What was your biggest 'wtf' moment in any of the Forgotten Realms setting games? (MAJOR SPOILERS!)
TethorilofLathander
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Mine would be either in Icewind Dale or Neverwinter Nights:Shadows of Undrentide, so if you don't want to know what happens, DON'T READ ON :P
Icewind Dale: When Everard sacrifices himself and replaces Jerrod in the portal.
Shadows of Undrentide: When Drogan sacrifices himself to get you through the portal, followed by the revelation of Heurodis.
So basically, add a portal gateway to a soupson of sacrifice and I'm sold
What about you? When did you go 'what the b'jesus' during a Forgotten Realms campaign?
Icewind Dale: When Everard sacrifices himself and replaces Jerrod in the portal.
Shadows of Undrentide: When Drogan sacrifices himself to get you through the portal, followed by the revelation of Heurodis.
So basically, add a portal gateway to a soupson of sacrifice and I'm sold
What about you? When did you go 'what the b'jesus' during a Forgotten Realms campaign?
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To quote King Arthur: "Run away! Run away!"
Because PS:T had the most wtf moments per square inch of any video game I have ever played.
In bg2 when you are doing Jan's questline, and the Hidden reveals his true identity
The story of the Severed Hand (previously Hand of the Seldarine) and Dorn's Deep is slowly unfolded, almost in the background, as you try and stop the Revered Brother Poquelin from destroying the North.
Long ago, the elves of the great tower, the Hand of the Seldarine and the Dwarves of Dorn's Deep lived together in harmony. Then, the fire nation att- no wait. One day, the Elves found orcs with Dwarven weapons and were enraged by the betrayal (which the dwarves denied of course). The alliance was broken as the elves' leader Larrel broke off all contact with the dwarves. His daughter believed in their innocence and left for Dorn's Deep to salvage what she could from the relationship but never returned, further convincing Larrel that the dwarves meant war.
Orcs attacked and the Hand could not hold them off alone. In his desperation, Larrel attempted to cast a Mythal and in doing so, destroyed everything in and around the Hand.
Larrel's daughter was not murdered by the dwarves, as Larrel suspected. The dwarves themselves came under siege from orcs and drow and she died, fighting valiantly to keep the Deep safe.
The real eyetwitching, rage inducing moment comes when you're digging through the ruins of Lower Dorn's Deep and find the drow merchant Nym who tries to sell you his magical gear. If you ask him about his past, he mentions that, some time ago, he stole some weapons from the dwarves and sold them to orcs to make some money. All good business of course, nothing bad could come of that, right?
- finiding out I am a spawn of a God and my divine brother is the one responsible for all the ruckus around.
- first basilisk encouSTONED!
BG2
- Firkraag. Total party Wipe.
- also, the Shadow Dragon. My second WTF moment was, when I buffed-up and prepared for a tough fight on the second try and my monk killed the Shadow Dragon with first attack of Quivering Palm.
- Yoshimo's betrayal :-(
- finding out Jon and Bodhi are siblings and the whole story behind it
BG1. Finding out I am a Bhallspawn and what that means. It was a moment of WTF! I thought of many many things but not THAT!
BG2: Finding out Imoen is my sister. Again I was left, WAIT WHAT?!
Realms wise in general my biggest WTF moment was in War or the SpiderQueen book series with Gromph Baenre fighting Ancient Lich-king Dyr and his eventual "victory" (those who red the books understand what I am talking about).
Out of the realms and from all games I ever played biggest WTF moment was SW:KOTOR finding out I am Revan.
And most emotional moment from all games is without a doubt Mordin Solus sacrifice to cure genophage and singing on top of Shroud tower in ME3 (With death of Sarah from Last of us comming in close second).
There are a lot more of WTF/emotional moments from many games but this are my top of the tops.
- My biggest WTF moment I had was when I saw the Orc models for the very first time. They were just... urgh! To be perfectly honest *all* models (plus their textures) within NwN were horrible, but none more horrible than those bloody hybrids of Care Bears and Gremlins!
Or was that not what the OP meant by WTF moment?
And then to top it off the whole endgame that lets you double-cross Phaere and Ardulace and make a run for the gates had me so excited my palms were sweating and I couldn't sit still. Up to the last moment I was scared it would all painfully backfire on me. As far as gaming experiences go, it was plain awesome.
In NWN1/2, if you play a Half Orc, they are these big hulking obviously Orc types. And you don't have the option even to play one who isn't Lou Ferrigno on steroids (the guy who played The Hulk on the 70s TV show). Same with Halflings. If you wanted to play a portly 'Regis' type halfling, no luck. WTF???