Determined Baldur's Gate 3 Fan Calculates It Has 236 Hours of Recorded Dialogue, and Even Larian Had No Idea It Was That Much

Someone has calculated precisely however galore hours of recorded dialog determination are successful Baldur's Gate 3, a task truthful unnecessarily ample that adjacent Larian Studios hadn't done it before.

As reported by PC Gamer, Everwhite-moonlight enactment unneurotic a spreadsheet breaking down each the dialog successful the game: who spoke it, however agelong the dialog is, adjacent however galore files they talk in.

This survey results successful immoderate absorbing facts surfacing: it's unsurprising that the narrator, Amelia Tyler, has the astir dialog astatine 14 hours, 43 minutes, and 55 seconds. Behind her, though, is Astarion, voiced by Neil Newbon, with 13 hours, six minutes, and 23 seconds. And down him is Shadowheart, with 12 hours, 25 minutes, and 26 seconds. The smallest magnitude of dialog is simply a many-way necktie betwixt galore NPCs that each person lone 1 2nd of dialogue, including 4 antithetic Mind Flayer NPCs. In total, the crippled contains 236 hours, 55 minutes, and 45 seconds of spoken dependable lines.

Every dependable histrion is catalogued successful here, including tiny lines by random NPCs and adjacent chopped dialogue. One enigma that's arisen, per Everwhite-moonlight, is who precisely voices which Giant Rat NPC successful the game. "There are 4 instances of a quality named 'Giant Rat,' and determination are 4 actors credited to person played 'Giant Rat.' I person separated the Giant Rat UIDs and could archer they are played by 4 antithetic people, but I don't cognize which 1 is which." Those actors are Akbar Kurtha, Joseph Capp, Leemore Marrett Jr., and Sean Baker. Now we conscionable person to benignant retired which histrion is which rat.

Another amusive spot that's surfaced from this is that Larian Studios really didn't cognize however overmuch dialogue, time-wise, was successful the game. On Twitter/X, Larian brag Swen Vincke shared the quality astir the finding, saying, "We weren’t truly keeping way which I deliberation was for the better."

Vincke did, however, cognize the connection number of the game's script, arsenic we learned backmost successful 2024, saying that Baldur's Gate 3 has triple the connection number of The Lord of the Rings, and its cutscene runtime is doubly arsenic agelong arsenic HBO's Game of Thrones. Holy moly.

For lovers of Baldur's Gate 3's peculiar marque of delightful wordiness, it mightiness beryllium worthy tuning into The Game Awards tomorrow, arsenic Larian seems to beryllium teasing a marque caller Divinity crippled for uncover astatine the show.

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].