Would you buy a BGEE Banter DLC?
Grum
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Beamdog: You did a great job with Neera, Raasad, Dorn and Baeloth. But I need more! They are the only NPCs that say anything in Baldur's Gate 1. The game is far, far, too quiet. Please make a Banter DLC. I'll gladly pay for it! Make the game come alive like BG2.
- Would you buy a BGEE Banter DLC?76 votes
- Yes! BGEE is far too quiet without it. The only reason I know my party is there is because I need to gather them before venturing forth.76.32%
- No! I like the NPCs as they are. Don't fix what isn't broken.10.53%
- I don't care.13.16%
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I know it sounds conterproductive to suggest that the EE's should have had LESS new content, but I'd certainly have preferred more silent new NPCs with less elaborated sidequests than we ended up getting, only because it would've integrated them more seamlessly with the new content.
The only other way to solve this would be to make the old NPCs more fleshed out (and yes, I'm aware that that wasn't possible back then), so yes, I would definitely buy DLC that does that, as long as it's well written and doesn't break/distort any of Bioware's original characterization.
(And knowing me, I'd still probably pay for it.)
What I don't want is more romances. I hate romances.
Even though they are very silent compared to soa that's just part of the charm for me. It even makes it strange when the EE characters are so talkative compared to the original ones.
Confession: After hearing so much about BGI, I am really disappointed with the lack of banter. I spend 98% of my game listening to swords swinging and characters complaining, but rarely any "You know, that squirrel is eyeing me funny" kind of dialogues. If I didn't need to gather my party before leaving an area, I wouldn't know people were missing.
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/42019/interjection-banter-for-bg1-ee-npcs-when-you-gain-or-lose-reputation
I thought since they went through the effort of recording all that dialogue for their 'meeting' scenes and for their plotlines that they would have had some different sorts of banter too. Ajantis uses banter when he states he's had enough of Dorn in the party and proceeds to attack him, so it would make sense to have Dorn coming back with a retort of how foolish Ajantis is or something.
The NPC Project is awesome and I love it, but additional content for Safana would be great!
Note the 'high quality' benchmark though. Below par banters would significantly degrade the game, and I would be nervous if they were not easy to uninstall. My one brief experiment with modding was a Big World mod on the original vanilla game a few years ago, and the most obvious impact was that Imoen NEVER shut up. She literally had a fresh banter in front of every line of dialog in the game! This was amusing for about 5 minutes, but quickly grated to the point I could no longer play the game - so that would be my fear.
How much are banters worth to me? Probably a $3-5 expansion on the game in hand. If we had fully voiced content for the entire cast through all 7 chapters, I might spring up to $10, but I doubt there would be sufficient interest at that price point to make such an ambitious project profitable.