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I just realized something... (potential BG2:EE spoilers)

shawneshawne Member Posts: 3,239
edited February 2013 in Archive (General Discussion)
My elf Sorcerer is romancing Dorn. Does this mean I'm eventually going to be staring down a vampiric half-orc blackguard? Because: Yikes. Also: who the hell am I going to recruit to take him down? O_O

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  • Lord_TansheronLord_Tansheron Member Posts: 4,212
    Can't be worse than undead Solaufein, can it? >_>

    But that's assuming Dorn is even going to be in BG2:EE...
  • SchneidendSchneidend Member Posts: 3,190
    Lord_Tansheron said:

    Can't be worse than undead Solaufein, can it? >_>

    But that's assuming Dorn is even going to be in BG2:EE...

    They've already confirmed the new NPCs will be returning.

  • Lord_TansheronLord_Tansheron Member Posts: 4,212
    Well, that's good, then! A bit more variety and hopefully a lot more banter!
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  • EudaemoniumEudaemonium Member Posts: 3,199
    Viconia needs to be careful. I doubt Shar will like it when she realises her cleric has more worshippers than her...
  • GallowglassGallowglass Member Posts: 3,356
    shawne said:

    My elf Sorcerer is romancing Dorn. Does this mean I'm eventually going to be staring down a vampiric half-orc blackguard? Because: Yikes. Also: who the hell am I going to recruit to take him down? O_O

    Nah, shouldn't be too hard. Disruption weapons are devastating to almost all undead. Any character with decent THAC0 wielding Azuredge +3 or the Mace of Disruption +2 has a reasonable chance of a one-hit-kill even against a high-level lich. If the wielder has Mastery in the weapon and is accelerated (e.g. by Improved Haste), then (s)he'll kill in the first round of combat more often than not.
  • nzdawghausnzdawghaus Member Posts: 8
    edited March 2017
    -meh-
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  • SylphSylph Member Posts: 210
    nzdawghaus said:

    I think its a safe guess they'll be using Dorn quite a bit in BG2EE. This is from Phillip Daigle's (‏@daigledopple) Twitter:


    "#bg2ee dorn clocked in at around 2200~ lines vs the previous 500~. this is unsettling."
    Awesome :D Seriously, that voice could melt glaciers.
  • SchneidendSchneidend Member Posts: 3,190
    Sylph said:



    Awesome :D Seriously, that voice could melt glaciers.

    "It will be even sexier than you hoped."
  • GallowglassGallowglass Member Posts: 3,356
    @Schneidend: roflmao!

    @nzdawghaus: the trouble is, devs are always under budgetary pressure from the men in suits. Too many lines, and someone is bound to say "We can't afford the voice acting for that, you'll have to trim the content". That risk may be what @PhillipDaigle found "unsettling".
  • mlnevesemlnevese Member, Moderator Posts: 10,214
    @Gallowglass I don't believe voicing is really a limit in number of lines as not all of them are voiced in thr BG series anyway,
  • GallowglassGallowglass Member Posts: 3,356
    @mlnevese: true, some lines are voiced and some aren't. But more lines in total presumably implies a larger sub-total which will be voiced, and voice acting is certainly a significant cost when you want it done by professionals who can make a proper job of it.

    In addition, the development of correct dialogue-trees becomes quite a complex coding job when there's a mountain of dialogue to navigate, and a tricky debugging job whenever any error creeps in. That's also a significant cost, of course.
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