Is the Dark Urge story interesting if you don't kill much?

[Jason]

I am playing the Dark Urge and I haven't really been killing things that aren't either "bad" or need to be killed. I am still enjoying the game and had an interaction with the "butler" or whatever his name is. I am in early act 2 now and the story hasn't really progressed yet. So, my question is:
Is the story still interesting as the dark urge if you don't kill unnecessarily or do you need to kill more to get the story line? Or does more of the story come later?
I am still enjoying the play-through so far but just wonder if I am missing the dark urge story because I am not killing enough.

I am not playing lawful good by any means. I have occasionally attacked or killed something or someone that I don't need to but when it comes to picking sides, I have been choosing the "good" side through act 1 at least.

[Lord Adorable]

Yes. It gets especially interesting later if you've resisted the Urge.

And for that reason, I cannot say more without spoiling some rather major story bits.

[Jason]

Thanks for the reply! I am looking forward to it!

[Pepsu]

He has Redemption arc path and his whole backstory is heavly tied with Baldurs Gate 1 and 2. Dont want to spoil anything but yes its 100% worth it.

[AnonymousWizard]

Despite appearances the Dark Urge is actually primarily designed for a Resist the Urge run, I suspect this is because most people only do a 'good' playthrough and Durge is clearly the intended custom protagonist* with Tav only added for players afraid of a decent story.

Also I believe only one death in the entire game actually counts for the run's trajectory, you can in theory play the game knocking out 99.99% of people instead of killing them and still get the 'succumb to the Urge' path. It might be two or three, but it's still a ridiculously low number. But that's to be expected, doing a no kills run is actually pretty difficult because of things like magic not interacting with nonlethal attacks.

* Because Larian said the custom protagonist would actually have story ties this time, and Tav is a great big block of untied generic.

[Jason]

Ok.

On my VERY next long rest, the butler showed up and made me make some tough choices. Funny thing was that I made the saving throw to choose Halsin but the butler didn't care. What was the point of the saving throw? The original choice was someone too valuable to my party (Gale) so I awoke them and made it through those saving throws but we will have to see what happens next. I did fail the saving throw the first time and when the others woke up, they all attacked and killed me. It definitely seems like it is getting interesting!

[Bloodartist]

Dark Urge gets kinda boring if you kill TOO much... I played the game through as a full Bhaalspawn. I was quite disappointed in the end.

But I hear Larian is buffing the "evil endings"

[Pepsu]

Originally posted by jlane0710:

Ok.

On my VERY next long rest, the butler showed up and made me make some tough choices. Funny thing was that I made the saving throw to choose Halsin but the butler didn't care. What was the point of the saving throw? The original choice was someone too valuable to my party (Gale) so I awoke them and made it through those saving throws but we will have to see what happens next. I did fail the saving throw the first time and when the others woke up, they all attacked and killed me. It definitely seems like it is getting interesting!

Yep also if you romance someone that person would be picked instead of the most valuable teammate so your character would face actual intresting moral dilema. If you resisted this event then your redemption arc starts. Dark Urge has some really intresting lore at the Moonrise Towers and at the end of the ACT 2 and everything is revealed at the ACT 3.

[PeLeSki]

Dark urge wasn't terribly interesting for me. I just find anything to do with Orin and her ridiculous mannerisms to be annoying. But everyone should play it through once.