Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Why is EVERYONE you speak to a c*nt

I was literally going to make a post about this. I am so sick of the perpetually pissed off NPCs that always have to have the last word/be super clever and snarky.

Hello,

I am still at the beginning but when a flying mind flayer ship crashes and strange races and people with tadpoles in their minds appear, everyone tend to be more aggressive. A Gith in FR for example! That's way abnormal. Fisherman behaviour ( ifailed to convince them) was very real imo. Tieflings are friendly - they suffer the same probably, druids are acting in their own agenda and its ok. I did not see much deviation from Forgotten realms.

Well about the druids, if you steal some books and look where you shouldn't you will find out that there is a logic behind it. It has actual bg roots. Haven't finished the quest yet but i get it.
Every game uses lots of tropes anyway, Its how they are presented, connected, narrated is what matters in the end for me. If you want to see sterotypes you will find it everywhere.

[quickly steps off Nimue_de's green lawn ...]

Ha, it is indeed serious business for the developers and I appreciate the hard work they do ... I hope they have fun at least once in a while. Meanwhile, I shall remain lost in the mists of the unknowing.

Hey, why be upset? Just give them what they deserve. They bite, you can bite as well. I could hit back every time so far. The writing is very good.
Would be worse if they were "nice", but plotting behind my back. Just use them as meatshields and be grateful you don't have to fight alone.

Shadowheart, the Cleric girl may have an evil hidden agenda against Baldur's Gate, but so far heals my party and takes hits just like everyone else. She can be taken care later, so far is useful. She doesn't like me, but I don't expect that from any of them until I proven myself. Neutral is just fine.

Gale, the Wizard is just full of himself but kind of polite and funny as well. He has the best looks, and he knows that. But it's so terrible in fights. The freezing spell is good, but almost useless otherwise. It's always at lowest health and already died once. Nobody cared anyway.

The elf rogue is a trash being, but I need him alive, would be too good for him a quick death. So I'm just playing along for now, his time will come. And that will be fun.

That green fighter is okay. Weird of course, but I really don't care about his talking. Typical aliens. He can take 2-3 hits, and that's enough for my Ranger to kill 1-2, and that's all what matters.

We may cry when the time for saying goodbye comes, but so far no emo stuff in here. I wouldn't mind a friendly face as well, if can also fight properly, because these can't be trusted. Watch out during sleep and keep your weapons ready.

I was speaking more literally. The way he says certain words and phrases has me wondering if Astarion and the Red Prince share a voice actor. That's the distraction.

What about auntie Ethel? She's super nice!
Seriously though I disagree. The only one who's acted like a bitch towards my character was Shadowheart and I've got a feeling that was an act, as if she's trying to look more badass than she is.

Well, Larian did get critique (unjustly so) for their whacky tone in D:OS. Which is one of D:OS strong suit in my opinion.

Honestly I think the companions are all pretty reasonably characterized. Lae'zel does feel rough and hostile but that seems to be the Githyanki's thing, even then she's still my favourite character so far. Shadowheart seems guarded and disinclined to trust you or be open, but she generally holds her tongue and doesn't seem overtly hostile to my character for the most part. Gale seems chill and reasonable. Wyll is a lot of fun.

i am playing the game, so far I meet some companions and some immigrants in a sanctuary afraid of the goblins outside and the fact that they are going to get kicked out by the druids that guard the sanctuary. Giving the situation everybody is in, I think they treat nice the protagonist and the harshness you may find is mainly due the stressful situation they are in. I also love the Githyanki character.

He sounds a lot like Alkibiades from Assassin's Creed Odyssey as well.

The main thing that pissed me off is I didn't have an option to draw my weapon and fight Astarion after he literally had a knife at my neck, YET that's an option for Gale who just teleported? Which I would understand since I'm playing a wizard myself. Astarion seems like bad fan-fic. Like i really wanted an option to just straight up kill him there because of his actions, yet it's not there. Fuck whoever wrote that piece of dialogue and the options you get.

My general thoughts on the characters:

1) I hope that the ability to influence some of these character's personalities manifest's itself in the later Acts, at least if you've the Charisma and Persuade to support it.
2) The current one's suffer from special snowflake syndrome, though that isn't inherently bad in itself if they are mingled with a wider cast, it becomes a problem if they are *all* this way. It can feel like they're trying to steal the show from the PC. I think part of this might be because they're intended as origin characters, but still... since I believe Larian has said more characters will be implemented I'm hoping this gets drowned out.
3) Shadowheart should have her AC problem fixed.
4) I don't mind that they lean into edgelordism, but to echo point 2, this'll be a problem if the later additions turn out to be the same.



This.

Yeah, The priest girl in my group annoys me to hell, but I need to keep her, you know, she's the priest...
Also the githsomewhat is quite annoying.
The mage guy is the one to approve my decisions the most, however it's the on not in group because I already am a spellcaster.
I kinda like the vampire guy.

Interesting how the girls in the group are the most bitchy.

I do not know if it´s because my character is female but Asterion is being very suave with her since the beginning. o.O
Gale seems approachable when you actually talk to him in the camp. The others not so much.

In the streaming interview Swen already told us that those will be the companions in the evil spectrum, and encourages us to try to be bad. I assume that meant the other companions would be different than this ones.
Maybe you have a rocky start so you can see for yourself that something changed later in the game when you have more approval? I hope to see changes in the future.

I didn't realize this, but apparently Larian put out a community update where they purposely started the EA with all the asshole character to encourage an evil playthrough? Apparently they didn't have enough people playtest the evil choices for the DOS2 EA and want to get more feedback this time. That at least is a sensible explanation.

I plan on killing them all and playing as a good guy though, so joke's on them!

I would love to have Wyl in my party but he perished in the first fight he was in and I was unable to revivify him. I thought it was literally will of the dice so I stuck with it. Otherwise Lae'zel has been my favorite as well, she is harsh but if you lean into it in the game there are some amazing moments with her.

Wyll is also a pretty good guy. Not seeing anyone talk about him - are people not playing with him? Havent gotten to the end yet though, so not sure if he radically changes.

Shadowheart is a priestess of Shar, she makes sense... and she is also a little more multidimensional than just 'evil, kill, steal' all the time. She can also have some conflicting thoughts/motivations - like real people. Even real priestesses of Shar.

Lae'zel makes total sense.

Astarion is totally depressed at his core due to..


I think these characters are actually really well-portrayed. I love how Gale That's a pretty well-fleshed out character.

I hope we'll see even more evil characters - so far our early dark companions are more self-oriented, but Id like to see an evil necromancer or sorcerer or blackguard or something >=)

No, he died in the gate fight. Turn 2 and he got shocked with no hope for revival. He just got zerked and it was the end of Wyll 2 hours into the adventure LOL

Lol

I would not say that "everyone is a c*nt" but they do feel like a "special snowflakes", like someone already pointed out. All of them feel this way to some degree, which makes me not care about any of them. DOS2 had more varied personality and better personalities in general, as well as more attractive visual character design for each character. It's a shame that this game is turning out to be different, and not only in terms of character writing.


Yea, it is pretty unnatural that you don't actually have a choice of fighting him considering he's a random nobody who is trying to kill you the very first time you meet him.