You can get a 'happy' ending in the first minutes of Baldur's Gate 3, sort of

I love a game that allows us to defy the expectations games put on us. In Far Cry 5, for example, you can wait around doing nothing at the start of the game to avoid all of the other events in the game, rolling credits without making a move. And in Baldur's Gate 3, you can make a choice very near the start that ends the adventure before it's really begun—and your character is completely happy about it...
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