In The Booth with J.K. Simmons as General Ketheric Thorm 

could you pay me in advance?

Yessir General Jamison Jr, Sir!

@@TommygunThompsonyou serious? Paying for what? Standing there?

Invincible reference. Love it Great voice actor

that was the most impactful line in that show imho. oof.

Why does this feel so real, too? Lol. Games these past few years have been fine at best and trash on average. Except BG3, which has made me fall in love with gaming again

​@@MikesterMF date it back to DOS2, the passion larian put behind that game was amazing. I hope they keep Sven at the helm because the company continues to be solely focused on creating passion projects rather than money grabs.

corpse of Bioware is lying near by btw

Damn I never saw this because my group always loot him before I did and they never cared for texts.

that broke me🥲

Never forget that Ketheric Thorm was once a Paladin of Selune. He has broken his oath a hundred years ago, but he has still the mindset of a Paladin: To sacrifice everything for the righteous cause. And his righteous cause happens to be his daughter.

​@@TheR6R6R oh no! Without the notes and journals, you're missing like half of the story!

What I love about this game is that I pick-pocketed that note whilst he was in his "private temple". And then straight after there was subtitle stating "someone was in my pockets", no voice line though but I'd like to imagine it means he constantly checks for the note.

Dude same. I haven't really experienced the other 2 baddies, but Ketheric was awesome

I experienced that dude and thought I recognized that voice.

Dude even the face is modeled after simmons....how can't you recognize that it was him ???

@@kyorikusagami84 Simple. I'm dumb. 😜 Have a nice day.

It was a very different role for him, I didn't recognise him. Incredible!

As Christopher Lee said, "An actor can be in a terrible project, but they must never be terrible in them." I'm not commenting on the quality of the game itself, I'm just saying that its an actor's job to bring it, no matter what

​@@NTWoo95 It's always reassuring when professionalism is exhibited.

He was fantastic as Omni-man it's great to see him in this too

i think jk simons has done lots of voice acting

You're obviously young.

age doesn't affect actor's abilies, just their roles.

He's been hammy characters (J. Jonah Jamison), stoic characters (Tenzin), he can calmly tell you a heartbreaking story while said heartbreak permeates from every word, and I bet he'd be a great audiobook narrator for a bedtime story.

Age? At 68 he's in better physical shape than many 30 year olds. The guy is ripped.

@@horriblepancake Can’t forget Cave Johnson in Portal 2! 😁 “When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get Mad!…Demand to see life's manager!“

"Age hasn't slowed you down one bit!"

If you are doing a good play through act 3 gets even better tbh.

He's so fuckin good that it kinda diluted other villains. I feel like Orin and Gortash don't come off as menacing as Ketheric because of the voice alone. Ketheric should have been the last boss

Ketheric is certainly the coolest boss, especially with the Avatar of Myrkul, but I think with how the story is setup, Gortash is shoehorned into Act 3 because that's when you get to the city, and the Cult of Bhaal (with Orin) kinda has to be in Act 3 because of the stuff that goes down with Dark Urge towards the end of the game.

​@@brianfederkins i hated orin she didnt have the grandeur of the bone lord but she felt terrifying to me with her reveal at the circus i was not ready

I think Thorm is TOO good of a villain. He completely outshines Orin and Gortash and hours before them

I can see the mod already: Ketheric only uses vicious mockery, and replace all the lines with the script from whiplash 😆, maybe fill his inventory with chairs to throw too-

Can you imagine him being your DM and his persona is that of Terence Fletcher? PC: "I would like to use my second action to attack the kobold warrior. *rolls to hit* I got a 25" DM: "Not quite my AC" PC:" But, Kobold Warriors have 16AC according to the ru....." DM: "Let me stop you right there. Are you rolling or are you meta-gaming?" PC: "I don't know....." DM: "ARE YOU ROLLING OR META-GAMING!?" *Throws DM chair across the room* DM: *slaps PC* "If you deliberately try to sabotage my table, I WILL F**K YOU LIKE A P*G!!!" PC: *Proceeds to drop in a fetal position and cry* DM: *Points at chaotic good player* "Your turn." PC2: "I would like to cast fireball at the kobold warrior. Save DC is 24Fort" DM: *rolls d20 and results a 1* "Not my outcome!"

@@WhimKR Now add that to a gameplay where you are a Bard and your instrument is a hand drum... oh boy! 🤣

Oh god yes! Imagine if he screams that when he crits? That would be the best hahahhaha

Player : "Please let me crit ! " Thorm : "🤣...... ya serious?"

Ironically as he is a champion of the god of death.

Dude probably doesn't even know what an L is. Love him in everything he does.

Dude, Invincible cost $10 million per episode, and Larian are nearly the same size as CD Projekt Red. This ain't the little leagues.

@@Snuffsaid2007Woah woah, Larian and CD same size? No. Larian is a company that’s worth barely 12 million with 400 employees. CD is 3 billion in revenue and has 1000 employees. Saying they’re the same size is crazy

@@__mindflayer__ Barely worth $12 million? That's a joke, right? The production budget for BG3 alone exceeded $100 million. They sold 2.5 million copies of BG3 in early access, 1 million copies in the first week before they even did any work; that's $50 million they made in a single week. The only thing crazy here is how much kool-aid people are drinking when it comes to Larian and thinking they are small-time. They hired JK Simmons and Jason Isaacs for Christ sake, lol.

@@Snuffsaid2007 It’s not a joke… it’s their real stats. Look it up if you don’t believe me. It doesn’t MATTER what they made. They’re not the same size of CD at all. You’re trying to say they’re the same level when their numbers show they’re not. JK Simmons is helping with a project that was at the time still in early development. Showing he was willing to assist the little guy and not help a AAA company. That’s far more respectful and a major accomplishment then you’re putting it out to be. A Larian developer himself said “what budget?” When they were told by another developer from a AAA company that they had a massive budget. I’m just correcting you. Lmao, Larian IS small time! No one knew who tf they were and no one knew this game was being made at all. All their budget came from was their money they made along the way during early access and their kick starter. You’re crazy to to even try to say they’re the same as CD when CD has money from other major Witcher releases and backing of other projects that were major success like Gwent. Larian was known for Divinity Sun where the first one was a good game but barely sold. The second one being good too and had a bit of a success just because SoveitWomble gave them a bit of exposure. And before that I can tell you that you don’t know anymore. Not to mention they LOST money to buy the license for Baldurs Gate. They had to pay most of their cash that they had from their smaller titles just to convince Wizards of the Coast to let them have the game license since they own the DND campaign. At that point Larian was almost bankrupt. So tell me, how is Larian even close when they are barely making up the money they lost for.

He's the villain in invincible

@@nova997and he’s the (sort of) antagonist in whiplash, his best performance imo

@@stanners1714 He also voiced Kai in Kung Fu Panda 3.

He also voices Tenzin in Legend of Korra. Which is funny, because while he's supposed to be a mentor figure, Simmons' voice lends itself excellently to the times when he loses his cool.

@@alecchristiaen4856 He's one of my favorite actors. I really enjoyed his performances in Spider-Man, Whiplash, and Kung Fu Panda 3.

That’s the great part about thorm as an antagonist - he’s so relatable as a father. I’d destroy the world for a chance to live in the new one with my children too if they were taken from me. His conviction isn’t based in myrkul being “good”, he knows how evil what he’s doing is - he doesn’t care. All he cares about is that his daughter is returned and that’s enough for him.

he is the biggest loser of the three though

He really does blow Harley Quinn and man with the name of an Orc, face of a 50 year old and hair of anime protagonist, out of the water.

Really? To me he always seemed almost on the verge of tears, especially towards the end. There's this inescapable doubt creeping into all of his words imo.

@@notarealperson8956 I agree and it makes it great, the slight stutters or a small sigh mixed in -almost a shakiness at the end. I'm still in Act 1 and am looking forward to the rest lol Edit: I'm well past Ketherics part and it was all very underwhelming oh well lol

Um, have you not been around for the past 20 years?

So what rock you been under

Videogames started as predominantly an art form, before gaming became popular and triple A gaming and esports arrived to the scene, majority of games made were someone´s passion project with genuine artists contributing to create thought provoking and masterful pieces. I am thinking of games such as Ecstatica, Blood Omen, Blade of Darkness and of course Baldur´s Gate I & II, Neverwinter nights, Planescape Torment, Arcanum, Gothic and many, many more. Baldur´s Gate series as a whole is a testament to that and, from what I have seen, its last instalment pays homage to the legacy of its predecessors.

@BlownMacTruck most people play fifa, cod, and candy crush. So what I say isn't coming out of nowhere

@@Keln02 So? What does that have to do with your original statement?

They should have made Ketheric Thorm the final boss out of the three.

Well, S (spoiler) came back from the dead. Who says Ketheric Thorn can't eventually?

he was actually supposed to be a recruitable companion who could be redeemed and played as later on, as I’ve just learned🥲 would’ve been epic as hell

@@eliatrance wai- WHAT?!?? Impossible

I agree! Each of the three baddies have their unique voices and personalities, but Ketheric really stole the show. No matter how many times i've seen Ketheric's introduction once in the towers, I still get goosebumps.

Yeah they felt small time compared to him.

Their whole plan really fell apart the moment he died.

Orin and Gortash are just two silly kiddos compared to Ketheric. He glows with power and control, his first appearance sent chills down my spine! Such a great job Larian.

I feel act 3 was just missing so much tbh, those two do not even have anywhere near as the amount of depth as Ketheric. I only wish moonrise was the act 3 and the city was actually act 2. Cause after facing the epicness of Ketheric only to fight an annoying screeching harpy with daddy issues and some pathetic wannabe tyrant whose god easily abandons him for any whelp that asks…whose fights are nowhere near the spectacle that was Ketheric and Myrkul’s just made the game kind of a slog…plus the final boss was just not that interesting tbh…no real personal stakes. Felt like I was just fighting an asteroid crashing onto the city. I literally went to kill orin asap cause she annoys me.

Waaaait, Matt Mercer as Minsc?! Hell yeah!

good voice acting has such a huge effect on immersion and atmosphere for sure. It brings the characters to life.

Amelia Tyler's voice is divine

Doug Cockle! Geralt's in BG3! This game is insane!

Wow, Matt already has 2 Ws this year with Minsc and Ganondorf.

Or throws a camera at me and tells me to go take pictures of Spider-man

He should do bonus damage vs bards.

Rushing or dragging?!

"Try again."

idk, I instantly recognized him and yelled in my best J. Jonah Jameson voice "I NEED MORE PICTURES OF SPIDERMAN!!!"

It sounds exactly like JK Simmons, I've never played the game but saw a 1 minute clip of him in "that's is how you introduce a villain" and I instantly looked up who the character was to see if it was Simmons. Doesn't make his voice acting or performance any worse though, he's still an amazing voice actor.

Both of these viewpoints are valid, because you can tell it's Simmons from the start, but the lead-up to getting to Moonrise Towers, the build-up, beating his underbosses in the town, all of it immersed me so much that my only out-of-character thoughts regarding his voice were "they used too good of a mic on his voice, I can tell because he has so much more punch to it." Wasn't until watching this that I realized he was JK Simmons. And now I can't get it out of my head.

Isn’t he speaking with an accent or no

Many are calling his performance lacking, but honestly, he delivers this numb, emotionless, hollow shell of a man so perfectly. His voice is so soft, but it's eerie and unnerving, because you feel it's from him being just numb to everything.

The druids wouldn't need a ritual to protect the gove if they had Farmer's.

You actually nailed Ketheric. He's so depressed and hopeless, dissatisfied with the complacency of the Gods when his wife died, you can technically (SPOILER) pick a whole set of dialogue Options that let you at least 'try' and redeem him, talk him into surrender with all the Info on his family you found, if you stopped to read all the books about him. It lets you skip straight to the you-know-what fight under you-know-what with the you-know-what, because he offs himself. He broke himself so much over the death of his wife, blamed the gods so hard for not "just bringing her back", that he literally can't stop himself from being a tyrant and he's awfully self aware of this fact.

@@adrianreichelt7057 the other guy is the tyrant :p

Or Ryan O'Reilly

Or Peter Parker. Or Po 😉

I might go Garth Pancake. Either that, or Mountain Girl.

The heir of tony jay.

I felt the exact opposite. Huge fan of J.K. but it honestly just sounded like he was reading out loud.

@@AlwayzFreshagreed. Love Simmons, but this just sounded like a dry reading. Like he never read the lines before delivering them.

Too bad they aren't in the game.

Fantasy World Omniman sends chills down my spinr

hahaha... wait you serious?

I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks that immediately whenever I see him.

Deep cut from his catalog! Oz was immense.

Spoken like a true prag!

@@davidfinch9 Oz made me want to stay out of jail lol.

Didn't even recognise him with that beard!

If the world is still around in 2055 we might be ready for BG4

I have some bad news my dude :(

@@DR-ng7oh I knooooow 😭

He's the one American I would believe could do Gandalf justice

He's a paladin of Myrkrul. And it's suspected that Shadowheart is his daughter.

@@DarksideGmss0513nah he has another daughter isobel.

"Could you pay me in advance?"

Bless you child!

Cave Johnson, yessss! “When life gives you illithid parasites, don't make ceremorphosis! Make life take the parasites back! Get Mad!…Demand to see life's manager!“

"To all the people who signed up to have mind flayer parasites enter your eyes and dig into your brain, we have a new test: fighting an army of mind flayers!" Just thought I'd add more to your comment