Nearly 400 sickos have beaten Baldur’s Gate 3 already
By Ash Parrish, a reporter who has covered the business, culture, and communities of video games for seven years. Previously, she worked at Kotaku.
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Today, Larian Studios shared a ton of interesting player stats for Baldur’s Gate 3, the seriously massive RPG boasting over 10,000 unique endings and 174 hours worth of cutscenes. Those stats included class / race breakdowns, total number of hours played, and how many times players have pet the dog. Let’s take a look at what y’all were getting up to.
Slight spoilers for Baldur’s Gate 3 to follow.
According to Larian, the most popular race is half-elf aka “spicy human” and the most popular class is paladin. More interestingly, players have spent a combined total of 88 years in the character creator. That’s a lot of time, so I have hope that players are making more than just a basic human like most did during the early part of Early Access.
In Baldur’s Gate 3 you can play as a custom character or as one of the pre-made origin characters who also function as your party members. Ninety three percent of folks made their own characters but I was actually surprised to see that Gale was the most popular pick for origin characters. Gale isn’t that interesting to me as the whole “I’m smart and I talk a lot” bit hasn’t done anything for me since Peter Dinklage in Game of Thrones. Gale’s also a bit of a fuckboy, because how do you fumble the literal goddess of magic? As a sorcerer, I’m mad at him on her behalf. Gale, in addition to being the most popular origin character, is also a very popular at killing players, coming in at 7th for cause of player death. Always remember to sculpt
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