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wrath is very good imo. i find it hard to like many of the companions of bg3, the only ones that really pulled on me were astarion and minthara. i liked karlachs design but i feel like she didnt get many lines. and the rest were largely forgettable. the graphics and the mocapped conversations are what really makes bg3 good. if it was a top down isometric like WOTR i think everyone would call the game middling. its more just impressive how much they show and not tell with a blurb of text. also i kinda hate shadowheart and i feel like a lot of the plotline revolves around her and it bothers me.
i havent played wrath in a hot minute but i can tell you right now that i remember all the companions names, even the more barebones ones like sosiel (black guy that is angry trope?). arue, wenduag, woljiff, ember, and nenio are probably some of my favorite characters in any video game ever. daeran is pretty fun too.
wenduag is best girl, her romance/redemption plotline is fairly realistic imo. the lesbian relationship there really pulled at my heartstrings a bit
also im the resident pf2e stan here, its pretty much all i talk about.
That’s interesting bc in my play through she interjects more than any other party member. Every time something happens she voices an opinion on it. To the point that, as much as she’s pretty much my favorite, I kinda wish some of the other people would chime in lol
This is just a theory, but does it have anything to do with the order the party is in on the hud? It may be random or based on relationship though.
yeah i'm not too sure, plausible bc ive done a few of her quests, but shadowheart and gale and i also have pretty high relationship and they dont talk too much so i'm not too sure
I feel like I'm on a different planet sometimes when so much BG3 player chat involves how awesome that character is to them.
Woljiff in WoTR is an excellent example of a cliche done right. He's chaotic neutral, a thief, a pathological liar, but he owns it in a way that makes him a must-bring pretty much everywhere.
Ember is an excellent example of stereotype breaking in a way that doesn't feel contrived. She's got few illusions, knows the world is fucked... but is so full of a painful level of love and compassion that it blows my mind.