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"Just give me some sugar baby" REALLY? Pantaloons? WTF?

electrobanelectroban Member Posts: 57
edited December 2012 in Archive (General Discussion)
Seriously I don't know if that was supposed to be a funny joke / omage to really really fail movies and cheesey bad lines but, damn... do better. No one in Faerun or wherever the fuk is saying "Give me some sugar baby"

This is in ref to Neeras romance.

I mean really, writers? You hired in David Gross for that? I mean hell you could equate a dollar value to the words he wrote into the game, I wonder how much "Give me some sugar baby" cost the company to do.

A chimp could write better material.

Also, "what now do your pantaloons need cleaning?" So at first i thought "Wow they got in jaheria for some new lines". But no they are probably lines from vanillia BG except they got cut out of the game for being too terrible.

No Jaheria my pantaloons don't need cleaning.

EDIT: This directly from the gamespot review: "Most of the new romance dialogue is horrific, although the worst lines--your responses, which include banter like "Give me some sugar, baby"--go thankfully unvoiced. There are also some new character voice sets for the protagonist, although not enough to offer much in the way of real choice."

Funny they describe it as banter!
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  • VelkirVelkir Member Posts: 70
    At wich part of the romance is that didint see it
  • DeucetipherDeucetipher Member Posts: 521
    edited December 2012
    I actually really like the sugar line. Definitely clicked it. :) made me laugh. I guess I don't consider Evil Dead 3 to be a "fail" movie, but that's just my opinion.
  • CohoshCohosh Member Posts: 18
    I havn't gotten there yet, but her "you rang?" response line kinda annoys me. Why is she using slang that developed as a result of the telephone? I hear the line, think about that, and it just breaks immersion for me.

    At least one can assume that sugar exists in faerun and the connection between sugar and affection could still theoretically be made.
  • waardeniuswaardenius Member Posts: 58
    edited December 2012
    @Cohosh
    You're saying "ringing" is an act exclusive for the telephone?

    For me, that line is first and foremost reminiscent of Lurch of The Addams Family.
  • CalmarCalmar Member Posts: 688
    I agree with revaar, bells were used by rich people to summon their servants.
  • The_New_RomanceThe_New_Romance Member Posts: 839
    "I am your neighbour!"
  • The_CheesemanThe_Cheeseman Member Posts: 175
    I have not gotten that dialogue, since I never use Jaheira, but I would assume it is a reference to how one acquires the Golden Pantaloons, a fairly well-known joke item in the Baldur's Gate series (which eventually turns into a lethal joke item in Throne of Bhaal). I personally love all the wacky dialogue options available in the game, and think that the writers so a brilliant job injecting the right amount of comedy into what could otherwise become a rather dour game. Obviously, it isn't to everyone's taste, but that doesn't make it bad.
  • shawneshawne Member Posts: 3,239
    The day comes when TIAX will point and click! :)
  • NukeninNukenin Member Posts: 327
    @shawne When Tiax rules, breeches shall not ride up so wedge-like!
  • SivenSiven Member Posts: 11
    A couple that come to mind without even thinking are 'tastes like chicken' jokes, song references, TV show references, NPCs that are playing the game and 'reload' when they die to you to turn in a quest. Pantaloons are a reference to the series spanning joke that ends with an equippable mech suit that fires rockets. All of this is Baldur's Gate, and part of what makes it great. It doesn't have to be for everyone, but it is absolutely in line with the spirit of the game and what it has been since the first game.
  • MedullaOblongataMedullaOblongata Member Posts: 434
    @electroban so, you didn't have a problem with "Yes, oh omnipresent authority figure" and "Whoa, hey don't click on me!" which existed prior to the EE?

    Srsly. Bacon. :\
  • CohoshCohosh Member Posts: 18
    yay! "you rang" isn't gonna bother me anymore! thanks.
  • OurQuestIsVainOurQuestIsVain Member Posts: 201
    As kick ass as Bruce Campbell and Army of Darkness are...probably didn't need that in Baldur's Gate. Although there are a lot of references like that so it doesn't really feel out of place. After all you got Bub Snikt, Daryll and his other brother Daryll, goofy head stones in Nashkel graveyard, the mayor of Nashkel greeting you with "you talking to me" a la taxi driver...still, I find that stuff yanks me right out of my immersion into the world.
  • QuartzQuartz Member Posts: 3,853
    As others have said, there are a million dumb, silly quotes in Baldur's Gate 1. I applaud Beamdog for adding the quote you are complaining about, because it is VERY much in the spirit of the original game.

    Also, it's kind of hot.
  • MornmagorMornmagor Member Posts: 1,160
    Squeaky wheel gets the kick!

    However, if it were me, i would have written : "Give me some honey, honey" :}
  • darthchairdarthchair Member Posts: 191
    Plus...this is a roleplaying game. It's also fantasy. In real life...it's very hard to face an authority figure, an imposing figure, your best friend, your mother, etc...and tell them the most horrendously inappropriate thing that you can possibly think of.

    So sometimes you get dialog options that represent the most absurd of things that could possibly be said. It's there to tempt you. Oh sure you have lines that are more "true" to character. But truth be damned! Sometimes its just hilarious to see how someone reacts for once to the things you should never say.

    Course maybe I should say them in real life since usually the impact in CRPGs ends up rather delightful. Nah.
  • electrobanelectroban Member Posts: 57
    Quartz said:

    As others have said, there are a million dumb, silly quotes in Baldur's Gate 1. I applaud Beamdog for adding the quote you are complaining about, because it is VERY much in the spirit of the original game.

    Also, it's kind of hot.

    Give me some sugar baby sounds like its written by a guy who last time got a girl was in the 70s
  • electrobanelectroban Member Posts: 57
    Look, I understand Baldurs Gate has comical lines, but you can come up with something than "give me some sugar baby" And I dont get why my character whose romancing a chick wud say that sorry. It just irked me slightly
  • darthchairdarthchair Member Posts: 191
    @electroban That explains my grandmother then. She always says that.
  • electrobanelectroban Member Posts: 57
    edited December 2012
    Find a romance line that features the main character demanding for some "sugar baby" or any kind of totally retarded tonefrom BG1 BG2 or ToB.

    I mean hell rip off some shakespeare or something. I don't want my character to sound like some desperate guy but I still clicked the option of course just to hear her go "MMMMMM" lol.

    I'm just saying, you have the opportunity to create a romance dialogue for baldurs gate 1 one of the best RPGs ever, dont use lines "give me some sugar" ok? my character isnt a black man from the 70s.
  • kilroy_was_herekilroy_was_here Member Posts: 455
    Wait until he finds Melicamp the talking chicken...
  • darthchairdarthchair Member Posts: 191
    @kilroy_was_here Nice Xenogears avatar! :D
  • kilroy_was_herekilroy_was_here Member Posts: 455
    @darthchair Thanks. I'm near the end of my 5th playthrough. It's too bad the Xenosaga series couldn't pick up the slack.
  • electrobanelectroban Member Posts: 57
    kilroy_was_here said:

    Wait until he finds Melicamp the talking chicken...

    found melicamp, that is the guy at high hedge isnt it? :S great quest. he didnt start going " YO DAWG I BEEN TURNED INTO A CHICKEN THIS BE WHACK, HELP ME YO"

    1. "No I will not help you, cracker."

    Awww hell you are a jive turkey!
  • kilroy_was_herekilroy_was_here Member Posts: 455
    What about this one:

    "Ok, I've just about had my FILL of riddle asking, quest assigning, insult throwing, pun hurling, hostage taking, iron mongering, smart arsed fools, freaks, and felons that continually test my will, mettle, strength, intelligence, and most of all, patience! If you've got a straight answer ANYWHERE in that bent little head of yours, I want to hear it pretty damn quick or I'm going to take a large blunt object roughly the size of Elminster AND his hat, and stuff it lengthwise into a crevice of your being so seldom seen that even the denizens of the nine hells themselves wouldn't touch it with a twenty-foot rusty halberd! Have I MADE myself CLEAR?!"
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