Comment on A Baldur's Gate 2 remake is apparently in development, with the original co-lead designer returning
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 14 hours ago
They can dangle the original co-lead designer in front of me all they want, my faith in Hasbro doing something good with this is almost zero. Also David Warner has unfortunately passed, and nobody else could ever deliver a better Irenicus, so I don’t know how they’ll deal with that problem (assuming they want the game fully voiced now). Please don’t let it be AI David Warner acting from the grave. Also please get Jim Cummings back, I believe he’s still working and I don’t want another Matt Mercer Minsc.
Baldur’s Gate 2 is an amazing game, and in one sense I would want it to reach more players. But I also kind of… don’t want it fucked with. Maybe I’m just grumpy and stuck in the past. A more elegant ruleset than 2E and a more intuitive gameplay style than real-time-with-pause would be great. I just fear that everything else (ie: the parts that actually matter) will suffer.
But line must go up, I guess. After the success of BG3 it was only a matter of time.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
The delivery of Irenicus was so good that every time Irenicus wasn’t on screen, I was asking, “Where’s Irenicus?”
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 14 hours ago
I could pick almost anything he ever said in the game honestly, but this line always stuck with me. I’ll spoiler tag it just in case since it’s a pivotal moment.
spoiler for a 25-year old classic
> I cannot be caged. > I cannot be controlled. > Understand this as you die, ever pathetic, ever fools.
zerofk@lemmy.zip 11 minutes ago
Thank you so much for the spoiler tag. Although I grew up with Infinity Engine games (and its predecessors in the gold box series), I never actually finished BG2 and am playing through it for the first time now.
Even 25 year old stores still have people discovering them for the first time.
grinning_serpent@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
David Warner’s performance turned an edgelord line like that into a dispassionate badass. BG2 just won’t be the same without him.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
The line that stuck with me most was where he picked a random-ass woman, briefly told her life story, and then said, “and now she’s dead”, and killed her in an instant. All-time great villain.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 11 hours ago
Your pick is probably an objectively better call (and better scene), I just remember being in awe the first time I saw that scene as a kid and really feeling how powerful Irenicus was. As if it wasn’t already apparent enough from the opening, where his delivery is equally dripping with similar nonchalant disdain at these flies who think they can lay a finger on him.
I wish BG3 had an antagonist half as strong as him. Maybe it’s just me but the super spooky gigabrain of doom was just not it.
violentfart@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
My favorite is the monologue set that begins with “Life… is strength. This is not to be contested…”