Neil Newbon, the actor behind Astarion from Baldur's Gate 3, has completed his two-year-long playthrough of the game and surprise, surprise, he loved it.
With all due respect to Newbon, there's very little that hasn't been said about the greatness of Baldur's Gate 3. The game was a triumphant sweep at all of the major game award shows from 2023, topped many GOTY lists that year, and scooped up all sorts of other prestigious awards for various elements like music, performances, and narrative. Still, it's neat to hear Newbon's unique perspective as someone who worked on the game since 2019 as an actor.
"There won't be another game like this either ever, or for a very, very, very long time," Newbon remarked as the credits rolled on what appears to be his first-ever completion of the Baldur's Gate 3 campaign (thanks, FRVR). "There's a lot of things that went right initially to make this game possible ... Hell of an adventure, folks. Hell of an adventure. Yeah, one of my all-time favorite greatest games ever." Newbon added, "it is, what I would define, in retrospect, a perfect game."
Newbon began his 126-part playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3 more than two years ago, playing as a half-elf druid named Bow'ee alongside his friend and horror writer Tom de Ville. The duo agreed that they probably wouldn't embark on a new save file any time soon, as Baldur's Gate 3 is "a two-year game, we found out" but Newbon said he'll be "exploring" the extensive collection of mods available online in his personal time. After a second of thought, he then admitted another Baldur's Gate 3 run with "the stupidest mods we could find" would be "fun," and as much as I sympathize with Newbon and the potentially enormous loss of his free time, I wholeheartedly agree that that sounds very fun indeed.
