Honestly im quite glad they dont ... - for one its oftern breaking fourth wall ... - for two it may quite soon be anoying ... I just recetly reinstalled Dragon Age: Origins ... and i quite fast find every little thing my brain "displaced"(is that corect word for forced forgeting?) and on my list of anoyances, this talking to player with every second comand is cearly on the top. Especialy if you choose Violent voice ... "Can i get you ladder, so you can get off my back!" ... funny sentence, right? Well, not as much if you hear it every 20 freaking seconds!!! -_- And even better, if your PC decided to have this "incredibly important" monologue to player, when you listen someone else talking ... that creates beautiful cacophony of mess, from wich you get litteraly nothing. -_-
Hah! You're right, I've forgotten that about DA:O. Currently still playing DA:Inquisition while waiting for Patch 5 in this game, where the companions don't say anything when you command them to do something. They do however have wonderful banter, which I really, really wish BG3 would have more of - or would just activate more often. The voice lines are in there, they just don't trigger much.
I tried playing the original Baldur's Gate - but the line "I'm on it like ugly on an orc!" gets REALLY OLD, REALLY FAST.
Originally Posted by RagnarokCzD
Originally Posted by fylimar
And, although I'm not the audience target for them, I'm not really that impressed with the male companions. One is an evil asshole and the brooding vampire stereotype, that sadly became so common, since shows/books like Twilight, Vampire Diaries and True Blood became popular. The other two have a demon and a goddess as exes and they are clearly not over them... so not really interesting in my book. ...
And that is exactly the second reason ... Even tho someone can find those male companions visualy atractive, they (for simmilar reason as Shadowheart) are completely unusable for me.
That is where we go into the subjective territory of personal taste, and it's best left at that, because people can argue personal tastes until the cows come home.
I will just add - never model your "dream lover" character in BG3 after your real life partner. I made the mistake of doing that, before I knew what that character was for. So creepy, it was just wrong... (My husband made his "dream lover" look like me, too, but he avoided using the illithid powers so never got those scenes)
