Paul Farquhar
Legend
Being an evil vampire is forgivable. Being a preening pretentious twit with annoying hair is not.
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Ruin Explorer
Legend
To me Astarion's vibe is that of a Tory MP for a safe rural southern England constituency. The whole haughty disregard, the preening self-indulgence, the ridiculous hair, even the accent, it just absolutely screams it. To be really specific, Astarion is basically straight-up Alan B'stard. Except for some reason like 30-40% of BG3 redditors have a huge thr... let's not put it like that... are extremely attracted to Alan B'stard here. WHY? Just because he's a vampire with a Received Pronunciation English accent?
He even kind of looks like Alan B'stard for god's sake.
And yeah he has sad backstory, but like, nah mate.
Swen Vincke apparently chose violence this morning and decided to turn hype up to 11/10:
In case Elon is still being a child and trying force people to log in to Twitter:
Jesus mate. That's beyond Todd Howard levels of hype. Let's hope that, unlike Todd, he can actually back it up.
He even kind of looks like Alan B'stard for god's sake.
Exactly. I actually would kind of have liked a real Lestat or even a Damon Salvatore-type (Vampire Diaries), but this guy? He's just too much of, as you so correctly put it, a preening twit. He think he's like ten times funnier than he is, and not in a scary way like the two I mentioned, but in a "not very bright but very entitled" kind of way.
And yeah he has sad backstory, but like, nah mate.
Swen Vincke apparently chose violence this morning and decided to turn hype up to 11/10:
In case Elon is still being a child and trying force people to log in to Twitter:
Jesus mate. That's beyond Todd Howard levels of hype. Let's hope that, unlike Todd, he can actually back it up.
Paul Farquhar
Legend
So the seventh Origin is The Dark Urge. Basically, the creepy goblin, not the dragonborn sorcerer. But you create any race and class of character, then the "Urge" tries to control you.
Resistance may (or may not) be futile.
Resistance may (or may not) be futile.
Ruin Explorer
Legend
So updates from the Panel From Hell:
The name was shown in that image - It is, as someone actually guessed The Dark Urge.
It's an Origin which doesn't require any specific race/class, you can still choose that, but does mean you have very strong urges to be a psycho serial killer, and this is apparently very well worked-in to the game. They all seem very pleased about it, and whilst it's definitely edgelord-y, I have to admit Swen does a good job of convincing that it is a well-made Origin and very different to the others. The way he explains it is it's like the role Trevor serves in GTA V, which to examine why people do bad things in videogames. The narrator talks a ton for their thoughts, but I'm not sure if that's true for all Origin characters.
There's some sort of evil goblin involved too - and probably a Bhaal or even Bhaalspawn connection.
EDIT - I see my understanding is slightly different from Paul but I cannot be sure who is right. It's certainly something pretty fancy.
It's not clear if they exist as a character if they're not played, or what Race/Class they are if so. My guess is Yes and Dragonborn/Monk, given what they showed.
Other things they showed/talked about:
Changes to Act 1
Cloaks
Different outfits for camp
Romance more complicated than most games, spans over the acts (fully naked Halsin shown lol man is a linebacker) - sometimes better to argue than just to get along to go along and so on. Sounds really well-done - only game I've seen this in really is DA2.
Will add more as I go.
Re: companions leaving "You'll be surprised with what you can get away with" - and expounds on this to basically say you can turn characters in many cases, can convince them to do things they thought they wouldn't, which suggests the initial good/evil analysis might not hold in the longer run.
Patrons will interact with Warlocks (people had been very doubtful)
Sounds like maybe they redid Wyll entirely? Makes sense, because he was the weakest character.
It's possible to respec - seemingly including your class and possibly the classes of your companions. They said it pretty quickly and there's no rewind on Youtube so I can't be sure.
Now they've paused because of technical issues, which seem to be just the stream was at 30 FPS, not 60 FPS, which is kind of annoying, because who cares? Apparently a bunch of people I guess.
The name was shown in that image - It is, as someone actually guessed The Dark Urge.
It's an Origin which doesn't require any specific race/class, you can still choose that, but does mean you have very strong urges to be a psycho serial killer, and this is apparently very well worked-in to the game. They all seem very pleased about it, and whilst it's definitely edgelord-y, I have to admit Swen does a good job of convincing that it is a well-made Origin and very different to the others. The way he explains it is it's like the role Trevor serves in GTA V, which to examine why people do bad things in videogames. The narrator talks a ton for their thoughts, but I'm not sure if that's true for all Origin characters.
There's some sort of evil goblin involved too - and probably a Bhaal or even Bhaalspawn connection.
EDIT - I see my understanding is slightly different from Paul but I cannot be sure who is right. It's certainly something pretty fancy.
It's not clear if they exist as a character if they're not played, or what Race/Class they are if so. My guess is Yes and Dragonborn/Monk, given what they showed.
Other things they showed/talked about:
Changes to Act 1
Cloaks
Different outfits for camp
Romance more complicated than most games, spans over the acts (fully naked Halsin shown lol man is a linebacker) - sometimes better to argue than just to get along to go along and so on. Sounds really well-done - only game I've seen this in really is DA2.
Will add more as I go.
Re: companions leaving "You'll be surprised with what you can get away with" - and expounds on this to basically say you can turn characters in many cases, can convince them to do things they thought they wouldn't, which suggests the initial good/evil analysis might not hold in the longer run.
Patrons will interact with Warlocks (people had been very doubtful)
Sounds like maybe they redid Wyll entirely? Makes sense, because he was the weakest character.
It's possible to respec - seemingly including your class and possibly the classes of your companions. They said it pretty quickly and there's no rewind on Youtube so I can't be sure.
Now they've paused because of technical issues, which seem to be just the stream was at 30 FPS, not 60 FPS, which is kind of annoying, because who cares? Apparently a bunch of people I guess.
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Paul Farquhar
Legend
The Dark Urge is stated as being PC only. No companion version.
You select it as an option in character creation, then create a character as normal. But this character is a host for the entity, who tries to control you. Seems to be limited to verbal persuasion, perhaps because of the tadpole.
This is apparently the same entity that was controlling the killer in Blood in Baldur's Gate, and was described as "a creepy goblin". It sounds like a dybbuk to me.
You select it as an option in character creation, then create a character as normal. But this character is a host for the entity, who tries to control you. Seems to be limited to verbal persuasion, perhaps because of the tadpole.
This is apparently the same entity that was controlling the killer in Blood in Baldur's Gate, and was described as "a creepy goblin". It sounds like a dybbuk to me.
Ruin Explorer
Legend
Aha I had to turn the sound off for a minute, missed that!
Paul Farquhar
Legend
I think you may be stretching the forum's "no politics" rule here. But yeah. Or some guy who is currently whining about his bank accounts.
Maybe he simply reflects the way the English are currently perceived in Belgium?
Ruin Explorer
Legend
Nah, Alan B'stard is a classic character, a real trope, in Britain and elsewhere (and definitely not without truth).
All the PCs have English accents and the lead writers are English, so that can't be it re: Belgium.
Astarion is just a monumentally annoying character lol.
Oh wow this Halsin/Astarion romance scene probably just made the game illegal in several countries holy hell wow lol. If they showed much more I'm not sure it'd be legal in the UK lol. Really bringing some literalness to that term.
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