Baldur’s Gate 3 YouTuber uncovers 15 minutes of fully voiced “impossible” content, and it turns out Karlach’s fourth wall breaking is far from the game’s only hidden scene
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Baldur’s Gate 3 has no ending. I’m convinced of that. Trillions of years from now, when the universe has entered its dark ages and all traces of light and heat have vanished, the last event will be someone writing a Reddit post about how you can make Astarion recite the entire John Galt speech or something if you repeat a ridiculously precise series of inputs.
Hey, it could be in there. But if it is, it’s probably hidden behind an “IMPOSSIBLE” marker. It turns out there are numerous forbidden scenes cut from BG3 – like Karlach’s infamous fourth-wall breaking – that are hidden in the final product by a marker in the game files that literally marks them as impossible. Never to be seen, only speculation possible.
Or not. In fact, it turns out that setting this flag to true makes the impossible possible. You can see the revolution in action in a recent video by YouTuber SlimX, which shows off various fully voiced scenes that Larian never intended to see the light of day.
It’s a 15 minute video that shows all sorts of unseen interactions, including Shadowheart’s reactions when you remove her from the group, which change depending on your approval, Minthara’s interrogation about why you spared her life, and an edited final scene that plays out in the video as if the entire group came together to bully Gale. Everyone speaks up and asks why the stupid wizard is moping after the big bad has been defeated. It’s about time someone asked.
My favorites are probably a couple of wonderfully context-free lines from Gale at camp that SlimX delivers at the very end of the video. While every other “impossible” scene consists of whole lines with obvious context, Gale only has the lines “Mystra” and “The Weave,” which he delivers with the stony seriousness of a court officer serving papers. It’s as if he’s reciting his own motivational points for the character.
Anyway, the video is definitely worth watching if you, like me, still have endless fun with it, how much of this game. With Patch 7 for Baldur’s Gate 3 already in full swing, I suspect we’re far from done discovering Larian’s secrets.
