so but you do have a familiar which is cool okay let me oh I picked them oh no this might be nice because I'm gonna be a Explorer Druid okay so you must not pick right away so I need to pick right now if I want to be a Gloom stalker it must be something when you level up and you can oh I think I'm gonna go with sports it just sounds so cool it sounds so cool I might hate it but I can always um can't you respect you can respect yeah so let's go ahead and edit [Music] okay so we are choosing druid there's a way to pick my cantrips and stuff these are my spells can't drops okay okay I want to do poison spray and I'm thinking either Thorn whip resistance makes a Target more resistant to spell effects and conditions it receives a 1d4 bonus or guidance Target gains at 1d4 bonus to Ability checks I like this one I think wait get rid of that I want spores thank you yeah I think that's what I want now I want to make sure I'm understanding this I okay primary ability is with some she's smart I want to make sure I understand that we're not like supposed to pick I want to be a sport Druid I want to make that very clear I don't want to be anything other than a sport Druid so I hope I'm not like missing where I need to click that can I change these notes okay okay got my correct can trips yeah okay background Accolade you have spent your life in certain no charlatan you're an expert in manipulation prone to exaggeration and more than happy to profit from it bending the truth and turning allies against each others that's kind of cool Criminal kind of like charlatan it's either charlatan or urchin but I think I'm gonna go with charlatan I know wisdom should be her strong suit but none of these do wisdom we'll do this one okay change do I want to change these animal handling in nature I feel like fine I don't think I want to change these do I have extra points no I don't this is what they've given me do I want to be changing this stuff oh I'm kind of dumb I think we're good I think that's oh I can pick my spells okay this is interesting so I currently have cure wounds heal a creature you can touch I like that one because if I think about I is spores creative iron surface slowing down creatures possibly entangling them conjure four magical berries into your or your companions inventory what else do we have ice knife the clouds blinds and heavily obscurious creature within it that's kind of cool we should definitely do that I think I think I only need one of these because let's be real conjure four magical barriers into your companions inventory creatures who eat I think maybe I like the fog not I mean I think we need to speak with animals we are Druid oh convince a beast not to attack you nah fairy fire so what do I have healing word entangle speak with animal thunderwave I think I like the fog honestly that sounds very spory right and then if that's the case then maybe I should do the berries like my little Berry okay I think that's what I'm going for I don't know how long it's been actually I can look real quick it has already been 30 minutes that didn't take me as long as I thought it's been 30 minutes so it didn't take me as long as I thought so let's jump in now what am I gonna name her I'm just gonna be myself she's a sport I didn't even think about this she's a Spore Druid just do it's like a sporgerous name okay she's a little less I guess she's not like good per se it's not bad either I think it's just neutral okay I pick a guardian what does that even mean why am I picking a guardian I'm a driven to the underdark most Dro have adopted a ruthless pregnant while the loss sworn delay in the goddess evil tenants the soldier and reject her attempt to overthrow what is a guardian what am I choosing right now I feel like this needs better explanation I don't know what I'm picking right now I'm gonna go with her because she's the same as me and guardian sounds like she's helping me so okay I don't know what a guardian is oh yeah right we got bug in our worm in our eyeball forgot that even happened a dead one where are we even oh my God what happening whoa okay okay well I want to be that guy why can't guy no screw the guy I don't care about the guy but not the dragon that hurts you don't live I was gonna say you don't live falling into the water from that height are they trying to kill us ew don't like that oh my God this is intense oh we're going down we're not making it out of here oh okay can I remake my character and be that guy riding a dragon if you I just want to ride dragon okay we survived somehow so did she I know she's a companion but I don't know her name are we still moving but we haven't landed yet oh what are those what the heck I don't know what's happening well that was an intense opening scene I will say I hear noise I don't see anything yet come on please show me it says you're at 100 percent okay here we go oh [Music] that's me I'm doing a sleep wakey wakey wow she looks so good because she looks so good but that's a very accurate face I make that face a lot okay now I'm not sure how I'm gonna play I'm gonna try with mouse and keyboard but I might honestly try and play with controller click the ground or hold the left Mouse button to move towards the cursor home left mount button left double click portrait to Center camera left Mouse okay how do I rotate is there no rotating like what if I click this oh that's where we came out of where am I supposed to go is this out how do I rotate the camera okay that doesn't look out okay so these are other people's pods are people in there someone else okay there's someone in there no one in there why does this have a health bar parasite now Rising behind your eye just investigate it oh oh no okay some dialogue options require a skill check a dice roll that must meet or exceed a target number your character skills add a bonus to this role intelligence oh my God I'm dumb it's great now hold on hold on I think oh I like the scuffed metal I wanted to turn off karmic dice I think why do I have a negative one negative one to intelligence checks memory and mental power improves spell casting for why why okay whatever I'm rolling we're gonna have ten oh I rolled to 20. are you kidding me I have to turn off the karmic dices no way a Nat 20. slightest touch could cause it to crumble the casing is fragile the slightest touch could cause it could I want it to crumble don't I restored it kill it I want to take it out yeah what'd I do right that's what we wanted though wasn't it because now it doesn't doesn't have health oh wait he's dead oh give me that thanks Dad now how the heck do I get out of here is it here yeah okay let's just wait what is this restoration did I get hurt oh I think I got hurt I only have 10 hit points oh God we're in for a world to hurt this might take oh oh oh he's dead you've got anything good on you I'm not against stealing from the dead sorry a brain jar I can't click it chair not enough space I can take I can pick it up neural apparatus I didn't mean to do that yet I don't think he's alive oh my God that scared me the exposed brain Quivers and expectations um who am I talking to the Mind flares who abducted you wait oh oh okay so that's not me talking you realize you're talking to an intellect Devourer a minion of the Mind Flyers who abducted you you sound afraid why well destroy it sorry I don't want the Mind flyer stuff he's bad oh my gosh I'm gonna have to put a warning on this video I don't know if that was the right thing to do but I did it you got anything on you no sorry okay well tentacle Aquarium sprints can I attack this aquarium is that a thing how do I like attack it's got a health bar goodbye okay wait do I have okay hold on hold on hold on wait wait wait you can use a restoration pod to fully recover your hit points oh I'm hurt caustic brine okay I don't want to be doing that oh my gosh I only have four hit points left with them right let me get down how do I restore my health I've already I haven't even made it out and I'm dying this is not going well where's that restorative thingy I accidentally used the last one I wasn't paying attention I don't see one all right well we're just gonna we're just gonna go uh oh do I just can I just walk past this guy oh I guess he didn't really exist oh I started a conversation oh she's a little dirty girly I don't have a lot of Health points this is not great hello why this is your end what did I do flash of your face seen through the strange woman's eyes oh we're like connected together okay um okay just what do you suggest I'm not even okay all right we are off first attack I think the first battle I have not a lot of hit points so this is not good where'd the sound go hold up hold up my computer froze my game crashed okay I don't know what caused the crash but it's like already updating I tried to launch it and it's updating now so we're just gonna wait for it to update I don't know if it's like the DLC being added because I bought it early access even though I didn't play it I don't know so we're gonna wait then we're gonna jump back in and hopefully it picks up where we last left off because I didn't save so I don't know how the saving Works in this game but I'm hoping it's Auto saves fun okay we're back it looks like it was it did a patch so I don't know if they released a patch or what but it did so fingers crossed let's see where this auto save was I'm a little nervous but it's all I got and now we know save don't just assume I don't know what happened to them nervous please don't be far back I'll have to do everything and catch up to where we were if it didn't save in a good spot that's what I was afraid of all right so I'm gonna have to play through all of this again and then bring us back where we were so I won't uh spare you the details I will just jump back once I've done everything that I've already done you know what's funny I thought I'd just show this I rolled a Nat 20 again I kind of feel like your first roll is a NAD 20. I just feel that because what are the chances I mean what are the chances all right pausing and we'll jump back what we got where we left off all right we're literally back where we left off the only thing I didn't do was give myself damage it's a little bit cheesy but it's fine it's fine okay come back get ready to fight combat happens in rounds and each participant gets a turn to act the game pauses around you during combat so you have time to plan your actions your turn during your turn you can move take an action and take a bonus action so show your actions show your bonus sections okay I have some spells so it might be a good idea can I reach um I'm gonna have to move I think to do this it looks like I'm gonna do it oh nice ending your turn when you're finished click the button in the right corner of the hot bar to end your turn do I have to I get a bonus action shove jump or dip dip a weapon into the surface to alter the surface and enhance your weapon is there anything I can dip it into probably not I will take that what is this spell saw can trips I can still do a bonus action okay well let's just end the turn oh I have to do her as well do I have to can I let her do her thing I don't not enough movement she can't even hit him what is her stats wait if I do does this count like if I ever jump can she then hit him yeah I'm so smart get him I was gonna say did you miss him really look easy peasy wait there's someone else where is he oh he's behind us she can't really do much so let's just and remove oh no is it gonna crash again oh it's my CPU my CPU is chuggle again that's fine everything's fine let's see what he does it's gonna attack me oh dude hello [Music] how much damage will this do nice easy some allies can join you on your adventures you control them in the same way click a companion for Niche take control of them all right well now we got that our first combat down let's just double check all these people and they clearly have stuff on them but we don't waste around here all right so now that we've accomplished combat I think that's where I'm going to end this episode and then next episode we will get off of this thing this flying thing but if you guys enjoyed don't forget to hit the like And subscribe and feel free to check out any of my other videos bye

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Length: 34min 27sec (2067 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 04 2023