Shocking Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 scene reveals Karlach knows she\u2019s in a video game Larian StudiosA scene with Karlach near the end of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 reveals that she knows she\u2019s in a video game and being manipulated by the player, causing some to admire the devs while others have an existential crisis. Out of all Baldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2018s main cast, Karlach stands out as someone who\u2019s truly a fan-favorite. Though her heart has technically been replaced by an infernal machine, she wears that heart on her sleeve and remains optimistic even in the most dire moments. However, that facade breaks at one of the most unlikely moments for Karlach, a moment in which she realizes that none of what she\u2019s doing is real and that she\u2019s in a video game. This scene is a pretty rare find, which is part of why it\u2019s taken players so long to find out about it, but the devs were clearly poking a bit of fun at the game\u2019s most dedicated fans. Karlach breaks the fourth wall in shocking Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 scene Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 is a heftier game than most. For many, it takes literally hundreds of hours to see the credits roll, many of which are spent resetting saves and finding the best way to get through whichever obstacles are set in front of you. While the process of loading and reloading saves seems entirely normal as the person playing the game, it\u2019s hard to imagine what it\u2019d be like to be subjected to someone editing and fine-tuning your existence as they control your every move. Karlach has this realization in a scene near the end of the game in an interaction that\u2019s a bit rare to find but rewarding for the game\u2019s most dedicated players. It starts with Karlach peering into your soul with a technique she learned, one that allows her to tell if someone\u2019s lying just by looking into their eyes. However, as she goes to look at the camera, she looks into the player\u2019s eyes rather than the character you play as. This leads to her technique working a bit too well as she sees beyond the boundaries of the game she\u2019s trapped in. \u201cDo you know how all of this ends? You, me, this adventure?\u201d asks Karlach. She then says, \u201cYou speak like you know. But you don\u2019t know. They know. And I think I know now, too. I want to know what\u2019s coming, I want to know how this will end. Have you done this before?\u201d Karlach then laments her state as a video game character, saying that she\u2019s jealous of the player that can live in a free world. \u201cI\u2019m so jealous. I\u2019m stuck here, forever here. In these tangled lines, in these hundred hours, or less, or more.\u201d Following this dialogue, Karlach goes right back to being her normal self, almost as if she has no clue what she asked the player in the first place. When you roll a nat 20 on perception and accidentally see through the fabric of your entire reality \u2014 TheDarkDuchess (@TheDarkDuchesss) September 16, 2023 Some players laughed away the incoming existential crisis with some jokes, but most were shocked at how well-executed the scene was. Here\u2019s a clip of the full, four minute conversation with Karlach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shocking Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 scene reveals Karlach knows she\u2019s in a video game Larian StudiosA scene with Karlach near the end of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 reveals that she knows she\u2019s in a video game and being manipulated by the player, causing some to admire the devs while others have an existential crisis. Out of all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}