honestly understandable. Astarion has only ever made it into my party ONCE in my handful of playthroughs throughout early access and release.
Didn’t really want to use him during my current playthrough (why tf am I still in Act 1 I have like 100 hours logged) so when I picked him up I was like “just go to camp bro”
Tell me why he has the nerve to complain about Karlach and whatnot in camp after I let him do the succ the one time. Bro shut the hell up you are just hanging out in camp keeping watch on my valuables (and Scratch) while me & my REAL comrades (Shadowheart, Gale, and Lae’zal) go gallivanting around. Vampire twink begone, I have Invisibility prepared on Gale and also have a ring that lets Lae’zal cast invisibility - I need you for NOTHING not even thievery. Oh there’s something nearby I can’t grab? Githyanki Jump and/or Mage Hand. what use are you, you vampire twink, besides doing the succ on enemies. (don’t ask me how many times my party has failed to hit someone with an arrow)
Baldur’s Gate 3 included a That Guy character that’s there just to complain about helping other people and being nice. Kind of a nice authenticity touch.
Haha to be fair that’s pretty much all of them in their own ways - except Gale, who falls in love with you instantly basically provided you’re a wizard and - in my experience - don’t outright condemn a goblin to death.
spoiler for like act 1
Shadowheart, after saving the Druid Camp, came up to me in camp and went “wow I never thought I’d care about refugees” and I was like “huh?? what? you haven’t cared about the druids or the refugees at all throughout this entire quest. I’ve literally only seen Lae’zal get pissed at me for wasting time and not finding the creche” but I love her so…I can change her
That kind of mismatch thing is part of her story and pays off eventually. It’s not impossible to figure out, but doesn’t get explicitly revealed until Act 3 depending on your decisions.
She can also volunteer herself to turn into a squid if you’ve killed the emperor and freed Orpheus. This was before the announcement that there’ll be new endings for her.
I’m not saying it’s good, but he only is that way because
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He spent over a 100 years after being enslaved as a child (half-elf, he was a child by their standards) and tortured and assaulted. His morality is basically defined by: does this bring me closer to being free or closer to being recaptured. Not good, but within context it’s understandable even though it shouldn’t be defended.
That makes me think of Dragon Age: Origins. By the time I’d had Morrigan with me for like an hour I was already sick of her “why aren’t you being EEEEVIL” thing
honestly understandable. Astarion has only ever made it into my party ONCE in my handful of playthroughs throughout early access and release.
Didn’t really want to use him during my current playthrough (why tf am I still in Act 1 I have like 100 hours logged) so when I picked him up I was like “just go to camp bro”
Tell me why he has the nerve to complain about Karlach and whatnot in camp after I let him do the succ the one time. Bro shut the hell up you are just hanging out in camp keeping watch on my valuables (and Scratch) while me & my REAL comrades (Shadowheart, Gale, and Lae’zal) go gallivanting around. Vampire twink begone, I have Invisibility prepared on Gale and also have a ring that lets Lae’zal cast invisibility - I need you for NOTHING not even thievery. Oh there’s something nearby I can’t grab? Githyanki Jump and/or Mage Hand. what use are you, you vampire twink, besides doing the succ on enemies. (don’t ask me how many times my party has failed to hit someone with an arrow)
Anyways Astarion disliked that.
My Shadow Monk/Thief and Astarion are tearing shit up in tactician mode. He’s fun.
Baldur’s Gate 3 included a That Guy character that’s there just to complain about helping other people and being nice. Kind of a nice authenticity touch.
Haha to be fair that’s pretty much all of them in their own ways - except Gale, who falls in love with you instantly basically provided you’re a wizard and - in my experience - don’t outright condemn a goblin to death.
spoiler for like act 1
Shadowheart, after saving the Druid Camp, came up to me in camp and went “wow I never thought I’d care about refugees” and I was like “huh?? what? you haven’t cared about the druids or the refugees at all throughout this entire quest. I’ve literally only seen Lae’zal get pissed at me for wasting time and not finding the creche” but I love her so…I can change her
Shadowheart spoiler
That kind of mismatch thing is part of her story and pays off eventually. It’s not impossible to figure out, but doesn’t get explicitly revealed until Act 3 depending on your decisions.
Karlach had been pretty cool with all of my decisions.
Kaarlach is like the only party member who doesnt have or need a real growth arc
She’s cursed by the fact that she (plot spoilers)
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can’t escape the fate she was stuck in from the start of the game. She stays in Avernus or she dies.
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She can also volunteer herself to turn into a squid if you’ve killed the emperor and freed Orpheus. This was before the announcement that there’ll be new endings for her.
I’m not saying it’s good, but he only is that way because
spoiler
He spent over a 100 years after being enslaved as a child (half-elf, he was a child by their standards) and tortured and assaulted. His morality is basically defined by: does this bring me closer to being free or closer to being recaptured. Not good, but within context it’s understandable even though it shouldn’t be defended.
TLDR: I can fix him
I knew that. In fact I call him That Guy because he was in my party and I enjoyed his That Guy energy even if he was pouting a lot about my heroism.
I still stuck up for him and even let him have a bite. He was sort of my frenemy.
Huh, I never considered the possibility of a npc having pc “that guy” energy…. That rules tbh
That makes me think of Dragon Age: Origins. By the time I’d had Morrigan with me for like an hour I was already sick of her “why aren’t you being EEEEVIL” thing
Astarion was much more bearable than Morrigan. I never got the appeal of that character. At all.