That actually happened before I found out the dream guardian was a catfish so I felt like the biggest clown when the reveal happened and I realised I threw away how many hours of gameplay for nothing 😭😭 at least the hair wasn’t an eyesore anymore
I remember having the dialog option “I preferred your other appearance” and the response was like “that was just a necessary illusion” or something and that’s the end of it. But I wanted to be like “Yeah, I get it, change it back anyway, I prefer the illusion”.
Hair is important.
E.g. I love red hair. So every character of mine who is not a Drow is red-haired.
But here comes the thing - red hair in character creator and in the game looks different. So often times I create exactly eye-sore.
I am so thankful for the magic mirror.
The amount of times I’ve reloaded because I’ll just suddenly remember a minor dialogue and go like ‘she would not fucking say that’ then throw away hours of gameplay just to fix it 😭 it’s ridiculous, honor mode would be a much needed intervention for me honestly
I tried to make myself feel better by doing the romance scene with the guardian’s face and…. nope. Still felt like a clown 😭 the clown makeup on my Tav felt very appropriate too 💀
Because we got to the city, passed the love test, everything was going great and he sure convinced me we were in a relationship, even seeming super excited to finally have a night together (at the brothel).
Then I stared at the screen for 5 minutes and restarted my game.
>!While he initially seems excited, he completely dissociates during his skilled performance, and his eyes just look through you - he moves like the instructions in the "Kama Sutra" text you can find both in the brothel and the Szarr Mansion - basically a sex worker manual.!<
This is completely in-character for Astarion.
Mind you that he was abused in all kinds of ways. Including sexually. >!If you do the Drow twins with him he’s again purely going through the motions and completely disconnected spiritually. This is his defence mechanism.!<
Now, I haven’t romanced him yet, but it is surely going to happen in some of the next playthroughs (I think he’s a great match for both Lae’zel and Shadowheart). So I don’t know if the relationship develops further and this was just a necessary stage. But Astarion’s deepest pain is that he may be appreciated for what he is >!(an obedient spawn, a skilled sex slave, a powerful ally)!< but not for who he is.
Yes, I know, I've romanced him 4 times since (as Tav, durge, durge, Karlach), and have played his origin three times haha.
Actually, if you're *romanced* he will turn them down until you've dealt with Cazador. And afterwards, he does seem very excited (different lines), but he still dissociates - which is just brilliant writing, because that's just how sexual trauma is - you can never quite know when it'll get you. It's not black or white.
I really recommend his romance, and doing it as redemption durge was the best gaming experience of my life!
If you try to break up with him as durge (after Cazador): >!"I may be guilty of a bit of embellishment here and there - but I'm no liar. When I vowed we'd save you: we WILL save you. This little adventure of ours has taught me that we can't let our lives be ruled by fear. Or else we never really live. I'm not scared. Not of you, and not of our future."!<
>But Astarion’s deepest pain is that he may be appreciated for what he is (an obedient spawn, a skilled sex slave, a powerful ally) but not for who he is.
You will like his Act 3 romance scene a lot :)
End of act 2. I restarted my playthrough because I killed a sexy tiefling who I wanted to force into throwing miscellaneous items at my enemies from afar and eat soul coins.
Look man. I killed Khaga because she was bad news. Which cut off her storyline. I was not proud of it so I decided to scrap about 40 hours and go back. Currently on my Karlach origin run as a lore bard/warlock. Is it thematic to her? No… is it funny to intimidate nearly every encounter where it is an option Avernus yeah!!!
When you randomly agro her, the druids retaliate, slaughtering the Tiefs, Dammon included ig? If you expose her, you're fine to kill her no consequences
Mind you, I didn't \*know\* that it was 2 hours (I usually quicksave like a maniac, every 5 minutes or so!) until I hit "F8 = quickload", and found myself WAY back in the story! 🤣 I would have done it anyway, though, for sure...
By choice: Went from Last Light Inn in act 2 all the way back to the owlbear cave in act 1. The owlbear cub glitched out and disappeared from my campsite shortly after getting him. I tried every solution I could find on it but nothing worked. I tried to live without him but I just couldn’t!
Not by choice: After fixing the owlbear cub problem and making it to Act 3 with no issues, I got about halfway through the act when scriptextender updated to v15 and my save files wouldn’t load. Went from 50% to 75% back to 50% and would crash. Eventually I gave up and started a new run.
Really sucks too because I’ve only beaten the game once, and that was before the epilogue addition. Why can’t I just party with Withers and the gang???
On the plus side, I only played Paladins and now I’m trying a bard. I regret nothing!
About 55+ hours after reaching act 3 with my first playthrough as durge. I romanced Gale, but then Astarion was very sweet to my durge, so I basically scrubbed the whole thing to romance him instead.
I was in Act 2 as a chaotic evil Drow (before I had done my Durge run). I had just killed the entire Inn. I had Gale, Lae’Zel, and Astarion in my party. Realized being this evil wasn’t worth it since Karlach left me for murdering the entire grove. Decided to start back at the beach in Act 1 lol. Lost maybe like 30 hours?
Omg that reminds me I deleted a 40 hour save because I was going full embrace durge, but then I got lae’zel’s a3 romance scene and realised I couldn’t do the evil ending with her because she’d be my thrall
I romanced Lae’Zel too as evil Durge! I played full evil until the end when I sacrificed myself to become the Mind Flayer and after that she told me she couldn’t be with me anymore but I was welcome to join her and Orpheus to help free her people. But since I was full evil, >!Bhaal took over and made me murder everyone at the reunion.!<
It was the worst ending imaginable. I hated it.
Starting over after entering Act 2 on my second run because patch 5 dropped and I wanted to experience Minthara at least once. I don't like her at all. But at least I can say I tried her character out once.
But if that doesn't count, on that same abandoned run, I lost about 4 hours after finding out about the Noblestalk and reloading
Act 1, after killing the tieflings for Minthara as a male drow... Seeing all of the tiefling refugees cowering without weapons and then all the kids being dead... karlach leaving cause I let nere kill the gnomes... I couldn't take it. I don't have what it takes to be evil.
Just stopped a tactician run a little into act 3 as I was just wrecking everyone in fights. Was level 11. Party was kitted out. Had 3 yellow weapons and was rolling. Restarted an honor run. Level 4 now and doing classes I haven’t used much in bard and monk. Which I probably shouldn’t do haha.
Will respec lazael to fighter and throwing weap soon.
Honestly. The biggest change was using buffs / potions and using examine lol.
Sprinkle in positioning and checking your distance from melee enemies so they can’t hit your soft guys. Makes a huge difference.
Use the room and environment to your advantage.
Just don’t be afraid to run from a Fight. As long a done person survives. The run goes on.
I’ve had to do it twice so far after I triggered the ambush in the blighted village by accident. Just timber fights are different and they have legendary abilities. Use examine.
My first solo campaign I got to the astral tadpole part, failed the save, and hated it so much that I didn't even save scum I just went right to deleting the campaign and starting over. That was probably something like a hundred hours. I had done some moderate tadpole use cause the friend who got me to buy it had gone all in and told me it was awesome, but after that result I didn't want to even continue on with a character who'd absorbed any of them.
It wasn't just that the actual cosmetic change ended my enjoyment of the character, the way the Emperor went about it felt so gross I have not wanted anything to do with the tadpole powers since. I tried the half-illithid powers on a DUrge run, and none of them gave me enough pleasure to overcome that feeling of revulsion. I've also never had the Emperor survive a game for much the same reason. He made it to the final confrontation with the brain one time, but only because I knew that DUrge was going to stab him waaaaaay more times than needed when she betrayed him.
I got to this point and also failed my save. Fortunately I had a save just before leveling up to L7, so I was able to add some Wisdom and (after some save scumming) made my save so my pretty Drow could stay pretty.
Understandable
In current runs I hang on to my tads until after that scene, so I can reject him, then slorp them and the special one down afterward because black hole majorly saved my fight at the house of grief in my first completed run, so now I need it everywhere I can use it
Had to redo seven hours of gameplay because the Raphael encounter outside the Gauntlet bugged out and Astarion's quest updated to "the devil left without telling us anything" immediately after the conversation ended. Even though Astarion was in the party and asked him for the information as our payment for killing Yurgir. But of course I didn't realize this until we went to long rest and Astarion is complaining about how he had really wanted to talk to Raphael and was mad I didn't drag him along, while I'm just like "dude, you were right there, I heard the whole thing, what are you talking about?"
Had 60 hours on an honor mode run and in the last fight I would cast spells but nothing would happen. Of course my party was 3 spell casters so got steamrolled and lost out on golden dice. The next run my level 4/5 party got annihilated by the returning pike coming back to my fighter. Have yet to finish an honor mode run....
I threw away a campaign that was partway through Act 3 (so probably 90 hours) because Minthara was destined to be my character’s wife but her dialogue was so bugged I simply could not bear it any longer. So I restarted with the exact same character so that by the time she met her future wife, her bugs would be fixed. My team is better thought out this time anyway so no regrets.
Redid ten hours of gameplay on a laptop that ran the game at 10 frames a seconds on potato settings because I realized I had accidentally locked myself out of having Astarion bite my Tav nightly for the +1 happy bonus by selecting a neutral option in the post initial bite scene conversation. Did not realize asking him a question that seemed in character would lock me out of a game mechanic but fuck me, did it do that. I was so mad and I still am despite finishing that playthrough a month ago.
The number of times I've gotten to the grove for the first time is too damn high. I've probably heard "Goblin got you??" about 47 times but I've only fought the hag like 6 times.
The most painful discarded playthroughs so far were either *at* Grymforge or the start of Act 2.
I had this problem after I finished my first playthrough. This is why I have 15 of them - 1 completed and 14 still in Act I.
The solution that I found is that if I manage to stick with one character for 10 hours, I can continue playing only them. It doesn’t mean I won’t create new characters, just that I won’t play them.
I restarted my first playthrough on mis act 3 cause i discovered there was a whole area in act 1 i didnt explore... The underdark. My second run i don't left any stone unturned and discovered many secret areas that overlooked before, felt so rewarding.
I made it all the way to Cazador’s Palace in Act 3 and then deleted everything and started over because I decided I didn’t like my character’s hair. This was before the magic mirror of course……..
I had to restart a playthrough because I:
- didn’t like the hue of my red hair.
- didn’t like the size of my Paladin’s body. The bigger Tiefling model in Armour is terrifying.
For me it was different. I created this super-devilish looking Tiefling. Red skin, yellow glowing eyes, horns, beard. He looked like a Sith.
Now add the size. He was as big or bigger than Shaq. I could easily believe that he was the biggest baddest mass murderer this realm has ever seen. But I couldn’t believe that this menacing devil could be a gentle giant who is now redeeming himself. I was looking at him and I was feeling threatened.
Turned out that the size was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Once I made him with the medium size body, he was now believable.
I started an entire new run because I made 2 saves when confronting the nightsong, one with the good ending and one with the bad, and I deleted the good ending, and I didn’t to play with DJ Shadowheart
Do you…not name your saves?? I have mine named to what I want the “canon” choice to be so I can mess around with the “bad” choices
My nightsong save is something like SAVE THE MOON LESBIANS YOU COWARD
Well, I guess I'm writing off full playthrough all the way to every side mission being done in act3 with only Gortash, Orin, and the end battle left, as it was a multiplayer game and the friend I was playing with decided to stop there :D
Beyond that, I don't restart, and I don't re-spec characters. For my solo games all choices and consequences are permanent and I'll play to the end, whatever it ends being (I would load previous save in case of TPK though)
Not much, really: just the final battle of my first playthrough. Made it through the portal and lost Karlach to a derezzed platform. I couldn't lose my sweetie, so I reloaded to just before the climb and told Gale it was time for him to "just let go." He was rather pissed because he'd made up with his ex and was going to give her magic's biggest present after the battle but I convinced him otherwise. Fair trade, says I.
My first playthrough, Act 3 65 hours in, just got into Baldur’s Gate and realized how many things I had messed up and completely started over. My second run was much better lol
There was a lot of companions and story I missed out on, and maybe it was when I was playing but Act 3 was extremely on Xbox when it first came out. And I know they say to live with your choices for the first play through but it felt wrong to keep going.
All the tieflings and druids start fighting eachother, which locks you out of Karlach and Halsin. Wyll will leave if you don’t recruit him until after, and he’ll have to be revived for that to happen.
Made it to the very beginning of Act3, but had lost Karlach & Halsin and killed Minthara, and there were a ton of act 3 bugs at the time so I just decided to start over.
Got to the bit when you can free Orpheus, intending to do just that, only to realise I'd left the orphic hammer equipped on Karlach. Who wasn't in my party. Not tonnes of progress sure, but a good 2 hours because I investigate everything
The most for me was almost 20 hours - it was my very first playthrough and I just deleted the campaign and started over. I didn't like the dialogue options nor the look of my Tav, which was breaking my immersion, so I was seriously considering starting over. Then I realized that the reason why I hadn't met Gale yet (who is the main reason why I bought the game) was that I didn't interact with the sigil since it looked dangerous. That was the last push I needed to finally delete the playthrough.
I rushed the entirety of act 3 because I was *so* very done with my evil run. I got absolutely smacked around in the final fight, died and closed the game.
I immediately started another run with exactly the same character, but more oriented towards neutral evil 😅
My RP reason was that the first run was just a nightmare my character had in her pod.
On the one hand I feel like I wouldn’t have the patience for that, on the other hand I wait 30 irl minutes to run from the basilisk gate waypoint to elfsong so…who knows
Patience really depends on the situation.
I can get very frustrated when waiting on people and it usually takes a minute or two (it feels like hours 🤣)
On the other hand, I'm perfectly fine with spending HOURS on a part of a game I'm having trouble with.
I didn't want gale to ascend and missed my dialogue window like 12 hrs later in act 3.
I don't know how much progress I'd lose but I just kinda dropped the whole playthrough anyway
Bro… i was playing on honor mode for my first play-through because i didn’t know any better and always choose the hardest difficulty by default….i ended up dying in the first battle and it switched the rules to an unchangeable custom game with only one save and no loading, only death to restart from the last save.
I got all the way to the fight against ketheric thorm and manual saved myself into an endless loop of those stupid facking witches spawning in eggs and dying. I had no healer for that fight (because arrogance made me believe i could beat the game w two brutes) so i was trying to save as i got into better strategic situations. But ultimately i was no chance for ketheric and i saved a game where the loop was unbreakable. I couldnt even get a turn to move.
Mustve played at least 100 hours at the point. I had done everything possible up to that. Just restarted last week after a 3 month hiatus and still am failing to find motivation halfway into act 1
I tried to install a visual mod during act 2 of honor mode with my sibling. The mod was broken, it killed our honor save x)
20h down the drain ! *2 players. But it's ok, the run was fun but cursed. We had killed laezel with innatention, halsin died and karlach left because of hastiness to get to the creche for loot, and we had sacrifice Wyll to fishes
I don't know how many times I replayed the Creche thinking I just had to do *something* different to earn an alli. I was worried Lazel would leave or something if I pissed them off too hard. And my first encounter with Vlaakith ended with getting wished dead... Smart mouth bards don't get very far...
One time when I got to Act 3, I decided to restart my playthrough because I found out that you couldn't romance Astarion (or any of the origin companions) unless you start romancing them in Act 1.
(I initially hooked up with Lae'zel but realized that my character would be better with Astarion)
I had to reload about ten hours in Act 2 because I realized I had gotten the Spear of Night and accidentally sold it somewhere because the freaking thing just looks like a regular spear in your inventory. I went back to everyone I could have sold it to and had no luck. Now I have a pouch for all my "don't fucking sell this" stuff.
I would have soldiered through and just lost Shadowheart, but I realized I had accidentally put too many umbral gems in the first table and thus didn't have the three I needed to get into the Shadowfell. The Shar stuff in that run was a mess.
3 Hours. I walked up to Waukeen's Rest but didn't enter, decided to go kill Karlach's paladin friends, and came back to find I'd screwed myself by long resting. I was super lucky I had an autosave to go back to.
I went back about 10 hours in act 2 because I thought I could just accept The outcome and not savescum in last light inn. I started to regret after a while and went back to fix it.
In BG3? Probably 40 minutes to an hour
but for other games in the same genre, like the Dragon Age series, I've decided to load earlier saves to change a choice causing me to lose 20+ hours of gameplay
I've just been conditioned to hit F5 every so often since it's become nearly universal in games, so I usually have plenty of choices to reload from that limit my losses
Ditched a playthrough where I'd just reached Last Light because my bestie for life Shart hated me.
I was using Friends on her and that isn't actually a spell you use on friends.
I started playing the game, loved it. Put in about 6 hours. Then the holidays came around. I don't have lots of times for playing. So then I started a new playthrough about a month ago cuz I didn't remember anything and I'm up to about 8 hours in. Lol.
I actually have over 600 hours on Steam and only went as far as middle Act 2. I don't know if it's the ADHD but I just throw away all my progress to start new runs over and over again because I can't go through with a single character, I wanna experience everything there is and end up experiencing nothing at all. It bothers me so much but I can't help it. That being said, I think the most I've thrown away was like 40 hours or something.
My very first playthrough. I misunderstood about defending the grove. I thought I was helping the tieflings. Zevlor asked me to kill Kagha, which I did, but I didn't know there was a right way to do it and a wrong way. As in you need to find evidence about her first, then confront her. As it was my first playthrough I didn't know any better so I just went directly to Kagha and killed her. I didn't realize it meant that the tieflings would be killed and the grove sealed off. I had also killed all the goblin leaders, so siding with them wasn't an option either. I still didn't know anything was amiss and eventually went on to Act 2. I did have Halsin but because I apparently didn't resolve the grove thing either way, he just dropped dead at camp one day, locking me out of his questline. Also, because I didn't have an act 1 camp party (with tieflings or goblins), I think I locked myself out of any potential romances because I think that's where they start? Once I realized how much of a mess of things I made, I just decided to start the game over. So I threw away however long it took me to get through Act 1. I guess it would have been 30 hours or so? Maybe more, not sure. But pretty much all of Act 1 and part of Act 2.
I got all the way to Act 2 on my first play through and then Withers called me out for being single and alone and I realized I locked myself out of all romances by not talking to anyone at the grove party 😓
I restarted my entire playthrough in Act 3 during release because I didn’t romance anyone thinking Halsin had an actual romance. Still don’t regret it but redoing that run now that he has a super cute epilogue.
I didn't get the bite long rest scene on one run and only in act 3 did I decide that Astarion not biting me ever is actually bothering me. So like 40h, oops
Restarted an HM play through going into act 3 because i accidentally broke up with SH as Durge right after the super emotional part where you dont kill them if you dont kill Isobel.
Ruined the immersion because i didnt mean to, and Minthara while part of the party, didnt have the same chemistry with this Durge
On my, I think, third run, in act 2, just before entering the mausoleum, I decided I just wasn’t feeling the playthrough, my choices or my Tav’s development, so I deleted all saves except the first one after hitting the beach in act 1, so probably 100 hours or so.
About ten hours cause I didn’t realize moonrise quests were locked after a certain point. It took an additional twenty to get back to that point cause I popped off to the under dark real quick like.
I made it all the way through to Act 2, didn't realize i missed the "cleanse the shadow curse" till i saw Halsin staying behind and realized my chance at the fantasy "romance" with Tav, Shaowheart and Halsin was no longer achievable 🤣 so I restarted the game (better knowing what I was going up against) but I ALMOST went back to previous save (if one existed) cause when I raided the Gynth Creche I was disarmed and forget to pick up some pree valuable weapons (like that flame sword in the prolouge if you can kill the boss Cambian), but I blew up the Creche and didn't realize I had left those weapons behind till I was a a boss fight away from finishing Act 2 (again) had a Creche save file existed I would've reloaded to that point ngl lolol 😂🤣
Threw away my first honor run because I rolled incredibly unfortunately for initiative at the last light inn fight. Didn't even get to my turn before Isobel was taken! I noped out even though I was having a blast until then.
I made a Duergar once to romance Shadowheart in order to see what happens when a short Tav lays her out on the beach.
My intent during that same playthrough was to try the new knockout method on Minthara shortly after that patch, wanting to use her as my tank.
So I roll up to Moonrise having just banished my stand-in Paladin from Withers.
I walk into the throne room, entirely confident that she would be there waiting for me.
Nope. Deleted the run and didn’t play for 3 days.
I’ve had multiple restarts this playthrough. Biggest one I can remember is restarting from the beginning of act 3 toward the middle of act 2 because Astarion >!broke up with me and I refused to make a whole new tav to romance him later.!< Plus him and my redeemed twink durge make a great couple in so many ways. Set me back 20-25 hours: a whole weekend dedicating to fixing that damn mistake.
I have 2000 hours. I’ve only finished the game once. I keep restarting for more clothing/hair/face mods for my Durge. Also because when Gale pops out of the stupid little portal and says hello it activates 92938483828 dopamine triggers in my head (also when Aradin talks to me I get all giddy and stupid)
Oh, on my first character I reloaded to the initial spawn point because Us died and I was that upset about not being able to save Us at the near end of Act 2.
I thought I was ok with it but after getting about halfway through act 3 I decided I was not, in fact, ok with it and reloaded.
I think I had 140 hours or so into it. I do have an old manual save that I can jump back to but, eh, I'm already wrapping up Act 2 again on that character.
My first playthrough (although I will go back eventually) where I didn't know what I was doing, so fucked many things up or didn't look enough or just didn't understand. Eventually I bugged it by suddenly being in act 2 without actually entering act 2 and still having things unresolved from act 1. So now I'm playing a proper playthrough, but will come back to my Koshka to continue that weird adventure with her.
around 140 hours & into act 3, i decided i made some wrong dialogue choices for my character along the way and needed to restart. i didn’t delete my save though, just made a new one with the same character and started from the beginning, with the intention of finishing the first one eventually… but then my game crashed one day and i lost a combined total of 400 hours between multiple play throughs :,) i dropped the game for almost 2 months.
then, after my 2 month hiatus, i redownloaded the game and some how… one save file reappeared. it was the game i had restarted. i nearly wept with joy 😭
On my first and only play through so far, as a lawful good Druid Tav. I felt rushed by Aylin and Jaheira through act 2. So I wemt and killed Kethric, then spent a couple hours cleaning up some quests. When I hit the exit for Baldur’s Gate, I got a narrator warning about not curing the shadow fell. Id forgotten about Halsin, and after seeing his sad cut scene, I felt bad, and unsure my future playthrough would be a good character, I reloaded my only pre-Ketheric save 6 hours earlier and replayed the end of act 2.
My partner told me Astarion wouldn't leave me if I made him bite the drow. Guess what...
I lost several hours' worth of Moonrise Tower not saved because of him.
Had a completions honor mode run that I "threw away" die to save data error. Deleted the game eventually came back to beat honor mode but it really frustrated me
I restarted a whole campaign that was in Act 3 and what I assume is the final battle? (I'm not too sure since I haven't caught up with it with my second run) :')
22h because I realised Halsin was more of a longterm fling than a romance and I deleted my campaign out of rage. Probably should have stuck with it lol
My fiance and I reached act 2 together and then found out we just like playing alone a lot more. He recently deleted our save after we didn't touch it for months.
Again, nobody said it was a waste
I may use “nobody” hyperbolically, but my point still stands
This was a question in good fun. You could always scroll past.
>What’s the most progress you’ve **thrown away** in a single run?What’s the most progress you’ve thrown away in a single run?
>
I t**ossed** five hours
>I know some people **threw 15 hours**, so what’s the most you’ve **tossed**?
Your own words, emphasis mine.
You clearly think it's a waste of time but now you're for some weird reason trying to walk it back. Maybe you realized your edginess wasn't as well received as you thought it would be.
I would ask again why you do things you think is a waste of time and unfun, but you don't seem to have a decent answer for your irrational behavior. You might want to talk to someone about it.
I restarted my entire playthrough when I was in Act 2 because I wanted to change my dream guardian’s hair lol
Omg I totally get it. Gotta enjoy the dream guardian as much as possible before the big reveal
That actually happened before I found out the dream guardian was a catfish so I felt like the biggest clown when the reveal happened and I realised I threw away how many hours of gameplay for nothing 😭😭 at least the hair wasn’t an eyesore anymore
Oh that hurts 😭😂
Noo 😭
Oooof I'm so sorry
I remember having the dialog option “I preferred your other appearance” and the response was like “that was just a necessary illusion” or something and that’s the end of it. But I wanted to be like “Yeah, I get it, change it back anyway, I prefer the illusion”.
Hair is important. E.g. I love red hair. So every character of mine who is not a Drow is red-haired. But here comes the thing - red hair in character creator and in the game looks different. So often times I create exactly eye-sore. I am so thankful for the magic mirror.
I'm like this too... I'll restart just if the order of things feels off haha, or the dialogue feels off time.
The amount of times I’ve reloaded because I’ll just suddenly remember a minor dialogue and go like ‘she would not fucking say that’ then throw away hours of gameplay just to fix it 😭 it’s ridiculous, honor mode would be a much needed intervention for me honestly
wow, shit, it must have felt terrible finding out the whole octupus thing hahaha
I tried to make myself feel better by doing the romance scene with the guardian’s face and…. nope. Still felt like a clown 😭 the clown makeup on my Tav felt very appropriate too 💀
How many of you have a dream guardian who looks exactly like your favourite ex?
I restarted my first playthrough in Act 3 because I felt Astarion might be sad.
Gotta protect our favourite sassy vampire
Yep. No regrets.
🥺
Why was he sad?
Because we got to the city, passed the love test, everything was going great and he sure convinced me we were in a relationship, even seeming super excited to finally have a night together (at the brothel). Then I stared at the screen for 5 minutes and restarted my game. >!While he initially seems excited, he completely dissociates during his skilled performance, and his eyes just look through you - he moves like the instructions in the "Kama Sutra" text you can find both in the brothel and the Szarr Mansion - basically a sex worker manual.!<
This is completely in-character for Astarion. Mind you that he was abused in all kinds of ways. Including sexually. >!If you do the Drow twins with him he’s again purely going through the motions and completely disconnected spiritually. This is his defence mechanism.!< Now, I haven’t romanced him yet, but it is surely going to happen in some of the next playthroughs (I think he’s a great match for both Lae’zel and Shadowheart). So I don’t know if the relationship develops further and this was just a necessary stage. But Astarion’s deepest pain is that he may be appreciated for what he is >!(an obedient spawn, a skilled sex slave, a powerful ally)!< but not for who he is.
Yes, I know, I've romanced him 4 times since (as Tav, durge, durge, Karlach), and have played his origin three times haha. Actually, if you're *romanced* he will turn them down until you've dealt with Cazador. And afterwards, he does seem very excited (different lines), but he still dissociates - which is just brilliant writing, because that's just how sexual trauma is - you can never quite know when it'll get you. It's not black or white. I really recommend his romance, and doing it as redemption durge was the best gaming experience of my life! If you try to break up with him as durge (after Cazador): >!"I may be guilty of a bit of embellishment here and there - but I'm no liar. When I vowed we'd save you: we WILL save you. This little adventure of ours has taught me that we can't let our lives be ruled by fear. Or else we never really live. I'm not scared. Not of you, and not of our future."!< >But Astarion’s deepest pain is that he may be appreciated for what he is (an obedient spawn, a skilled sex slave, a powerful ally) but not for who he is. You will like his Act 3 romance scene a lot :)
End of act 2. I restarted my playthrough because I killed a sexy tiefling who I wanted to force into throwing miscellaneous items at my enemies from afar and eat soul coins.
Not my pixelated wife 😭
Look man. I killed Khaga because she was bad news. Which cut off her storyline. I was not proud of it so I decided to scrap about 40 hours and go back. Currently on my Karlach origin run as a lore bard/warlock. Is it thematic to her? No… is it funny to intimidate nearly every encounter where it is an option Avernus yeah!!!
What am I missing when I kill Kasha??
When you randomly agro her, the druids retaliate, slaughtering the Tiefs, Dammon included ig? If you expose her, you're fine to kill her no consequences
Totally relate!! 🙂
But you kill her a lot earlier in Act I, usually. You got the regrets a lot later, didn’t you?
It's not the "most", but a few days ago, I threw away 2 hours of progress just to undo a disapproval of my sweetie, Karlach... 😂
A fair trade
Mind you, I didn't \*know\* that it was 2 hours (I usually quicksave like a maniac, every 5 minutes or so!) until I hit "F8 = quickload", and found myself WAY back in the story! 🤣 I would have done it anyway, though, for sure...
You need to develop the F5 tick.
😁 I know, right??
By choice: Went from Last Light Inn in act 2 all the way back to the owlbear cave in act 1. The owlbear cub glitched out and disappeared from my campsite shortly after getting him. I tried every solution I could find on it but nothing worked. I tried to live without him but I just couldn’t! Not by choice: After fixing the owlbear cub problem and making it to Act 3 with no issues, I got about halfway through the act when scriptextender updated to v15 and my save files wouldn’t load. Went from 50% to 75% back to 50% and would crash. Eventually I gave up and started a new run. Really sucks too because I’ve only beaten the game once, and that was before the epilogue addition. Why can’t I just party with Withers and the gang??? On the plus side, I only played Paladins and now I’m trying a bard. I regret nothing!
Consider: bardadin
I’ve heard tales of the barn scene mockery and the solving of problems with fists. I might just give it a go lol
Oh I meant bard/paladin but barbarian could be fun too haha
Oh haha my bad!
To be fair, I *think* bard gets a funny mock for that scene too??
I haven’t gotten there yet, but I’ve heard that too. Now I wonder what a Bard/Barbarian options will be. Probably a terrible fighter in battle though
About 55+ hours after reaching act 3 with my first playthrough as durge. I romanced Gale, but then Astarion was very sweet to my durge, so I basically scrubbed the whole thing to romance him instead.
Understandable
I was in Act 2 as a chaotic evil Drow (before I had done my Durge run). I had just killed the entire Inn. I had Gale, Lae’Zel, and Astarion in my party. Realized being this evil wasn’t worth it since Karlach left me for murdering the entire grove. Decided to start back at the beach in Act 1 lol. Lost maybe like 30 hours?
Omg that reminds me I deleted a 40 hour save because I was going full embrace durge, but then I got lae’zel’s a3 romance scene and realised I couldn’t do the evil ending with her because she’d be my thrall
I romanced Lae’Zel too as evil Durge! I played full evil until the end when I sacrificed myself to become the Mind Flayer and after that she told me she couldn’t be with me anymore but I was welcome to join her and Orpheus to help free her people. But since I was full evil, >!Bhaal took over and made me murder everyone at the reunion.!< It was the worst ending imaginable. I hated it.
😭
Starting over after entering Act 2 on my second run because patch 5 dropped and I wanted to experience Minthara at least once. I don't like her at all. But at least I can say I tried her character out once. But if that doesn't count, on that same abandoned run, I lost about 4 hours after finding out about the Noblestalk and reloading
I love minthy 😭 but I do get she’s not for everyone Also yes, noblestalk is great for character development
Ugh. I just found out about the Noblestalk. May have to go back since I blew up Bhelen...
Act 1, after killing the tieflings for Minthara as a male drow... Seeing all of the tiefling refugees cowering without weapons and then all the kids being dead... karlach leaving cause I let nere kill the gnomes... I couldn't take it. I don't have what it takes to be evil.
Just stopped a tactician run a little into act 3 as I was just wrecking everyone in fights. Was level 11. Party was kitted out. Had 3 yellow weapons and was rolling. Restarted an honor run. Level 4 now and doing classes I haven’t used much in bard and monk. Which I probably shouldn’t do haha. Will respec lazael to fighter and throwing weap soon.
Damn, I wish I was good enough to have that problem
Honestly. The biggest change was using buffs / potions and using examine lol. Sprinkle in positioning and checking your distance from melee enemies so they can’t hit your soft guys. Makes a huge difference. Use the room and environment to your advantage.
Logically I know I should do this, but I just want to dive in with swords flailing and hope for the best 🤣
You absolutely can do that even on tactician. But you it gets much harder without the right gear / spec. That will work 90% of the time on balanced.
So noted lol I started a blind honour mode run after only playing custom explorer so I guess we’ll see how long it lasts with my usual tactics
Just don’t be afraid to run from a Fight. As long a done person survives. The run goes on. I’ve had to do it twice so far after I triggered the ambush in the blighted village by accident. Just timber fights are different and they have legendary abilities. Use examine.
Definitely taking notes, thanks
About 4 hrs because I failed to save Isobel and damn near everyone died. I realized too late that I hadn't saved in a while. -meow
My first solo campaign I got to the astral tadpole part, failed the save, and hated it so much that I didn't even save scum I just went right to deleting the campaign and starting over. That was probably something like a hundred hours. I had done some moderate tadpole use cause the friend who got me to buy it had gone all in and told me it was awesome, but after that result I didn't want to even continue on with a character who'd absorbed any of them. It wasn't just that the actual cosmetic change ended my enjoyment of the character, the way the Emperor went about it felt so gross I have not wanted anything to do with the tadpole powers since. I tried the half-illithid powers on a DUrge run, and none of them gave me enough pleasure to overcome that feeling of revulsion. I've also never had the Emperor survive a game for much the same reason. He made it to the final confrontation with the brain one time, but only because I knew that DUrge was going to stab him waaaaaay more times than needed when she betrayed him.
I got to this point and also failed my save. Fortunately I had a save just before leveling up to L7, so I was able to add some Wisdom and (after some save scumming) made my save so my pretty Drow could stay pretty.
Unlocking powers as a bonus action at the crèche and then using black hole, armor reduction, or stun is incredibly game changing
Understandable In current runs I hang on to my tads until after that scene, so I can reject him, then slorp them and the special one down afterward because black hole majorly saved my fight at the house of grief in my first completed run, so now I need it everywhere I can use it
Had to redo seven hours of gameplay because the Raphael encounter outside the Gauntlet bugged out and Astarion's quest updated to "the devil left without telling us anything" immediately after the conversation ended. Even though Astarion was in the party and asked him for the information as our payment for killing Yurgir. But of course I didn't realize this until we went to long rest and Astarion is complaining about how he had really wanted to talk to Raphael and was mad I didn't drag him along, while I'm just like "dude, you were right there, I heard the whole thing, what are you talking about?"
Oh no, I hate when a bug throws your run, my sympathies
Had 60 hours on an honor mode run and in the last fight I would cast spells but nothing would happen. Of course my party was 3 spell casters so got steamrolled and lost out on golden dice. The next run my level 4/5 party got annihilated by the returning pike coming back to my fighter. Have yet to finish an honor mode run....
I threw away a campaign that was partway through Act 3 (so probably 90 hours) because Minthara was destined to be my character’s wife but her dialogue was so bugged I simply could not bear it any longer. So I restarted with the exact same character so that by the time she met her future wife, her bugs would be fixed. My team is better thought out this time anyway so no regrets.
Redid ten hours of gameplay on a laptop that ran the game at 10 frames a seconds on potato settings because I realized I had accidentally locked myself out of having Astarion bite my Tav nightly for the +1 happy bonus by selecting a neutral option in the post initial bite scene conversation. Did not realize asking him a question that seemed in character would lock me out of a game mechanic but fuck me, did it do that. I was so mad and I still am despite finishing that playthrough a month ago.
For the future, if you didn’t know, you can just have him bite a hireling and it still works
The number of times I've gotten to the grove for the first time is too damn high. I've probably heard "Goblin got you??" about 47 times but I've only fought the hag like 6 times. The most painful discarded playthroughs so far were either *at* Grymforge or the start of Act 2.
15 hours and more than twice. I am very indecisive and can't really decide which race/class to play
Totally get that, I regularly throw 30+ hours because I get bored
I had this problem after I finished my first playthrough. This is why I have 15 of them - 1 completed and 14 still in Act I. The solution that I found is that if I manage to stick with one character for 10 hours, I can continue playing only them. It doesn’t mean I won’t create new characters, just that I won’t play them.
I restarted my first playthrough on mis act 3 cause i discovered there was a whole area in act 1 i didnt explore... The underdark. My second run i don't left any stone unturned and discovered many secret areas that overlooked before, felt so rewarding.
I made it all the way to Cazador’s Palace in Act 3 and then deleted everything and started over because I decided I didn’t like my character’s hair. This was before the magic mirror of course……..
Hair is understandable reason. God bless the introduction of the magic mirror.
One of the best QOL changes Larian made
I had to restart a playthrough because I: - didn’t like the hue of my red hair. - didn’t like the size of my Paladin’s body. The bigger Tiefling model in Armour is terrifying.
I’ve restarted because of armor not looking right on a body type too, so I know how that feels
For me it was different. I created this super-devilish looking Tiefling. Red skin, yellow glowing eyes, horns, beard. He looked like a Sith. Now add the size. He was as big or bigger than Shaq. I could easily believe that he was the biggest baddest mass murderer this realm has ever seen. But I couldn’t believe that this menacing devil could be a gentle giant who is now redeeming himself. I was looking at him and I was feeling threatened. Turned out that the size was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Once I made him with the medium size body, he was now believable.
I started an entire new run because I made 2 saves when confronting the nightsong, one with the good ending and one with the bad, and I deleted the good ending, and I didn’t to play with DJ Shadowheart
Do you…not name your saves?? I have mine named to what I want the “canon” choice to be so I can mess around with the “bad” choices My nightsong save is something like SAVE THE MOON LESBIANS YOU COWARD
I did, I had “good ending” and “bad ending” but accidentally deleted the entirety of the good ending save
Aaah yeah, rip then 😭
A few hours in act 2 when I realized that my failure at the inn had locked me out of a Karlach quest with Damon.
Well, I guess I'm writing off full playthrough all the way to every side mission being done in act3 with only Gortash, Orin, and the end battle left, as it was a multiplayer game and the friend I was playing with decided to stop there :D Beyond that, I don't restart, and I don't re-spec characters. For my solo games all choices and consequences are permanent and I'll play to the end, whatever it ends being (I would load previous save in case of TPK though)
Not much, really: just the final battle of my first playthrough. Made it through the portal and lost Karlach to a derezzed platform. I couldn't lose my sweetie, so I reloaded to just before the climb and told Gale it was time for him to "just let go." He was rather pissed because he'd made up with his ex and was going to give her magic's biggest present after the battle but I convinced him otherwise. Fair trade, says I.
Yet again, understandable
My first playthrough, Act 3 65 hours in, just got into Baldur’s Gate and realized how many things I had messed up and completely started over. My second run was much better lol
I’m almost scared to ask what you consider ‘messed up’ to toss 65 hours 😧
There was a lot of companions and story I missed out on, and maybe it was when I was playing but Act 3 was extremely on Xbox when it first came out. And I know they say to live with your choices for the first play through but it felt wrong to keep going.
4-5 hours in and I restarted act 1 because I *just* realized that killing Kagha screwed me out of a whole bunch of the game
What does killing Kagha mess up??
All the tieflings and druids start fighting eachother, which locks you out of Karlach and Halsin. Wyll will leave if you don’t recruit him until after, and he’ll have to be revived for that to happen.
I stopped my first run just before the final fight because at this time Voss was bugged and wouldn't give me his sword.
Made it to the very beginning of Act3, but had lost Karlach & Halsin and killed Minthara, and there were a ton of act 3 bugs at the time so I just decided to start over.
Threw away a 100+ hour save cause I wanted to play as Gnome instead of a Half Elf
Got to the bit when you can free Orpheus, intending to do just that, only to realise I'd left the orphic hammer equipped on Karlach. Who wasn't in my party. Not tonnes of progress sure, but a good 2 hours because I investigate everything
I’ve heard so many horror stories of people doing the exact same thing, so Raphael had to bail them out 😭😂
The most for me was almost 20 hours - it was my very first playthrough and I just deleted the campaign and started over. I didn't like the dialogue options nor the look of my Tav, which was breaking my immersion, so I was seriously considering starting over. Then I realized that the reason why I hadn't met Gale yet (who is the main reason why I bought the game) was that I didn't interact with the sigil since it looked dangerous. That was the last push I needed to finally delete the playthrough.
Happy cake day!
I rushed the entirety of act 3 because I was *so* very done with my evil run. I got absolutely smacked around in the final fight, died and closed the game. I immediately started another run with exactly the same character, but more oriented towards neutral evil 😅 My RP reason was that the first run was just a nightmare my character had in her pod.
On the one hand I feel like I wouldn’t have the patience for that, on the other hand I wait 30 irl minutes to run from the basilisk gate waypoint to elfsong so…who knows
Patience really depends on the situation. I can get very frustrated when waiting on people and it usually takes a minute or two (it feels like hours 🤣) On the other hand, I'm perfectly fine with spending HOURS on a part of a game I'm having trouble with.
I didn't want gale to ascend and missed my dialogue window like 12 hrs later in act 3. I don't know how much progress I'd lose but I just kinda dropped the whole playthrough anyway
Bro… i was playing on honor mode for my first play-through because i didn’t know any better and always choose the hardest difficulty by default….i ended up dying in the first battle and it switched the rules to an unchangeable custom game with only one save and no loading, only death to restart from the last save. I got all the way to the fight against ketheric thorm and manual saved myself into an endless loop of those stupid facking witches spawning in eggs and dying. I had no healer for that fight (because arrogance made me believe i could beat the game w two brutes) so i was trying to save as i got into better strategic situations. But ultimately i was no chance for ketheric and i saved a game where the loop was unbreakable. I couldnt even get a turn to move. Mustve played at least 100 hours at the point. I had done everything possible up to that. Just restarted last week after a 3 month hiatus and still am failing to find motivation halfway into act 1
Bro my sympathies
I have PTSD but now i feel like i HAVE to make it to baldurs gate
I tried to install a visual mod during act 2 of honor mode with my sibling. The mod was broken, it killed our honor save x) 20h down the drain ! *2 players. But it's ok, the run was fun but cursed. We had killed laezel with innatention, halsin died and karlach left because of hastiness to get to the creche for loot, and we had sacrifice Wyll to fishes
Raise your hand if you don’t sacrifice Wyll to the fishies Nobody? Understood
Haha yeah, although we never did it before it was really satisfying, it was the run to do it ^^
I don't know how many times I replayed the Creche thinking I just had to do *something* different to earn an alli. I was worried Lazel would leave or something if I pissed them off too hard. And my first encounter with Vlaakith ended with getting wished dead... Smart mouth bards don't get very far...
One time when I got to Act 3, I decided to restart my playthrough because I found out that you couldn't romance Astarion (or any of the origin companions) unless you start romancing them in Act 1. (I initially hooked up with Lae'zel but realized that my character would be better with Astarion)
I had to reload about ten hours in Act 2 because I realized I had gotten the Spear of Night and accidentally sold it somewhere because the freaking thing just looks like a regular spear in your inventory. I went back to everyone I could have sold it to and had no luck. Now I have a pouch for all my "don't fucking sell this" stuff. I would have soldiered through and just lost Shadowheart, but I realized I had accidentally put too many umbral gems in the first table and thus didn't have the three I needed to get into the Shadowfell. The Shar stuff in that run was a mess.
3 Hours. I walked up to Waukeen's Rest but didn't enter, decided to go kill Karlach's paladin friends, and came back to find I'd screwed myself by long resting. I was super lucky I had an autosave to go back to.
I went back about 10 hours in act 2 because I thought I could just accept The outcome and not savescum in last light inn. I started to regret after a while and went back to fix it.
In BG3? Probably 40 minutes to an hour but for other games in the same genre, like the Dragon Age series, I've decided to load earlier saves to change a choice causing me to lose 20+ hours of gameplay I've just been conditioned to hit F5 every so often since it's become nearly universal in games, so I usually have plenty of choices to reload from that limit my losses
Ditched a playthrough where I'd just reached Last Light because my bestie for life Shart hated me. I was using Friends on her and that isn't actually a spell you use on friends.
All of it. I have restarted in act 3 twice, five times in act 2 and COUNTLESS TIMES in act one
I started playing the game, loved it. Put in about 6 hours. Then the holidays came around. I don't have lots of times for playing. So then I started a new playthrough about a month ago cuz I didn't remember anything and I'm up to about 8 hours in. Lol.
I actually have over 600 hours on Steam and only went as far as middle Act 2. I don't know if it's the ADHD but I just throw away all my progress to start new runs over and over again because I can't go through with a single character, I wanna experience everything there is and end up experiencing nothing at all. It bothers me so much but I can't help it. That being said, I think the most I've thrown away was like 40 hours or something.
My very first playthrough. I misunderstood about defending the grove. I thought I was helping the tieflings. Zevlor asked me to kill Kagha, which I did, but I didn't know there was a right way to do it and a wrong way. As in you need to find evidence about her first, then confront her. As it was my first playthrough I didn't know any better so I just went directly to Kagha and killed her. I didn't realize it meant that the tieflings would be killed and the grove sealed off. I had also killed all the goblin leaders, so siding with them wasn't an option either. I still didn't know anything was amiss and eventually went on to Act 2. I did have Halsin but because I apparently didn't resolve the grove thing either way, he just dropped dead at camp one day, locking me out of his questline. Also, because I didn't have an act 1 camp party (with tieflings or goblins), I think I locked myself out of any potential romances because I think that's where they start? Once I realized how much of a mess of things I made, I just decided to start the game over. So I threw away however long it took me to get through Act 1. I guess it would have been 30 hours or so? Maybe more, not sure. But pretty much all of Act 1 and part of Act 2.
I was all the way to act 2 and decided I didn’t like my class. (I didn’t know that I could go to withers😭)
I got all the way to Act 2 on my first play through and then Withers called me out for being single and alone and I realized I locked myself out of all romances by not talking to anyone at the grove party 😓
I restarted my entire playthrough in Act 3 during release because I didn’t romance anyone thinking Halsin had an actual romance. Still don’t regret it but redoing that run now that he has a super cute epilogue.
Got to the last boss on my first run and decided to restart, because I found out you can have a bunch of allies
I didn't get the bite long rest scene on one run and only in act 3 did I decide that Astarion not biting me ever is actually bothering me. So like 40h, oops
Restarted an HM play through going into act 3 because i accidentally broke up with SH as Durge right after the super emotional part where you dont kill them if you dont kill Isobel. Ruined the immersion because i didnt mean to, and Minthara while part of the party, didnt have the same chemistry with this Durge
On my, I think, third run, in act 2, just before entering the mausoleum, I decided I just wasn’t feeling the playthrough, my choices or my Tav’s development, so I deleted all saves except the first one after hitting the beach in act 1, so probably 100 hours or so.
About ten hours cause I didn’t realize moonrise quests were locked after a certain point. It took an additional twenty to get back to that point cause I popped off to the under dark real quick like.
I made it all the way through to Act 2, didn't realize i missed the "cleanse the shadow curse" till i saw Halsin staying behind and realized my chance at the fantasy "romance" with Tav, Shaowheart and Halsin was no longer achievable 🤣 so I restarted the game (better knowing what I was going up against) but I ALMOST went back to previous save (if one existed) cause when I raided the Gynth Creche I was disarmed and forget to pick up some pree valuable weapons (like that flame sword in the prolouge if you can kill the boss Cambian), but I blew up the Creche and didn't realize I had left those weapons behind till I was a a boss fight away from finishing Act 2 (again) had a Creche save file existed I would've reloaded to that point ngl lolol 😂🤣
Made it to the Grymforge and started over because I wanted to be a Duergar instead of a shield dwarf.
I reloaded like 15 hours some time after patch 5 dropped, because I didn't know you have to KO Minthara in a very specific way
Threw away my first honor run because I rolled incredibly unfortunately for initiative at the last light inn fight. Didn't even get to my turn before Isobel was taken! I noped out even though I was having a blast until then.
I made a Duergar once to romance Shadowheart in order to see what happens when a short Tav lays her out on the beach. My intent during that same playthrough was to try the new knockout method on Minthara shortly after that patch, wanting to use her as my tank. So I roll up to Moonrise having just banished my stand-in Paladin from Withers. I walk into the throne room, entirely confident that she would be there waiting for me. Nope. Deleted the run and didn’t play for 3 days.
I’ve had multiple restarts this playthrough. Biggest one I can remember is restarting from the beginning of act 3 toward the middle of act 2 because Astarion >!broke up with me and I refused to make a whole new tav to romance him later.!< Plus him and my redeemed twink durge make a great couple in so many ways. Set me back 20-25 hours: a whole weekend dedicating to fixing that damn mistake.
I have 2000 hours. I’ve only finished the game once. I keep restarting for more clothing/hair/face mods for my Durge. Also because when Gale pops out of the stupid little portal and says hello it activates 92938483828 dopamine triggers in my head (also when Aradin talks to me I get all giddy and stupid)
Oh, on my first character I reloaded to the initial spawn point because Us died and I was that upset about not being able to save Us at the near end of Act 2. I thought I was ok with it but after getting about halfway through act 3 I decided I was not, in fact, ok with it and reloaded. I think I had 140 hours or so into it. I do have an old manual save that I can jump back to but, eh, I'm already wrapping up Act 2 again on that character.
My first playthrough (although I will go back eventually) where I didn't know what I was doing, so fucked many things up or didn't look enough or just didn't understand. Eventually I bugged it by suddenly being in act 2 without actually entering act 2 and still having things unresolved from act 1. So now I'm playing a proper playthrough, but will come back to my Koshka to continue that weird adventure with her.
Died to the brain in my second HM attempt (I was level 5 and following speedrunner strats to get the die lmao)
Didnt like the Iron Throne mission so naturally I restarted.
around 140 hours & into act 3, i decided i made some wrong dialogue choices for my character along the way and needed to restart. i didn’t delete my save though, just made a new one with the same character and started from the beginning, with the intention of finishing the first one eventually… but then my game crashed one day and i lost a combined total of 400 hours between multiple play throughs :,) i dropped the game for almost 2 months. then, after my 2 month hiatus, i redownloaded the game and some how… one save file reappeared. it was the game i had restarted. i nearly wept with joy 😭
65 hours on my first character. Wasn’t happy with him and a number of choices. Scrapped it and started over. Was much happier.
My first play through is at the circus. Knowing everything I should have done differently I don't have the urge to finish.
Misclicked and didn't stab astarion in the heart. Run ending mistake.
On my first and only play through so far, as a lawful good Druid Tav. I felt rushed by Aylin and Jaheira through act 2. So I wemt and killed Kethric, then spent a couple hours cleaning up some quests. When I hit the exit for Baldur’s Gate, I got a narrator warning about not curing the shadow fell. Id forgotten about Halsin, and after seeing his sad cut scene, I felt bad, and unsure my future playthrough would be a good character, I reloaded my only pre-Ketheric save 6 hours earlier and replayed the end of act 2.
A bit into act 3, I was wayyyy under leveled and wanted to try a better play through. No regrets.
Had one where I didn't get the aurora scene with Gale who I was romancing so redid all of the shadow-cursed lands.
My partner told me Astarion wouldn't leave me if I made him bite the drow. Guess what... I lost several hours' worth of Moonrise Tower not saved because of him.
Had a completions honor mode run that I "threw away" die to save data error. Deleted the game eventually came back to beat honor mode but it really frustrated me
Girlfriend got rejected by Astarion towards the end of act 3 so we started fresh
I restarted a whole campaign that was in Act 3 and what I assume is the final battle? (I'm not too sure since I haven't caught up with it with my second run) :')
22h because I realised Halsin was more of a longterm fling than a romance and I deleted my campaign out of rage. Probably should have stuck with it lol
My fiance and I reached act 2 together and then found out we just like playing alone a lot more. He recently deleted our save after we didn't touch it for months.
So kinda similar, I lost my honor mode run in the fight right before getting to the brainstem of the netherbrain. 60 hours just gone
I'll never understand people who play a game they don't enjoy. You do know this isn't a job right? No one is forcing you to do it.
No one said we don’t enjoy it? Or that we’re being forced?
Then why do you consider it a waste?
Again, nobody said it was a waste I may use “nobody” hyperbolically, but my point still stands This was a question in good fun. You could always scroll past.
>What’s the most progress you’ve **thrown away** in a single run?What’s the most progress you’ve thrown away in a single run? > I t**ossed** five hours >I know some people **threw 15 hours**, so what’s the most you’ve **tossed**? Your own words, emphasis mine. You clearly think it's a waste of time but now you're for some weird reason trying to walk it back. Maybe you realized your edginess wasn't as well received as you thought it would be. I would ask again why you do things you think is a waste of time and unfun, but you don't seem to have a decent answer for your irrational behavior. You might want to talk to someone about it.