Somebody has calculated precisely what number of hours of recorded dialogue there are in Baldur’s Gate 3, a job so unnecessarily giant that even Larian Studios hadn’t performed it earlier than.
As reported by PC Gamer, Everwhite-moonlight put together a spreadsheet breaking down all of the dialogue within the recreation: who spoke it, how lengthy the dialogue is, even what number of information they communicate in.
This survey leads to some fascinating details surfacing: it is unsurprising that the narrator, Amelia Tyler, has essentially the most dialogue at 14 hours, 43 minutes, and 55 seconds. Behind her, although, is Astarion, voiced by Neil Newbon, with 13 hours, six minutes, and 23 seconds. And behind him is Shadowheart, with 12 hours, 25 minutes, and 26 seconds. The smallest quantity of dialogue is a many-way tie between quite a few NPCs that every one have just one second of dialogue, together with 4 totally different Thoughts Flayer NPCs. In complete, the sport incorporates 236 hours, 55 minutes, and 45 seconds of spoken voice strains.
Each voice actor is catalogued in right here, together with small strains by random NPCs and even minimize dialogue. One thriller that is arisen, per Everwhite-moonlight, is who precisely voices which Large Rat NPC within the recreation. “There are 4 situations of a personality named ‘Large Rat,’ and there are 4 actors credited to have performed ‘Large Rat.’ I’ve separated the Large Rat UIDs and might inform they’re performed by 4 totally different individuals, however I do not know which one is which.” These actors are Akbar Kurtha, Joseph Capp, Leemore Marrett Jr., and Sean Baker. Now we simply should kind out which actor is which rat.
One other enjoyable bit that is surfaced from that is that Larian Studios really did not know the way a lot dialogue, time-wise, was within the recreation. On Twitter/X, Larian boss Swen Vincke shared the information in regards to the discovering, saying, “We weren’t actually preserving monitor which I feel was for the higher.”
Vincke did, nonetheless, know the phrase depend of the sport’s script, as we realized again in 2024, saying that Baldur’s Gate 3 has triple the phrase depend of The Lord of the Rings, and its cutscene runtime is twice so long as HBO’s Sport of Thrones. Holy moly.
For lovers of Baldur’s Gate 3’s specific model of pleasant wordiness, it could be value tuning into The Sport Awards tomorrow, as Larian appears to be teasing a model new Divinity recreation for reveal on the present.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Acquired a narrative tip? Ship it to rvalentine@ign.com.