Can I Beat Baldur's Gate 3 With The Worst Companion Imaginable?

[@andrew_wow6892]

Detroit: Become Human but I beat the game for the first time, but everytime I don't make the best choice, electricity shocks me

[@Streetcleanergaming]

Death by 20,000 volts within the first hour

[@konradbavnerlorentzi7021]

I like that this implies that it’s not davey who will get electrocuted but us the watchers.

[@andrew_wow6892]

@@konradbavnerlorentzi7021 I've changed it to "me", but I find the idea of collective suffering hilarious

[@DaveyGunface]

Something that's floated around in my mind a few times is playing a game like Disco Elysium completely blind, but changing the game language every ~thirty minutes and trying to describe the plot / my actions without any fucking clue what I'm actually doing. It'd be like the KZbin equivalent of that moment in Interstellar where you bang on your walls screaming "DAVEY NO YOU'RE DOING EVERYTHING WRONG" while you gaze at the screen, helplessly in agony. That being said I'm still perpetually in combat against the Content Hydra™ where every time I finish a video another three enter pre-production never to see the light of day, so honestly I can't promise anything ever

[@ryanfleshbourne3547]

@@DaveyGunface I will take any excuse to have Davey Disco Elysium video. Please, do this.

[@matianakin]

making wyll cleric of tiamat is pretty ironic given his backstory

[@DaveyGunface]

I know this reply is a casual ten days late but I'm really glad somebody picked that up, especially considering the context in which we had to deploy The Blade of Frontiers

[@AceWolf456]

Honestly, you just took an RPG and turned it into a puzzle game. Combat doesn’t exist, that’s a puzzle with initiative and positioning. SD isn’t a combatant, he’s a tactical nuke and the “tactic” is set to “maximized collateral”.

[@Xedric-0]

I would pay BIG MONEY for someone to take the time with the new mod support patch to make a single coherent mod that injects a shadow davey into your party at the start of the game without all this extra run around and other mods. It would be a supreme troll mod that would be absolutely glorious to try and play with.

[@DaveyGunface]

I actually don't think it'd be all too hard to develop, ESPECIALLY with any newer tools that comes out. All things considered it just boils down to creating a summonable creature with the Madness AI and the appropriate stats / spells, and people have already done similar things already ala Necromancy revamps. However I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to do ANYTHING with BG3's current tools (note that this video entered production literally several months ago), so I went with this approach instead :(

[@Tirannis]

I think patch 7 next week should be adding official modding tools

[@Xedric-0]

@@DaveyGunface Well patch 7 comes with the new modding tools and official support. So here's hoping one of the awesome fans around here who is skilled at such would be willing to christen us with such a glorious thing. Edit: Also you know for a fact there is something special about it actually being a Shadow Davey rather than some other mod content.

[@chronosvonflowersby7680]

The official tools do not allow PC Mod makers to do anything they couldn’t do before, and in fact have more limitations (because they are not Script Extender Compatible)

[@dmas7749]

shadow davey just needs to exist in every game

[@lucifersatan8240]

You've convinced me to put a very peculiar character in my next DND campaign. A cleric of the god of destruction who just wants to see the world burn, but not too much because then there'd just be ash. He wants to turn the world into his personal everburning pyre, killing, then healing, only to kill again.

[@DaveyGunface]

I've always enjoyed those characters / plotlines, if you ever revisit that idea in a future campaign that exact concept perfectly fits for an all-consuming enemy. They need the "food" to devour so they grow ever stronger, but they can't run out of food so they have to refrain from killing everything, even if they're already powerful enough to usher in the apocalypse. It quickly becomes this nearly omnipresent entity that incites a deep sense of dread and paranoia to those 'fortunate' enough to live. "You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it"

[@iantaakalla8180]

This feels very much like a Dark Souls plot, for that god seems like the worst god in terms of Dark Souls metaphysics. The Age of Fire was made by someone who feared death and did not know what was unleashed. Imagine a god doing that because they want to because eternal flame and suffering is fun to them.

[@druidgorefiend8915]

TIAX RULES ALL!

[@marinerusher5252]

something about honor mode is that if you die, you can choose to reload your save anyway, but it'll count it as a custom difficulty (meaning you wont get the achievement or dice) but will still retain all of the difficult parts about honor mode such as legendary actions. This means that you could have done this on honor mode and just died immediately so that you gain the ability to reload and save at will, effectively just making the run objectively harder.

[@ahumanbeing8371]

Dishonored mode 😔✊

[@Mike-r4h]

It's now sn option after patch 7. You can start custom mode with the honour mode ruleset, and having multiple save slots.

[@JS-dz1uy]

Wait, that’s how it works??? I would’ve saved so much time, because I was curious what honor mode was like in the difficulty of fights, but thought I’d have to make a lot of saves to get past act 1- I’m used to Wolf Heart Barbarian, and trying to get Karlach early screwed me so hard

[@Nemonowoa739]

When the world needed him least, Shadow Davey Returned

[@xaviersavard6343]

The world always needs more shadow davey

[@Ghastlyteaparty]

With my lack of auditory processing I thought the companion was named Shadow Baby, which made the descruction all the more gleeful.

[@QwertyChavez]

Shoutouts to the line "Pick a god and pray" thank you Frederick Fire Emblem Awakening for such a banger

[@thisisausername9356]

You mentioned the example of another final boss overtaking the previous one, and funny enough I feel like that's what happened anyways. You became far more powerful than Shadow Davey could EVER be, and ended up becoming the murderhobo yourself. And I think that's beautiful

[@ElwindMage]

This is like playing D&D with your friends but one of them basically bullies the DM into doing what he wants and constantly and intentionally mucks with whatever the party's doing because his character is "chaotic evil", but you can't kick him out because you feel bad for him.

[@TenaciTea]

It's ok Davey, I'd get lost in those vantablack eyes too Alongside my everything as I'm atomized by the concentrated power of the sun from SD's Shenanigans™

[@lucifersatan8240]

And here I thought that was just a hot summer's day.

[@MsMoonDragoon]

to be perfectly clear: you know we'll never let you rest untill you beat the game with power word: metal pipes, right?

[@DaveyGunface]

In theory it wouldn't actually be TOO difficult, there are so many ways to buff cantrips and spells in this game that you could probably end the run off with some whacky build that OTK's the final boss with pipes, but there are so many BG3 Challenge Runs on KZbin that I'd be perpetually terrified of some one finishing the pipe run before me and then I'd wither away into nothingness

[@input-latency2684]

@@DaveyGunface tbh i wouldn't care too much cuz i just find your stuff enjoyable regardless, as long as you're making stuff you're passionate about. but, yeah, don't sweat it if you already have a dozen other projects stressing you out.

[@safiarter201]

Shadow Davey my warlock patron

[@Polk091]

The video is about PTSD: Post Trauma Shadow Davey

[@jaceg810]

One of my favorite moments was in my first run, Lazel got handed the asteral sword all ceremoniously, only for me to instantly regret making her a polearm build, and thus having no use for it.

[@ravingtac0896]

I mean, you could have re-speced

[@catsquidcatoverlord9842]

Ya know, Shadow Davy seems pretty reasonable. At the same time though, this is coming from someone who's first run was Dark Urge with the rule of once I see someone I have to kill them, unless they are an animal, a kid, a plant, or Asterion (and sadly the emperor), and I absolutely horrified the friend who recommended me the game after I told them what I did to the ones who wanted Karlac dead, and then Karlac. So, I might be slightly biased.

[@willbe3043]

Astarion W choice

[@catsquidcatoverlord9842]

Granted will say there was a lot of weird stuff happening that run. As I killed all the Emerald Grove, then went for the Goblin Camp and killed everyone there. But I spared Halsin initially as was a bear at the time, then my friend talked me into sparing him saying he would show up later after seeing what I did and try to kill me. So I let him live, and then he just kinda, fucked off. He literally disappeared from the map and never showed up again. My head cannon is he just went out and saw the absolute destruction everywhere, and it just broke him. So I'm pretty satisfied with that.

[@centurion7398]

I think you mean slightly based.

[@eb9782]

I CAN CONFIRM THAT YOU CAN FAIL THE OPENING SKILL CHECK ON THE BRAIN - oh you figured it out, very nice carry on

[@DaveyGunface]

Look I've finished four separate BG3 playthroughs and I've had yet another two-to-four that got well into Act One and I've never failed any of Us' associated checks despite the fact they're much more difficult compared to other early game rolls. I figured the developers heavily skewed the odds in your favor as an introduction to skill checks which makes complete sense, BG3 is actually extremely good at introducing newer players to what is an intimidating genre, and although I still 100% believe that's the case I never knew if you could actually *fail* the check and I had to verify :P

[@willbe3043]

@@DaveyGunface I failed that on every playthrough lol we have the opposite luck

[@shury4260]

PATHFINDER WOTR MENTIONED!!!! My favorite game of all time and yes unfair sucks ass lol At least it's what it says on the tin, a lot of RPGs easy normal and hard mode translate to plays itself, really easy and easy Also in some older patch unfair was bugged and added all changes TWICE including doubling the damage so the first dungeon had a motherfucker that had like 32 AC and dealt 110 damage and attacked twice a round You can still play it with the toybox mod, it's called brutal unfair and it's the LEAST FUN I HAD IN YEARS

[@DaveyGunface]

Yeah, Wrath of the Righteous is a very hard recommend because it's basically equivalent to ~three Baldur's Gate 3's in a trench coat so the learning curve starts off with an immediate spike into the stratosphere, but as somebody who finds a lot of enjoyment in building parties it's easily the most fun I've ever had in a CRPG and I immensely enjoy the fact that it feels satisfying both mechanically and narratively to conquer despite insurmountable odds.

[@G-Forces]

"Get me the fuck out here, power lesbian" 🤣 I'm dying!

[@Jintasan]

If you are bard, you can notice that Art plays an instrument by calluses on his fingers or something, giving you the clue to play the lute for him.

[@xaviersavard6343]

Shadow Davey returns. Hopefully there are no fatman shells Also Bug sure did strike down the terrible tyrant or whatever he's called, I've never played BG3

[@DaveyGunface]

Its worse, the skeleton has the ability to summon mini-nukes from the palm of their hands. It's a disaster

[@dorithegreat6155]

Fun fact: the labyrinth puzzle and that god damned mind connecting puzzle are insanely annoying on controller because you can only move your camera independently from your character if you use jump, and then you have to remember to cancel it, or you might actually jump, and usually into a pit

[@sephikong8323]

What the shit I already hated the Mind Puzzle and resorted to just screenshotting the answer and memorizing it because I found it way too annoying to complete (first time is fun, every subsequent run is tedious). I can't imagine having that extra factor on top of it, it was already annoying that I could misclick and lose a lot of time because it deactivates the puzzle by going away, but this is beyond insane. The buff is not worth it

[@castanzofranzman2013]

L3. Click in the stick

[@StormOutClassed]

Time based mode also exist

[@icetide9411]

I'm so sad that Shadow Davey 2 wasn't a viable option, the chaos of multiple Davey's would have been horribly perfect

[@DaveyGunface]

During the initial tests of this run I had what I can only call an Astarion Outbreak where I had dozens of AI controlled, Level 1 Astarions just charging into everything. If I had a hyperbolic time chamber I would totally make "How many Rats / Astarions / Shovels / Whatever do you need to beat Baldurs Gate 3?" but unfortunately I am a mortal man

[@ChannelMiner]

When you added a 2nd Shadow, the diagram looked like a love triangle, I wish I was in a love Triangle with Davey Gunface 😭😭😭

[@cyberjesus9971]

I've played wilderness area a multiple times and I NEVER failed the "Headbutt Astarion"-roll. either you can't fail or I'm a hammerhead shark

[@DaveyGunface]

It's definitely the latter, I could tell that this was typed by a hammerhead shark trying to gaslight me into thinking they're a human

[@Purrfect_Werecat]

i've failed just about every roll possible to fail at least once. including saving Us and headbutting astarion. as an angry barbarian durge no less. it was kind of pathetic tbh.

[@goreobsessed2308]

Now this is the proper use of mods making things diffrent novel and weird

[@Bonibello]

So... let me get this straight: the endgame of this was... beating the game by letting it... play itself? Wow, people have finally beaten the game by just looking at it

[@n80_]

Is shadow davey great trans representation? Not really Can you pry them from my cold, dead hands? Never in a million years

[@definitelysomeone6131]

I have watched this video in three attempts. Definitely to give you more watch time for the algorithm, and not because I repeatedly fell asleep because your voice is very relaxing.

[@DaveyGunface]

I appreciate it captain! Loads of people tell me that they fall asleep to my videos and they always say that cautiously, like "Don't be insulted, but--", but honestly I think it's an immensely positive compliment. I'm honored to be dedicated second-monitor content

[@RevanBartus]

​@@DaveyGunfacetime for asmr content.

[@Watcher-pt6uq]

Baldurs Gate 3 but my sleep paralysis demon stalks me.

[@ellehcimbelle]

I was watching the beginning of a playthrough of complete noob to DnD & this type of game. They rolled a nat 1 on their 1st ever check investigating the pool, then again freeing the brain & AGAIN on the wisdom illithid check to open Shart's pod (which requires a 2 to pass!) It was unbelieveable! I felt so bad for them coz they were terrified every subsequent roll, but it was HILARIOUS. This game is wild lol.

[@JewelSapphire]

this is by far the most cursed playthru I have ever seen and it's (almost) entirely because of your decisions be it in or out of the game and I absolutely fucking love it

[@phattank5403]

1:54:20 "in a sarcastic tone". Davey i love you but your tone has not changed once in the past 5 challenge runs.

[@entertheunknown3554]

After Shovel's little act you should make her beat the game herself, (can you beat bg3 as 4 Shovels)

[@briankelly1240]

I have failed the US check as many times as succeeding.

[@StyxSen]

I failed 3 playthroughs in a row 😭

[@InfiniteEscuro]

Meerna seems to be a glitch on your part. She's around just fine if you kill Nere without letting the cutscene play out, but since she seems like she's supposed to die since you can't "legitimately" stop him from killing her makes her seem like an afterthought

[@LeoTheDarkAngel]

Finally, some NB representation in the form of Shadow Davey! But for real, I've only watched the first 12 minutes and I'm really excited for the video. I definitely like your style of narration and your humor! 😄

[@AbsolXGuardian]

24:27 I was going to say thats actually Bhaal, the Bhaalspawn, Durge, and whatever fucked up monsters he's spawned this week (fun fact, the Dark Urge is the nth great uncle to the owlbear cub), but Shadow Davey is probably Bhaal himself, somehow. Which means they are actually the Baldur's Gate 3, since the Dead Three are actually the gods Bhaal, Mykrul, and Bane. 2:20:47 How is he so light? I weigh 15-20 pounds more than him, am quite a bit shorter, and only moderately fat. Are his bones hollow?

[@CallMeDoc_]

he needs to be able to fly, like birds, he has hollow bones.

[@centuryeggcongee]

You can off the Goblin kids, I like piercing an arrow in one of them when theyre gathered in the back corner of the goblin camp poking a dead body 😂

[@SnakebitSTI]

3:49 Friend! Protect friend!

[@cloudyskies2]

god damn, fanes really lost himself ever since he had to kill his only remaining family

[@buttergod42]

I just did this in one sitting, dang. Typical Davey Masterpiece. We appreciate every bit of content you produce.

[@bananananananabatman8999]

56:52 this… sounds wrong, like I didn’t know davey was even capable of sounding this…energetic? cheery? I’m not even making a “davey sounds depressed” joke, I think he’s got a good dry narrator type voice, but that sounded so weird, I thought it was a clip from something.

[@monikamorningstarshadlo4129]

“KITTY! 🧠”

[@weebjeez]

"No reloads" "Anyways, lemme reload to try and fail this check!"

[@DaveyGunface]

Something I do for pretty much every video is record very specific footage while editing so that whatever is shown on screen matches with what I'm talking about, a general pet peeve of mine that I think is fairly common is when a creator is talking about how interesting something is and instead of highlighting that with in-game footage, it's just completely irrelevant background footage that has been playing for minutes. It really tunes you out and it's generally not a fun time for anyone

[@fuwayuu]

finished this video and immediately went looking for more bg3 content from you .... i hope you do more bg3 videos in the future, this was so entertaining. my favourite parts were when you were cute about Us, the best kitty, and whenever you called shovel your daughter :)!

[@tizooky]

1:22:13 erm... if githyanki so evil, then why cute? 🤨 That whole fiasco with Gale was crazy lmao. This is a hilarious exercise in misery so far and your narration is very funny (I didn't realize it was 4 hours long when I first clicked on it...)

[@anghellic1723]

this is easily the best idea for a challenge run for bg3 i've ever seen. One of the best videos too

[@houndofchulainn5324]

"It's not even possible to fail this opening check" Me failing it every single time

[@zapkiller7]

I love how you got Grant to voice that for you

[@rachelhughes8487]

That painting that Oskar gives you is actually magic and will regularly change and rotate through all your companions and your character.

[@SubtleSpell]

47:35 you are literally Galaxtus and the Silver Surfer. Just an omen for things to come while destruction is left to follow

[@totallynormalname365]

1:01:17 Doing WHAT to Shovel??!! 🤨🤨🤨

[@Vitoria-ug9cc]

3:06 i failed this check on my first ever playthrough. On my first ever roll. I felt like a failure reloading my save 2 minutes into the game to know what happens when you succeed. I had to reload twice. You're just lucky

[@rock1145]

Wow, he's trying to beat the game with Wyll? What a masochist.

[@foxbiscuit]

as a loot goblin the autoloot mod was a lifesaver i dont have to click every single teeny tiny object and give myself a migraine from the alt text constantly moving around (or not showing for some items without a mod) and it puts everything conveniently into a nice little bag that doesnt weigh shit LOL

[@FayeHunter]

Very glad to have saved this for a special day before the storm comes. Thank you for giving me motivation to draw more

[@DeadHardTV]

Dnd is well known for amount of bullshit players ready to unleash into the world. So defeating BBEG by barrelmancy is totally have the rightfull place in the canonic multiverse

[@TheMegamaster44]

You could switch to turn based mode and mash through turns until SD decides he has had enough concentration

[@DaveyGunface]

Unfortunately due to the environmental turns when using turn based mode, it's a lot slower than actually just going AFK

[@greenkitty1]

Yay, shadow davey! She's back!

[@destinygalearies7382]

You can in fact fail the save to get Us out of the thrall. Rolled two fails on my Tav and Shadowheart and had to get Lae'zel to do it for us

[@LinneaE-u1q]

Your narration style reminds me of Mitten Squad, whose videos I loved and still rewatch. Just found your channel, really enjoying your content

[@electricVGC]

Great video. Really appreciate the work you put into it. Let your indomitable human spirit onwards

[@monsterberger7728]

On the topic of 3:10 I actually failed the will check to open the pod due to my character having a -1 will. The game bugged out and I couldn't get shadowhart lmao

[@elnumbrotres]

You can fail the opening check. Source: it just happened to me

[@theuncalledfor]

If a Dark Justiciar tries to steal my squishmallows, I'll do things to them that'll get me demonetized!

[@insertfunnynamehere1673]

what new games will shadow davey infect? the world quakes in terror

[@DaveyGunface]

They are currently on standby in Morrowind, which is a horrific thing to even consider

[@RevanBartus]

It certainly is a video game.

[@domaxltv]

Honestly, I was kinda hoping that Shadow Davey would do more more than just exist in the last act. It was so fun and chaotic to have them run around killing everything in stupid ways but it just ended up turning into "How badly does BG3 allow you to break the balance via endgame items"

[@DaveyGunface]

That's just an Act 3 thing in general though, assuming you made it there with a vaguely competent party or build you will completely obliterate everything the game throws at you and there really wasn't a way to balance Shadow to be even more lethal without it just being an unceremonious victory lap or mandatory cheese-fest. I enjoyed the Madness approach because it fits well thematically and it made a lot of traditionally steamroll-y encounters actually difficult

[@ovrsurge4689]

Meerna doesn't actually disappear. Her corpse is just pretty much invisible under lava.

[@ovrsurge4689]

Her existence is to be a character who nere kills to emphasise how evil he is.

[@hdzk3336]

seeing you succeed the roll for Us with a -1 so many times, while ive failed the roll more times than i've succeeded with various different bonuses across several different runs accompanied by you saying you didnt even know if it was possible to fail was such an awful experience

[@neonkbfalcon]

i think you forgot that becoming half illithid causes you to have black veins

[@DaveyGunface]

I didn't forget, I mean I don't know if I really *could* forget, but my point is that for what was realistically built up to be a massive plot-altering choice, the worst case scenario for gaining a fuck ton of power is POTENTIALLY being forced into gaining even more power, alongside a few temporary cosmetic differences (that you honestly may not even notice depending on your gear) and a few companions going "ew yucky" with no real backlash or consequences isn't exactly game ending.

[@acecombat2shill]

a Delta IV Heavy could barely lift Shadow Davey to LEO

[@durandol]

I haven't seen this level of SD related savagery since Jon the Narrator. Poor bastard.

[@a.m.p3313]

You sound like Paul from mitten squad

[@KadeDev]

holy shit the video is out

[@southpawdevelopment]

If you put Hunger of Hadar on The Avatar of Myrkul it nullifies him pretty much. Cant eat hit underlings, can use ranged attacks

[@Kie_za]

with a certain editing style and some story line this would be a movie worthy serie something like yuta from jujutsu kaisen having a body hunted by a spirit that harms everyone around

[@DrLongWang]

Hilarious how easy this game is that once you become equal level to your companion that has multiple actions, infinite spells, and hundreds of health, you’re still stronger solely because you aren’t an ai.

[@olivergartner3346]

I absolutely love your videos.

[@theBigBeepo]

Great video!

[@rk8con]

i have definitely failed that opening check plenty of times LOL

[@scribegeek2557]

Ive been playing act 1 in reverse order for the entire time. I always go to the underdark first.

[@shrimpidimpii]

i am in love with shadow davey

[@ovrsurge4689]

Oh my god the gale shenanigans are incredible. You really right fucked that scenario up from the start.

[@rachelhughes8487]

that first check I actually fail the roll about 40% of the time. I regularly have to go back with Laezel to get Us or sometimes even have Shadowheart go all the way back to try.

[@iristhorne6521]

So the mod I think he is using (companion ai) is supposed to allow you to turn it off. I played with it back in patch 1, and… it did not work. I ended up with Karlach being permanently uncontrollable and she kept pushing and throwing the rest of us. I had to uninstall the mod and when I tried to reinstall it she was still completely insane. It was hilarious until she shoved Astarion into a pit during the final boss and he died instantly.

[@soren-the-author]

HE is BACK

[@anarch1266]

Davey Gunface? Doing a BG3 challenge? Like dream come true.

[@MainManJaggi]

Good seeing you uploading again, Davey.

[@ForTheJerusalem]

As someone who didn't complete BG3 (DND combat is the worst combat system ever imagined and those who made it should be tried for the crimes against humanity), this video is both fun, confusing and understandable at the same time.

[@Riinkz]

Somehow watching this video in 1.2x speed feels a lot more natural.

[@lVideoWatcherl]

I have done the intro on the Nautiloid twice, and both times the check for Us failed. Well, that's that

[@Skyblade12]

So, FYI, the black abyss portrait thing was something I encountered a while ago (two patches, I think?), and did a LOT of experimentation to figure out. And, it's tied to leveling up characters in dark areas. Essentially, if the area was too shaded or obscured, the game applied a shadow effect to the portrait that would last until the next time the character leveled up. Only way to remove it would be to level up the character in a more brightly lit area. If they're at max level? Respec them. Annoying as heck, normally.

[@DaveyGunface]

That's usually the case, from what I know the game actually takes a picture of the characters for their in-game portraits (hence why it changes with armor) and sometimes the game really messes it up. Like you get Minthara or Lae'zel looking like they just woke up from a Zoom call, like they're very far away from the camera, have no emotion at all in their portraits, and their background takes up way too much of the shots space, but this one is just because the skeleton wanted to be abyssal and I respect that

[@orlando71434]

Take all the time you need to handle your personal issues. While you’re KZbin is incredibly enjoyable you should never feel obligated to KZbin when you’re real life is more pressing. I really hope 2025 treats you far far better than this year has

[@CasualNuggit]

Shadow Davey reminds me of 90% of DMPC's just a bit more PKing.

[@EkkusuHayate]

So basically real oldschool DnD experience

[@lixyororke]

Shadow Davey's nickname should be Shadey lmao

[@nightmaredarkflame6472]

I actually rather enjoy giving any other party members (that aren't friend's characters or otherwise) AI control, often they will surprise me with things I didn't think could be done or never really thought about! Can't tell you how many times I've been in this "How am I gonna get out of this situation?" for the AI to pull something random I didn't expect... Or they teleport a short distance, shout something at the enemy and leave me to my demise! Granted things break if you have your character AI controlled, but It'd probably be an interesting run doing something like having your other party members, be them custom or Origin, be AI controlled with say...not so "optimal" builds, see what the AI can pull out of it's magic hat so to speak!

[@DaveyGunface]

I've always been an enthusiast for having the option to have A.I. automated party members, 'Real Time With Pause' games ala the older Baldur's Gates, Pillars of Eternity or Wrath of the Righteous have them and they're decent enough at the game where you can clear trash fights without thinking, but not overpowered enough where the game will literally play itself so you'll likely have to take control during critical fights. I think that's a really good compromise, especially if you can readily switch between the two modes That being said Final Fantasy 12's Gambit system still hasn't been implemented into many (if really any?) AAA RPG's since it's release and that deeply saddens me. I'm not even a big Final Fantasy person but holy shit I wish more games blatantly ripped it off