Playing the bad guy is hard 

Rowan: _"I tried being a bad guy, couldn't do it."_ Also Rowan, living vicariously through Ben: _"let's go kill his son."_

Greg being disappointed is the worst emotional damage you can receive

Ben: I've always been the good guy Also Ben: Killing NPC for armor, leaving ten children to starve, always skipping dialogue, attempting to kill Baelin...

That older gentleman played his part so well! I felt so bad for his character when he said my son will have no one left. 😭

I like how Rowan is "Yeah, being the bad guy isn't all that fun" yet he's having the time of his life by forcing Ben into evildoing

I love how much Rowan is enjoying Ben's misery. He's found a way to act like a bad guy without having to play an official bad guy.

Me; “I’m gonna do an evil play through.” Also me 15 minutes later; “being bad is not nice. I want people to like me.”

"Come on, let's go kill his son", that took me off guard, brilliant, had me laughing hysterically

i love rowans character. he acts so neutral and harmless at first just wanting to help his mate playing his role a little but ends up being a manipulative psychopath

"Yay! Bad guy! Pretty fun, right?" "Did you wanna go kill his son?" Those lines were delivered with such cheer that I'm not sure if I should be laughing or afraid.

That "I forgive you" actually hit me like a truck

Rowan, claims he can't play as a badguy. Also Rowan, enjoys tormenting the shit out of Ben.

Plot twist - Rowan never actually gave up playing as the bad guy. In fact, he's currently excelling at it

They just HAD to find the nicest, sweetest man for that last bit to be the victim, hadn't they? Watching that was heartbreaking.

Rowan being the supreme bad guy, without making it too obvious. Coaxing Ben into a henchman and making him do all the bad deeds while Rowan has fun watching chaos ensue and misery thrive... yep, definitely a villain right there :D

2:13 I didn’t notice before. When Greg is shaking his head on the background, his explanation point moves. That’s really detailed.

Hamish sure was quick to choose to sell a child to solve his everyday problem…. He’s truly mastered the bad guy character!

I like how stealing from Greg caused the same amount of morality loss as murder.

This hurts man, this really stings. As the saying goes, "There's a difference between a fool pretending to be bad, and the face of true evil. It only takes on action to tell which of these truths defines a man's character." Ben is a fool pretending to be bad, while Rowan is the face of true evil in this current scenario.

The father made me really shed a tear, the facial expressions and hand gestures and the way of saying is supremely underrated. It would have made me feel less bad if he respawned in the end but well... 😢

Rowan was clearly more eager to encourage bad guy activities then Ben was to do them.

Rowan torturing Ben by being supportive on Ben being a bad guy is amusing

This is so true. Everytime I do a 2nd playthrough of any RPG as the "bad guy", I have to take breaks for mental health because I'm disgusted by myself. 🤣

I relate to this sketch so much. No matter how many times I play a game, I always go the good route. The closest I can get to being evil is being a punisher esque good doer.

Rowan couldn't be the bad guy himself but traumatizing his friend by encouraging them to do it is a whole other story.😂

Gregs disappointment hits right through your soul. And Rowan enjoying Ben's misery and encouraging to do the evil deed adds so much to the video.

Damn, Palpatine and Anakin sure look and sound different than what I remember.

Rowan doing the "Yey bad guy!, Pretty fun right? " is like your conscience messin' with you. I'm felling the chills especially how he made that face sayin it😂

That guy that lost his son... He just looked like the nicest guy ever. Perfect casting.

I love how he’s saying it was too hard for him, but he guides someone else in evil like a pro with a smile.

4:00 I love how it's the same actors who play the muggers!

The thing about evil runs is that there is usually no reward to doing it. You are not offered a substantially unique ending. There aren't often special rewards, just changes in dialogue or a few extra options. You do one because you can, and your punishment is guilt.

Rowan being all supportive while egging Ben's evil streak is really a win-win. No one can say that Rowan doesn't support his friend's dream. He even enjoys it.

That old man's acting was top notch and Ben's reactions to the consequences to each of his bad deeds hit me in the feels... Being the bad guy sucks worse than vampires!

I think the hardest part in playing the bad guy for me is denying side quests. "Adventurer! I am in dire need of help!" "HELP YOURSELF! I AIN'T GOT TIME FOR MERCY!" ... ... _Spends the next hours and days pondering what the quest would have been._

This morality coming from the guy who plays a character who LITERALLY climbs into people's bodies to explode them from the inside out is top notch!

Ben is so evil, he didn't even loot the guy, making his death even more pointless and purposeless. So proud of him.

The father's acting after they accepted the quest was absolutely incredible. "My poor son" hit me hard.

"I forgive you" just hurts

Man, that “I forgive you” at the end, really touched me.

The actor they have portraying the guy that lost his son has such a golden energy to him. Dude was incredible to watch perform.

Honestly this is a good representation of how it feels like trying to be bad in a video game. Props

If Ben is the bad guy. Then rowan is playing the devil himself

Can we just take a moment to appreciate Greg shaking his head in disappointment here at 2:11? It's a really nice level of detail that he was watching Ben's evil interaction with other NPCs.

I love that Ben was so distraught with remorse that he didn't have the presence of mind to actually grab the reward off the old man 🍻

Rowan is living out his secret dream of being a shoulder devil. Lmao He’s even got the red cape!

They absolutely should add this style of immediate karma to more RPGs

that old guys acting was on point. i really felt it in his words.

greg being disappointed is the equivalent to getting yelled at by the fun teacher

The actor who played the father was...extraordinary. That was some brilliant acting.

Greg staring Ben down during the entire dropped purse bit was just the perfect touch.

god, this father character is so relentlessly likable, he's hitting you like a truck. betraying his trust felt just like it should

That “I forgive you” at the end was absolutely brutal

Rowan acting more like the bad guy than ben is hilarious 😂😂😂

That YRHEAHAHA from Ben at the end was the best.

I love the idea that these two kept doing the bad guy storyline and became the muggers

The little "I forgive you." at the end was perfect. Packing as many emotional punches into a few seconds are you could.

the old man forgiving him before dying was beautiful

I'm playing Baldur's Gate 3 now, and my "evil" run quickly became a "kinda sketchy about personal belongings left in barrels, undaunted by books with ominous, strangely skin-like covers, and fond of dark clothing, but saves helpless people more often than not. For a price. Sometimes." run.

Rowan this whole time was like “Good. Now let the hate flow through you!”

At the part where Rowan suggests killing the guy and just taking the reward I couldn’t help but think, “well, we’re muggers aren’t we? And muggers mug people” 😂

It's always hard to be the villain by yourself, but it's super easy to push your friend into it.

no the worst is how the old man at the end says I forgive you

That "I forgive you" is relatable and heartbreaking

I love the amount of sheer joy Rowan is getting watching Ben's suffering from these deeds.

That "Greg will remember this" is enough to make me go back and start again 🤣

Greg hit me emotionally, but the father... now he seemed genuinely caring and loving... that got me to shed a tear, going "noo... no, you cannot really... no!" - It might be that bleed, my sense as a former writer, or my compass as a soldier (now civilian) ... got brought up. But when it comes to games, I tend to not allow emotional bleed when I pick choices... or at the very least try to not.

I really like this new npc, the guy looking for his son. He did a great job !

Rowan helping Ben live out his dream of being the bad guy is so amusing to me.

“Greg will remember this.” This is more emotional damage than disappointing your parents lol.

this kind of reminds me of helping people to unlock there secrets and then killing them in Vampyr. They last thoughts are always so tear-jerking

Whoever this new NPC actor is, man he killed it. Such a great skit guys. Thanks as always for such juicy content!

Can we have the father character in more videos and also make sure nothing bad ever happens to him in said videos, please? He's clearly an absolute saint and genuinely amazing and adorable!

When people don’t respond with anger, but pity and disappointment. That’s when it hurts, then it doesn’t only feel like you betrayed them, but also yourself

I love how in video games your choice amounts to 1) Save absolutely everyone, even the insanely evil, and take no reward or 2) Explode a torturous death-weapon over a metropolis entirely populated by small children and their puppies. There's never a middle ground.

I love Rowan slowly revealing himself to be Ben's shoulder devil

I lol'd so much. Ben's not only being a natural at being the bad guy, he's also a natural at pretending being a good guy with difficulties playing a bad guy. And Rowan being a really bad guy by instigating him to all his misdeeds made it even more awesome.

I really hope yall continue this as a mini series. For the next one, it shows him in some dark leather armour and better gear, and his evil deeds are slightly worse but he is still riddled with some guilt. Then for his final transformation, have him like an epic evil Lord where he is the leader of a bunch of vampires or were-folk and his minions bring him an orphanage of children that he needs to sacrifice. He makes a big speech of how they need to be sacrificed for the greater good of his followers but the whole time he is balling his eyes out, then a follower questions "Milord, ar-are you crying?" Then he just murks the minion that asked him that to show he isn't someone to be fucked with or questioned XD

"My poor son he will have no one left" god dam that hit really harder than it should have 😢

4:15 this "I forgive you" makes it 10 times worse, it is the best revenge this guy could have had against this adventurer

That "I forgive you" would have me rethinking my actual real life choices lol

Literally everyone's first go of killing Toriel during the neutral route: 4:00-4:51

VLDL vids have so much rewatch value. The jokes stay funny, the facial expressions are nuanced, there's all the background details (like the player handles & Alan's disapprovig headshaking)... & gosh, the costuming layers are just so good! 😍 Always find myself wondering what gear is specifically made for the show, and what their team has somehow managed to find for sale? (& if so, where?!)

Rowan’s “yay! Bad guy” while Ben weeps absolutely kills me. Just not in the same way Ben kills that poor guy…

I'm starting to get the feeling that Rowan never failed becoming the bad guy. He was just "lying" because he's a bad guy

This is in my opinion the most painfully accurate one they've ever done

Rowan says he couldn't do playing the bad guy, but he looks pretty gleeful torturing Ben

The "save my son" NPC guy was fantastic. Excellent acting! Good stuff

in the infamous games my first playthrough was always as the hero, my second? always evil, not having to worry about collateral damage and getting more lethal abilities is pretty great plus the red lightening in the first 2 games looked so cool

I love how passive aggressively Rowan suggests each bad decision 😂😂

For someone who "couldn't do it", Rowan seems pretty enthusiastic about the whole thing.

They are so dedicated to the Bad Guy role, they didnt even loot the body. Im impressed!

Pointing him torwards all the bad things and asking him to do it makes rowan the real devil

If the "Please tell my son I love him" didn't get you, the "I forgive you" before he dies definitely will.

God, Greg pulled out the famous " i'm not angry, just disappointed " card ! Can't win against that !

Rowan: "being a bad guy is actually hard" Also Rowan with a smile "You need to kill him for the gold :D" I think the real bad guy was Rowan all along!

Watching Greg in the background shake his head at Ben stealing gold from Fred will never not get old.

4:40 I really want to see the return of sad bad guy and happy friend who coaxes him to do the evil option knowing his friend won’t refuse out of pride.

Whoever played the last NPC was great! Love his voice and the way he talks. Hope we see him again ^^

Greg shaking his head in disappointment in the background as he kept the gold was perfect 😂😂😂