[semi-serious] I can't bloody finish a playthrough!

[Darth Crow]

I just want to know if I'm the only one who can't finish a playthrough because everytime I get to the end of Act 2/into Act 3 I get incredibly hyped about starting a new character and seeing their unique options and RP. Please tell me I'm not alone. Thanks.

[Percy Jackson]

I have done this multiple times. Though with DOS, not BG.
Still on the first map ( because I did more than 7-8 playthroughs, and played a few mods as well).

Got more than a 100 hours in it.....

[D4rk\/01D]

290 hrs in BG3. My fourth character finally finished the game. I restarted thrice before Act III.

[Exarch_Alpha]

You are just racist to goblins and gnolls

Gotta kill them all!

[Govi]

I wish we could play as goblins or gnolls

But I’d want them to make interactions come at a penalty

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Darth Crow:

[semi-serious] I can't bloody finish a playthrough!
I just want to know if I'm the only one who can't finish a playthrough because everytime I get to the end of Act 2/into Act 3 I get incredibly hyped about starting a new character and seeing their unique options and RP. Please tell me I'm not alone. Thanks.

You are not alone. And you are doing it right.

[Fluffykeith]

I’ve got over 200 hours playtime and no completion for exactly this reason.

I’m cool with that, I’m getting my moneys worth

[Toaster Maximus]

Didn't finish the game till my bard play through ended last week in honor mode with well over 700 hours

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Toaster Maximus:

Didn't finish the game till my bard play through ended last week in honor mode with well over 700 hours

Wow. Congratulations!

Also on a side note, if you paid 59,99 EUD + 10 EUD for the Digital Deluxe Edition, that means each hour of playtime did cost effectively circa 10 Cents without considering electricity and maintenance. You sure got your money worth!

[Toaster Maximus]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by Toaster Maximus:

Didn't finish the game till my bard play through ended last week in honor mode with well over 700 hours

Wow. Congratulations!

Also on a side note, if you paid 59,99 EUD + 10 EUD for the Digital Deluxe Edition, that means each hour of playtime did cost effectively circa 10 Cents without considering electricity and maintenance. You sure got your money worth! :mhwhappy:

Thank you, what made me finish the bard was the barn scene playing differently for them in chapter one no fighting just the bugbear/hobgoblin(?) and partner walking away in shame

Edit: Should of screan shot my bards face but was to busy laughing same has her

OP finding little bits like that will make you stick with one char!

[Draknalor]

I always finish a playthrough before starting next.

Currently on my 4th.

[Aeriar]

I finished 1 playthrough so far, I ended my first at the start of Act 3 for two reasons - it was my "learning" playthrough on Explorer difficulty, because I never played anything like this before, and I missed A LOT of stuff. Currently I'm in the middle of Tactician playthrough and I plan on finishing it as well, but I have another already started and two other planned, one Origin and one evil.

[Energy Melons]

The temptation is strong, my friend. I'm a severe alt-oholic in pretty much any RPG I play. And while I'm doing my absolute best to stick with my first character, every week I find myself wondering what it would be like to try a completely different race/class/background!

Originally posted by Toaster Maximus:

Didn't finish the game till my bard play through ended last week in honor mode with well over 700 hours

This is deeply reassuring for me. Thanks for mentioning this. I was getting paranoid about how long it's taking me to get through the game, because I have a friend playing it at the same time, who started like 2 weeks AFTER I started, and is hitting story beats in literally 1/4 the playtime. Made me feel like I was doing something wrong, haha.

[ahsanford]

Really easy fixes for this. Once you get Withers, try one of these two things:

1) Mandatory main character re-spec each time you level. No, don't dump your DEX now that you finally have heavy armor. No, don't re-allocate stats because you got a STR +1 item and now you can have three 16s with your Pally. Don't tune your build each level -- detonate your build each level.

L3 I'm a battlemaster
L4 let's wildshape
L5 I've always wanted to try a SorLock

You get the idea. You cannot possibly get bored if you are Quantum Leaping into a new build each level.

2) Use your companions to do all the fun hypothetical tinkering you want. In my current playthrough:

Jaheira's a storm sorc,

Shad is a GWM/PAM because I like her banter / thoughts when we meet people, but my main is thiefy/healy/buffy so her OG build would never get used.

Astarion is dual-wielding F8 / R4 STR based guy swinging two versatile 1d8 weapons.

- A

[ahsanford]

The greatest compliment I can give this game is that people are replaying it for 100 different reasons.

One person is super completist and just wants to see the game from a different decision perspective

Others are actively challenging the logic tree of the game to see how the game narrative does / doesn't work if they do. There was someone on another thread who got all the way to the end of Act II without entering the Grove, Goblin Camp or Last Light Inn. (That's madness, but they did it.)

Others live to open every single door/chest/bookcase in every single place in the game. It's OCD klepto + hoarding and brings them some sort of 'there's that's better now that no chest icons are gold anymore' sort of zen comfort.

Others are romance nuts and repeat playthroughs just to see those through.

Others are 5e lunatics that might just see this game is a colorful combat simulator to try all their most favorite tabletop strategies with.

Other are tuners, min-maxers, speed-runners, etc. that love pushing the boundaries of what the game will allow. 'Story. schmory, I know I can do the Iron Throne and save everyone in three turns. Let's go.'

So many reasons to replay other than the basic 'the game is fun and I like the characters and story.' I have never experienced this breadth of replay motivation that in decades of RPG playing. Nothing comes close IMHO.

- A

[mike_hanna211]

Originally posted by Darth Crow:

I just want to know if I'm the only one who can't finish a playthrough because everytime I get to the end of Act 2/into Act 3 I get incredibly hyped about starting a new character and seeing their unique options and RP. Please tell me I'm not alone. Thanks.

I'm the same way; perpetual noob. I get in a few levels and get bored with the mechanics of the class.