scrotiemcb Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Just because you don't get the jokes doesn't mean they didn't happen. I will say this though: if you go for a custom party right out the gate, a lot of the humor in the game dissappears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faerunner Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I'm sorry to see so many people find the humor lacking. I personally find this game very funny. Almost every scrap of party banter, ambient comments from companions about random places we visit (for example, everyone's comments when we visit The Salted Mast), random comments from NPCs (quest-givers or otherwise), many of the PC's own dialogue options, some paths the PC can choose to go down for quests... I'm having a ball. I find the humor this game a little more subtle and understated than, say, BioWare games (that includes Baldur's Gate, btw), but I still think it's present and I enjoy it immensely. ^_^ 2 "Not I, though. Not I," said the hanging dwarf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkathellar Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 There is humor, it's just less slapsticky and goofy. Eder has some cutting remarks, and Durance has my favorite lines: "The Shining One. Never shined brighter than when the Godhammer hit him. The epithet is outdated. Ash doesn't shine." "It's like if someone called you the Attractive Priest, Durance." I love Edér's trolling of Aloth. ^^ I just figured he had a crush on Iselmyr XD 1 If I'm typing in red, it means I'm being sarcastic. But not this time. Dark green, on the other hand, is for jokes and irony in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lmaoboat Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Durance gets taken out by a trap Eder: "Did it get quieter all of the sudden?" 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasta11 Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Éder, Hiravias and Durance provide much of the humor. Without them, the game can get a bit dry and dull admitedly. I think it's kinda down to the lack of colorful non-companion NPCs. Most of them are nondescript and don't provide much levity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atheosis Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Éder, Hiravias and Durance provide much of the humor. Without them, the game can get a bit dry and dull admitedly. I think it's kinda down to the lack of colorful non-companion NPCs. Most of them are nondescript and don't provide much levity. Huh, I think they are much better than BG companions in terms of their conception and writing. Them not being funny matters not a whit to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monte Carlo Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 It's the Obsidian house-style. They don't do humour much, and if they do it's very low-key. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hebruixe Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I got impression that the writers purposely stifled their senses of humor. Like the story was intended to be a drama and they didn't want to risk trivializing it. It's a shame. Comic relief could have really breathed some extra life into the game. Remember how Saemon Havarian finally died? Sacrificing himself to pay for all the times he screwed you? That scene had a powerful emotional effect on me. Because Saemon was such a hilariously slimy backstabber up until that point. His character was a running joke...and the writer turned that into amazing drama. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liniger4312 Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 people who find minsc and his hamster funny and worthy of emulation have the sense of humor of dull children Just because you don't get the jokes doesn't mean they didn't happen. Way to keep it classy people. Humour is and always will be subjective, and that is just fine. Haven't finished the game yet mind you, but so far there have been some decent moments that got a smile out of me. Nothing that had me in tears, but neither am I expecting that from this game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endruwiggin Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Uhm ... the humor is more ... subtle ... like in arrested development But ye I miss those goofy characters like minsc, or, if i may - Xzar. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmonocle Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 a bit of humor I see the dreams so marvelously sad The creeks of land so solid and encrusted Where wave and tide against the shore is busted While chanting by the moonlit twilight's bed trees (of Twin Elms) could use more of Magran's touch © Durance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jojobobo Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I like Durance's line in the Salty Mast, something about satisfying his "other staff"... He's talking about his ****. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaeliorin Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Hiravias's line on entering the Salty Mast is my favorite so far. Spoilers, kinda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caerdon Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 The humour in this game is drier, wittier and subtler than in BG seriers and I love it. I know humour when I see it, there's no need to underline it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosveen Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 "The Master Below is below. Sacrifice is stupid." There is wit, even some teasing between characters, but there's no light-heartedness and laughing out loud. It's all very low key. Hiravias might be an exception, but half his jokes are about sex and this kind of humor rarely amuses me. I enjoyed the banter between Eder and Aloth, though. Oh, this reminds me, Iselmyr's appearances are usually a comedic relief too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingNee Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Do the songbird quest and opt not to talk him out of it. 1 - How can I live my life if I can't even tell good from evil? - Eh, they're both fine choices. Whatever floats your boat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dododad Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Hiravias = comedy There's also one paralytically nasty involving him and Kana. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archaven Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 There are few humors that i have heard of during my playthrough. It's pretty nice. Like Eder and even Durance when in the brother. That was hillarious! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromnir Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 It's the Obsidian house-style. They don't do humour much, and if they do it's very low-key. other than big head modes, yes? ... is likely a good thing that they don't try more humor. some folks simple don't have a knack for funny in writing. am recalling a interview we read o elmore leonard speaking o' his influences. according to leonard, hemingway made writing look easy and getting into mood to write westerns were easy after reading passages from for whom the bell tolls. sadly, leonard realized that hemingway had no demonstrable sense o' humor in his writing and so he needed a new spirit guide as there were things leonard wished to say that were amusing or quixotic or whatever. am thinking that if the obsidians could be as unfunny as hemingway, it wouldn't be a bad thing. 'course lack o' humor don't result in increased writing talent. *shrug* for popular entertainment that spans tens o' hours, humor is something one should try and cultivate. keep reader or player on edge for +40 hours? am not saying that obsidian don't have such humor in their games, but as mc noted, obsidian humor is tending to be low-key or noticeably infrequent. that being said, we enjoyed morte as a humors jnpc. is perhaps a bit cliché, but the sad clown can be more tragic than a similarly preternatural serious character. morte were a good example o' black isle humor done well. side note: in retrospect, am thinking the voice acting actual helped morte considerable. authors can be funny, but if you have a voice-over, the actor better be good. if tiger woods had delivered morte lines, am doubting we woulda' seen the funny. HA! Good Fun! 1 "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legbiter Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Durance's Realtalk is funny. For Firedorn all the Lads grieve This Adam woke up next to Eve. But beneath leaves of Fig, He found Berries and Twig, So Himself off a cliff he did heave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manalah Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Sure hope we get more humor in the expansion. Maybe even a companion that always tells jokes or the like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ouroboros226 Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 I don't mind the presence of humor in RPGs, but I prefer darker RPGs and too much humor and it ruins them imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Darkholme Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 I haven't come across a whole blamed exchange with npcs that goes on for at least 5 minutes and is really funny all that time yet in this game. In BG2 I found myself quicksaving before I talked to the adventurers led by Tess Ironeye (Rasaads Quest) and reloading several times, just to try out all dialogue options. My twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/victorcreed_twitch My youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/VictorCreedGaming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starwars Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 I liked Minsc when I first played BG. I was 15 or 16 at the time. I wouldn't expect to find him very funny if I first encountered him in a game today (I certainly don't find him particularly funny when replaying the games). He's exactly the type of character I would throw out of my party instantly. That said, Hiravias is also really hit and miss. But I find that the level of humor in the game was spot on. It never tried to overpower the player. The banters can be quite funny. Edér is probably the funniest character in there but even-so, it's just a part of him. He doesn't need to dress up in a clown suit and throw pies to get the I'M FUNNY point across. I hope they keep it on a similar level for future projects. Listen to my home-made recordings (some original songs, some not): http://www.youtube.c...low=grid&view=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monte Carlo Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 As we all have different humour tolerance (I like some slap-stick, I loved Edwin's pantomime villain act in the BG games) you usually answer this question with a bigger stable of NPCs. Minsc, for example, is completely optional - he's a solid melee fighter but nothing exceptional and easily replaced. So a token funny guy NPC you could take or leave would be no biggie. I can't really get my head around mystical too-serious NPCs like Grieving Mother, for example. I'd like a totally humorous RPG, a video game version of Hackmaster for example. Creeping around in dungeons lends itself to Monty Python stupidity but context is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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