I love that the first few comments are both ends of the spectrum. "I could never play it five times over." "You've only played it five times?"

Most memorable moment was on my tactician run when the Elder Brain had 2 HP left and I had one action to go. I’d used every attack option available so I had Orpheus throw his helmet at the brain for 7 damage. What an effin game!

The contrast of Durge & Tav runs is really interesting to me as a someone who likes the “good” path. Durge’s redemption path has a ton of great content and constantly makes me think of the years of fun I got out of BG1&2. But you are left knowing what a grotesquely evil character Durge was before the “incident” that took his memory, and you’re left wondering if he deserves any kind of happy ending. Tav can be purely good, and you don’t have to angst over your actions nearly as much. But Tav never feels as much part of the story as Durge. That’s good writing.

My first play through was 177 hours, and I played the entire thing split screen co-op with my girlfriend. I absolutely love playing co-op games, so I have built up many habits to facilitate this over the years, like constantly narrating what I’m doing, keeping in constant communication, making sure we talk through every decision before proceeding, and making sure we share powerful items and such. She had zero co-op etiquette. We struggled for the first 20 hours of the game just trying to establish expectations and communication. Once we got that down, that playthrough became my favorite gaming experience of all time. Sharing laughs and tears, and hurling angry screams at the game for untimely failed rolls… I’ll never forget it. I absolutely recommend finding someone to play through the entirety of this game with, but you have to make sure it’s someone who’s play style will match yours.

Only your five favorites? Mort you are slowing down in your old age jk

I am still on my first as an Archer Fighter concentrating on knockback and disarm. I don’t play much as my groomsmen was supposed to play with me and he passed away right when BG3 came out. I don’t think I’ll ever forget this play through

I’m on my third playthrough (Durge Resist sorcerer) I’m still finding so many new things to enjoy, whether it be new enemies, new dialogue, and of course the durge moments. Absolutely incredible game. And this is coming from some who’s never really given turned based CRPGs much light. After my first playthrough I went on to play Divinity Original Sin 2 and boy did I miss out when that game was released

Good dark urge oathbreaker might have been the best roleplay experience I ever had in a game.

Nice list Morty Son !! ❤💀 My first playthrough didn't go so well. I managed to mess up the druids and Goblins, miss the Githyanki completely and got to Act 3 at only level 6. Was thinking wow, this games hard !!

Still on my first play through. Loving every minute of it/taking my time.

I am on my fifth playthrough now and every one of them has been so memorable. Especially since I still discover new things in the game. Still have at least 5 more planned...

I have to say that my own favourite playthrough is that first one too. You just have no idea what is around the next corner. If I am not playing BG3 now, I am watching others, and the KZfaq playthroughs where someone is brave enough to play in front of the camera, their first, blind run, are so wonderful, bringing back much of the emotion.

Going to the carnival/festival in Act 3 and being turned into a wheel of cheese, then egging Astarion onto stage as he’s promising to kill me just to be thrown into a surprise fight, is a top tier moment for me. That whole section was

That’s hilarious. My first playthrough was a Tiefling Warlock just because I thought it was a cool idea, and I had no idea it was an idea that most other people have sarcastically ‘never heard of’ 😂

I'm personally convinced I'll never get to play another game like this in my lifetime again bg3 is a gem among gems.

I've been playing for 35 hours, I got the game on Friday, originally I was gonna get it when it first came out but didn't have enough and lost interest. I'm loving it so far and Larian studios did so well

I've beat the game a few times by now and my favourite run has been redemption dark urge. It felt so rewarding and I loved every minute of it... especially the withers scene.

I've completed the game 9 times and have 4 or 5 other runs that have reached at least Act 2. My favorite is also my first run for many of the same reasons as you list. It was the first time I saw the Shart/Nightsong scene, First time experiencing the Emperor reveal, First time getting the touching Lae'zel sunrise scene, etc. Played a Wild Elf Barbarian Ranger Tav on that first run. Totally non-optimized and challenging. Good times. 2nd favorite run was my first Durge run. I played as a Drow Stealth Archer, romanced Minthara, and went the redemption route. 3rd favorite is my first Honour Mode run. I played a Githyanki Monk Tav after failing my first two attempts. Had a couple close calls, but got to ride off on the dragon with Lae'zel at the end. She denied me that ride on the first run because I was ghaik, which was the one bummer from my first run. I am currently doing a multiplayer run with my kids. This will probably end up being my favorite run. I'm letting my youngest daughter take lead because it is her first run, and it is fun seeing her make uninformed decisions to put the rest of us in a pickle and then trying to get out of it.

Kind of a hard agree on Honor mode it's the difficulty i now always chose for the game even tho i sadly fell victim to a bug in it that cost me my furthest "proper run", where i didn't die and use the continue as custom mode. But it forcing you to live with your descisions is just so great, especially if you have beaten it atleast once already.

I really enjoyed my Astarion playthrough, I ran him as a Gloomstalker/Assassin and he was (Haha) a monster and yes of course I ascended him

it will take me years to get up to the amount of playthroughs you have 😂 ...someone's gotta do it

After BG3 I will blindly pre-order anything Larian releases Very few games gave me such a special experience and I literally cant wait for the DLC 😭😭

your patience and commitment is such a strong skill/trait. Anything you're passionate about you could go a very long way in i'd imagine

I'm near the end of the game I think - on my first playthru (118 Hours). Probably the most fun i've had playing a game since playing the original back in the day.

I honestly thought you were gonna end it with your number one favorite being "the next time you play through bg3"

Thanks for the video. Seems like their should be a Murder Hobo mode. Onward to 300k. All glory to the algorithm.

I've only got two completed runs under my belt. Second run honor mode but didn't get my dice or achievement :( looking forward to the next video as always keep on being the greatest reviewer out there

Hey man, dropping back in to watch some of your vids while working some later nights. You rock, really appreciate your niche of review!!!

It was genuinely surprised by how much I enjoyed my 4th playthrough, which was a dark urge I initially intended to play to see all the evil content, but ended up as more morally grey - lots of succumbing to the urge, but mustering the courage to save everyone at the end. This was post new endings and felt really good / tragic. The tragic / evil endings aren't as fleshed out which was a shame, but still my favourite playthrough by far. Teared me up!

My 1st playthrough was a bit messed up, as i confused with the game mechanic at first. missing entirely the githyanki creche because i thought it's a one time choice to choose either high pass or underdark lol. and when i got to act 3, i'm so confused where to go and spend a lot of hours searching for quest & enemies to fight for levelling up my character, finished the 1st playthrough on balanced mode around 80s hours or so. but i loved every bit of it, and now i'm currently playing my 4rd playthrough as a jack of all trade on tactician mode, love the game so much!

Played through twice experiencing 8 of the different classes. My 3rd playthrough will be Honour Mode with the 4 classes I have not played yet. Waiting until I forget a lot of secrets of the game.

I really need to get back into BG3, I got to Act 3 and was so overwhelmed I started a new game. Loved act 1 and 2 so much, I'll try and finish it next time. My favourite playthrough of this game was actually the very first version of early access back in October 2020. It was way more difficult, fights could go on for hours and it was so satisfying to finally beat something so high above your level I hope they finish up with major patches soon because I am really against content being drip fed into a single player game. It breaks mods and kind of dilutes the new content a bit because you pretty much need to to play through the game again and again just to experience bite size pieces, when I personally would rather just have them all in one package from the get go

Wow 5 playthroughs bg3 been sitting in my backlog might be time to fire it up great video as always keep up the good work

If you haven’t done these already I’d recommend playing without long rests and short rests. Or you could play a genocide run where upon first entering an area you have to start killing immediately. For example when entering the grove you can’t buy/sell or even activate quests

My run as Astarion was the opposite. The bite scene never triggered, the few Cazador scenes lost a lot of impact without Neil's award winning performance, and I never got to turn anyone else into a vampire after ascending.

I love that you called it your absurd play through😊

I am genuinely astonished about how fast you go through a playthrough and how many of them you can do in such a short time. As a big fan of cRPGs I'm planning on going back to BG3 after doing 3 runs of WH40k: Rogue Trader, one for alignment. I'm actually on my second one, and some days I'm just thinking: "I've got enough of this". These kind of games are very long and detailed even if you don't need to read everything again because you remember it, so I'm really admiring you and very curious about your method 😂

Patch 6 coming out, time to roll for a new character ❤

I understand both loving the game and needing to take a break. I've only finished it once, but even though I had ideas for how I wanted to do a second playthrough, I decided to step away and play something totally different (Last Faith, which is reasonably good).

Completed honor mode for the final achievement yesterday and just started my fifth playthrough. Nothing else interests me so might as well keep going.

I did one full playthrough as a custom Tav (Gnome Barbarian Urchin), and roughly 2/3 of an Origin Wyll playthrough. The game did run out of steam for me on that second playthrough once I had the answer as to how certain events would play out. I loved the game overall, but I did find that playing it a second time so soon after the first did feel repetitive at times, especially for quests/encounters that are always going to play out the same way.

I used your Warlock build in my own playthrough. It's great fun but I stepped away from the game near the end of act 2 to wait for patches as some suggested and I still haven't gone back to it. Too many games are distracting me but this reminded me. It's probably time to see it through. I was doing a Githyanki as well so there were a lot interesting developments. Tag teaming mobs with Lae'Zel just feels so right.

One of my favorite moments was a very recent one. Ive been trying to beat honor mode in 4 player co-op with three of my friends. We’re on attempt 4, and my favorite moment to come of this was failing to save Isobel at the Last Light ambush. Was it good? No. But it’s my favorite. It showed me something I probably never would have seen because normally I’d just revert a save and try it again, and it made our party think and plan more carefully. Without Isobel, we lost all of the Harper backup at the battle for Moonrise, so we had to really think our actions through as the four of us with Jaheira fought tooth and nail to get up to the roof.

I didn't know you could do that with a hireling! Thank you for that!

My first was pretty memorable. But, by far all my Honor Mode attempts have been the most fun. I have tried 5 times to beat Honor Mode - still not successful. 3 of those runs ended very early - the one before my current was at 80 hours and wiped on the Murkal fight - I just couldn't heal and everyone was feared - sad part is had him down to 20 hp left... just needed 20 more damage .. just couldn't get it.. was heartbreaking. I am on my 5th attempt now going for my DPS oriented group, I never want to lose again because of lack of damage lol.

I am going to every location, reading all the books and checking every unmarked skeleton. 220hrs end of Act 2. This game is massive.

I just started my second one custum balanced dark urge with one save, wanted to try honor mode but was a little too scared to or something haha, thus custom.

I’m on playthrough 3, the thought of doing 12 playthroughs blows my mind

I think that "thematic" runs are fun. Im currently running an "divine striketeam" with myself as fighter5/cleric7 shadowheart as rouge 3/cleric9, karlach as vengance paladin and minthara as oathbreaker. Im planning on an all stealth/skullduggery team next.

my first full playthrough (started solo, then restarted with a friend, then his wife joined, then they got bored out of the game in 2nd act...) was as an inquisitor from warhammer fantasy: paladin (oath broken ofc), human, dark urge (RPd it like a demon tempting my character), total xenophobe, so laezel thrown out the ship at first sight, shadowheart being somewhat human-like was spared, astarion lived, until revealed being an abomination (vampire). same with wyll - contract with a devil? herecy! death! and, you guessed it, karlach murdered. i helped druids in the grove to get rid of tieflings, but then it was revealed that druids are tainted by dark magic - killed. goblin camp was killed cuz duh! goblins! whole underdark was cleared of filthy muties and xenos (duergars and mushrooms). 2nd act was kinda chill - much less murders. 3rd act - rejected baal at the end, betrayed false emperor, made an illithid out a guy in a prism, killed him at the end.

This game really hit something for me. First time in forever that I finished a game, then just sat there going “holy sh*t…what do I make next?”

About how many games can you make a list of your "5 favourite playthroughs". That tells a lot about how fascinatingly large BG3 is.

- Went to the circus - got the clown makeup - game bugged out; didn`t remove makeup after long rest - cue me standing naked before Halsin during his romance scene while looking like the clown that I am BEST GAME EVER

lfmao i feel u on astarion, on my playthrough i chased him out of the camp cuz he was being sus af

I've only played through it once I finished it TN and I've adored it my ending was with shadowheart I played a high elf warlock named him after my self lol we adopted a owl bear at the end it

Was playing a power obsessed durge who ate every parasite he could get his hands on and killed every creature powerful enough to be a threat if they weren't useful to him... Didn't have has much fun as i thought i would so i had Gale end the campaign early for me.

I only finished two playthroughs, normal good aligned and a durge. Im on my third attempt at Honour, first one got bugged and lost like 30 hours, second I lost to Cazador (it hurt me so bad ) and now im a Monk fighting everything, not a single persuasion or intimidation to avoid a fight and using all cheats possible and barrelmancy. Im just speedrunning the game at this point cuz I want the achievement ( im miserable)

Dark Urge has been my favorite by far

My first playthrough was my favorite too, everyone died and the second playthrough felt like I'm playing a different game.

I'm holding off starting a 2nd playthrough - hoping they will add the Undead Patron warlock as a player option being as there are Githyankies using it in the later acts!

Evil Dirge Gnome/Halfling/Dwarf, with everyone getting their worst ending outside of just killing them.

Five favorite so far.

7:22 my first instinct after getting the BG3 credits was to reinstall WotR and start another run in it xD

dude you seem like a really nice cool guy

Damn completed the game 12 times. I just finished my first playthrough, and I'm burned out on it.

I would love to see a favorite builds video. I still have not completed the game as I keep on trying new builds....

So I managed 1k hours before I finally to to a playthrough that I enjoyed enough to get through to the end. That was honour mode. I keep trying to get into a second complete run and I'll admit I'm struggling

It's funny for me first playthrough was actually least favourite by large margin. Trying to figure out level appropriate path through act 1 and being completely overwhelmed when entering lower city were probably most annoying parts of it. Got some nasty bugs on top of that, as game was patched several times mid-run.

I lost Lar'zel during my dark urge honor mode run. It was a bit sad because it came down to a dice roll and because I planned on using her for a bunch of heavy melee battles.

Nothing beats the first playthrough.

I’m addicted to solo runs.

Finally got into this game

I don't understand how you manage to play these epic games multiple times, and still have time to 100% several other games at the same time and create all of the content for your channel. I can't imagine that you have much down time Mort lol.

For the algorithm!

Respect for playing so many times and still be interested! I can't even get through my second playthrough 😅Did you do all the side quests in all runs or focused on main story only?

I'm just under 160-hours into my first playthrough. How have you had 12 playthroughs? 😮

Hey, Mort! Nice topic ! It was curious to know that your first playthrough was the best! Let me ask you something! Have you ever reconsidered doing reviews after 100%? I mean.. don't get me wrong, we love your reviews! Its just that sometimes I worry about the time you take to get this done, you know? I'm also a physician, so I actually worry about this stuff all the time (sorry if I'm being disrespectfull or intruding your personal space). I just wanted you to know that we'll still love and enjoy your work, even if they were reviews after 90% kkk Take care, friend! And let us play together sometime!

Abserd playthrough. I got that reference

I think playing as origin characters is massively underrated. I'd always rather play as a strongly written character that I can roleplay as, like Geralt, instead of Random Face McNoBackstory.

Still in the grove with my second playthrough (Durge, after neutral good Tav). My only apology is that I am writing a Call of Cthulhu campaign.

Oh this is a fun idea for a video

After playing so many times, could you do a class tier list for us? Please

I didn't even start Act 3 (waiting for definitive edition, it seems there is still a lot to patch in this game) and this guy already have 5 playthroughs 😂

MORT! Can you please tell me, how do you think BG3 compares to BG2? Its a great game but do you think its a great successor to the series? Does it live up to the previous entries in the series? How does it compare

What were your favorite and least favorite fights? I struggled crossing the Chasm to get to Orinn

thanks

I enjoyed!

Thanks!

Not sure if you read comments and react to them but I wanted to ask: how are you able to do TWELVE playthroughs? I really love this game. It's probably in my top 5 games of all time, ever played. I've done 1 full playthrough and started over several times for a 2nd one. I just can't get into it. I started as a Dark Urge for the second one and while the additional and cutscenes are cool, it doesn't change the game enough for me. In my first playthrough I explored every little corner of every map. Discovered almost every secret. It took me 200+ hours to reach the end. I probably missed a few things due to choices but I probably explored 90%+ of the game, the areas and quests. I looted everything I could find. Between 4 consistent party members and the occasional swap-ins for quests, the only classes I did not end at least checking out a little were Barbarian, Paladin, Druid and Bard. Incidentally also the classes that draw me in the least. Playing a Dark Urge is fun, but it's hard to RP with hindsight knowledge. I don't want to miss out on certain items or make certain choices that change the game in certain ways. But if I strictly RP I probably should. I guess in my mind the min maxer and RP'r are having a constant power struggle. Overall though, most of the wonder and magic the game has on a first plathrough is gone with hindsight knowledge and I find it doesn't pull me in nearly as much as it did that first time. So my question is, how do YOU deal with that. Or do you simply not experience the feelings I have in subsequent playthroughs? Where do you get the motivation to keep playing?

12 playthroughs.....i havent even finished act 1 on my first run. i want to start a new game as a dark urge but i like playing through 'properly' first before going the psychopath route.

As someone who also finds Astarion annoying and offputting, it gives me great joy to hear you say it. Especially because he has this massive cringe cult following from people who have never even played the game. Thanks TikTok.

900 hours & I still haven't finished a playthrough entirely yet.

I cannot fathom the idea of having more than 3 playthroughs, this game is too long. Heck, I only did one run, and waiting to do my 2nd run once the next update comes out for a Dark Urge run... as a Paladin.

I'm with you on finding astarion extremely annoying. As soon as he bit me on the first play through is was like yeah kill him I'm sick of him

Finally...found someone who thinks Astarion is an annoying shit...gave me Tim Curry/Rocky Horror picture vibes.

12 Playthroughs?!? Damn. That's some serious commitment. I just finished my 4th and unlocked the last achievement. Took me about 450 hours total due to multiple failed Honour mode runs. All my playthroughs were focused on getting all the achievements though, so now that I'm finally done, I'm going to take it real slow and try to see everything for my 5th playthrough and beyond. Looking forward to whatever new changes patch 6 brings too.

I'm guessing you're done playing this game for now, barring any DLC, but do you think you might come back to this game in the future, just for fun?

I bet you've played through this game enough times that you can give us a "5 least favorite Baldur's Gate playthroughs" video as well :)

I thought with all the reviews you put out and your gimmick of 100% reviews that you wouldn't have time for 12 playthroughs. Do you speedrun them or something? I just finished my first after starting over 4 months ago and I feel like I play a lot.

You played it 12 times? Wow.