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  • Watch the incredible Baldur's Gate 3 opening cinematic and see how the story of Larian's upcoming Dungeons & Dragons RPG kicks off!
    #ign #gaming #baldursgate3
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  • @mandarin4679
    @mandarin4679 Před 4 lety +6006

    The first time anyone has thought, “Oh, thank goodness, the red dragons are here!”

    • @GabrielArchon
      @GabrielArchon Před 4 lety +211

      I was rooting for my Squiddy boy there. Illithid, man, they are just... Something else.

    • @redjackal5871
      @redjackal5871 Před 4 lety +10

      Lol

    • @infinix610
      @infinix610 Před 4 lety +234

      @@GabrielArchon They're literally the worst, but I get what you mean. When it showed the carving of their bygone glory days and when the mind flayer looked at its dead kin, I almost felt sorry for it. It was all alone and desperately trying to keep its species alive.

    • @fleau31
      @fleau31 Před 4 lety +57

      nan black dragon are far worst since they won t just kill you out right they make you suffer for days and when they are bored they finish you off whit acid

    • @erickchristensen746
      @erickchristensen746 Před 4 lety +30

      infinix610 They don’t have emotions really, it just took notice that the only other one was dead and then moved on.

  • @BlackHeart1216
    @BlackHeart1216 Před 4 lety +2611

    * Dragons teleport behind you *
    "nothing personnel, squid."

  • @OmusKnowsAll
    @OmusKnowsAll Před 4 lety +1233

    I love how much thought they put into the organic ilithid technology.

    • @thepeterwan
      @thepeterwan Před 4 lety +95

      Yes it was a outstanding detail, the type of details that you imagine when you read about it, but putting on the screen those details it's something amazing.

    • @laurelionothaliondor7308
      @laurelionothaliondor7308 Před 4 lety +2

      I don't know, they are basicaly zerg right now...

    • @thomassierp5583
      @thomassierp5583 Před 4 lety +15

      The old speljammer nautiloids. Very funky.

    • @thomassierp5583
      @thomassierp5583 Před 4 lety

      Tom van de Merbel : actually not so much. The designer was Jeff Grubb who came up with the original design (1989) and said he was largely inspired by Jules Verne. I don’t doubt it’s moderately Giger inspired, but there’s never been any evidence he had anything to do with production.

    • @thomassierp5583
      @thomassierp5583 Před 4 lety

      @Tom van de Merbel sorry, must have misunderstood the meaning of the word literally 😁

  • @moonchild4648
    @moonchild4648 Před 4 lety +144

    I love how the guard at 2:41 is like "I'm gonna sound the alarm in case somone hasn't noticed the giant flying squid-spaceship-thing in the sky"

  • @Caphironeionicus
    @Caphironeionicus Před 4 lety +3437

    >other universes: let's keep it low key, focus on personal stories and politics
    >D&D: did U mean SOME ASTRAL THUGS JUMPING THROUGH PORTALS ON DRAGONS, CHASING A GIANT SQUIDSHIP?

    • @featurelength5086
      @featurelength5086 Před 4 lety +323

      Real talk that's what I want out of fantasy. I came here to seek ancient magic and glory in a realm of mind-shattering weirdness, not play politics

    • @magnuscoles5010
      @magnuscoles5010 Před 4 lety +103

      still doesnt hold a candle to warhammer 40k

    • @hungrydragon9402
      @hungrydragon9402 Před 4 lety +94

      Most fantasy doesnt really keep it low key tho. In almost all fantasy books Ive read the whole world is at stake. I actually prefer more grounded fantasy, which is sadly much more rare. To each their own tho.

    • @Sindor33
      @Sindor33 Před 4 lety +2

      @@hungrydragon9402 WFRP

    • @SimoLInk1698
      @SimoLInk1698 Před 4 lety +5

      @@magnuscoles5010 Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the Giths first appeared in a Games Workshop's magazine

  • @pedroalves6425
    @pedroalves6425 Před 4 lety +627

    Never in my life I´d imagine to see a Nautiloid Spelljammer ship in its full glory.

    • @error5202
      @error5202 Před 4 lety +38

      SPELLJAMMER!

    • @FelipedeVasconcelos
      @FelipedeVasconcelos Před 4 lety +5

      True words, brother!

    • @politesociety
      @politesociety Před 4 lety +12

      I really hope this means we'll finally get to do some traveling between spheres.

    • @thomasjoychild4962
      @thomasjoychild4962 Před 4 lety +46

      YES! Not just me then? That's a Nautiloid-class? Being chased by Githyanki on red dragons, using astral jumps to keep up with it... That's a lore-referencing explosion of awesome I never thought I'd see either.

    • @FreedomAndPeaceOnly
      @FreedomAndPeaceOnly Před 4 lety +9

      Never in my life I'd imagine I see Red Dragons coming to the rescue!
      The Ilithid could have abducted even 100 people more probably.

  • @laughingwarlock
    @laughingwarlock Před 4 lety +281

    The DnD lore runs so deep in this cinematic it's literally insane.

    • @Amantducafe
      @Amantducafe Před 4 lety +18

      Yes, you can make a hours video just explaining who the Mindflayers are.

    • @fumarc4501
      @fumarc4501 Před 4 lety +9

      It was so well done. Very impressive.

    • @captaindeadeye788
      @captaindeadeye788 Před 4 lety +5

      I know enough to recognize mind flayers....thats it tho

    • @Aeneas137
      @Aeneas137 Před 3 lety

      No it's not, millennial dude. Because that literally is not a word.

    • @captaindeadeye788
      @captaindeadeye788 Před 3 lety

      @@Aeneas137 huh what now

  • @Arzzimus
    @Arzzimus Před 4 lety +161

    "race against the clock to prevent Ceramorphosis from setting in for the POV character," OH LOOK A SIDE QUEST

    • @LackeysLack
      @LackeysLack Před 4 lety +23

      Always been a problem with cRPGs.
      "YOU HAVE TO DO THIS AS SOON AS YOU CAN!"
      "Uh huh, let me spend a few months helping all these other random schmucks so I get a big pile of gold and equipment first."
      I mean BG2, your childhood best friend gets kidnapped and put into a prison/lunatic asylum. So what do you do? "Spend a few months grinding up 20,000 gold and leveling."

  • @BuftyFufties
    @BuftyFufties Před 4 lety +520

    That's the fastest 5 minutes I've ever witnessed

    • @RetroWolf13
      @RetroWolf13 Před 4 lety

      Subscribe to my channel I will do the same

    • @TheVosack
      @TheVosack Před 4 lety +2

      Same thought I had when it finished. That and MAKE A MOVIE!

  • @Gurukay
    @Gurukay Před 4 lety +250

    I can't believe it's been almost 20 years since BG2...
    Time flies fast..

    • @bowenandarrow
      @bowenandarrow Před 4 lety +8

      I still remember getting my limited edition box. With my Bodhi poster. I was 14. Nostalgia.

    • @jaredlauziere7191
      @jaredlauziere7191 Před 4 lety +1

      I feel this.

    • @BlobBlobkins
      @BlobBlobkins Před 4 lety

      It hurts!

    • @MrZincosti
      @MrZincosti Před 4 lety +2

      ...and so does the Mindflayer ship

    • @juvenileygo
      @juvenileygo Před 4 lety +4

      @Sebastian Thor thats awesome then. Cus original sin 2 was a bop haha

  • @UndyingWladeslaus
    @UndyingWladeslaus Před 4 lety +488

    Illithids: doing illithid things
    Githyanki: *U W0T M8*

    • @UndyingWladeslaus
      @UndyingWladeslaus Před 4 lety +16

      @Nick Kempster
      Yanki. They seldom ride the red dragons, as they hunt for illithids in the name of vengeance, and allegiance to their lich queen.
      Zerai keep to themselves and follow a bit more isolated, peaceful lifestyle. From what I remember at least.

    • @BohemianStalker
      @BohemianStalker Před 4 lety +4

      @@UndyingWladeslaus In the knowing o
      f teachings of Zerthimon... :)

    • @SebV30
      @SebV30 Před 4 lety

      @Nick Kempster In theory, red dragons are almost always Evil, and Gythyanki tend to go this way, too. In Forgotten Realms, anyway. But throw an Illithid into that, and weird alliances could be forged. So...

    • @Grigeral
      @Grigeral Před 4 lety +1

      Tbf, the Gith probably just want the silver blade back that the captured one has.

    • @PedraoRaiser
      @PedraoRaiser Před 4 lety

      Gihtyanki: *YOU PICKED THE WRONG TOWN FOOL*

  • @Amantducafe
    @Amantducafe Před 4 lety +549

    When you stroll the comment sections you can see most people here play table top D&D and that....is beautiful.

    • @fransende
      @fransende Před 4 lety +3

      @SonOfOdin I'd recommend watching critical role to get a better understanding of what it is, and maybe reading the books and telling some friends, it's great :D

    • @rocinante6980
      @rocinante6980 Před 4 lety +3

      @SonOfOdin critical role is a series here on YT, if you dont have friends irl to play with, i recommend you sign up for roll20, you can play dnd with other people on your computer.

    • @JG-nx3jg
      @JG-nx3jg Před 4 lety

      It's in fashion again, for a while...

    • @duwax
      @duwax Před 4 lety

      DOS2

    • @WynneL
      @WynneL Před 4 lety

      I'm so tabletop I'm wondering if that illithid is actually the Adversary.

  • @thesprawl2361
    @thesprawl2361 Před 4 lety +751

    2:26 - It's Ozymandias, up to his old tricks...giant squids in the sky

  • @ryankrystowski4644
    @ryankrystowski4644 Před 4 lety +546

    Baldur's Gate!
    Illithid nautaloids and the Gith on dragons!!!!
    TAKE MY MONEY!

    • @Meier8Link
      @Meier8Link Před 4 lety +8

      And Take My life ; My soul ; My Wife ; My collection's

    • @jforonda31383
      @jforonda31383 Před 4 lety +11

      I kinda feel this is a Spelljammer reference.

    • @TonyJ1776
      @TonyJ1776 Před 4 lety

      @@jforonda31383 I couldn't remember the name of that subset of rules from ages ago (in my time), thanks. :)

    • @Dreznin
      @Dreznin Před 4 lety +3

      @@jforonda31383 Spelljammer with the nautaloids and Planescape with the Gith. I'm sold.

  • @jinniu
    @jinniu Před 4 lety +137

    I love the fact that all the DnD rules are right there, you can look at them, anyone playing DnD already will really love this.

    • @sanguinesurfer
      @sanguinesurfer Před 4 lety +2

      what?

    • @DNGNDriver
      @DNGNDriver Před 4 lety +6

      Spelljammer has always been one of my favorite settings, even though I've never played second edition. The sheer craziness of some of the stuff in it (biological squid ships like featured in the trailer, galley-style planetside ships floating through space, giant space hamsters and pygmy giant space hamsters) boggles the mind, but none of it feels out of place.

  • @EhurtAfy
    @EhurtAfy Před 4 lety +202

    This is an incredible cinematic dang... especially considering they didn't really need to go so far

  • @LorcanWard
    @LorcanWard Před 4 lety +669

    I am so hyped for this game!! What a glorious and exciting cinematic opening

    • @blackmolly9821
      @blackmolly9821 Před 4 lety +4

      Lorcan Ward people don’t trust trailer anymore

    • @Sibleader
      @Sibleader Před 4 lety +8

      The gameplay is out

    • @zerenadli
      @zerenadli Před 4 lety +5

      Cinematic doesn't represent the quality of the gameplay. Please grow up.

    • @azinez7098
      @azinez7098 Před 4 lety +10

      Z Ξ R Ξ N Λ D L I growing up has nothing to do with this 🤦

    • @TheMaster4999
      @TheMaster4999 Před 4 lety

      @@zerenadli Ahhh? Ok.I think he just wanted to say how the cinematic brings you into the story.

  • @Kuiriel
    @Kuiriel Před 4 lety +570

    I would be happy to just watch a movie of this. Oof, brought a tear to my eye for all the D&D things done right.

    • @rustyaussie86
      @rustyaussie86 Před 4 lety +7

      would love a movie like this!

    • @bluerazzbery
      @bluerazzbery Před 4 lety

      I don't get the D & D stuff. I just played baulders gate dark alliance 1 and 2. this is 3.

    • @DarthBunny314
      @DarthBunny314 Před 4 lety +21

      @@bluerazzbery This is definitely not following in the footsteps of the Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance series, this is a spiritual successor to the RPG games Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 on PC, with more of a Divinity Original Sin vibe as the developers are Larian Studios

    • @mduckernz
      @mduckernz Před 4 lety +2

      @@bluerazzbery Try watching Critical Role, campaign 2 (it's considerably more polished and easier to watch, although I did very much enjoy C1 as well), and then you might get it - it's a D&D game played by voice actors for many many games you will likely have played and enjoyed, some actor-actors, with a high production value, but they play as rules written, so it's not watered down or anything.

    • @johnsilva5020
      @johnsilva5020 Před 4 lety

      Re playing Baldur's gate 1 on PC for the second time around with a totally different crew. Still have all the original boxed stuff in collectors editions of everything BG for PC.

  • @Taurungames
    @Taurungames Před 4 lety +33

    This is the best direction of a chase I've seen in a game cinematic. This is taking video game cinematics to a new level

    • @SomeYouTubeTraveler
      @SomeYouTubeTraveler Před 3 lety +1

      While over in the corner, the "Baldur's Gate" Dark Alliance trailer is like "WOOOO DRIZZT WITH A GOPRO"

  • @misterjoshua5720
    @misterjoshua5720 Před 4 lety +153

    Perfectly sets up the intro to the game. Looks like it is going to be a race against the clock to prevent Ceramorphosis from setting in for the POV character, and the Githyanki warrior also in the same boat. Perhaps you get to rescue some abducted Baldur's Gate residents as well?

    • @swampylogs
      @swampylogs Před 4 lety

      Isn't ceremorphosis supposed to take less than a day? Maybe it will be the first objective, and then fighting back against the flayers

    • @misterjoshua5720
      @misterjoshua5720 Před 4 lety +9

      @@swampylogs depends on whatever lore they decide on using. I remember in the past it could take up to a few weeks for the tadpole to finish consuming and replacing the brain, then the transformation starts in earnest.
      Lemme seee... Aha! According to Volo's, after the tadpole is done eating and takes over as the brain, the transformation takes about a week

    • @JohnSmith-ef6sv
      @JohnSmith-ef6sv Před 4 lety +13

      @@swampylogs It is supposed to happen more rapdily. If you watch the gameplay demo the Gith chick even comments on how they should have been mindflayers by now and something isn't quite normal with the transformation process but we'll just have to wait and play the game to find out what's going on.

    • @platinumsun4632
      @platinumsun4632 Před 4 lety

      @@swampylogs I thought it took a week till you died and then it started puppeting your corpse, using LoM Splatbook as the source.. Thats what 1d4Chan says, Ive only ever played a session of Mines of Phandelver. It appears that BG3 is using a shorter time frame with instant transformations too, I suppose it allows for more tension like The Thing.

    • @JB-xl2jc
      @JB-xl2jc Před 4 lety +1

      @@JohnSmith-ef6sv Usually takes a week. And results in full transformation into an Illithid, though sometimes the process doesn't quite go right (or goes horribly right?) and results in other outcomes, some of which are the precursors to new elder brains.
      However, it seems there are different strains. Larian confirmed that the guard we saw very rapidly transforming in the teaser trailer was subjected to some new kind of rapid version, and the version we get as players is likely different too.
      My two guesses- one, that the pool we see him fishing tadpoles out of was somehow involved in the process, and that when the dragon here burns it, it interrupts or otherwise slows that process.
      Alternatively, maybe we and the other characters were marked as folks from differing backgrounds and great potential power (which makes sense given we know we and our companions will be, well, the protagonists) and instead implanted a variant that is more aimed at mind control. If I were the Illithid, sure getting more Illithid would be great. But I'm interested in conquest. So if I take over a nice little smattering of powerful folks- a couple of humans, a Githyanki, a half-elf, etc etc- and use them as sort of Manchurian Candidate brainwashed spy-agents, then that's potentially EXTREMELY useful to my plans, maybe even more so than another single Illithid. So maybe we're not going to start any kind of transformation right away, and maybe that's all part of the plan... we'll have to see!

  • @dathore
    @dathore Před 4 lety +137

    A Ulithard, driving a spelljammer, with half a pool of dead tadpoles, being chased around by Githianky dragon riders, you had my interest, now you have my attention.

    • @TSFCaesar
      @TSFCaesar Před 4 lety +6

      Don't Ulithard's have 5 fingers and more face tentacles?
      Maybe he's just a Illithid who is (temporarily) released from the Elder Brains control in order to increase the colony's numbers?

    • @Longbowan
      @Longbowan Před 4 lety +3

      SpellJammers was awsome... :)

    • @ferrarriohh
      @ferrarriohh Před 4 lety +2

      technically its a Dreadnaught Nautiloid but i'm too stoked at someone mentioning/noticing a Githyanki. the bitter rivalry of them and Mindflayers!!!! its epic

    • @Longbowan
      @Longbowan Před 4 lety +1

      @@TSFCaesar they have 6 tentacles... this was a normal one. I would hate to go up with Noble one?

    • @TSFCaesar
      @TSFCaesar Před 4 lety

      @@Longbowan An Ulithard is probably an endgame boss!
      Though this Mindflayer does seem special in a way, don't know why.

  • @62Tob
    @62Tob Před 4 lety +1308

    Better dragon's fight in 3 minutes than in all game of thrones serie XD.

    • @Blkmage766
      @Blkmage766 Před 4 lety +11

      F

    • @gregorywright9971
      @gregorywright9971 Před 4 lety +5

      Ya I think they said that was because the Writer guy blew so much time making the last season that they didn’t have the budget to deliver the dragon fights they led fans to believe would come.

    • @jeeroylenkins3081
      @jeeroylenkins3081 Před 4 lety +16

      GoT was absolute trash

    • @johnnymcblaze
      @johnnymcblaze Před 4 lety +17

      @@jeeroylenkins3081 No it wasn't. Only the last two seasons.

    • @hildebrand2252
      @hildebrand2252 Před 4 lety +12

      @@johnnymcblaze It was all downhill from the Red Wedding, but the fall was a slope not an immediate drop in quality.

  • @sushiboy1051
    @sushiboy1051 Před 4 lety +835

    Don’t mind me just wondering why Cthulhu is being chased by the Na’vi tribe riding on Smaug

    • @mandasity
      @mandasity Před 4 lety +218

      because Dumbledore told Goku that the one ring should use the force to go turtle time. Engage.

    • @operator8014
      @operator8014 Před 4 lety +16

      🖕

    • @UndyingWladeslaus
      @UndyingWladeslaus Před 4 lety +81

      Basically:
      1) the squid people enslaved all sorts of humanoids that they decided too weak to turn into more squid people yet too physically weak to be brainless puppets.
      2) Those slaves get side-effected by ageless eons of psionics and astral presence to become green, get long ears and have their own minor psionic TK power.
      3) a lich queen frees them, with a deal to Tiamat to command several red dragons as well.
      4) former slaves and red dragons are now on a hunt for remaining squids after nearly exterminating them from existence.
      Lemme know if I missed anything in the summary.

    • @Cryogenius333
      @Cryogenius333 Před 4 lety +5

      @@UndyingWladeslaus Im afraid I dont know enough about the Githyanki to confirm whether or not your story is accurate.

    • @dropkoo
      @dropkoo Před 4 lety +8

      It's the Goa'uld scourge !

  • @rookere1604
    @rookere1604 Před 4 lety +304

    Honestly this CGI looks even cleaner and better than Blizzards. Well done Larian Studios i grew up playing baldurs gate can't wait for number 3.

    • @rusozawr4969
      @rusozawr4969 Před 4 lety +8

      I love the CGI, but I'd say they use a similar engine if not the same, coz this looks on par with Blizzards. Btw, which Bliz games do u play?

    • @GypsyDaenger
      @GypsyDaenger Před 4 lety +9

      its hard to put this one above the diablo 4 trailer. but its damn near close as hell

    • @UltimaGravitas
      @UltimaGravitas Před 4 lety +6

      No it's not. It's significantly beneath Blizzard's recent outputs such as Diablo 4 Intro and WoW Shadowland's opening.

    • @delectablydiabolical340
      @delectablydiabolical340 Před 4 lety +2

      @@rusozawr4969 They certainly don't use the same engine dude, lol.

    • @rusozawr4969
      @rusozawr4969 Před 4 lety

      @@delectablydiabolical340 aw ok so which one do they use

  • @jforonda31383
    @jforonda31383 Před 4 lety +242

    Okay, so our heros will be stuck in the middle of a conflict between mind flayers and githyanki? You have my attention.

    • @ixaldorran7867
      @ixaldorran7867 Před 4 lety +16

      so will the grub in your brain.

    • @syafiqjabar
      @syafiqjabar Před 4 lety +11

      The main character is likely the one with the first person POV in that trailer.

    • @Rasamith
      @Rasamith Před 4 lety

      Perfect.. wasn't near enough of that in SoA

    • @XX-sp3tt
      @XX-sp3tt Před 4 lety +3

      Go Astral Plane pirates!

    • @FireGirlFashion
      @FireGirlFashion Před 4 lety

      jforonda31383 same, githyanki are my favorite race atm so I am hyped

  • @PartigradeCannon
    @PartigradeCannon Před 4 lety +1180

    Mind Flayers vs Githyanki. Got a real lesser of two evils for the latter.

    • @kanebravo953
      @kanebravo953 Před 4 lety +26

      They are probably actually Githzerai.

    • @ethanwhite2210
      @ethanwhite2210 Před 4 lety +132

      They were riding red dragons. I’m thinking they were the space pirates.

    • @PartigradeCannon
      @PartigradeCannon Před 4 lety +75

      @@kanebravo953 They're riding red dragons.

    • @jonnyb70
      @jonnyb70 Před 4 lety

      they could be githzerai.

    • @ruirui7764
      @ruirui7764 Před 4 lety +14

      @@jonnyb70 zerai don't hunt mindflaiers

  • @calvinhayman7597
    @calvinhayman7597 Před 4 lety +17

    i love how in only a few minutes they set up the terror that is the elithid, but also how few of them there are and how in fear they are of githyanki.

  • @arcanecontent
    @arcanecontent Před 4 lety +268

    DM: As you enter these forlorn halls you are immediately attacked by three mindflayers in the front room. Ok, everyone roll for initiative. (Everyone rolls for initiative. PC Wizard goes first)
    PC Wizard: I cast Fireball at the mindflayers.
    DM: Are you sure you want to do that? The front room in which you are all in is relatively small.
    PC Wizard: I didn't ask how big the room was. I SAID I cast Fireball.

    • @herrbawarec3796
      @herrbawarec3796 Před 4 lety +3

      17lv Wizard and cast Fireball?
      Lame.
      Skull Trap better (17d6).

    • @r.r815
      @r.r815 Před 4 lety +2

      @Cyber Simba 6 just cast firebolt instead

    • @trollzynisaacjohan1793
      @trollzynisaacjohan1793 Před 4 lety +3

      He didn't address level though bro. You get it at level 5 anyways for memory.

    • @SebV30
      @SebV30 Před 4 lety +6

      Second turn
      DM: surprisingly, you are still alive; What do you do?
      PC Wizard: I cast Fireball again.
      DM: What? Are you sure?
      PC Wizard: Positive. Fireball.

    • @vecna2101
      @vecna2101 Před 4 lety +1

      The Wizard is a evoked so: OVERCHANNELL FIREBALL

  • @Arunemor
    @Arunemor Před 4 lety +577

    Fans: Can't wait a VR adaptation.
    Worms in the eyes scene: *Exist*
    Fans: Nope.

    • @invaderchris4898
      @invaderchris4898 Před 4 lety +18

      Jackhein Teodreï VR where you can feel the worms entering your eyes in real time.

    • @GinabasX
      @GinabasX Před 4 lety +25

      @@invaderchris4898 That's not VR, that's just worms in your eye xD

    • @invaderchris4898
      @invaderchris4898 Před 4 lety +4

      ​@@snopphaka Force QA testers to go through the Strogg Transformation scene.

    • @aiden_macleod
      @aiden_macleod Před 4 lety +6

      @@snopphaka I don't really want to feel it when my character get's a limb lobbed off, or shot in the face with a flaming arrow. Really, I don't.

    • @aiden_macleod
      @aiden_macleod Před 4 lety

      @@snopphaka Technology doesn't exist yet, so your comment is speculative, at best.

  • @thexenobunny
    @thexenobunny Před 4 lety +1190

    So uh, who am I rooting for in this? Not a word spoken and I am already compelled by the characters of the Flayer, the captive, and the pursuers. The emotion in their quick gestures is impressive. I would love to see this sequences storyboards!
    ...I'm gonna watch it again :P

    • @Watcher-hh4mu
      @Watcher-hh4mu Před 4 lety +79

      After the cinematic ends, the game starts. The player character is one of the captive prisoners on the flayer ship. You are rooting for your party to defeat the evil mindflayer threat to save the city of Baldur's Gate and perhaps Faerun as well & The Sword Coast.

    • @BuriedFlame
      @BuriedFlame Před 4 lety +84

      Had to chuckle when the mindflayer had to hotwire his rig to port away that first time :P

    • @BuriedFlame
      @BuriedFlame Před 4 lety +35

      @@Watcher-hh4mu _Wake up, Mr. Freeman. Wake up and...smell the illithids…_

    • @Rob6990
      @Rob6990 Před 4 lety +2

      Illithid

    • @1987MartinT
      @1987MartinT Před 4 lety +35

      I'm rooting for the Githyanki. Yes, they can be bad, but the Illithids are worse.

  • @gmwng
    @gmwng Před 4 lety +83

    Finally, Gith lore gets some love!

    • @GarlicReturns
      @GarlicReturns Před 4 lety +4

      I understand what you feel, but they were Giths in Planescape : Torment, BG2, Throne of Bhaal, Hordes of the Underdark and NW2. But they were never involved in the main plot indeed

    • @mr.deadman1973
      @mr.deadman1973 Před 4 lety +2

      @@GarlicReturns Well, they kind of were in NW2 until the last chapter.

  • @feelingweller
    @feelingweller Před 4 lety +68

    Me watching this like: that’s going in my next campaign... and that... and that ship... and that dust ability... yep those dragons too

    • @zorglub105
      @zorglub105 Před 4 lety +9

      Source is Lords of Madness, from 3.5, should you need more info :)

    • @daemosblack
      @daemosblack Před 4 lety +8

      @@zorglub105 and Spelljamer from 2e before that - this is classic D&D and i LOVE it

  • @Gavinwad
    @Gavinwad Před 4 lety +364

    This is probably the coolest D&D video ever created. And SPELLJAMMER is back!

    • @edakraz241
      @edakraz241 Před 4 lety +15

      Nautiloid got me drooling

    • @Kajira26
      @Kajira26 Před 4 lety +6

      Gavin Wadsworth love the Spelljammer concept! ❤️

    • @erickchristensen746
      @erickchristensen746 Před 4 lety +19

      Gavin Wadsworth Maybe we will see some more spelljammers and not just the mind flayers version, we may even end up going into space for a short bit, probably very short as I’m sure this will take place mostly in the sword coast like usual

    • @user-ze3tq9hf9i
      @user-ze3tq9hf9i Před 4 lety +6

      @@erickchristensen746 maybe a DLC on Realmspace?

    • @KingLief75
      @KingLief75 Před 4 lety +4

      RIGHT?!That was my first thought the moment I realized it was a Nautiloid.

  • @mjollnirtsubo
    @mjollnirtsubo Před 4 lety +931

    Baldur's gate 3 announced
    in the distance:
    *"Hey hey people"*

  • @orderofshadow
    @orderofshadow Před 4 lety +461

    Plot twist: it’s a card game.

  • @joesteel7409
    @joesteel7409 Před 4 lety +15

    I love the face that the Githyanki have allied with Red Dragons against the Illithid, so metal:)

    • @joedatius
      @joedatius Před 4 lety +5

      I think this is an established bit of lore in dnd but i also remember the gith who have dragons are also the evil ones

  • @Cruzer91
    @Cruzer91 Před 4 lety +277

    Wow, things really got weird for Zoidberg after Futurama...

    • @elminsteraumar9133
      @elminsteraumar9133 Před 4 lety +19

      After they cancelled futurama he wasn't the same

    • @MikaelGuggenheim
      @MikaelGuggenheim Před 4 lety +5

      This had me laughing. Well done!

    • @на_румб_левее_ветра
      @на_румб_левее_ветра Před 4 lety +1

      Sir, this is the best comment of the day. You get a "golden like" award for this.

    • @jessewalker8854
      @jessewalker8854 Před 4 lety +8

      "Zoidberg, you can't dominate the universe, they said, you aren't COMPETENT enough they said.. AND SO I FLAYED THEM! Now who has the big phlangies EHHH?!"

    • @shanelynch3170
      @shanelynch3170 Před 4 lety +4

      "Help! Friends! A Githyanki tricked me!"

  • @jaddark3898
    @jaddark3898 Před 4 lety +208

    The dragons looked beautiful

    • @snorg70
      @snorg70 Před 4 lety +1

      They really are - they look perfect

    • @Battleguild
      @Battleguild Před 4 lety +11

      It's nice that they actually made Dragons and not Wyverns and calling them "Dragons".

    • @SuperMario0972
      @SuperMario0972 Před 4 lety +3

      could be GOT season 9... ;-)

    • @rsguth
      @rsguth Před 4 lety +1

      Real Dragons, not Wyverns like Skyrim or Got.

    • @redashura9255
      @redashura9255 Před 4 lety

      @@rsguth Even Smaug have body like Wyvern. According to Tolkien, Smaug still Fire Dragon family. Worm, wyrm, serpent, drake, and dragon. I thought it was same. But, Worm doesn't have wings. For example Glaurung The Father of All Dragons.

  • @ZombieWolfe
    @ZombieWolfe Před 4 lety +13

    Not a single word spoken and it was still awesome as hell. Can't wait to play this game.

  • @nicolaj990
    @nicolaj990 Před 4 lety +84

    my d&d campaign litterally this week have been in the middle of a mindflayer and gith war and have lost 2 pc's to a gith riding a red dragon

    • @Aeneas137
      @Aeneas137 Před 3 lety

      That is literally amazing

  • @sananaryon4061
    @sananaryon4061 Před 4 lety +161

    "We cursed Helm when we spotted more shapes on the horizon. We praised him when we realized they were the dragons of the Githyanki!"

    • @RetroWolf13
      @RetroWolf13 Před 4 lety +1

      Subscribe

    • @kassandradrayer983
      @kassandradrayer983 Před 4 lety +1

      Gith are one of my favorite races

    • @scoopitywoop5665
      @scoopitywoop5665 Před 4 lety +1

      hyena pancakes GITH GANG GITH GANG GITH GANG

    • @kassandradrayer983
      @kassandradrayer983 Před 4 lety

      @@scoopitywoop5665 githyanki or githzeri

    • @scoopitywoop5665
      @scoopitywoop5665 Před 4 lety +2

      @@kassandradrayer983 Personally I really like the githyanki. I love their whole space pirate thing, and as a whole I feel like they're a lot more fleshed out than the githzerai. I'm actually playing a githyanki arcane archer rn that I modeled after Space Dandy.

  • @inkedolympia23
    @inkedolympia23 Před 4 lety +287

    4:06 coolest thing I've seen in a while

    • @TheDuggenator
      @TheDuggenator Před 4 lety +18

      I guess you need to rewatch avatar

    • @jeremyiftody6026
      @jeremyiftody6026 Před 4 lety +5

      Hanshugos lol what? The movie is not that amazing just a very long cgi ballad.

    • @TheDuggenator
      @TheDuggenator Před 4 lety +13

      @@jeremyiftody6026 at 4:06 where the link happens. it's exactly like in avatar. that's just what I was pointing out

    • @jeremyiftody6026
      @jeremyiftody6026 Před 4 lety +1

      Hanshugos oof my bad haha I thought you were talking about it as a whole.

    • @edvargas4159
      @edvargas4159 Před 4 lety +8

      Hanshugos the hair connecting with the plants and animals in Avatar? That has some sexual connotations.

  • @xxdrbadassxx
    @xxdrbadassxx Před 4 lety +204

    Was it bad that I was kinda rooting for the mindflayer

    • @antongrishin7925
      @antongrishin7925 Před 4 lety +44

      Both parties are very evil, so...

    • @juvenileygo
      @juvenileygo Před 4 lety +22

      Theyre kinda dumb. He/she doesnt even close the baby cauldron after using it. Survival instinct is far worse than earth animal

    • @erikwilliams1562
      @erikwilliams1562 Před 4 lety +3

      Yes

    • @jamescanjuggle
      @jamescanjuggle Před 4 lety +3

      I was doing the same actually

    • @helpfulDeathgod
      @helpfulDeathgod Před 4 lety

      @@juvenileygo You know you're physically capable of using the word "they" right?

  • @vonbyorn9098
    @vonbyorn9098 Před 4 lety +10

    OMG, the most suspenseful trailer I've ever seen. If only this was a full-length movie. TAKE MY MONEY!

  • @FirstLast-cg2nk
    @FirstLast-cg2nk Před 4 lety +138

    The Mind Flayers once ruled a vast, multi-galaxy spanning empire. However, the Aboleths, the eldest beings in existence, possessing an unbroken memory of everything that has ever happened, ever, *have no memory of it.* Meaning that either the Mind Flayers somehow purged the Aboleths' memories of it, or the Mind Flayers are time travelers, and the Empire happens in the future. *That means that this could all just be the prelude for the dawn of the Mind Flayer Empire.*

    • @midas6753
      @midas6753 Před 4 lety +7

      Great theory they could also secretly be older than aboleths though right?

    • @WarmasterDeath
      @WarmasterDeath Před 4 lety +14

      or, alternatively, they're just the best liars known to all living things. the genius squidfaced bastards

    • @Scarletraven87
      @Scarletraven87 Před 4 lety +3

      Stop trying to be overly dramatic. You even failed to explain it properly.

    • @brianmayabella5992
      @brianmayabella5992 Před 4 lety

      The mindflayer itself. Thank you

    • @jamescanjuggle
      @jamescanjuggle Před 4 lety

      Man that sounds so cool

  • @bossmanjan2521
    @bossmanjan2521 Před 4 lety +191

    Githyanki, you horrid, semi-immortal slavers and lich worshippers from another plane, thank you for being more devoted to the eradication of the OTHER horrid slavers from another time than murdering us. Thank you.

    • @TheJerbol
      @TheJerbol Před 4 lety +37

      For real, the humans are like, "Maybe if we stand still, neither of them will see us."

    • @ravelordneato4107
      @ravelordneato4107 Před 4 lety

      They could be Githzerai and I am leaning to think they are. Githyanki often use silver swords that can change shape, while the ones in the video were all unarmed, just like Githzerai (most of them are monks) would be
      EDIT: although, would make no sense that they'd ride evil dragons and i THINK ithat the githyanki had more reasons to be at war with the Illithid

  • @civilwildman
    @civilwildman Před 4 lety +108

    Ceremorphosis... read about it in the 3.5 edition sourcebook "Lords of Madness." Never thought I'd see how it begins in a game... Excuse me while I go throw up. :S

    • @lilrosebush
      @lilrosebush Před 4 lety

      Uhhhhh explain!!

    • @seneris
      @seneris Před 4 lety +26

      @@lilrosebush Lords of Madness was a 3.5 supplement all about aberrations. It was like a monster manual but where different aberrations got entire chapters instead of 1/2 page entries that detail their biology, societies, variant formes, relations with other species, etc. The Illithid chapter explains how new Mind Flayers are born (made?), and it's basically what you see in the video. A tadpole is forcibly inserted into the host, and it slowly gestates in their brain and becomes a mind flayer

    • @civilwildman
      @civilwildman Před 4 lety +24

      @@seneris Correct. To summarize the entry in "Lords of Madness," the tadpole is inserted in the eye of the victim/host (normally a captured humanoid), as shone in this cinematic, but can also be inserted in the victim's ear or nostril. From there, it burrows through the host's skull and devours the gray matter of the host's brain, which nourishes the tadpole and allows it to grow at alarming rate. After several days (maybe about a week; the length is not specified), the massively growing tadpole has consumed all of the victim's brain up to its lower brainstem, which the tadpole becomes "neurologically melded" with the remainder and takes over the host's body, turning it into a full-blown illithid.

    • @Tobbit
      @Tobbit Před 4 lety +1

      @@civilwildman damn... is it removable?

    • @bradleyhall1815
      @bradleyhall1815 Před 4 lety +1

      @@Tobbit no and the person who's body is taken is effectively dead and their soul passed on.

  • @Art-ui3ek
    @Art-ui3ek Před 4 lety +16

    Go for the eyes larva, GO FOR THE EYES!!

  • @Kablash
    @Kablash Před 4 lety +202

    "Camaraderie, adventure, and steel on steel. The stuff of legend! Right Boo?"

    • @callumdonington2227
      @callumdonington2227 Před 4 lety +17

      Go for they eyes boo! The eyes!

    • @bakanu
      @bakanu Před 4 lety +11

      The squeaky wheel gets the kick

    • @popkhorne5372
      @popkhorne5372 Před 4 lety +1

      Wow, do english people actually use the word "camaraderie" ? Im surprised here

    • @manemperorofmankind8119
      @manemperorofmankind8119 Před 4 lety +2

      Pop Khorne I use it all the time, intact it’s the reason I prefer anime over “TV”

    • @ivanangeli
      @ivanangeli Před 4 lety +8

      hamsters and rangers everywere, rejoice! :)

  • @cpb1000
    @cpb1000 Před 4 lety +147

    Joe: completes daily task in laboratory/tourture chamber.
    Joe: walks out door.
    Dave: passed out
    Joe: internal *sigh* Dave's sleeping on the job again.

    • @mr.anderson2218
      @mr.anderson2218 Před 4 lety +6

      Betato The Random i scrolled to your comment right as joe was leaving the room, thank you for this experience

    • @VintageNarwhal
      @VintageNarwhal Před 4 lety

      Honestly I knew it wasn’t what was actually happening but that’s where my mind went.

  • @simmonslucas
    @simmonslucas Před 4 lety +4

    I love that the first face you see is a Gith. They are my favorite race!

  • @tigerbomb909
    @tigerbomb909 Před 4 lety +21

    As a huge fan of D&D, and an individual who is obsessed with D&D lore (especially mind flayers) I can say with absolute certainty:
    This is the coolest thing I have ever seen

    • @ricoco7891
      @ricoco7891 Před 4 lety

      Tigerbomb Oh I can imagine. You probably never expected to see anything as glorious as this, in full CG no less!

  • @Typowritr
    @Typowritr Před 4 lety +79

    That Wilhelm scream at 3:01 🤣

    • @videogollumer
      @videogollumer Před 4 lety +4

      Wow, it's so faint compared to the other screaming that I'm surprised you noticed it!

    • @MsHojat
      @MsHojat Před 4 lety

      Oh yeah; I didn't even notice it. Maybe it's just a sound-alike?

    • @IRedpunk
      @IRedpunk Před 4 lety

      Mshojat no its a wilhem scream, noticed it the first I saw it on the pax video

  • @hithere8753
    @hithere8753 Před 4 lety +5

    And that's why they call it Dungeons and Dragons. Illithids always freaked me out, I am very excited for this.

  • @Aethgeir
    @Aethgeir Před 4 lety +7

    This looks so great! The Illithids are one of my favorite D&D races and pieces of lore. Love to see a game finally exploring this!

    • @Razshagaul
      @Razshagaul Před 4 lety

      I've never really seen much done with the Illithid race in games (not the table-top games you play at home or in game stores, but MMOs and games like this), so it's nice having them be a central part of something. They're my favorite race too, and since the tadpole in your brain is a major plot-device, I plan on trying to make a character either become a Mind Flayer or the equivalent of one, since becoming an Illithid probably means you lose the game. That'd be my guess, anyways.

    • @Aethgeir
      @Aethgeir Před 4 lety

      @@Razshagaul Man it would be awesome if you could keep playing as the illithid :D

  • @jon_ovo3653
    @jon_ovo3653 Před 4 lety +85

    I don’t even know what this is and it gave me so many chills when they flew in on those dragons

    • @maksphoto78
      @maksphoto78 Před 4 lety +12

      That, my friend, was a dragon.

    • @jon_ovo3653
      @jon_ovo3653 Před 4 lety +2

      maksphoto78 hahaha hobbit smooth reference 😳

    • @clarkside4493
      @clarkside4493 Před 4 lety +7

      in short, the squid guys abduct people to turn them into more squid guys (illithid/mind flayer). However, the yellow girl and her species (Githyanki) wage eternal war against the illithid, even making a deal with the devil for dragon allies. The Githyanki are not nice, but they're less "not nice" than the mind flayers. (Edit: Githyanki are also space pirates).

  • @Tiger1AuasfE
    @Tiger1AuasfE Před 4 lety +255

    Awesome trailer, this game is going to rock.

    • @Sothpawman
      @Sothpawman Před 4 lety +9

      No.. its not. Unless you want to play Divinity Original sin 2 again.

    • @Tiger1AuasfE
      @Tiger1AuasfE Před 4 lety +22

      @@Sothpawman I wonder what you are going to do if it will rock?

    • @Lykosas
      @Lykosas Před 4 lety +5

      @@Sothpawman It all boils down to preference. You or we are not the judges of someones likes or dislikes.

    • @RomainDelmaire
      @RomainDelmaire Před 4 lety +17

      @@Sothpawman No matter how much I love those cRPG style game...I'd rather play Divinity Original Sin 2 again honestly.
      That kind of gameplay just didn't age well, whether you like it or not.
      Even the games that try to revive that genre (Pillars of Eternity) bring enough new elements to make it modern.
      If you think Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 are just so perfect, then you should just replay them, because no matter what, if the third one is a bit different, you're probably going to hate it anyway.

    • @RomainDelmaire
      @RomainDelmaire Před 4 lety +6

      @STE1THxD They had a pretty lengthy gameplay reveal today so you can already see what the game's going to be.

  • @danielsheraton5433
    @danielsheraton5433 Před 4 lety +1

    This has been one of the most satisfying trailers I have ever seen. Had you also squeezed in an astral dreadnaught I would have passed out from over excitement.

  • @Justinius117
    @Justinius117 Před 4 lety +23

    "Now I know why people fear the Somnium Tenebris when crossing the Sea of Stars" - Cutter, soldier of the Chain of Acheron.

  • @Rob6990
    @Rob6990 Před 4 lety +58

    Githyanki, Dragons, Illithid, Half Orcs, Baldur's Gate 3!
    YES! YEEES!

  • @huntertuggle2667
    @huntertuggle2667 Před 4 lety +378

    If you were a fan of Divinity, the gameplay looked like a more polished version of that, but with more options.

    • @ThiefofCrystals
      @ThiefofCrystals Před 4 lety +76

      Welp, I'm sold. Divinity Original Sin 2 already blew me away.

    • @huntertuggle2667
      @huntertuggle2667 Před 4 lety +4

      @Tic Tac Have both games on my Xbox. Really great games, I wish I could zoom in more.

    • @JB-xl2jc
      @JB-xl2jc Před 4 lety +2

      More options than DOS:2 already had? I can’t even conceive of that, my mind is blown by the mere suggestion

    • @huntertuggle2667
      @huntertuggle2667 Před 4 lety +1

      @@theiriscen IGN Baldur's Gate PAX livestream. Should be on CZcams.

    • @sifodyas1576
      @sifodyas1576 Před 4 lety +1

      Is the gameplay going to be like dark alliance?

  • @A1Qicks
    @A1Qicks Před 4 lety +4

    When I started a campaign with spelljamming mind flayers 3 years ago, I wasn't expecting them to make a damn game out of it.

  • @tntalchemist
    @tntalchemist Před 4 lety +1

    Hot damn. I've watched this back to back about 3 times now. This cinematic is absolutely top tier. They did not need to go that hard making this, but I'm so glad they did

  • @slayer0235
    @slayer0235 Před 4 lety +75

    2:40- "I SURVE THE FLAMIN- Oh gods, what is that!?"

    • @RandoGrunt
      @RandoGrunt Před 4 lety +3

      "EVERY CRIME MUST BE PUNI-- Helm save us!"

  •  Před 4 lety +52

    That's the best cinematic game trailer I have seen in some time, and I'm as old as D&D.

    • @MrLockdd
      @MrLockdd Před 4 lety

      that means you don't watch much game cinematics :D try some wow cinematics

    • @ablet85
      @ablet85 Před 4 lety +1

      Stuff WoW best trailer intro still has to be for its time Onimusha 3 intro trailer. 4K version on CZcams still holds up to this day.

    •  Před 4 lety +1

      @@MrLockdd chuckle. I've seen those... and I hold by my appraisal. WOW used to have the only cinematics worth talking about back in the day, now... they're... a... little... pedestrian. (Shadowlands wasn't great; Runs from the wow-boy flames!) ;)

  • @leonwija3044
    @leonwija3044 Před 3 lety +2

    Unit image has done an amazing job with this trailer 👌

  • @ixxgxx
    @ixxgxx Před 4 lety +18

    1:24. Who hear remembers THE WRATH OF KHAN scene?

    • @beaumains7896
      @beaumains7896 Před 4 lety +1

      Oh, not all at once, ...and not ...instantly, to be sure.

  • @broadsidedarth7801
    @broadsidedarth7801 Před 4 lety +35

    Holyshit! Dragon riding Githyanki battling it out with illithids in the skies of faerun! Shut up and take my money!

  • @fjLKA
    @fjLKA Před 4 lety +157

    So cool, seeing a modern and fully animated Spelljammer.

    • @VladTepes151
      @VladTepes151 Před 4 lety +5

      I hope this means we're going to see new spelljammer rules for 5e.

    • @Redfire085
      @Redfire085 Před 4 lety +4

      I'm so glad I'm not the only one to recognize the Nautiloid.

    • @ViktorTheMusician
      @ViktorTheMusician Před 4 lety +6

      @@VladTepes151 Chris Perkins, when referring to his new D&D liveplay show [D&D Presents], said he's "going to include things from books that haven't been released yet, like Spelljammer."
      So seeing as he works on the dang things I'd say it's pretty much confirmed.

    • @VladTepes151
      @VladTepes151 Před 4 lety

      @@ViktorTheMusician Seriously? Thank you for the info! I can't wait.

    • @fanusobscurus4309
      @fanusobscurus4309 Před 4 lety

      Kinda weird that its partially alive though... when did they start getting ships from the Elven Armada?

  • @midgardrson93
    @midgardrson93 Před 4 lety +15

    I haven't had such chills for a game cinematic in a loooong time. So excited!

  • @sandrowolf2642
    @sandrowolf2642 Před 4 lety +8

    So guys, looks like we all have to get 11 Int again.

  • @poorwowgameplay
    @poorwowgameplay Před 4 lety +54

    Best part of the trailer was Jake Ghyllenhal in his role as scared tower guard.

  • @tennooperator8182
    @tennooperator8182 Před 4 lety +114

    This is the RPG that we need now and days cause most of them are halfed assed.
    Baldurs Gate is back baby

    • @SHULZ021
      @SHULZ021 Před 4 lety +1

      @Blayze47 heck yeah even after a two decade long hiatus.

    • @samsalin
      @samsalin Před 4 lety +8

      Only a few companys can put out the gems that Larian studios puts out

  • @paulorego9334
    @paulorego9334 Před 4 lety +13

    That is officially the best game intro cinematic I have ever seen in my life...

    • @djbreakfastca
      @djbreakfastca Před 4 lety

      While i agree this is top top quality stuff, and are more excited about this game than the upcoming diablo 4 from blizzard, the intro cinematic for diablo 4 is by far the best intro cinematic ever made in my humble opinion :) check it out if you haven't already.

  • @ostapolkhovskyi3427
    @ostapolkhovskyi3427 Před 4 lety

    I can't even describe how awesome this is! Music, video, details... Wonderful!

  • @King_Thulsa_Doom
    @King_Thulsa_Doom Před 4 lety +60

    I might have to include that Mind Flayer Flying Nautilus vehicle in my D&D campaign now.
    I never imagined they could be so badass.

    • @Nytwulf
      @Nytwulf Před 4 lety

      My party fought on one a while back. It crashed and now they're dealing with the consequences/survivors

    • @ViktorTheMusician
      @ViktorTheMusician Před 4 lety +5

      I have a crashed one my players are heading toward (they don't know that it's a Nautiloid, just that there's an artifact they need from somewhere).
      I actually didn't know whether or not images of them existed, so I drew my own version of it using the description in Mordenkainnens Tome of Foes and seeing pretty much the same thing made me FLIP.

    • @fraidnaught9067
      @fraidnaught9067 Před 4 lety

      @@ViktorTheMusician there are images of them from old Spelljammer books/modules.

    • @oOPPHOo
      @oOPPHOo Před 4 lety

      I wonder if I should stat those tendrils How does it "beam" you up? Is it a dex or con save? Wis or int? or does it simply deal more damage than the avarage commoner/guard can manage and teleports you if it knocks you out? I lean towards the latter. Maybe it doesn't even do damage and just works like the sleep spell.

    • @King_Thulsa_Doom
      @King_Thulsa_Doom Před 4 lety +1

      @@oOPPHOo Once, while my group was in Mechanus, they fought a homebrew mechanical jailer who could magically stun them and teleport them into nearby Jail cells where previouly captured demons or mindflayers would naturally try to kill them. The cell doors were magical barriers, so they could break or dispel it, but they had to contend with the prisoners first just so they could escape.
      It got very Chaotic to say the least.

  • @Flayne009
    @Flayne009 Před 4 lety +146

    Looks like a Spelljammer ship. Overall, this looks awesome.

    • @BionicDirector117
      @BionicDirector117 Před 4 lety +17

      Nautiloids are a type of spelljammer I believe.

    • @misterjoshua5720
      @misterjoshua5720 Před 4 lety +5

      @@BionicDirector117 You believe correctly, but it appears that the Nautiloid ship in this was Plane Shifting (perhaps to the Shadowfell?) to escape the Githyanki, which is not usual for Spelljamming vessels (which only allow travel between the Phogiston and other crystal spheres).

    • @Psychohistorian42
      @Psychohistorian42 Před 4 lety +4

      @@misterjoshua5720 If memory serves, Nautiloids didn't have actual tentacles either; this might be something new. Or... well, very very old, given the Illithids' history.

    • @misterjoshua5720
      @misterjoshua5720 Před 4 lety +3

      @@Psychohistorian42 Looking at some of the old art, it appears the ships had a prow ram that was made to look like twisted together tentacles.
      But that sounds boring and the illithids deserve a more noodley vessel, I think we can all agree! :)

    • @nickolascampbell1837
      @nickolascampbell1837 Před 4 lety +1

      Mister Joshua I believe the ships could teleport within the spheres just not from one to the other

  • @Pepitobenito
    @Pepitobenito Před 4 lety +5

    I know nothing of DnD lore or Forgotten Realms or even any of the previous Baldur's Gate games, but damn, this looks refreshingly awesome. And Larian developing? Oh my stars.

    • @Falkenhorst2000
      @Falkenhorst2000 Před 4 lety +1

      Trust me, what they just depicted in this trailer was some of the most obscure and awesome lore in the books, and they depicted it faithfully! You have every right to be hyped :D

  • @kylemerkley2548
    @kylemerkley2548 Před 4 lety +7

    That was so awesome. It's been 20 years since BG2, the best CRPG of all time; "Ah, the child of Bhaal has awoken...". Mindflayers are some of the toughest foes in the D&D universe, you need protection against charm/domination etc. to have a chance, your best bet though is to edge towards the fog of war slowly to try and pull one at a time.

    • @At0mHeart
      @At0mHeart Před 4 lety +1

      I cheesed those mined flayer areas in the sewers so hard

    • @chuckwood3426
      @chuckwood3426 Před 4 lety

      Or you could summon some undead. Undead are immune to both psionics and life drain so the Illithids can barely do anything by themselves. If they have umberhulks they still stand a chance, but alone they are screwed.

    • @kylemerkley2548
      @kylemerkley2548 Před 4 lety

      @@chuckwood3426 Wow Chuck, I didn't know that, very clever, gonna have to try that next playthrough

  • @KerrSG1
    @KerrSG1 Před 4 lety +74

    Holy crap, is that the Githyanki fighting the Illithid!??!? FINALLY THE BATTLE I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!!! I loved playing a Githzerai in one campaign.

    • @N0TS0uh
      @N0TS0uh Před 4 lety +4

      Gith dog, you cannot stop the rise of the illithid empire!

    • @marcoflorian5182
      @marcoflorian5182 Před 4 lety +3

      @@N0TS0uh I want to play as a illilith 😍😍😍

    • @VandalAudi
      @VandalAudi Před 4 lety

      Why does that surprise you? The gith (yanki and zerai) hates and hunted the illithid since they rebelled from their slavery.

    • @dominicl5862
      @dominicl5862 Před 4 lety +1

      @@N0TS0uh NOOOOO gith will destroy u

    • @N0TS0uh
      @N0TS0uh Před 4 lety +1

      @@dominicl5862 such delusions die with there race.

  • @evo2542
    @evo2542 Před 4 lety +255

    Looks badass. Reminds me of the old Blizzard with the feels.

    • @Razer5542
      @Razer5542 Před 4 lety +5

      @@whatsacone Yes.

    • @simplixity8744
      @simplixity8744 Před 4 lety

      The Elder scroll series is a closer style comparison. Unless the comment was just ment to hate on blizzard

    • @tricknick9211
      @tricknick9211 Před 4 lety +7

      probably best to not mention blizzard right now.........or ever.

    • @jacobpamplin6449
      @jacobpamplin6449 Před 4 lety +29

      @@VectorGhost they said old blizzard, remember, they used to be decent.

    • @josephmadera9689
      @josephmadera9689 Před 4 lety +8

      Oh blizzard you mean that communist Chinese company? 😑😐

  • @Oba936
    @Oba936 Před 4 lety +2

    I completly forgot that I was watching a trailer for a game. Nice! And I loooove the Illithid!

  • @chaos_connections9057
    @chaos_connections9057 Před 4 lety +4

    After 20 years of waiting, finally the third installment of the greatest video game series ever made. I can't wait.

  • @k.f.kobold7910
    @k.f.kobold7910 Před 4 lety +126

    NO NO NOT IN MY EYE!!!!! AAARREEGGGHHHHH!!
    Super stoked for this, though!

    • @StirrCrazy90
      @StirrCrazy90 Před 4 lety

      @oh... Wow...

    • @civilwildman
      @civilwildman Před 4 lety +3

      According to "Lords of Madness," an illithid tadpole (what those worm-looking things were) can be inserted through the eye as well as the nose or ear. Either way, the tadpole needs to reach the host's brain, where it devours gray matter and finally attaches to the brain stem, which is when it finally format's the host brain and becomes a full-grown illithid/mind flayer.

  • @lunarservant6781
    @lunarservant6781 Před 4 lety +34

    3:02
    Ah, there goes Wilhem. man was only a squire for a whole day too :(

  • @EpicTetsu
    @EpicTetsu Před 4 lety +2

    Holy crap...now this is a surprise. It's been forever. Trailer looks amazing.

  • @TheCsePower
    @TheCsePower Před 4 lety +3

    "I am The Swarm. Armies will be shattered. Worlds will burn. Vengeance shall be mine."

  • @kmoustakas
    @kmoustakas Před 4 lety +12

    Spelljammin, spelljammin, I wanna spelljamin with you, I hope you like spelljammin, too!

  • @iconocast
    @iconocast Před 4 lety +92

    when the gith show up daaaym

    • @Rob6990
      @Rob6990 Před 4 lety +2

      Daaayyyymmnn!!!!

    • @chaTzon
      @chaTzon Před 4 lety +2

      @@Rob6990 daaaaaaaaayyyymmmm!!!

  • @flibbernodgets7018
    @flibbernodgets7018 Před 4 lety

    This makes me so happy. I've been watching a lot of lore videos from people like A.J. Pickett and Mr Rhexx about spelljammer, planescape, and similar topics, so I actually know what's going on! I love crazy fantasy like this that goes way beyond just swords and horses and the occasional wizard, and here they have realized that fantasy very well.

  • @TigerGoblin
    @TigerGoblin Před 3 lety +1

    I guess the dragon rider forgot to gather his party before venturing forth.

  • @wolfinstedd
    @wolfinstedd Před 4 lety +135

    Dnd forgotten reams meet spelljamer , I’m happy

    • @Harkmagic
      @Harkmagic Před 4 lety +15

      The planeshifting says Planescape too. This is going to be ridiculous. I can't wait.

    • @aaroncorcoran5103
      @aaroncorcoran5103 Před 4 lety +1

      I’m not the only one! Thank you!

  • @membley8421
    @membley8421 Před 4 lety +31

    That was an amazingly captivating cinematic. No words spoken but you could literally "feel" the 5 minutes of it.
    I'm excited!

  • @manemperorofmankind8119
    @manemperorofmankind8119 Před 4 lety +2

    Nothing quite like a Airship being chased by 3 dragons to wake you up on a saturday morning

  • @andrewkuhlmann7395
    @andrewkuhlmann7395 Před 4 lety +74

    When does this drop on Netflix, Amazon, HBO, Showtime... who's got this show? This is how you make sci-fi/fantasy!!! To all you gamers -ENJOY!!!

    • @TSFCaesar
      @TSFCaesar Před 4 lety +1

      Would be kickass if we got a series of this quality, but with the current situations I seriously doubt anyone dares to try!
      Least we'll get this utter gem of a game!

  • @toanmaid5451
    @toanmaid5451 Před 4 lety +38

    "The illithids are our most hated enemy"

  • @tubemailme
    @tubemailme Před 4 lety +4

    ...cant wait to build my character...cant wait to swing my sword,...cant wait to cast protection from evil...cant wait for casting a delayed blast fireball....cant wait to bleed....cant wait to heal...cant wait for the darkest darkness Baldurs Gate 3

  • @UnclePutte
    @UnclePutte Před 4 lety +2

    Owwie, my eye... and wow, that was a Wilhelm scream there too! Haha.

  • @FaIheim
    @FaIheim Před 4 lety +30

    Beautiful CGI

  • @WeOnlyEatSoup
    @WeOnlyEatSoup Před 4 lety +4

    That was the coolest intro I have seen in a long time. This game looks glorious!