Baldur’s Gate 3 has been out for over two years now, however followers’ enthusiasm for the sprawling RPG stays strong–as is the case with one fan who has spent untold hours documenting and quantifying all of the spoken dialogue within the sport.
Redditor Everwhite-moonlight has taken the time to catalogue the sport’s in depth spoken dialogue followers, calling the labor-intensive process a celebration of Larian’s work. The completed spreadsheet arranges the characters so as from most to least talking time, which reveals simply how a lot our vampire pal Astarion loves to speak.
It is unsurprising that Amelia Tyler’s Narrator, whose voice is ever-present via Baldur’s Gate 3 as the sport’s pseudo-DM, has probably the most strains of dialogue, clocking in at a complete of 14 hours and 43 minutes of talking time. What’s stunning is how (comparatively) shut behind her Astarion sits, with a whopping 13 hours and 6 minutes of dialogue for the Neil Newbon-voiced vampire companion.
Regardless of her reminiscence points, Shadowheart is the next-chattiest companion, whereas returning favourite Minsc has the least dialogue of all of the companions. The full spreadsheet has another attention-grabbing surprises, such because the entry for “Rat” having virtually three hours of distinctive dialogue and rating above main characters like The Emperor and Raphael–a strong reminder that we should always positively forged Communicate With Animals extra typically.
The complete tally of spoken dialogue involves 236 hours, 55 minutes, and 45 seconds–almost 10 days price of voice strains unfold throughout 2068 characters.
If tallying the size of all of the information wasn’t sufficient work, Everwhite-moonlight additionally created a seperate document that transcribes every particular person voice line within the sport, cross-referencing them with their cue ID for anybody who desires to discover a particular line within the sport information.
Regardless of its age, Baldur’s Gate 3 has been nominated for The Recreation Awards 2025, choosing up a nod for Greatest Group Help. Developer Larian Studios seems to be gearing as much as announce one thing new at The Recreation Awards this 12 months, with clues pointing to a brand new Divinity sport.