The worst thing about character banter is some of the characters are just too likeable. I genuinely hate swapping out Minsc for anyone else even if I want to have characters I never used before. Minsc is a fun character to have around. Vowing to protect Aerie? Being quite amusing with just about everyone in the group. Doesn't matter if I've already completed the game a few times with Minsc; playthroughs somehow don't feel quite right without him. :)
Still to this day feeling the same.. Finished my over a dozenth playthrough and entered ToB now, want to pick Sarevok and change his alignment to Good, but just.. cant give up Minsc.. Letting Minsc lose on Pirate Lord Desharik to get us into the Asylum is the single funniest moment of the entire RPG World for me.. -- Player Character: Minsc! Tell the Pirate Lord how much I should be in the asylum! --- Minsc: Pirate Lord? Such a name does not conjure images of righteous behavior. Stand still a moment and let Boo have a look at you. - Pirate Lord: "Er, why is your friend pointing a hamster at me?" --- Minsc: Boo will soon have you figured out. You certainly seem friendlier than I would think a Pirate Lord would be. and where is your peg? - Pirate Lord: My.. what? --- Minsc: Your peg. a proper pirate has a peg, whether a leg, arm or... uh... some other expendable extremity. And a parrot. - Pirate Lord: A Parrot? --- Minsc: Certainly! As I have my Boo, so too must you have your parrot. Boo likes parrots. They could wrassel. - Pirate Lord: I've seen enough. Congratulations, you are on your way to Spellhold. You are clearly a danger to the general community. By the gods, I think I'm stupider for talking you you. Stupider? More stupid? Get them out of my sight, all of them! They may all have his disease of the mind!
My favourite line has to be when Minsc asks Aerie to be her Witch. I was honestly happy because Minsc had a purpose again, and the few times where you see minsc vulnerable.
"My battles won unscathed are my greatest pride. When I have served the cause of righteousness without a mark to prove my deeds, I know I am acting for the greater good... and not just my own foolish ego." That is so true shit Keldorn.
All glory to the amazing talent of voice actor Jim Cummings. He also did Gorion and Firkraag..... And tasmanian devil, doctor robotnik, lurch, darkwing duck, winnie the pooh, tigger and many many more!
Minsc and Keldorn are basically BFFs. I remember I had a party with both of them for one of my characters, but I didn't get this many banters. I must've had them too far apart in the formation to trigger them. :(
@@Milwaga WOTC actually retconned that. Now Minsc and Boo got petrified and then returned to normal slightly before the current timeline in 5E. They're the stars of their own ongoing comic series, and are canonically the heroes of the 5E adventure modules Murder in Baldur's Gate and Descent Into Avernus, which are very much tied into BG3. It's almost certain Minsc will make, at the very least, a cameo, and quite possibly play a more substantial role in the game.
@@FoxyDean Minsc had better fucking be a recruitable party member. A multiclassed Beastmaster Ranger (because Boo is his animal companion) and Barbarian (because big fuckoff sword, and rage). And Jim Cummings had better voice him. Anything less than that, and I _will_ start a riot.
Aww...the convo Minsc has with Rasaad about what a honeymoon is didn't make the list? (I think that confirms my assumption that you have to be romancing the monk in order to achieve it). It's actually really cute. Minsc asks Rasaad what a honeymoon is and Rasaad explains it as a newly married couple traveling together to a private area with a keg of mead to get to know each other better. Minsc asks about bees, as Boo mentioned they're involved in a honeymoon; which confuses Rasaad - who admits he isn't sure, seeing as he's never been married. It was the cutest and most awkward convo ever.
+Alcovitch Wen this game first came out, it was shipped on 6(!) CDs, a huge amount for that time. 4 were solely for install, and 2 play discs. So yeah, space limitations
+Eara With ToB? I'm replaying SoA now, it's on 4 CD-ROMs all discs needed to install all discs needed to play and are interchanged throughout like BG1. Using original year 2000 discs, with my big box by my side.
Worth remembering due to space limitations back then; they couldn't have every line of dialogue spoken. These days it's very common to have just about every line acted out but back then you didn't have the massive storage mediums of today; Baldurs Gate II was already 2GB which was massive for the time and it was initially split into 4 CDs a good few years before games came out on DVD. You'll notice especially in Baldurs Gate: Siege Of Dragonspear (2016) that a lot more lines are spoken since it was made recently and file sizes are less of an issue. The predecessors were from the Late 90's/ Early 00's.Anyway that's why fewer lines were recorded.
@@Damocles178 I actually prefer this method! I sometimes find fully voiced dialogue a bit grating, but this works perfectly. I actually prefer voices from older games, there is something with the audio quality and compression that feels cosier.
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