This was an interesting scene, but it convinced me to NEVER play as Astarion. I need to HEAR HIM. I couldn't bear to lose out on the best voice acting in a game FULL of premium-quality voice actors. Neil Newbon is just the best.
The most devastating part is that on the early release, all of the VAs narrated what their characters were thinking depending on the actions chosen by the player, so you could get an even more in-depth vibe and actually hear Astarion / the other Origin characters.
Honestly the best part of playing Origin Astarion is that I hear him so much! Just walking along, checking in crates, and all the perception checks that have the player character commenting on something nearby. It's all in his voice. The only part it's lacking is in the conversation dialogue.
I have a theory that since Petras was sort of spared some of the worst of the abuse since Cazador focused more on Astarion. Then Leon came along and became the favorite, with Astarion still getting the worst punishments.
I can just hear him as it walks to the window saying something like "all this chit chat, is suffocating, if you dont mind let me air up the room abit" **walks towards the window, opens it and sit on the window frame, with a condencending grin** ah.... Much better, shall we continue?
What's even funnier is when you say you haven't been the best brother and Petras calls you a piece of shit 😂 Edit: I've posted a short vid of that as well now.
I found them in an inn and they both just disappeared away without talking to me, though I wasn't playing Astarion origin. I didn't realise you could talk to them (still going through my playthrough at the moment).
They do that if you or a party member has the blood of Lathandar equipped, since it has a passive blinding feature for undead. They dont have nearly this much to say to Tav as they say here, though.
@@primrosettthat's what I realised. So if you spare all of them and the spawn also with that gur hunter and you meet them and his kids in the undercitt with it on the kids run away and the gur goes aggro and attacks you.
@@primrosett thanks for clearing that up!! Yes, I had Shadowheart equipped with it - buggeration! So now I have to wait for my next playthrough to interact with them :(
The lack of a voiced PC is never more noticeable than when you're playing the origin character. Seriously it's so fucking noticeable and it detracts from the experience to me
For real. It makes me not want to ever play them because I love hearing them talk and show their unique personalities throughout the game as companions.
I love all the characters voice acting so I don’t think I’ll ever be able to play origin characters unless I can hear them actually speak. I just wish Tav could speak just imagine some of the lines from the Dark Urge Tav.
I think the teeth are because they are younger spawn than him. I think he's Caz's second spawn? I have to imagine they use a glamour or something to hide the glowing eyes and pointy teeth. But yeah... Astarion has had 200 years of maturing into a vampire and the only thing holding him back from being a true vampire is Cazador not granting him it. I think it looks too silly, though, and they should have at least toned it down to make them more convincingly attractive. Theoretically, when Astarion was first a spawn I guess he'd have had the shark teeth, too, though that doesn't make for great fan art as it doesn't suit him at all.
I have some primal repulsive instinct toward these vampiric types and they give me the ick. I killed these two as soon as I saw them and I never kill “civilians” in bg3. I am just now finding out they were Astarion’s siblings lol.
Even his "sister(s)"?! I under stand immediately disliking the guy but Astarion's "sister" seems like the more compassionate of the two from what few videos I have seen of them so far
I understand the impulse, but you lose out on so much when you just kill NPCs out of hand instead of talking to them. There's so much dialogue available that can enhance or further the story. Or is just plain hilarious, haha. I'd hate to miss out. I always feel bad for players who kill Astarion or Lae'zel immediately and never get to see their story arcs, because they're snarky or abrasive in the beginning. But then, there's really no wrong way to play the game, and it has infinite replayability, so I hope they find different things next time.
Quite the opposite for me. I like their aesthetics... And I'd make a paladin slayer class if I could. Unfortunately, artificer class isn't available without mods.
What you mean a coping mechanism after 200 years of torture and abuse? I'd argue he could've been much much worse, he doesn't value others lives because his own life was never saved, so understandable he'd be a bit stingey.
Petras has only been tortured 100 years at this point, while ast was for 200 whole years. 100 years difference. He did this all out of survival instinct. Its not an excuse to be a bad person, but it is the root of his behaviour.
