Baldur’s Gate 3 players prefer Dark Urge over Tav

Baldur’s Gate 3 is all about choices. You could avoid big battles entirely by simply making the right decisions – or even miss out on content if you make the wrong decisions. In fact, you are presented with choices before the game even starts, e.g. B. Your race, class and appearance.

The option to play as a Dark Urge, popularly known as Durge, is also provided to you with its own separate content. Even though Tav is the canonical character, Baldur’s Gate 3 players seem to prefer playing as Durge.

Dark Urge is much more interesting than a silent protagonist

Over on the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit, Megazupa asked her fellow fans which was the better playthrough between Durge and Tav. At first glance, most comments support Durge and say that the game is more interesting to play through because there is a loose backstory, whereas with Tav you have to make your own decisions.

While Baldur’s Gate 3 is about making your own decisions, many players felt guilty about making the “evil” decision as Tav and choosing to play a game with good people. However, with Durge you don’t necessarily have a guilty conscience if you make the bad decision.

Additionally, some comments pointed out that there are also two sides to playing Durge – resisting and giving in to the urge – each with their own storylines and entertainment value. For long-time fans of the series, playing through Durge sort of picks up where the previous game left off.

“Dark Urge every time. There’s very little you can get out of Tav that you can’t get out of Durge, and conversely, being Durge has so much to offer that you’ll miss out on something in one Tav playthrough,” reads one comment. “Contrary to what most people seem to assume, you can play Durge however you want. You don’t have to be evil, you don’t have to be bloodthirsty, you don’t even have to be a White Dragonborn. You do.” I don’t have to kill anyone (with one important early exception).

It seems that the main reason players prefer Durge is due to the sheer amount of content you miss when playing through Tav. However, another way to look at it is that these different playthroughs simply give you more reasons to replay a game with high replay value.

In fact, the replay value is so high that scalpers have tried to sell the Collector’s Edition for almost $3,700. Michael Douse, Larian’s publishing director, reached out to her on Twitter, saying: “I understand how commodities work, but this CE is not a commodity, it’s designed to make someone happy, not rich. If you buy it to trade it, all you’re doing is making someone sad.