but if you play as any of the characters you barely hear them, or so I’ve heard.(haven’t done it myself)
This is the case. There are a small set of instances where the character might get a one-off voice line, but in general you’re left mute, even during high impact story moments where the character would usually get a spotlight (e.g. Astarion confronting Cazador).
It’s just a bit of a shame because you’d think people would opt to play characters they like because they want to experience more of them while playing, but ironically you get less that way.
GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Maybe playing as an origin character would require a whole buch of “internal dialoge” that added too much extra work, so they scrapped it. Its indeed a shame 'cause you are right, I’d like to experience more of said character. So in the end it’s counter intuitive. ( I can’t imagine a mute Astarion during the Cazador scene! Wtf)
Stovetop@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s exactly it, they have the ability to go about certain scenes in different ways.
I still only have the Astarion/Cazador example, because that’s the only origin character I played as, but one moment I remember as different between Astarion as party member versus Astarion as player is the conversation with his former lover Sebastian before confronting Cazador.
In my playthrough with Astarion as an NPC, he basically auto-piloted through most of that conversation. He remembered who Sebastian was, it was somewhat touching, and the player was able to ask Astarion questions for context.
In my playthrough as Astarion as the player, you can navigate that conversation in different ways, but there are also certain things that are no longer a given. You actually have to roll to remember who Sebastian is (which I flubbed) and that changes the course of the conversation away from the NPC “default” conversation.
GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Oh nooo it’s bad.But it also kinda lets you "roleplay"the character so there’s that … I was considering a Karlach origin run but maybe not. :/ kinda pointless .