Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 players feel Larian \u201cdropped the ball\u201d with one veteran NPC Larian StudiosBaldur\u2019s Gate 3 fans are calling for justice for one veteran NPC after highlighting how Larian \u201cdropped the ball\u201d with her personality, preferring a quick villain over the detailed character seen in games before. With over 100 hours worth of gameplay inside each story, Larian certainly had their hands full with Baldur\u2019s Gate 3. After all, each location and storyline is filled with tons of lovable companions, NPCs, and even villains, with some finding themselves enamored with many questionable personalities. However, with such an extensive world inside this game, there are always going to be a few characters that get a little left out, especially since a lot of BG3 NPCs have previously been seen in other Baldur\u2019s Gate games. For many, they\u2019re certain Larian missed a great opportunity with one key veteran NPC. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 fans slam Larian for making key NPC a \u201ccartoonish villain\u201d Sharing their frustrations onto Reddit, one user slammed Niantic for dropping the ball on previous fan favorite, Viconia. They went on to explain how, much like Lae\u2019zel, Viconia was a problematic character in Baldur\u2019s Gate 2 who \u201cfled the Underdark because she refused to sacrifice a baby to Lolth\u201d and attempted to live the rest of her life alone and in peace. Throughout the events of BG2, Viconia turns to Shar and leads a rather insecure life, antagonizing herself to the player to save them from the wrath of Lolth. However, you can push past that and romance her in the end. However, in Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, her role is much shorter, with Viconia appearing in Shars temple as what one user describes as a \u201ccartoonish villain for five minutes.\u201d On top of this, the user highlighted how they were surprised \u201cto see Viconia, a woman who defied Lolth to save a child, is now someone who would kidnap a child, torture her and her parents to no end, brainwash her, and inflict her with a curse as long as her parents live?\u201d Ultimately, the poster explained how \u201cLarian erased the entirety of her good writing in order to make her a cartoonish villain for 5 minutes in BG3\u2026 I just wish they let her rest instead of making such a terrible cameo of her.\u201d The community seemed to echo the poster\u2019s thoughts, with many upvoting the opinion and highlighting how they \u201cfeel like the Mother Superior could really have been any new character. There was no need to make her Viconia.\u201d Viconia was likely an homage to games gone by, with Larian perhaps choosing to add her in as it made sense to see her acting as the Sharran Mother Superior, but it seems fans are less than pleased to see her story end in this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 players feel Larian \u201cdropped the ball\u201d with one veteran NPC Larian StudiosBaldur\u2019s Gate 3 fans are calling for justice for one veteran NPC after highlighting how Larian \u201cdropped the ball\u201d with her personality, preferring a quick villain over the detailed character seen in games before. With over 100 hours worth of gameplay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}