Comment on A Baldur's Gate 2 remake is apparently in development, with the original co-lead designer returning

• Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        BG3 has plenty of other strengths over its predecessors. It’s just not its main villain. Gortash and Thorm were both great, but our attention was divided amongst several antagonists rather than how much of the spotlight Irenicus got.

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  • violentfart@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My favorite is the monologue set that begins with “Life… is strength. This is not to be contested…”

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  • zerofk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • grinning_serpent@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t do this! I don’t wanna die!!!

    Silence, dog. You have no purpose but to die by my hand.

    David Warner’s performance turned an edgelord line like that into a dispassionate badass. BG2 just won’t be the same without him.

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