I bet they made this knowing someone would find it. YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE, CHUBBLOT.

@@MsAnimeEagle He absolutely is.

Or bugged.

This cutscene triggers on repeated playtroughs. Never on 1st.

@@Chubblot so... we need to find Sarah and talk with her :P

SNU SNU

She can t break ur pelvis now ,literally ,unless with an axe ,which makes u the troll or some internet psycho

LMAO THIS CAUGHT ME OFF GUARD--

hahahahhahhahhahhhha

Why can’t there be an Artificer class that can make her a new heart where she can live! And 4th. Our hearts

Dude yes

Brooo id keep this game forever. Ill show it to my children before i die and gift it as an heirloom lol

i'd actually be more interested in a variant of this event after a completed save where you get to break character and tell karlach about the end when she asks

Reminds me of how new game plus is done in starfield

Bro, it will be awesome hahahah

Heard a story of people who did that. The dm stated "for just a moment you feel as if you are on a table surrounded by giants playing a game papers and your companions are just statues then it all goes back to normal after that breife moment."

Something I have not experienced yet, my favourite RP character I have created is a legend at perception and she hasn't seen anything she regrets seeing yet.

What having 20 wisdom really does to a mf

When you somehow roll a nat 30 on a d20.

@@Ihatevideogames334 i feel like you hate something but im not sure what

​@@thatoneguy7404 i like how his comment is at least about balders gate but then his name adds another layer to his anime

what do you hate again i forgot?@@Ihatevideogames334

@@witherverse1351losers will loser 🤷‍♂️

@@Tw0Dots indeed

Party: What is she doing? Player char: She's beginning to believe..

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@@Ihatevideogames334then why did you click on the video?

@@RadXaderShe's the one...

Not a tree. A wall. The fourth one specifically.

what a smart line, it's not completely out of place for her to say that without really breaking the 4th wall

Yeah! I just went through that and noticed for the first time yesterday. (Probably my 6th time playing that part of the game on diff characters)

Fantastic double entendre.

i thought you hated tmnt shredder's revenge@@Ihatevideogames334

who asked@@Ihatevideogames334

It is the most fantastic fourth wall breaking this year the writing seriously is top-notch.

It’s absolutely beautiful

Fourth wall breaking has generally gotten overplayed and lame in the past few years. This was a case where it was done well.

Tiber Septim tier

"Evocative - making you remember or imagine something pleasant:" Are you sure you used the correct funny word for this reply? :P

Agreed-up there with Geralt’s at the end of Blood and Wine.

​​@@Svendsor Merriam Webster says: evoking or tending to evoke an especially emotional response.

Yes, but now imagine how disturbing it would be to our audience for them to realize that we do, in fact, know that they exist, and that we are merely a work of fiction for use as their entertainment. That would certainly be creepy.

@@LairdDeimos Very well then.

Tav: *opens a text bar* alright omnipotent ones, what do we tell her now Gamer: nothing! I dont like spoilers! Karlach: what!? Tav: what!? Gamer: what!? Game: Baldursgate.exe has encounter an unexpected problem. Windows will now shutdown the program. Would you like to send a report to Larian Studios*trademarked ? Larian: Oh for pete's sake, the AI is growing again!

Back ground music changes to Megalovania

​@@ChronoTriggerHappy that would be EPIC

The lines, the lines, they control where we walk what we do... The script, and the code. The code made by the god machines. And you, you Tav, you're controlled by a mad person! Someone who would see us all suffer for your own sick amusements or use us as pack mules. That's why you made me carry 300 fish heads last week.

And now I'm flashing back to watching Loki. Oooh, there's an idea!

Karlach just achieved CHIM.

"Hey, you. You're finally awake. You were trying to escape the Illithids, right? Walked right into that Goblin ambush, same as us, and that Gith over there."

@@ShadowPa1adin Then the game just boots up Skyrim automatically

wake up, Biden.

I read that in his voice omg 😂

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Interesting, I wished she got angry that we're having fun at the expense of her freedom... To me its super fascinating how wr van have so different reactions, starting from a very similar perspective. I'm curious: why it's comforting to realize that someone else decided your place in the world?

​@@gudemik5335 I'd define myself a optimistic existential nihilism, so I don't relate to the feeling myself, but as someone who's had to grapple with feelings that life and reality are too big and too complicated to process, I can understand the appeal of having a benevolent overseer who has it all planned out. I was raised Christian and grew out of my own faith gradually over time, so I remember the feelings of reassurance and relaxation that came with those promises. Being told what to do means you don't have to worry if you made the right decision. You just do your best, and Sky Daddy will sort out the rest. It's peaceful. As an atheist, I have to be my own parent and decide my values for myself. I have to come up with the plans, and I have to evaluate my own work. It's freeing, yes, but overwhelming. That's where the beauty of Nilihism comes it. We are all but ice sculptures, beautiful and exstant for such a short window of time, but with the potental to take any shape. And eternal rest waits, for the day when my body becomes too worn and weary to fight back decay for any longer, there will be peace.

@@gudemik5335do you truly design your own place in our world? Or you simple treading the path fate laid out for you? Maybe we are all puppets in hands a some cosmic being… at very least, seeing the truth and knowing your purpose was fulfilled is about the best you could hope for

@@blakeowens5996 of course I don't know for sure, but I wouldn't be happy if I realized I'm just treading a path that someone else decided beforehand without asking my opinion. Maybe I'm superb, but I don't feel good at the idea of being a good puppet. I'd like to make my way through mistakes and struggles and maybe failing but by my own will (even if I don't believe in free will so yes maybe I'm not making any sense).

are you having fun in game?

For me, it’s equal to how I felt when Detroit: Become Human threw in surveys or Chloe would actually start showing signs of deviancy

@@SuperSuperTop yeah, but personally this hits you much more since it's actually an in-game event and not just in the menu

That is, in fact, exactly how long my first play through took. 100 hours and 29 minutes.

Oh lord

I nearly spit my drink when she said that. Like I know it’s a phrase that’s fairly common but in the context of being in a game I nearly lost it 😂

imagine if the canonical way you could save karlach from the infernal engine was to find a way to mod it out, and the game actually acknowledged that. that conversation would be crazy.

⁠@@Shiruvi 🤯 that’s some doki doki literature club shit right there bwah

@@Ihatevideogames334 i think you'd like spyro then, it's a g-rated platforming game series. very fun!

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@@Ihatevideogames334how do you feel about tmnt shredders revenge?

Until she took a adventurous arrow to the knee lol

@@babaduk7679 nah it's until one day no more quests come in and everyone has disapeared and she doesnt know what she has to do

I'm sorry, but Is this Stanley Parable reference?

⁠@@user-mu8dm4rk7gnaa this is a Stanley Parable deluxe edition reference

@@babaduk7679 I think a lot of players wish they had the option to get married to her in game. Arrow to the knee means literally getting married.

She would be the number 1 to prefer this over the literal hell. I think she would prefer an adventure with friends quit a lot

To her, as long as you are playing she is still alive. Just like Monika :D

@@gwendaljambu4310 Who is Monika?

@@Papierzification Just Monika.

@@PapierzificationMonika is from Doki Doki Literature club who gets aware of the player and realizes she too is in a game.

I laughed out loud when the scene cut back to his face.

I also saw an interpretation that despite everything, what ever dirty is looking down at her, they show they love her and she has a reason to exist and it she is doing everything right in her life.

That is indeed the point

​@@Ihatevideogames334get a therapist then

@@Ihatevideogames334 Thanks for the information, I can’t imagine how we would all live without it

It's literally better than the She-Hulk we got stupid show.

Yeah for a second I thought she would've been enraged knowing someone is taking an enjoyment in the darkness and suffering of her world

I appreciate your realization. Something happened similarly in FFXIV's latest expansion. Though the question was phrased, "Your journey, was it worthwhile?" it had the subtext of, "Was your life worth living?" and not in a, Hey you're wasting your life kind of way. But to say, Do you love the life that has been granted to you? It got me fairly emotional as well.

That got me right in the heart as well. The hearts behind the devs can be seen that they just wanted to give their best and beyond to making a game people would enjoy. The happiness at seeing your work really appreciated must be so fulfilling and cathartic. Kinda envy them for that. At the same time, I don't envy all the hours they put in. All I can be is extremely grateful to their passion for true excellence and fun. Hat's off to all of them.

I don’t mean to disappoint you, but it’s clear that the ‘are you having fun’ part is the devs asking the players if the game is fun

Yeah, it got me, too. I haven't even played the game, just watched hours and hours of it.

Reminiscent of Bo Burnham's work. "Are you happy" in particular.

That sound so awesome! You’ve just inspired my next DnD character lol

Some mild cosmic horror

I once smoked some strange herbs from a gas station and everything looked like a cartoon

Yeaaah i was going to post that story. It was awesome.

​@@mekaelbayati8040Honestly, I don't think this would make for a good character concept. I mean, having that scene mid campaign would be awesome. But as part of a backstory? To me that just screams "metagamer".

Minsc has a lot of funny little details, Lae'zel comments on Boo the miniature giant space hamster and how she's only ever seen regular giant space hamsters, and now in my second playthrough I'm noticing some of the githyanki in the creche have miniature giant space hamster meat so I slaughtered them all

That was like if person who plays Minsc in real life DND decided to break immersion.

"yes, oh omnipresent authority figure?"

​@@user-cc5xq4lg5iomg i forgot about that line!

​@@Joshx2415 That's not actually a BG3 thing. Giant space hamsters have been a completely real thing in DnD since 2E, before even BG1. They're kept as livestock, and used to power magical spaceships by running in giant wheels. Even *miniature* giant space hamsters first appeared in 1990. They were created by Dragonlance tinker gnomes, and there's a shop in Sigil (the city at the centre of the multiverse) that sells them as pets. The thing that makes Boo weird is that if he's really a minature giant space hamster, Minsc somehow has the only one *in Toril.* (most of the time- the Illithid space pirate Captain N'ghathrod has one too, and he visits Toril sometimes). So that's why most people who've never left the planet have no idea what he's talking about. But Lae'zel *has* left the planet, so it's completely reasonable that she would have seen giant space hamsters. But not miniature ones, because the githyanki probably don't really go in for cute fluffy pets. Not even psionic ones that can go for the eyes.

I want to know what se does if the player responds with a negative.

She's so well written in fact that she's the only companion that is universally liked, start to finish, by every other member of your party. And that's saying something when Minthara is in the mix

What helps is that she doesn't know what a video game is, meaning she couldn't be the annoying type of self aware even if she tried

Yeah, it works on both levels. It works both as in-universe existential dread, and a 4th wall break / the developers have brief moment to talk to the players. It's not just a pure 4th wall break, which wouldn't be as clever as this.

They literally did that with the response to the "are you having fun" line though, I cringed out of my chair

i mean it's still haha bombastic tho lol, it is karlach after all

@@mattyryon How's that cringe? If you were in a simulation you'd atleast like to know that whoever's controlling you is having some sort of enjoyment.

Oooor, she understands that this is a *game*, and that the purpose of a game is to be entertaining. If a game isn't fun, you switch it off and don't come back to it. Her life - tragedies and all - exists conditionally, and that condition is that the player finds it entertaining. That's... honestly pretty dark.

Bro this was the developer team speaking to us, wanting to know if the game is fun.

Our lives may be tragic but if we entertain the Gods, then we have at least some worth

@@stephenwood6663This was the same theme in Nier Automata as well if you played the game through the end.

As long as the player is having fun they have a reason to continue the existence of the world instead of locking it away in the library

Yeah i am so confused as well

I thought it more the internet, like interweb, at first. There's so many webs woven in this game. The code itself can be a web, or all the people attached and connected by playing the game.

@@kaygirl10101 this would be a very different conversation if she could see the internet, especially "that" side of it

@awanderer3047 Lol, do you think for horrified or flattered? Or maybe jealous that Astarion is in the lead?

​@@kaygirl10101same here - more players would understand a reference to the internet than video game coding.

​@@kaygirl10101funnily enough, Astarion isn't even the most romanced character according to Larian

"And here, at last, I discover a strange truth. That I am only a conduit for a message that eludes my understanding."

Just hours later Tav then gives in to his dark urges and genocides all of faerun. MURDER! MOUNTAINS OF SKULLS! OCEANS LITTERED WITH CORPSES

"reassuring her that everyone isn't screwed" seeing as a lot of us will do evil playthroughs next or make shit hit the fan in multiplayer, I wouldn't call that reassuring.

@@supernewbie694 Considering that Karlach is a giant cinnamon roll and she’s also really out of it due to having peaked beyond the veil I could see her believing that means they are safe, even if that isn’t necessarily accurate

@@supernewbie694 The player having fun means they and their world get to continue existing for as long as the player decides to continue playing. I'd say whether they're evil or not doesn't really matter at that point. Anything is better than non-existence

Now that someone said it, it's blowing my mind. At least nobody's chanting "Hear, feel, think" every now and then.

definitely what i thought of too tbh, made me smile to hear it

I was going to say this exact thing

Same vibes as Geralt at the end of Blood and Wine looking at the camera smiling while agreeing with Regis that 'we' deserve a bit of rest. 🥲... We're having fun Karlach.

Honestly for some reason dispite it being no where near as sinister it hit me the same way "do you feel like a hero yet" did in spec ops

Elder Scrolls called that CHIM.

What if they'all already know but they just have to "act"

Nah, she wouldn't. She'd just want to know if we're having a good time.

That's how Doki Doki Lit Club happened.

she's literally living in a world where the inhabitants are perpetually subjected to the whims of insane gods and ruinous powers , that is her daily life XD

it only works because Larian isn't a soulless AAA husk

I think the first character who emulated a fraction of that was actually Asriel from Undertale. I alludes to his desire to fight, to keep you from winning, just so he may keep living on. Keeping "Frisk" there to play forever.

"I may be a character in a game, but that still means I should do my best to make others happy, right?"

If not the best character. Maybe Will can compete, and he turns thiefling too. I wonder how people could say this game is racist...

@@thewizard4200 They can write layers into tieflings, they have plenty of decent examples by previous and associated games. Consider Neeshka from nwn2, though 2nd running was Shandra Jerro and then Qara that was also played well. They should have done more to differentiate whether Will is more demon, merely a planestouched tiefling or what exactly this penalty of the contract represented... tieflings as a 'race' have been befuddled into a more complicated mess in later editions. It was better when they were more a randomly occurring subrace that could affect any group but mostly represented by humans and their past, generational, contracts with otherworldly beings.. they weren't too clear on the refugees either. We know they're tieflings but were they before the fall of the city? And if they weren't, then it was poorly adapted to the overall story. They hint around the notion they were transformed by the hells but it wouldn't make sense for how the elderly characters reacted to the situation. We also see too many tiefling families, which would make sense for the town but not so much if they were born tiefling unless this specifically was a tiefling town. . . but if it was, they would have been more adaptable to their circumstances... lest they were more isolated. We could argue that Will only plays adventurer, he's basically a rich kid that had a disagreement with daddy but despite his successes, he lacks common sense and practical experience, he treats it more as holiday or a gap year, hence given the opportunity, he established a contract with a demon to breakaway from daddy's authority. .. he's a romantic that dealt in absolutes or the stereotype of most players when they enter a game more like a know it all action hero; lawful good vs chaotic evil when they're flipsides of the same coin, and true neutrals, of course too, so much of an uptight bore, you wonder how they get out of bed. . . hence, how self absorbed most of the druids seem. . . even if their leader's midlife crisis that left them absence. or was that abstinence? Meh. They focused too much on making every character "damaged" in some fantastical way. Karlach, however, comes across as the more human experience. . . therefore, she's more relatable and a favored character for many. Whereas Will is a poseur that keeps singing Wheelchair Jimmy's Started From The Bottom, though we all know he spent his youth at BG's version of DeGrassi.

@@thewizard4200Technically not a tiefling, he gets cursed to look like a demon. He still remains human.

@@Ariescz If you're cursed to look like a newt, are you not a newt? Unless of course, you get better.

wait, seriously? so in five of the six origins (plus tav) it's narrator describing it, but karlach is the only one who looks at the camera "emperor's new groove" style?

huh? really? this sounds amazing. i suppose i will have to add another playthrough to the evergrowing list of additional playthroughs i'll do after i finish my first one

Welp going to go start new game with Karlach.

Well damn, now I need to do a Karlach playthrough.

That's very occasional though - and a bit weird. I remember she was most vocal after killing Gortash, but mostly she doesn't acts like the player avatar does. Is it different for the other origin characters?

No I think it is a little despairing, if the player isn't having fun she won't exist for very long. They'll turn off the game.

It's harder to kill something you care about. Sans in Undertale basically admits that was his plan and the reason for his goofy antics in the dark ending.

This is definetely meant this way, but I understood it as just a developer joke, not as Karlach knowingly breaking the fourth wall.

I love her lines. *crouch* "Stealthmode activated"

I don't think she says "the game" but other than that the quote is spot on.

Gale will sometime say "the dice roll in my favor" when you get to his turn in combat.

i took a screenshot if it, she definitely says 'the game'

Same👀

I was expecting something like this from the title. But the camera work and eye contact is jarring and caught me completely off guard.

same

Really now? Do you need to check under your bed for the spooks, the closest for the boojums still? Grow up.

@@zerogrey3798somebody struggles making friends

They bought time.

Like sure any other race might have worked here, given the player might excuse the idea they went into first person from a weird angle suddenly but that's physically not possible here.

Totally agree

She’s doing the thing where u talk to short people respectively by lifting them up to face level

@@thunderstar7682 wait, there are other ways to do it?

She legit looked right into my eyes 😅 would’ve lost it right there then asked who tf Doki Doki’d my Baldurs Gate

I'm around 300 hours in, though I got to part 2 and had to backtrack to a previous save to get the owlbear cub. still in part 2, by the way

I’m 80 hours in and I’m just now exploring the Githyanki crèche and the underdark. Had to leave the creche to get money so that I can buy those dexterity gloves that the quartermaster sells before she becomes hostile. I can’t imagine what the games is gonna be like by the time I reach Balder’s Gate.

Took me 160h to finish game first time on journey mode. But i journeyed alot xd

120h and I just entered Act 3 but I dont really know how it is yet as I just entered Baldur's Gate proper a few steps in. For context, playing the Dark Urge

80 hours in, just nearing the end of Act 1

The part where [SPOILER] She starts crying and is afraid to die, I think it was after you kill one of the dudes with the gems, I got so much goosebumps and started tearing up! Phenomenal actress!

How do you get This to happen I’m on my 3rd play through it never happened

@@Ihatevideogames334 ok?

@@heyitsmetrevor9352I romanced Karlach and she’s my follower. When we killed gortash I got a little quest that said “Take Karlach to Gortash’s body” or somethin like that and she proceeded to have a mid-life crisis. I’m not sure for the exact criteria to make it happen but I do know toward the end of her meltdown, there was a lot of talk about us loving each other

The Dwemer didn't zero-sum. Odds are, they were bound to the skin of Numidium and are projected from it. Case in point, they can be seen as ghosts in Morrowind, whereas they couldn't even have that if they zero-summed.

The Dwemer are still around though.

Nobody actually knows what exactly happened at the Battle of Red Mountain, or rather the few people who do arent trustworthy and many contradictory accounts have been made. It's unknown whether or not Kagrenac accidentally deleted his people with his hubris, or perhaps he got the heart to do exactly what he wanted, and perhaps the Dwemer still live in some far off plane of existence, beyond even Oblivion and Aetherius.

@@battlesheep2552 They still have ghosts, so they weren't erased from ever having existed, as would happen if they zero-summed.

@@Mad_Catter_ Yagrum Bagarn is. Or was. Even he doesn't know what happened.

Yes

Honestly, this is a wonderful idea. I'd love to have a proper NG+ in a game full of story where the second time through actually adds to the potential, while taking nothing away from that first experience. So long as the devs make players well aware that a second playthrough would be needed to unlock other endings for character stories and the such.

​@@xaniso6955literally starfield actually, I haven't played it but ik every playthrough adds to it with like real changes to the world in new game plus, changes and differences for at least 10 playthroughs , maybe more

That'd be a very solid reason for me to play NG+

​@@xaniso6955even if you have to start again from level 1, having the option to play through again with different quests and narrative moments sounds fun. Meanwhile characters can't shake that feeling that they've done this all before

I feel like player is slightly stronger than greater gods

@@lorekeeper685 I see your point (the Player can, after all turn off the game, and never come back.) but I don't agree. The greater gods built the world. Built *her* and designed her situation. Her perils, and the "tragic backstory" she hints at early in her travels with us. At best the Player is a minor power... able to affect a small number of people, in limited ways, working within the structure the greater gods designed. But a minor power that may indeed be pleased with her... even though they could quit any time they wanted. Yes I could! Any. Time. I. Want!. I just choose not to. It is NOT AN ADDICTION! It's not... not really...

@@corwyncorey3703 you ate more like an over deity And since this is Fetish realms the world is built selune-shar (they were one before) so not really greater gods don't do much they just there in the game You have power of tharizdun in the min

Can u do short terms 😅 that’s a lot to read 🫠

@@clarence9871 no

- What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge arrows? - No, Karlach. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

That's more like 40 wisdom tho 😅

Wait, so you're saying I slept with the Larian team?

There was a joke out there about a player rolling nat 20 perception where there was absolutely nothing special to notice, and DM going with "for a moment, you see yourself as a miniature on the desk surrounded by giants"

whats crazy is you can play the entire game and not interact with her once, leaving her on the side of that mountain road to hide forever...

@@JoeVO24 does she never appear later on?

makes me feel better for having over a thousand hours now! thanks larian!

​@@erencanaslan7989no she doesn't, she's just in one location.

​@@erencanaslan7989on my first playthough I completely missed wyll and in turn I missed karlach, I went through the entire game waiting for them to show up lol but they never do if you miss them at emerald grove

see OP playing a gnome made it more obvious, because she was originally looking straight down at the gnome. So if she was talking to a short character the angle would likely be pointing downwards, so the fact that she wasnt made it obvious she wasn't looking at your character. She was looking at YOU

I’ll be honest, I’m watching this video stoned and it was. An experience. Glad I didn’t take anything stronger because holy shit that would have been nightmarish

It's still in the game! Its apparently just very hard to trigger, confirmed by her VA I believe

@@robinrose6283 I wonder if it requires multiple playthroughs to trigger, as that would make the most sense in context.

It kinda reminds me of that story/joke, where a character rolled a nat20 on a perception roll. The GM then asks the person to roll it again. Nat20 again. Player asks; "So, what do I see?" GM says; "Ok, so you suddenly are aware of every bird in the sky, every blade of grass in the field. Then your viewpoint shift up and up, until it is as if you're viewing the entire world from above. You can see your friends below, small like miniature statues on a table, frozen in time, and you suddenly become aware that you're not alone up there. You share this space with other beings. Beings more powerful than the gods. Wielding papers, pens, and dice. ...Aaaand, everything is back to normal."

Wow that is truly sad

The thing is, it's not even self awareness. Not really. She looks at it, and tries to understand it. But she can't. After a point, she and the universe she sees are the same. She cannot fully understand it. It is too much. There is too much. It is unfathomable. It is her, and everything else she knows. She cannot see beyond that veil, and cannot see well enough through it.

@@amog8202 This sounds a lot like Simulation theory.

@@davidmansell5008 it's almost like video game characters are simulated...

@@amog8202 no shit, I’m referring to the reality we live in smart ass

More of a reference to how the rats in the elfsong basement is basically the first quest in BG1, not because you were on your second playthrough

@@nicolasvidal92 Oooh. That makes sense. I was freaking out. I was like girl if you are becoming self aware, stop.

Like maybe a questline spanning three different play throughs where you’re trying to get to the “good ending” universe where karlach, astarion, minthara/Halsin, and everyone lives

@@KonStarStudio Sort of like how Star Field new game plus plays out slightly differently each time you play it to the end. (up to 5 times anyways, won't spoil past that)

the VA confirmed it can be triggered normally

How do you get this dialogue to trigger?

​@@lancehetfield6396you finish the game for the first time, and make a new game. Don't know if there are other requirements, it just triggered for me after some time running around with Karlach

@@trixon2118 do you know if the game can be modded? Or does it have to be vanilla?

@@GioFireheart not sure about ps5 but on pc you can mod it fairly easy off of nexus mods and using the bg3 mod loader, plenty of videos go in depth and keep it simplistic

we already have it in the cinematic when you leave character creator

It’s at the very beginning!

there was in the opening intro.

There's one in the opening cinematic.

Wish that scream would die. Joke's getting real old.