Sorry if I missed most of this discussion, but my two cents.
There is a place for these sort of things as comic relief and the rare colorful character (Rare being the operative word). However, there does come a point where it begins to irk me if overused. It is difficult to say where exactly that point is, but I thought that the new content went juuuuust ever so slightly beyond it. It wasn't enough to ruin the experience, and I regard the additional content quite fondly, but it was enough to warrant a few groans and some rolled eyes here and there, particularly when looking in my journal.
Again, it is not that there is no place for it, as the original game shows, but it is a matter of degree.
I like the new companions. I think they fit in just fine.
Dorn II-Khan has a really cool backstory. Even when playing with a good party, you kind of want him to be in your party. he is just so bad ass and has fun banter.
Neera is just my favourite, so cute and funny. I really like having her around. And her personality fits perfectly to her wild mage class. Bringing her into party brings extra trouble, but I love the unpredictability. Sometimes she cast a spell which really saves the day, but the next time she probably srews up and ends up almost killing everyone when her spell backfires
Rasaad Yn Bashir is what can be expected from a good alligned monk personality wise. I quess he is the most stable one of the new companions. The thing is that he is really a suicidial. In the early levels his name could be Rasaad Dies Alot. So you will really need to babysit him untill he hits level 9 or so. Rasaad begins to really shine in Bg2 though.
As for Hexxat. Well she is definitely something else I first expected. I really enjoyed the surprise. I had no idea because I had avoided reading spoilers.
I have to 2nd you on the Cali surfer dude thing that guy was not funny to me and I was like what... did I buy Teenage mutant ninja turtles? Neera and Alora were not glaringly modern though but that guy straight out of sterotype south cali land
*sighs* Almost nothing I've seen in the new exp pack is BG. The writing leaves a lot to be desired and the dialogue I've seen...guess this is one venture of Beamdog's that I won't support. I can only hope that if they do BG 3, they do it better than this and leave out the social issues and modern-day references. I have nothing against anyone. To each his/her own. You're gay? Cool. Transgender. Cool. Straight. Cool. It's all good to me and I wish that the people in the world would respect one another.
That said, there's a time and a place for addressing social issues, for reference modern-day. But that time and place is NOT Baldur's Gate. Like I said elsewhere, I want a game that takes me away from real world stuff, not remind of it.
I gotta necro this, because this guy saw the future...
And the answer remains the same: Baldur's Gate was always a modern game, where characters spoke modern English, riddled with pop culture references and jokes. It would have been inappropiate for SoD to be any different.
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There is a place for these sort of things as comic relief and the rare colorful character (Rare being the operative word). However, there does come a point where it begins to irk me if overused. It is difficult to say where exactly that point is, but I thought that the new content went juuuuust ever so slightly beyond it. It wasn't enough to ruin the experience, and I regard the additional content quite fondly, but it was enough to warrant a few groans and some rolled eyes here and there, particularly when looking in my journal.
Again, it is not that there is no place for it, as the original game shows, but it is a matter of degree.
That said, if this were to happen, I'd be too proud to even care.
Dorn II-Khan has a really cool backstory. Even when playing with a good party, you kind of want him to be in your party. he is just so bad ass and has fun banter.
Neera is just my favourite, so cute and funny. I really like having her around. And her personality fits perfectly to her wild mage class. Bringing her into party brings extra trouble, but I love the unpredictability. Sometimes she cast a spell which really saves the day, but the next time she probably srews up and ends up almost killing everyone when her spell backfires
Rasaad Yn Bashir is what can be expected from a good alligned monk personality wise. I quess he is the most stable one of the new companions. The thing is that he is really a suicidial. In the early levels his name could be Rasaad Dies Alot. So you will really need to babysit him untill he hits level 9 or so. Rasaad begins to really shine in Bg2 though.
As for Hexxat. Well she is definitely something else I first expected. I really enjoyed the surprise. I had no idea because I had avoided reading spoilers.
That said, there's a time and a place for addressing social issues, for reference modern-day. But that time and place is NOT Baldur's Gate. Like I said elsewhere, I want a game that takes me away from real world stuff, not remind of it.