Who is your LEAST FAVORITE joinable NPC in BG1?
LadyEibhilinRhett
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I wanna hear you guys' opinions, but I'm not making a poll, because there are too many choices, and also because I don't know how. I want to know who in BG1 you just can't stand, and why.
It's easy for me to answer, because I love all of the characters except one--Eldoth. Eldoth is just a nasty ol' sleazebucket and he really rubs me the wrong way. I don't like his face, I don't like his voice, I don't like the way he acts. There are only two reasons I ever keep him around: Skie, and to make Xan bitch and moan about it.
It's easy for me to answer, because I love all of the characters except one--Eldoth. Eldoth is just a nasty ol' sleazebucket and he really rubs me the wrong way. I don't like his face, I don't like his voice, I don't like the way he acts. There are only two reasons I ever keep him around: Skie, and to make Xan bitch and moan about it.
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Tiax
Allora
Quayle
Eldoth
Skie
The ugly Druid woman
Viconia
Coran (Johnny-come-lately)
Kivan (Only if I'm using Kivan's portrait, which is often...his alternate bothers me too much. Otherwise, he's one of my favorites.)
But on topic.. I can't stand Dynaheir... never used her.. I've let Minsc leave when I don't feel like meta gaming and killing the bitch. Rescue you from annoying fast spawning gnolls and you don't even have a mage robe?
My vote: Yeslick.
Not because of his stats, personality or voice set. But because the game puts him in remote, and really deeply stupid, location. It takes too much planning to pick him up, and if you really want him you've got to 5-man a huge chunk of content or leave one of your NPCs in a hellhole.
Runners up: Safana and Shar-teel. Both have excellent stats and are good representations of their classes, but their voice sets are really, really juvenile.
Safana sounds like a porn star with a head cold, or some neckbeard developer's idea of "sexy". Shar-teel is an ignorant person's idea of feminism gone wrong. Both of them are grating after awhile, and on some level I think they're both condescending and dumb.
Can't stand his voice, and Jaheira is mine.
Khalid often gets sent on his lonesome, into some monster infested hell hole, naked as the day god made him
Pretty well agree with you on Shar-Teel though. I've definitely come across some feminists who obviously DO believe men are trash, but Shar-Teel really is a horrible exaggeration. That said, please no one lecture me on what a feminist is, I know what it's SUPPOSED to mean I'm just saying I've met those who go BEYOND what it means. Cool? Cool.. Yeah, she's kind of an arrogant bitch. Not awful, she's actually believable unlike, say, Quayle. But Quayle is so arrogant that it's hilarious, she's believable so for me it's somehow a bit more annoying, you know? On top of that, she's a bloody Invoker. Invokers suck. 'Nuff said.
On the subject of Quayle: Yes, the guy with more spell-casting potential than even Edwin is useless in combat. Sure thing buddy. Insightful earned for being bloody hilarious, props. Agreed. Really annoying that she has been the only non-shorty evil fighter. Don't get me wrong I love me some Kagain and Montaron but once in a while you want an evil fighter to pick up a big-ass sword, which neither of those two do. And finally Dorn will be replacing her, forever and always, in a month's time. It will be glorious. Ya, she does feel a bit bland to me as well. I'm definitely not offended by her at all, but she doesn't really interest me either. Only things remotely interesting to me was Ajantis flirting with her, and her Monty Python quote. That's about it.
So finally, to actually state which mine is: This. Annoying as hell. He's a fair bit better in BGII though -- In BG1, he could pass as Chaotic Neutral, easily. In BGII, he at least actually aspires to some form of heroism, and can be reasoned with, instead of just slaughtering things. Seriously
Honorable mention #1 goes to Tiax. Repetitive lines that stop being funny in mere minutes? Awesome. Some of his lines are quite good (Night would DARE hamper the sight of TIAX?! Comedic gold right there), but they never quite justify all the repetitive, awfully boring lines he has. But I digress, he's fairly amusing. Problem is, his stats are balls. Any time I feel like having a Cleric/Thief, chrimeny I am going to roll one of my own, he is awful. I like his Constitution (good HP and good saving throws), and the Wisdom doesn't bother me too much, but his Dexterity!! It's 16, and he's a bloody thief! The worst Dexterity of any thief in the entire game, and since there are so damn many thieves it just feels like a complete waste. That said, from his limited equipment choices he goes great with Kiel's Buckler, but still... And yes, I understand he can spam Draw Upon Holy Might to fix his awful Dexterity, but uggghhh so unreliable is all.
Honorable mention #2 goes to Alora. You have to pick her up hellishly late, she only gains bonuses from ONE of her stats (19 Dexterity), she has disgustingly sad HP, she spammed half of her thief points in Pick Pockets. The only thing she is good at is shooting a bow far, far away from the action, and saving throws. That's it. And when there are so many bloody thieves ... why? Just why? I find her entertaining, I wish she were actually playable without going so far out of your way just to catch her up.
Last frustrating one is Skie. So much potential to make her story interesting, but instead she's just an over-privileged valley girl joke. Congrats, BioWare, you're hilarious ... for about 5 minutes.
It doesn't really matter to me. He has a horrible attitude and I just want to kick him in the face all the time. I'm not sure I want some moron walking around condescending on my entire party while I'm trying to get stuff done, is the thing.
At least Edwin is funny. AND he's intelligent and powerful enough to have fair reason to believe he's more awesome than me (though, regrettably for him, he is not :P).
Branwen, for having the most godawfully annoying voice in the realms and being weak in combat despite being a cleric of the war god.
Eldoth, for being an ass and a bard
Garrick, for being a dumbass and a bard
The rest is alright.
"I Love Bloodshed!"
Additionally, anyone that uses quotes from the movie Predator is cool in my book.
I guess it would suit me better if characters like her, Eldoth and Safana could be reformed through the PC's influence. Now they're just stuck as stereotypes throughout the game.
Xan, Xzar, Montaron, Viconia, Shar-Teel. etc.
So you could maybe see why I can't stand the childish happy or.. goofy or dumb characters for too long.
So I have a hard time with Imoen, Minsc, Alora, Garrick From the characters I can remember.
Imoen is probably the worst, it really feels like my annoying little sister.
I just take her stuff and leave her on the road.
What's all this Shar-Teel, Branwen, Eldoth and Faldorn hate?!
All their voice sets are amazeballs! Faldorn sounds like a lullaby. Eldoth is the closest thing to a gentlemanly British prick (I feel I can relate to this one, haw-haw). Shar-Teel sounds totally aggressive and vile but how many female NPCs are actually like that and convincing? And Branwen - "By Valkur's strapping buttocks!" how on earth could anyone not like that? I'm just disappointed she never yodelled.
As for least favourites? Minsc aaaaaaaaaaand ... Alora. Neither share any shred for the amount of dislike I have for Keldorn and Aerie though.