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I played through Siege of Derpspear, and the writing as as fucking horrible as I expected, it's basically utterly shit fanfic drivel, and the whole story is so fucking retarded that I'd think it was come up by modders. Some aasimaar gets manipulated by evil servant of some devil/demon to wage crusade and siege some castle to go to the nine hells to save her uncle, supposedly, and the being who's manipulating her is so obviously untrustworthy that she'd have to have intelligence of 3. Her class is fighter and she has some special abilities, and I can fucking guarantee it that she was originally suppose to be paladin, but someone figured out that detect evil would've killed the whole story, and due her crazy actions, she'd fallen long time ago. At least based on my impression, they try so hard try to play it as "she's tragic figure", but instead she comes across as fucking retarded.
And why they're after you? because your partially divine blood can open the gates to the nine hells, the machinations of the said Master Manipulator are revealed, he plans to open the portal for his master and unleash the hell on "earth", if I understood it correctly, I was phasing out pretty badly. She goes after him/it and you go after her...to the nine hells...as level 9-10 party, just....WHAT?! it's fucking ridiculous, it's like they wanted to do out-do BG2 on epicness. You kill the demon, and she or her uncle sacrifices herself/himself by staying behind to close the portal yada yada "Muh Heroic Sacrifice"
And the cherry on top? after you come from the hell as hero, and you celebrate through night, you wake up in the night and find "Hooded Man" (aka Irenicus, who's been appearing through out the game as "Hooded Man") hypnotizing you (or framing, it wasn't completely clear if you actually killed her or was it Irenicus) killing Skie, you then wake up in the hallway with her body, and everyone jumps into conclusion that YOU KILLT HER! even though there's no murder weapon (from what I gathered), you (the character) get railroaded in the very short trial for execution, even if you'd been the most heroic of the heroics during the game, then you just get exiled by the nobles because Skie's father (who's the grand duke of baldur's gate, or something) wants you dead. If you've not been, then you get set free by some nameless thief who says that Imoen hired him, but it's implied that it was arranged by Irenicus. You don't get any kind of closure with the companions, you just meet with the default party from BG2, and off you go, and get ambushed by Irenicus. People have said that the stuff with Irenicus is one of the better stuff in the game, and that you get railroaded because you're child of bhaal, but it's still fucking dumb, the whole "Ur child of Bhaal!" is so hacky throughout the game, with decent writers that stuff could've been fine. David Warner does his best with the material, but he sounds so much older now than in BG2, he is almost 80.
This whole last segments is like 5 last minutes of the game, no epilogues for the new companions, and it's so fucking abrupt, hamfisted and hacky that I just had to go "WTFLOL IS THIS SHIT?!", my friend said that I should play through it to experience the ending because it's so fucking dumb, and boy, he wasn't wrong...mostly. From what I remember in BG2, they just say that you were traveling near Baldur's Gate.
From the existing companions, Viconia and Edwin were the most tolerably written, and they didn't manage to ruin their characterizations too badly, Safana was made into a huge bitch and fucking annoying cunt, with very hacky fanfic tier writing, Khalid and Jaheira weren't THAT horrible either. Didn't try any of beamdog's own ones from BG1, and from the new ones I tried out Corwin, the flaming fist captain, she was fucking borefest, Glint, who's budget-tier Jan Jansen, and Vohglin (or something) who's basically very stereotypical viking type, I think he's probably the most tolerable of those ones, and might've been fun character in BG1 if written by original Bioware writers.
There was one fun dungeon at pretty start of the game, one mediocre dungeon, some fun fights, some of the loot was fine, but I don't think SCS really works with it, as it was easier than BG1, even on hardest.
And why they're after you? because your partially divine blood can open the gates to the nine hells, the machinations of the said Master Manipulator are revealed, he plans to open the portal for his master and unleash the hell on "earth", if I understood it correctly, I was phasing out pretty badly. She goes after him/it and you go after her...to the nine hells...as level 9-10 party, just....WHAT?! it's fucking ridiculous, it's like they wanted to do out-do BG2 on epicness. You kill the demon, and she or her uncle sacrifices herself/himself by staying behind to close the portal yada yada "Muh Heroic Sacrifice"
And the cherry on top? after you come from the hell as hero, and you celebrate through night, you wake up in the night and find "Hooded Man" (aka Irenicus, who's been appearing through out the game as "Hooded Man") hypnotizing you (or framing, it wasn't completely clear if you actually killed her or was it Irenicus) killing Skie, you then wake up in the hallway with her body, and everyone jumps into conclusion that YOU KILLT HER! even though there's no murder weapon (from what I gathered), you (the character) get railroaded in the very short trial for execution, even if you'd been the most heroic of the heroics during the game, then you just get exiled by the nobles because Skie's father (who's the grand duke of baldur's gate, or something) wants you dead. If you've not been, then you get set free by some nameless thief who says that Imoen hired him, but it's implied that it was arranged by Irenicus. You don't get any kind of closure with the companions, you just meet with the default party from BG2, and off you go, and get ambushed by Irenicus. People have said that the stuff with Irenicus is one of the better stuff in the game, and that you get railroaded because you're child of bhaal, but it's still fucking dumb, the whole "Ur child of Bhaal!" is so hacky throughout the game, with decent writers that stuff could've been fine. David Warner does his best with the material, but he sounds so much older now than in BG2, he is almost 80.
This whole last segments is like 5 last minutes of the game, no epilogues for the new companions, and it's so fucking abrupt, hamfisted and hacky that I just had to go "WTFLOL IS THIS SHIT?!", my friend said that I should play through it to experience the ending because it's so fucking dumb, and boy, he wasn't wrong...mostly. From what I remember in BG2, they just say that you were traveling near Baldur's Gate.
From the existing companions, Viconia and Edwin were the most tolerably written, and they didn't manage to ruin their characterizations too badly, Safana was made into a huge bitch and fucking annoying cunt, with very hacky fanfic tier writing, Khalid and Jaheira weren't THAT horrible either. Didn't try any of beamdog's own ones from BG1, and from the new ones I tried out Corwin, the flaming fist captain, she was fucking borefest, Glint, who's budget-tier Jan Jansen, and Vohglin (or something) who's basically very stereotypical viking type, I think he's probably the most tolerable of those ones, and might've been fun character in BG1 if written by original Bioware writers.
There was one fun dungeon at pretty start of the game, one mediocre dungeon, some fun fights, some of the loot was fine, but I don't think SCS really works with it, as it was easier than BG1, even on hardest.
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Did not expect that.
