marius

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Tell us your favorite BG voice acting performance and then surprise us with what else the performer ended up doing. in c/baldursgate@lemmy.world
[–] marius@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's awesome. I originally played BG2 in german, which also had great voice acting, but I just relistened to irenicus voice lines on youtube, and it is actually quite different. The english performance feels almost shakespearean. It's really great. I also wasn't familiar with hogfather, guess that will go on my to-watch list.

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Tell us your favorite BG voice acting performance and then surprise us with what else the performer ended up doing. (lemmy.world)
 

I'll start.

My favorite performance is Jaheira, voiced by Heidi Shannon. That unique, eastern-european accent saying "Yes, oh omnipresent authority figure" is unbelievably iconic and also perfectly captures BG's slightly irreverent tone. It's emblematic of the series as a whole, and probably influenced a lot of fantasy RPG voice acting that came after it. For example, I am convinced that Laura Bailey's character Jester in the second season of critical roll was based on Shannon's performance, though admittedly the personalities of Jester and Jaheira are quite different.

And you know what's surprising? Heidi Shannon didn't go on to do anything else. Nothing that I'm aware of anyway. And I have no idea why. Makes me wonder if the voice actors back then knew that they were working on a very influential title, or if they just recorded those 2 minutes or so of voicework for that weird little game company just to pay some bills.

Morrowind modern game engine OpenMW 0.48 is readying to release in c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
[–] marius@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Wow thanks for posting. I wasn't aware of this. I guess I'm not the only one who thinks morrowind is the best elder scrolls game.

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If you die in Baldur's Gate, you die in real life - watch 2 old BG enthusiasts attempt a no reload playthrough (www.youtube.com)
 

Hey I thought you guys might enjoy watching me and my friend try to play Baldur's Gate 1 enhanced iron man style, i.e. without ever reloading, except when we take a break and resume. So if our main character dies in a fight, we will delete the savegame and that run will be over. Likewise, if Imoen gets shredded by an unlucky crit, well we're just going to have to live with that.

We chose mage for our first run. Playing the enhanced edition so many years later after vanilla BG feels different. It's very strange to summon a familiar in candlekeep.

Anyways we will surely die. If anyone has advice for no reload runs, we would be glad to hear it. We are aware of some basic tricks like evermemory at friendly arm, and alginon's cloak and so on, but we also have some glaring holes in our knowledge of the game. Especially the parts in cloakwood with the bandits and the mine. I have like no recollection of that part, but I remember it being hard. We also know nothing about the EE npc quests, like dorn etc. Tips for these things would be very much appreciated.

D&D Movie in c/dnd@lemmy.world
[–] marius@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

There would have been so many ways to make this movie suck. IMO they avoided all of them. I loved it.

Many people are saying that it was faithful to DND mechanics, but I personally don't care about that so much. I loved how it captured the feel of an evening of dnd at the table with my friends. The lightheartedness, the nonsensical stunts, the banter. It even makes fun of insane DM puzzles at some point. You can really tell the writers have some love for DND.