![]() ![]() The ramifications of your choices are always evident and often monumental. Unless of course they all end up dead within the first 20 hours thanks to your actions (or your inaction), dramatically changing the flavour of the whole adventure. This is especially true of the band of refugees you meet near the start of the game, who you'll bump into again and again, leaving a significant mark. ![]() Seemingly throwaway characters met in the opening hours can end up playing incredibly important parts of the overarching story, cropping up all over the place. Though each is distinctive, it's impressive how much carries over from act to act, depending on your actions. The relentless variety of the quests feels like 10 different tabletop campaigns combined, but Larian manages to keep things surprisingly cohesive, weaving hundreds of disparate threads together. But this urban setting also provided its own unique adventures full of political intrigue and criminal turf wars. ![]() Once I reached Baldur's Gate itself, in Act 3, I spent a good chunk of time trying to find the dismembered body parts of a murdered clown, in a quest that started off full of laughs and quickly veered into the horrific. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.Horror is always waiting in the wings no matter what act you're adventuring in. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. ![]()
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