Baldur's Gate 3 player misses all of Act 3 after falling for the fake ending: "I'm so incredibly stupid"

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One 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Baldur's Gate 3 player got the bad ending without even realizing it was the bad ending, missing out on the entirety of the massive Act 3. Naturally, I need to issue a spoiler warning through the end of Baldur's Gate 3 Act 2 here, so if you haven't yet reached the titular city, you should stꦉop reading now.

Still here? Cool. Gale, one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Baldur's Gate 3 companions, carries within him what amounts to a magical nuclear warhead, and as you develop your relationship with him, you learn that he's been charged with the destruction of the Absolute - the Elder Brain that's in control of the Mind Flayer tadpole in the heads of numerous people throughout the wor♐ld, including your own. So he wants to get close to t♈he Absolute and blow it up, taking himself and anyone nearby out with it.

, though admittedly a pretty anticlimactic one that leaves the world in a dire state. The narrator even concludes the scene by saying "It is an ending, of sorts. Though not the one destiny had in store for you."

A reasonable person might simply reload and make a diff🐭erent choice at that point. But in a post titled , Reddit user megaderp675 defied common wisdom. "I don’t know if anyone else had this same thing happen to them but I realize now that I๊ didn’t even see Act 3 and I thought I beat the game, but no, I never even went to the city. Instead I just suicide bombed Gale and rolled credits and thought Act 3 was that. Which is very wrong."

"I mean it’s still a valid ending, just not a good one," notes in the comments. There's a running theme in the comme💧nts that this fakeout ending actually makes sense from an in-universe perspective - you get a perfect opportunity to wipe out the biggest threat the world is currently facing, so why not take it? The fact that your death is anti-climactic is just a harsh dose of reality.

This comment from is my favorite, though: "LOVE IT. I did this with Skyrim. ♋Proudly told my husband I finally beat it after hundreds of hours of making new characters. He asked me what I thought of the dragon. …hm? What dragon? I crushed the Stormcloak rebellion. Turns out I didn’t know what the game was about."

Baldur's Gate 3 players have also recently been stunned by the revelation that you can 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:shower the gore off.

Dustin Bailey
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Stafಌf Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.