Baldur's Gate 3 Trailers Reaction 

The 'tiny gerbil' is named Boo. He's actually a miniature giant space hamster, and the ranger companion to Minsc, a ranger friend you can have. As for the squid shit and dragons, the squid people are called Illithids, or mind flayers, if you prefer. Basically psychic alien like creatures that reproduce via a parasitic tadpole that latches into your brain via usually occular insertion. The dragons are rode by a species called the Gith, specifically Githyanki, a former slave species that broke free from the illithid empire. Their first leader, named Gith, made a pact with the dragon goddess named Tiamat. So the Gith are given red dragons. Whether they're 'good' or not is kind of perspective. Regardless, the Githyanki spend most of their time hunting down the illithids. Oh and the Drow elf lady that saves you, that's a secret.

So excited to watch this reaction! They also had some animated shorts made as trailers as well I highly recommend, they’re comically VASTLY different from the game tonally but they’re still fun and involve all the original VAs having a good time, and those VAs are genuinely one of the best parts of the game. There’s also their character intros if you’re interested in continuing looking into this! Thanks so much for checking this out, can’t wait to watch!! :D

I played baldurs gate 3 and the the allies you get within the game went to become my friends. their voice actors are so good that it felt like family hearing them around me all the time. I already miss laezel and shadowheart, what a bunch of lovely people to have around me.

Well leaving you with more questions after watching the trailers is basically the purpose of the trailer to captivate you without telling you the story so you wanna play it and go through the story yourself so they made pretty good job with that. It’s really refreshing seeing that, since all the movies trailers will give you all the plots and you don’t need to even watch it anymore.

The girl who saved her is known as the guardian. You can fully customize your guardian and they will basically be your guide throughout the game. They are also the reason you don’t transform.

owned the game since early access, never watched a single trailer until now

really hard recommending this, you guys can play it co-op, and pretty much works as an intro to dungeons and dragons for folks who haven't tried it on tabletop

The early Access on his was Amazing now playing it its undescribeable its devine

Request look at the lores of baldur gates series in the near future

Such a shame, i linked you the full cinematic with hells a long time ago and you actually commented on it and noted it, but you still watched the shorter version that ended with the dragon roaring. Was quite hugely disappointed. + fully missed one of the short cinematics with the statue.

No gerbo a giant space miniature hamster

A fantastic game to play and is best done in multiplayer with friends or a couple 😉

You really need to play this. This is on rhe level of God Of War Writing, voice acting, drama and intensity.

The game is great. I loved your take on it, but if only things were that simple.

how much theater

So my conclusion: Don't trust the cute mouse guy just because he's cute :>

Yello mates have a nice day and night (yay baldur's gate)

Best game of the decade at the very least!!!

Took me 118 hours to finish my first run-through of BG3. Enjoyed every minute of it.

The tiny gerbil is named Boo, he is a miniature giant space hamster. He has a crazy (or possibly overly sane) pet barbarian named Minsc.

If you're familiar with the D&D universe you will be amazed by the game. If you're not I highly recommend. This game is a true gem

i think you two should play this one, on your own time even if you dont want to make it into content. its a super good couple co-op, relaxing, you can take your time if you want, and very thought provoking. i like having note books for these kinds of games.

I played this game 300 hours after only owning it for 3 weeks, this game is AMAZING

The hamster's name is Boo- and like everything in this game- its all about your decisions. The squids are call Illithids and they're one of the big evils of DnD as a whole. You should totally play this game though! It's so much fun and I'll be disappointed if it doesn't win Game of the Year! Edit to add: the tadpoles are how Illithid reproduce.

One of the best crpg’s ever. The nuances of even some of the little things in interactions change depending on the class, race, sub race, sib class, background, etc. So, even though you’ll interact with many of the same places and people, each play through feels unique depending on what you choose to play and how you choose to play. That’s not easy to do. But it’s definitely what a dungeon and dragons game should offer.

the tiny gerbil is infact a miniature giant space hamster named Boo, and he isnt in danger, he is the danger

I play this game every weekend with my Husband we love this game since we met at a DnD party... This game resonates with us Soo much and I know you guys will love it since it's also Split screen co-op Edit: it does not need you to learn some DnD lore but knowing helps understanding the story a lot deeper... So try the RU-vidr Pointy hat of you interested in Lore

Don't worry, the gerbil is the most powerful entity in the universe ;) Also, we really don't want to spoil the game and it's story, like who that lady was who said "I saved you". This is a game that you definitely want to go in blind. Having some background knowledge of DnD is fine but we cannot spoil the game lol.

This is probably my favorite game this year after tears of the kingdom. 3 playthroughs later and still hop into a few sessions a week...

"Tiny gerbil" is in fact the mighty miniature giant space hamster Boo! Do not underestimate his strenght or his wisdom

Game of the Year. You should absolutely play it.

This game ended up being my Game of the Year. It took me by complete surprise just how good it is.

The gerbil is a space hamster named Boo, he's a long time companion of Minsc, a ranger companion from the past Baldur's Gate games. The long time catch phrases for them is "Go for the Eye's Boo!"

First thing first: don't worry about the "gerbil", that is Boo, a mini giant space hamster and he and his partner, the human ranger Minsc, are some of the most beloved NPCs ever, they won't touch them. The squid headed thingies are Illithid/Mind Flayers (I'll shorten it in MFs), basically aliens once commanding a multidimensional empire thanks to their incredible psionic powers and the whole "larva in the eye" and the dude mutating are actually the beginning and the end of their reproductive cycle: infect an host and mutate it into another MF. The dragons... ok, it's a bit more complicated: any self-respecting evil empire has slaves, right? And the MF empire was no different, with their most common slaves being those greenish skinned humanoids, the giths, with generations going by, the giths became resistant/immune (depending of the edition you are playing) to psionic powers and rioted against their slavers. Now, the gith were many BUT they needed help... and here come the dragons, specifically the RED dragons. What you need to understand is that red dragons are never good news, they are the most cruel dragons out there, and proudly so! They actively gloat about being evil incarnate! Red dragons are, however, also prideful to a fault and clever: prideful enough to hate the idea of an empire not ruled by them and clever enough to know challenging an empire of psionics is no easy feat. And here it all ties together: a branch of the giths, the githyanki, made an alliance with the red dragons to bring the MF empire to its knees, and they actually managed to do so. Now the MFs are rare and scattered, but still very much a threat, constantly trying to rebuild their empire, and whenever a MF pokes their ugly squid head out of whatever hole they were hiding in, githyanki and red dragons are ready to remind them why they were hiding in the first place, with EXTREME PREJUDICE... much to the chagrin of anyone caught within blast radius of a very angry fleet of firebreathing cackling humongous psychopaths ridden by equally angry gecko people. Sorry for the long post, I hope this made things a little clearer.

"GO FOR THE EYES BOO! GO FOR THE EYES NNRRAAAAGH!" Funnily enough the mind flayer transformation in the first trailer is actually...tame compared to how it actually goes. Like the way Ceremorphisis is described makes it sound like your skin doesn't so much change as it ends up peeling off to reveal the Mindflayer beneath. And as Gale in game would say, "Tis a fate to be avoided at all costs!" But the Mind Flayers turn you into one of them, you as a person and everything you are dies in the change and their perspective on other races is essentially, "You exist to serve us as cattle exists to serve you."

Although the CG trailers and cinematics are neat, there are individual trailers for classes that elaborate on more gameplay stuff. Could be fun to watch… 🤔

More Baldurs gate 3!! Love yall and am in love with this game 🎉

Larian's only real imagination was putting all the story together honestly, everything that you can do in the game is DnD lore for years already, just until now nobody had put it in a video game so absolutely perfectly. Larian are gaming gods.

The gerbil is a miniature giant storage hamster and space hamsters are incredibly dangerous and powerful. This one's name is Boo. Highly recommend playing and finding Karlach. She's the most adorable person to have ever existed.

So the squid face guys are called Illithids or more commonly known as Mind flayers and they reproduce kinda like the xenomorphs from aliens in that they implant parasites in other races to make more of them which is what you saw in the second trailer and the first trailer is the chest bursting equivalent of the life cycle. The dragons are not exactly "good" they are red dragons and in d&d they are like the poster boy for bad guys and the dragon riders are a race called githyanki (same race as the one who got the tadpole in the eye) and they're not really good guys either they're kinda space pirates 😂 Would love to see a playthrough of BG3 from you guys (it can be played coop) and if you wanna know who the elven person that saved you is you're gonna have to 😉

Yall should definitely check out Baldur's Gate 3! Definitely the game of the decade for sure. Baldur's Gate 3 and Elden Ring have marked a great era for gaming :D

The narrator in the third trailer and the voice actor of Ketheric Thorm is none other that JK Simmon aka Not Quit My Tempo Jonah Jameson

Ah mind flayers, a little piece of H.P. Lovecraft in the Forgotten Realms. I'm currently doing my playthrough of this game as well... Started as a Half-Orc Barbarian, but quickly shifted to a Tiefling Warlock going down the Dark Urge path.

Love this game to bits, I'm a lady of stories. More trailers for you to check out if you're interested - the animated ones, the Game Awards (2022?) trailer, the release teaser trailer... If the 'tiny gerbil' looking misplaced gave you a giggle, that release teaser trailer (with the more romantic scenes) might give you a laugh 😂 Edit: Oh, and the character origin introductions! Make sure you get the one with good audio if you fancy watching it.

This is quite honestly one of the best games ever made, it's currently crushing Starfield in player numbers, a game with one of the two biggest publishers in the industry in Bethesda and Microsoft behind it and a game that is probably one oof the most anticipated releases since Cyberpunk 2077 (which you should also react to as the 2.0 patch + Huge expansionis coming out and renewed interest will be there in the week to come). Bethesda and Microsoft so cocksure of themselves they intentionally released on the same day and called them and dismissed Baldur's Gate 3 as a 'second-run Stadia PC RPG' and Larian had to release a month early to adjust and get out of the bigger title's way. But now after Starfield's opening weeks come to a close and a fucking month after Baldur's Gate 3's release this "tiny" game made by a studio 5 times smaller and with a tenth of the financial backing is beating them handily (in concurrent player numbers) and if you try it, it'll be obvious why. It's using a a simplified DnD ruleset. Almost no knowledge of Faerun (the world DnD takes place in) or Baldur's Gate 1/2 is needed to get into the story as it's for the most part a new conflict set-up with some callbacks AND it's also 100% co-op which is rare for an RPG and Larian is unique in the way they allow two players to play their games at once. Their last title, Divinity: Original Sin II was pretty much universally lauded when it came out but this is an improvement over that in almost every way which is pretty fucking incredible for a CRPG, a genre most gamers once considered outdated and for "niche" audiences. Seriously if this doesn't take GOTY 2023 that shit is rigged. PS: It's a space-gerbil

You reacted to it a year ago I think but Lies of P finally came out. It was the Dark Souls, Bloodborne style Pinocchio game and you guys should def give it a try its absolutely gorgeous!

It's not a tiny gerbil... it's a MINATURE GIANT SPACE HAMSTER! ...named Boo. :D Felt so bad on my evil play when I had to talk to Boo and he were sad. :'(

The tiny hamster is called Boo and it's actually a pet of one of the origin characters back from Baldurs Gate 1 & 2 games from 20 years ago.

this game is just outstanding, for me personally, the best game in the last decade

If you want a short funny video about Baldur's gate watch ,, 3 halfling barbarians" What? The content is in the title. What more could you want than "3 halfling barbarians "? Oh, and they blow stuff up, I guess....

So Baldur's gate, it's a setting within the D&D universe. It's a top down rpg with turn based combat, and easily game of the year, potentially the best rpg to release since the witcher 3. Regardless, it's a must play type of game and being 4 player coop. You two would probably enjoy the time spent in it. I know I loved every minute of my first 150 hour playthrough. And I intend on starting a second playthrough soon. Explaining who the purple elf lady is, is one of the major plot points so would be spoilers, All you know at the start is that you get to create what she looks like and she's your "guardian"

Red dragons on the 'good side' that made me giggle. No, the Gith are not 'good'. This is all known D&D lore, Larian was creative how they depicted what is usually theater of the mind.. The illithid (squid people) reproduce that way. also Boo the miniature giant space hamster is the BEST.

"the Tiny Gerbil " Is a Hamster named Boo and is probably the most protected critter in any Dungeons And Dragons universe. The animal companion of the mighty warrior ranger Minsc... Now Minsc is not the most inteligent guy out there but he's friendly and protect his friends whatever happens. That includes Boo that is possibly his closest friend.

I'm barely 30hrs in and still in act one of ny first playthrough. This game is MASSIVE

There are many different fractions and species around the humans, and they have a lot in common..they don't like each other... so i could never say.. The Dragons are the good guys or the bad guys.. like ther intentions are good, but that's it.. all these species have there ideology, motivation, religion..and by the way.. hell exsists.. its a phisical realm to enter..also the gods are real too.

Ever since I got this game I've been forced to make two difficult decisions. Basic Needs or Baldur's Gate.

The thing is, in dungeons and dragons, red, blue, black, white, and green dragons are arseholes whilst gold, silver, copper, brass, and bronze dragons are the good dudes. Also their all sentient and can speak.

So a while back you did a reaction to the Mystic Artes from Tales of Xillia 2, and those were really fun! However, I'd like to request two videos, because they are both slightly above 5 minutes, so combining them into a single video would make a lot of sense. Tales of Berseria: All Mystic Artes AND Group Victory Quotes Compilation

Hey! I hope you guys react to all the Mortak Kombat 1 fatalities soon! ♥️

You guys should watch the 4 barbarians video for Baldur's Gate 3

Minsc and Boo stand ready. Go for the eyes boo, GO FOR THE EYES!!!

Don't worry at all about the "Gerbil". Boo, the miniature giant space hamster, is an absolute boss. He'll be just fine. "Go for the eyes, Boo!"

Oh don't worry about Boo. He is a vicious killer with a taste for eyeballs.

I Recommend you guys to play Baldur's Gate 3 its amazing and a really great game

Brain eating Mindflayers and illithid tadpoles, you do not want them to get inside you.

As a 40 year pc gamer I can say this game is the best PC game I have ever played.

Really gives a whole new meaning to "I think I got something in my eye." 😐

I love how in-your-face the game gets with very D&D-specific stuff very early on. Githyanki riding red dragons to take out an illithid nautioloid. That's some serious inside baseball.

My bf and I bought the game and we really like it, we keep in testing different classes and everything, we don’t take it much seriously tho😅

So I finally gave this a chance until Dragons Dogma 2. Good game but still learning how it works

I put 141hrs into the game, so far. I can safely this makes one on my top games played and definitely my game of the year. The customization and storytelling is just amazing. If was for sure a game made with love of the game and not a love of money.

Miniature giant space hamster, Boo is fine !

The small gerbil is a pet of one of the companions. Hes from Baldurs Gate 2 and 1. And the pet has the ability called "Go for the eyes" which just cracks me every time.

Please do Helluva Boss tomorrow

The tiny gerbil is actually a miniaturized giant space hamster and dont worry, he has plot armor.

"Gandalf" is Elminster Aumar, one of the most powerful spellcasters in the Forgotten Realms, and he's been around since 'Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'. In his lifetime, he's been a fighter, a female cleric of Mystra (goddess of magic), became a bodiless spirit, and finally a male wizard.

In the midst of chao, destruction, and otherworldly beings... of COURSE the first point of concern is 'are the cute, fuzzy animals ok?'! Priorities!

This game is one of the most "filled" of all the games that I have seen for a long time. If you understand what I'm talking about) There are already a lot of opinions like "this is definitely the game of the year!" I would say that this is a game of the decade (or even twenty years!)- but I am a person too biased and interested, you should not take my opinion for the truth) Besides, I've been waiting for this "continuation" for too long. As for the little fluffy cute - it's a hamster. Cosmic. Gigantic. Yes, a giant space hamster. He's just tiny. Miniature giant space hamster Boo. At least, the owner of it is Minsс called him so. Some stupid people try to say that this is a very ordinary hamster - but Minsс is against this point of view) No kidding - these are really existing creatures. Probably intelligent and telepathic. Ah yes, and you haven't seen dancing squirrels yet (or have you already seen them?😄)

This game is a damn masterpiece, created with love and passion, , by gamers themselves it seems, CEO of the Larian company came to a meeting fully dressed in armor, that's how I know! No microtransanctions, you get full product at release, so consumer-friendly! If you don't own this game, do yourself this huge favor, and try it! But be warned, it is SO addictive, that will make you forget about anything else! I'm in my 3rd playthrough since release, cause even if you finish the game, it won't stop calling you, cause the only way you're gonna get the same experience, it's by cloning your choices, and even then, you're goinna stumble onto something you haven't seen yet! 20 out of 10!!!

^^ u should give it a chance and play it together :D maybe on stream so people can help u navigate trough the menus and options because... let's be real, The only thing lacking in larian games are Proper Tutorials because there is TO MUCH STUFF to know for a newby ^^

Welcome to the main world of Dungeons and Dragons! Here's some brief - and horrifying/metal as hell - context to the Cthulhu-lookin' folks: Those guys are called Illithid, or Mind Flayers. Real big on psychic/psionic power, used to run a huge empire that fell long before the events of this game. The tapole you saw is literally how they reproduce. They implant them in hosts - as you saw - and then the little guy goes to work, eventually transforming its host into another mind flayer in the process you witnessed first, called ceramorphosis. The ship's called a Nautiloid, and is basically like an organic, living mind flayer ship. The riders of the dragons - and the gal that got tadpole'd with the viewer - are called githyanki. Former slaves of the mind flayer empire that made it their whole purpose to exterminate any Illithid they can find. I'm glad you guys enjoyed these trailers! And I genuinely hope you give this game a try; it's a really fun romp and has some great character writing for the most part!

Squid head. Squid Head. Rollie pollie squid head. So, the thing my wife and I love most about this game is that Larion Studios actually hired writers. They write a world that's deep and the characters actually have some depth to them. Really well done. There are still bugs, but Larion is addressing them. Also, some fun addons to play with (I LOVE modding).

I find it really cool and interesting with the amount of people since Baldur's Gate 3 has come out, that aren't familiar with Mind Flayers. (The Squid people) Which first made an appearance in 1975 for fun Trivia. While elves and dwarves are pretty common elements in fantasy I forget how little exposure Mind Flayers have had over the years despite them being around for half a century. In a nutshell they are one of five things in a DnD setting if I had to choose, that would make most RPG Parties second guess even getting into a fight. Just a single one is rated to be a challenge for a party of four level 8 players, and they are rarely ever alone. moving in groups of 3-5 that often also have a number of minons comprised of one of the many races they have enslaved. Hyper intelligent beings that have developed psychic powers including a ranged mind blast that can stun on impact for 3-12 turns of combat, At will (meaning no limit to uses) Spells like a form of charm that works on all creatures. (AKA Can't attack them, if you fail the save, until attacked first) Levitate, Detect thoughts, Plane shift (Able to teleport to different planes of existence), and even Suggestion, which they can implant ideas into your head and make you believe them. If that wasn't scary enough, in close combat they get 4 tentacle attacks that can latch onto your face if they hit, and if a character hasn't freed themselves and all four are attached on them by the next time the Mind Flayer's turn happens, Player gets one last chance to free themselves or die instantly from brain extraction. The big ship you saw, can also Plane shift essentially as you witnessed, so they travel the realms and spend their days looking for new slaves and host vessels and with the abilities I mentioned one bad roll can really turn fatal pretty quickly.

For me BG3 is not a GotY, its a GotC, game of the century. It's amazingly well done, lots of hours for the first run, and it's a really replayable game. I bought the game in the beta, completely worth it, because was GOTY even then.

For me BG3 is one of the best video games in history. In the first video what you see is the process of becoming a Mind Flayer (one of the many D&D monsters) accelerated, it usually lasts several days but is just as terrible. It occurs when a Mind Flayer larva is introduced into the host's skull, usually inserted through the eye as seen in the second video. Then it begins to literally devour the victim's brain, later it alters the body and when it's all over all that remains is only a mind flayer, in body and mind. Mind Flayers are part of the group of beings called aberrations, a type of beings that come from the Far Realm, something like a place beyond the universe where Lovercraftian things dwell, they are among the least terrible and most understandable things in that "place" . Mind Flayers also feed on the brains of intelligent beings, the tentacles are to grab the head while they make their way through the skull until they reach the brain. The Mind Flayers once ruled the D&D universe but were defeated by a rebellion of their former slaves, the Gith (the green-skinned woman in the second video is a Gith who are split into two groups Githzerai and Githyanki, both of whom are eternal enemies of the Mind Flayers whom they kill whenever they can). Since they are aberrations of the Far Realm (a "place" usually considered beyond the D&D multiverse of which Toril, the world where the game takes place, is a part. Faerun is the continent of Toril where Baldur's Gate is) this could have been in the distant past or being in a future that has not yet happened. The Mind Flayers of the present are descendants of time travelers who try to prevent the end of their empire, which has not yet come. If this sounds really strange, it's possible that I'm wrong about some parts of the lore and they are also beings from the Far Realm, where concepts like time and space are more optional suggestions than anything else. They are alien and incomprehensible. The Mind Flayer are perhaps the most understandable of all the aberrations and that is not saying much. As the main character is fully customizable in the cinematics where is present, is never shown. That's why they use first person in that scene. The spaceship is a nautiloid, a Spelljammer ship used by the Midn Flayers. Spelljamer is a D&D setting that is basically magically powered ships traveling between the various worlds of the D&D multiverse. Many species besides Mind Flayers use spelljammer ships, of which there are many different kinds. The city attacked is the titular Baldur's Gate. The reason why the nautiloid is attacked by dragons is that the leader of the Gith made a pact with Tiamat, goddess of evil dragons (red dragons are evil by default in D&D) during the rebellion against the Mind Flayers (also know as Illithid). She was never seen again, but since then a number of red dragons serve the Githyanki and help them in their fights against the Mind Flayers. The Githyanki are not protecting the city and they couldn't care less, but they will take any opportunity to kill Mind Flayers. When the nautiloid disappears at the end of the second video it ends up in Avernus, the first layer of D&D's Hell. From bad to worse. BG3 offers the possibility of playing both with one several pre-generated characters and with one character entirely created by the player. The chosen character takes on the role of main protagonist during the game. The latest trailer presents some characters and gameplay of the game.

Ceremorphosis is the term for the tadpole to go into the eye and then it devours the brain taking all it's knowledge. If it wasn't obvious this isn't a change like a vampire or lycan, it's more like a Xenomorph from Alien, the person is dead. It then changes the body into another Mindflayer (Illithid for the nerds) which is the term for said mini cthulu's. It's just the way they reproduce, it's nothing related to the soul, in fact supposedly Mindflayers don't have souls at all, which are tangible provable things in DnD. They're basically cosmic beings from another dimension who want to return to their future or old empire where they ruled the multiverse (whether it's the past or future not even they can tell) with the powers of Jean Grey from Xmen, psychic powers, telepathy, floating, force push or grab, ect. Specifically not arcane or magic based.

You know ... this is the first time I've watched the trailers and I'm 300 hours deep into the game, lol

The Githyanki who ride the dragons are not truly "good" but more like a warrior space pirate race who ABHORE the illithid squid guys who once enslaved them. They are just as happy to cut down any non-gith who get in their way though, and by that I mean be in their general proximity.

The elven chick is the player's "Guardian" which the player makes as part of character creation. A fairly deep character creator it is with many races + sub-races on top of classes + sub-classes. Dungeons and dragons based. Trust me, this game is one helluva ride.

I was expecting another Neverwinter Nights and got so much more! Amazing doesn't begin to describe it. Certainly clears up the mystery of how Illithids bolster their numbers...not a pretty sight to be sure!

Wouldn't really say the dragons were the good guys...more so they were just attacking their enemy the squids. Without going into spoilers, neither them or the squids are "good" or "evil" straight up. It's all perspective.

This gameplay, narative voices and things u can do is great and almost limitless to the point that just becouse some1 in a main town dosent like u u could end up in a warzone and the entire town is trying to kill u. However it has 1 MAJOR flaw and its a big 1 especially for new ppl to a D&D style game. Its in-game tutorial for the game may aswell not even be there its pure trash. Some things the tutorial does explain are timed messages so if u need to read them more then once which is highely likly, they gonna disappear before u do. Unless u are heavily involved into D&D and already know how most of this is supposed to work, your gonna need an extensive user made tutorial that explains how the games systems work if u wanna fully understand what is going on on screen.

Mindflayers want to turn all realms into part of their Illithid hivemind. In their own way, they dont want to harm people, but want to elevate reality into a less harmful, painful existance and what they believe to be a higher form. A lot about how they do that is at odds with conventional morality and bases like "souls" the gods operate with, so they can be a wildcard. And oh boy are they in this game! Best game of the year by far. Highly recommend it if you guys have the time for 150 hours of top tier content

Decent game. Not really my cup of tea, though. I'm generally not a fan of turn-based combat, and the whole spell slots concept and camping systems were extremely annoying. Still, the lore, the voice acting, and the music are all top-notch.

After finishing this game and watching these trailers...........I'm like, wait - who the hell is that guy, that girl? Man guess I need to replay this game again. Somehow missed quite a lot.

So bit of backstory on the second trailer: the person who got the tadpole before the POV character is a githyanki, as are the people who were riding the dragons. They roam the different planes of existence hoarding knowledge and furthering the goals of their lich-queen Vlaakith. Once upon a time, their race were enslaved by the illithid (aka mind flayers, aka squid people), but one of them found they had the power to resist the telepathic influence of the illithid and then that led to the rebellion that set them free. There was also a bit of a civil war among the gith which led to them splitting into the githyanki and the githzerai (not going to go into what exactly it was about as it gets covered in BG3). Anyway, at some point Vlaakith makes a pact with the evil dragon god Tiamat which gives the githyanki who have proven themselves worthy a dragon to ride as they travel the realms. So they weren't there to protect the city, they just showed up because if they find any trace of illithid activity, they will try to wipe it out. Them being interdimensional raiders is also how they open up portals to give chase to the nautiloid (the illithid ship)

In fairness, the mind flayers (purple squid dudes) are in fact trying to repopulate their race, but only because they want to completely dominate the universe. Don't feel bad for them lol

ah yes, finally you're checking out the thing that sucked up my last 120 hours of gaming time. IMO the best game I have ever played!

I am 395h into my first playthrough of BG3 and I swear i feel like there's thousands of story lines that i didnt even get to finish because the game is THAT huge.

A the tiny hamster is Boo! He is a great a powerful hero and one of the party members you can get is his steed, the ranger Minsc of Rasheman /j In all seriousness though Boo is definitely okay he's the ranger's animal companion and useful for scratching out the eyes of evil!