r/BG3 • u/Feeling-Classroom729 • 3d ago

Bg3 Hot Take Edition

I'm feeling spicy and I want to hear some of your hot takes about the game. Perhaps, I'll see the game from a fresh perspective and/or learn something new.

There's no limit to the hot takes you can share.

I'll go first.

Despite Araj's negative reputation, I think she's one of the best merchants in the game. In act 2, she carries the risky ring and the ring of free action, which is already amazing. But she also offers unique elixirs in act 2. In act 3, she sells sanguine explosives, which is basically a level 4 fireball that you can buy for less than 20 gold. Getting the unstable blood condition from her in act 3, can also be powerful if you build around it. The +2 to strength is super powerful if you're willing to torture Astarion, but even without that, she's still an amazing npc. She's a little pushy with Astarion, but she ultimately accepts his no. So, I don't stay mad at her.

I don't think completing a "good run" automatically makes your character good aligned. Basing your decisions around not making your favorite npcs sad is not a sound moral compass. I think there are more morally neutral people out there than people are willing to admit. It isn't a bad thing to be morally neutral. Jaheira is canonically true neutral in the older games, and people love her.

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u/AllStitchedTogether 3d ago

I don't really like Ketheric Thorm. Being the only prominent American accent in the game felt anticlimactic to me, which is probably because it's the accent I'm most used to being around to be fair.

Honestly, out of the 3 main villains, Orin was the only one that my first reaction wasn't disappointment. I've come to like them all now though.

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u/GalleonStar 2d ago

No, it's not just because you're used to the accent. He's just very bland, his speech is unemotional and monotone, and nothing he has to say us interesting.

From minute one I felt like he (the character) just didn't want to be there. He seemed like he was done and just waiting for someone to end him and I still have no idea if that was intentional or not 

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u/AdditionalMess6546 Bard 2d ago

The real hot take here is not being unimpressed by Orin lol

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u/AllStitchedTogether 2d ago

What can I say, I love a sadistic villain girlie 🤪

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u/Substantial-Mess666 2d ago

I LOVE his accent, and I find it kind of off-putting as the only American accent, but the weirdness of it fits his character and makes him even creepier. His voice actor (J.K. Simmons) is amazing and IMO gives one of the best performances in the game (and that's saying something with how quality the voice-acting in this game is). J.K. Simmons is just that talented.

I like the kind of reversal of... the creepy villain has an American accent instead of a British one. It's fun.

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u/AllStitchedTogether 2d ago

I totally see that point! And I agree, he's an extremely talented voice actor. I hadn't thought about how this does flip the script with accents too, and it's cool that they pulled it off so well.

It's just that hearing my own accent all of a sudden broke the immersion for me and my first vibe was "ew, that's just a sad, gross old man." 😬😅 Like, I know he's supposed to be chilling and intimidating, but all I'm feeling is just that "brother, eeew" meme.

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u/Substantial-Mess666 2d ago

I mean, he IS a sad gross old man. That is accurate.