a tiktoker had discovered this initially sad she's not getting any recognition for it.. but she mentioned in a comment of her vid that this dialogue is likely approval based so depending on your approval or if you're in a relationship with him you might not get this specifice dialogue. Also this scenario is completely unique to his character. I wanted to share that for those who cant seem to get the dialogue ♥
It is also funny because he is the only companion approving of this choice. 😂 Half of his approvals is him thinking something would be funny or gain him profit and not realizing consequences of its actions.
My favorite way to gain approval from him is during the scene where he talks about how he hasn't seen his face in centuries. He wants you to tell him that he's gorgeous, but if you're romancing another character you can tell him that while they are, he is just fine
@@efaristi9737 At the start, yeah. Not everyone turns out a wholesome cutiepie after two centuries of mind control, forced prostitution and torture. At least I wouldn't expect them to. "Hurt people hurt people" and all that. Once you break through his walls a little, he does end up caring more and approves of you helping others more often.
Astarion is legitimately one of the most fun characters Ive seen in years. I have him in my party mainly for his comments and sass. His VA also did a phenomenal job
What makes this even funnier is if you manage to not activate or deactivate the weapon before turns are up and talk to him, he talks about what a shame it was that it didn’t go off because he’d loved to see it
Me: ohhhhh sure, we can do that, we can watch the building collapse :) Me: *reloads to an earlier save and lets him see it up close and personal* Astarion: THIS IS NOT WHAT I MEANT
Ah, one of my favorite mind trick I do on myself to feel more immersion : Imagining the player's reaction as the character's ones. Just so much fun, I love Astarion so much but oh well, he killed me cause I trusted him a bit too much the first night, guess it's just retribution Lmao I mean, I would gladly die again if he asked me anyway, but pissed Astarion is the best Astarion, just below love-struck Astarion.
I see what you did here XD for everyone not catching the reference, it is a reference to the difference of Dumbledore's reaction between the book and the movie when Harry's name came out fro the Goblet of Fire.
How can Astarion be so filled with primal rage and still sound posh? I don’t know who I’m more impressed with, Astarion for keeping his aristocratic edge even when he’s losing his mind, or his VA for bringing it out.
To be fair Astarion is the best character in the game. Not to say the others aren't great, but where the others range between 6/10 and 8/10, Astarion is a solid 12/10
Oh my god you guys…. I just did this with my Druid (trying to exploit Fly to get out in time) and was blessed with a cut scene of a frantic bird dodging falling debris while squawking hysterically.
I was playing as Astarion and I set off the weapon and let it go 2 turns before using the amulet to stop the countdown. Everyone gave him shit when we got out and he was like "But I didn't let it go off and we're all just fine now! And wasn't that exciting!"
the bigger question to me is whether or not there might be an added line if astarion has previously killed you would there be some sort of dialogue declaring that you are now even.
I CAN'T BREATHE🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 The voice acting and the mocap are SO accurate here, like it's always good but this was PHENOMENAL! Also I can't with how he needs to take a breath to calm down at 2:15. This has to be my favorite dialogue in the entire game from what I've seen so far.😂
the motion capture (especially astarion he is by far the most expressive companion along with raphael who isnt a companion ) is out of this world though
Ah, I wondered how to set off the giant canon! But I got the mace the boring way and mostly because I hoped that maybe sipping on the blood of a sun god could maybe make someone permanently sunproof. =D But alas ....
@@Morrodin-WH40K I picked Astarion as my origin so trying to invest in post-tadpole-sunprotection seemed wise and firing big, disastrous looking canons unwise but fun!
Or they heard Astarion's dialogue and knew no one else could even come close to competing with the pure rage of it. It's just a magnificent performance. I don't want to hear anyone else's voice lines. His nice summer day versus the concentrated power of the sun is just superb. As is his long suffering gathering of thoughts.
My favorite interaction so far is Wyll trying to tell me that having just one eye ain't so bad, after Volo scooped mine out with something I suspect to be an ice cream scoop...
Thank you for sharing! Since I did the ritual to remove the mace safely on my first playthrough, it was very likely I'd never see this AMAZING dialogue. ♥
I am playing through BG3 right now and literally just did this 3 mins ago, Astarion definitely now *does* have the dialogue if you revive him right after 'the incident'- I did it the second his orb poped up with a scroll
Hahaha I love this dialogue. Gale also has a cute little conversation if you're a mage with him in the group, the first time you encounter a Susur Flower in the UD. 🤣
i saw a giant glowing weapon on a pedestal and i was like.... ya no ive seen enough horror movies to know to not touch that xD damn i shoulda touched it lol
That's like every horror movie ever just looking at a cursed object and being like huh I want to touch that! Even though objectively that's the terrible idea, like seriously I got a question the intelligence of horror movie protagonists
Astarion is my least favorite character to play with (I tend to play the Rogue types and he requires for his approval some pretty shitty choices)... but my God does he have the best VA and lines in the entire game. I genuinely think that this might be the finest Voice Cast in recent memory.
You don't have to do anything shitty to get his approval. I always play good aligned characters and have him at high approval in act 1 every time. Just keep him out of earshot during the odd scene and make non-committal choices in others. It's quite easy. The more the game progresses the more he starts approving of kind and heroic choices. He's just a product of his trauma at first that's all. He's also the best companion to have in terms of fun and a total beast if you build him right. I've run him in my party while playing a rogue and monk myself and to be quite honest, we didn't need anyone else.
I mean the only truly terrible thing I did was tell the tiefling kids they were probably going to lose their breathing licences... Possibly also letting him discontinue the monster hunter. Lae'zel did not like that. To be fair, I didn't know we'd ALL have to fight 😅 But Karlach loves her new crossbow so... Good in the end? Or this is my awakening as a villain idk he could be making me worse 🫣🤣
That could be a revenge dialogue if the player let Astarion bitten to death before. 2nd, I watch a dungeon master playing, or directing rather, this game. He is too good on solving, so too bad that didn't happened. He recently switched to Tactician level in Act II.
Everyone else just casually moves on to talk about something else but i think on two occasions Astarion complains or comments on it. Makes him feel real
I just got to this scene, grabbed the mace, made it out, brought back Astarion but he says a different dialogue: Ive killed my fair share of people, but wiping out an entire building with the power of the sun? Well that will take some time to process. I mean, its cute but I want the other one. :( why didnt I get the other one? Nevermind, got it now. I used a scroll to get him back to life, which seems to trigger this other dialogue, Bringing him back with Withers at camp did the trick. Happy. :D
Hahaha Astarion is probably my favourite character! So sassy! In another encounter he says something like "I don't know, we will kill a bunch of people, poke around, it seems to be working for us so far" 😂😂
LOL :D Thank you SO MUCH for uploading this. I had no idea. Thia is epic :D I should do that (sorry Astarion, my love, i need to hear that from you :D)
Hmmm... I was disappointed that you could not answer Astarion's "Or do you have any other chaos you need to unleash here?" question with a reply of something like: Well now that you asked... The weapon DOES contain something like a god's blood, so thinking of you as VAMPIRE I was thinking of maybe... EXPERIMENTING what does a sun god's blood do with you! ): D
Interestingly, I got my 2 other allies apart from Astarion, into safety, standing right next to my leading character, but they still died even though my main character survived. Still had to pay 600 gold for all of them 😭😂
kudos to Tegan Morris for finding this cool detail: twitter.com/TeganMorrisVO/status/1694039228311806357
a tiktoker had discovered this initially sad she's not getting any recognition for it.. but she mentioned in a comment of her vid that this dialogue is likely approval based so depending on your approval or if you're in a relationship with him you might not get this specifice dialogue. Also this scenario is completely unique to his character. I wanted to share that for those who cant seem to get the dialogue ♥
oh! do you have a link so i can add her?@@angel3119
It is also funny because he is the only companion approving of this choice. 😂 Half of his approvals is him thinking something would be funny or gain him profit and not realizing consequences of its actions.
It's because Astarion is the complete definition of Chaotic alignment 🤣
@@RubyGika or the complete definition of selfish.
My favorite way to gain approval from him is during the scene where he talks about how he hasn't seen his face in centuries. He wants you to tell him that he's gorgeous, but if you're romancing another character you can tell him that while they are, he is just fine
@@RubyGika stupid chaotic. Unfortunately, he is one of my stupic chaotic choices that I've made in-game.
@@efaristi9737 At the start, yeah. Not everyone turns out a wholesome cutiepie after two centuries of mind control, forced prostitution and torture. At least I wouldn't expect them to. "Hurt people hurt people" and all that. Once you break through his walls a little, he does end up caring more and approves of you helping others more often.
Astarion is legitimately one of the most fun characters Ive seen in years. I have him in my party mainly for his comments and sass. His VA also did a phenomenal job
I've heard that he's amazing as a bard, since you get all his sass when casting vicious mockery
Agreed, I bring him into my party just for the voicelines lmao
Yeah he's a great actor. 👍
@@MsL1aYES I JUST MADE HIM A BARD AND ITS SO FUNNY
same thing, he is the Sam of Baldur's Gate 3
What makes this even funnier is if you manage to not activate or deactivate the weapon before turns are up and talk to him, he talks about what a shame it was that it didn’t go off because he’d loved to see it
Stupid, loveable goofball
Me: ohhhhh sure, we can do that, we can watch the building collapse :)
Me: *reloads to an earlier save and lets him see it up close and personal*
Astarion: THIS IS NOT WHAT I MEANT
He definitely saw it now
At point blank xD
I think it's implied he doesn't want to see it explode that close-up.
@@juice6521 "sorry Astarion, i didnt hear you over the explosions"
"Full concentrated power OF THE SUN" Gosh, the anger is PALPABLE 😂 understandable
Part had me dead how he had said it. VA for astarion is amazingly delightful
Ah, one of my favorite mind trick I do on myself to feel more immersion : Imagining the player's reaction as the character's ones. Just so much fun, I love Astarion so much but oh well, he killed me cause I trusted him a bit too much the first night, guess it's just retribution Lmao
I mean, I would gladly die again if he asked me anyway, but pissed Astarion is the best Astarion, just below love-struck Astarion.
The zoom in on his face killed me 😂😂😂
"Well, apparently there's a limit. Somewhere between a nice summer's day and the full concentrated power of the sun," Astarion said calmly.
Talk about extremes.
More like, sarcastically lmao
I see what you did here XD for everyone not catching the reference, it is a reference to the difference of Dumbledore's reaction between the book and the movie when Harry's name came out fro the Goblet of Fire.
I love that so much of just "well apperently theres a limit- between a nice summer day and the full conSINTRADED POWER OF THE *SUN*!!"
The mocap for this scene is so perfect. The voice actor obviously had a TON of fun reading this bit.
I believe mister Newbon had a ton of fun recording all of it 😂
How can Astarion be so filled with primal rage and still sound posh? I don’t know who I’m more impressed with, Astarion for keeping his aristocratic edge even when he’s losing his mind, or his VA for bringing it out.
Both, both is good!
Haha "Dadstarion" isn't really angry...he's just disappointed he didn't get to aim the canon.
Preferably not at himself...😅
One of the most funniest dialogue in this game
I got this dialogue on accident and I laughed so hard I cried. The mocapping on this was just so perfect and Neil's voice acting is just perfection!
Why is he the funniest character I've ever known LMFAO
I simply adore this guy, can't get enough.
I fucking love Astarion and his child like outbursts such as this.
Yup, this one and the one after meeting Orin are pure voice acting gold.
To be fair Astarion is the best character in the game. Not to say the others aren't great, but where the others range between 6/10 and 8/10, Astarion is a solid 12/10
Karlach too, they're my faves!
25/10. He's the reason I bought a gaming pc and the game 😅 Awards all deserved 💯
My favorite "a nice summer's breeze, and the full concentrated power OF THE SUN!" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I Always have to laugh SO hard how Mad He is xD Neil must have Had SO much fun doing that lines xD
Aww thank you so much for the credit to my tweet! I lost my MIND when I found this scene, Astarion's VA does such an incredible job with every line
I like that despite his anger he still finds it in himself to forgive and even appreciate bringing him back.
I could listen to astarion all day long. This character is so well written and the voice acting is absolutely amazing.
Lae'zel also has unique dialogue here because of the Creche... but yeah, he really went all out xD
Oh my god you guys…. I just did this with my Druid (trying to exploit Fly to get out in time) and was blessed with a cut scene of a frantic bird dodging falling debris while squawking hysterically.
There should've been a line about him 'accidentally' murdering you before.
Which would've put them 'even'.
that's a ironic dialogue considering he literally approved of you ripping the Blood of Lathander off his piedestal. XD
"Histerion" :D
Hysterion!
@@wolfkiller2211 Not ver ay kam from :D
I was playing as Astarion and I set off the weapon and let it go 2 turns before using the amulet to stop the countdown. Everyone gave him shit when we got out and he was like "But I didn't let it go off and we're all just fine now! And wasn't that exciting!"
That was fun asf, thank you for sharing.
200+ y.o teenager vibe
the bigger question to me is whether or not there might be an added line if astarion has previously killed you would there be some sort of dialogue declaring that you are now even.
if he sucks you dry you can punch him in the face for killing you
That, is a great point.
I need this! I kinda want to drop the building on him just so we're even lol
When I saw the intro I legitimately thought it was going to be him asking to drink the blood out of the mace.
Haha that would have been epic... and weirdly in character for him 😳😳🤣🤣
Im laughing at the fact of how passionate he is about the whole "THE ENTIRE POWER OF THE SUN!" line xD Its funny omg
I think Astarion is the only one who gets this diaglogue is because Neil somehow persuaded the team to put it in
I love him when he's snarky like that. All bark... no bite. Pun intended. :D
Astarion is HOT! How hot?
_Somewhere between a nice summer's day, and _*_the full concentrated power of THE SUN_*
This could have been an epic moment to give Astorian sass for dinking our character to death, saying now we're even.
I CAN'T BREATHE🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The voice acting and the mocap are SO accurate here, like it's always good but this was PHENOMENAL! Also I can't with how he needs to take a breath to calm down at 2:15. This has to be my favorite dialogue in the entire game from what I've seen so far.😂
i love how Astarion is the ONLY one to take issue with dying. sure Lae'zel is pissed you just nuked her people but is totally ok if she died too.
For you consideration, Geoff Keighley, please give Neil Newbon a Game Award nom for Best Performance. 🤣
I am so torn about this scene… I find it hysterical, but I don’t want to hurt Astarion…
Heck, for me, it almost happened by accident...
@@gravewalker2175 lol how did that happen?
This is absolutely the appropriate reaction to your leader killing you with a sun cannon
Neil Newbon has that voice that can move mountains. I hope to hear this guy as a powerful wizard ina future game.
the motion capture (especially astarion he is by far the most expressive companion along with raphael who isnt a companion ) is out of this world though
This really shows off the mocap voice acting. Incredible performance and hilarious lines.
Having Astarion is like having his majesty's distant relative 😂
He is unbelievably adorable in this scene
No matter what party i septup, astarion is always the second spot.
omg thank you for including all the dialogue options
This crazy, amazing game. I didn't realize this was even an option when you do the Blood of Lathander quest.
Ah, I wondered how to set off the giant canon! But I got the mace the boring way and mostly because I hoped that maybe sipping on the blood of a sun god could maybe make someone permanently sunproof. =D But alas ....
What are playing as ... a ginger? :P I don't mind the power of the Absolute but get that damn sun away!!! >:)
@@Morrodin-WH40K I picked Astarion as my origin so trying to invest in post-tadpole-sunprotection seemed wise and firing big, disastrous looking canons unwise but fun!
aughh I got it the boring way as well 😢
‘OH no,no,no’ lmao
I always do this on purpose just to get this reaction from him. He's absolutely adorable and so dramatic 😂
You shouldn't've shown me this. Now I'm going to do this, on purpose.
Or they heard Astarion's dialogue and knew no one else could even come close to competing with the pure rage of it.
It's just a magnificent performance. I don't want to hear anyone else's voice lines. His nice summer day versus the concentrated power of the sun is just superb. As is his long suffering gathering of thoughts.
My favorite interaction so far is Wyll trying to tell me that having just one eye ain't so bad, after Volo scooped mine out with something I suspect to be an ice cream scoop...
Thank you for sharing! Since I did the ritual to remove the mace safely on my first playthrough, it was very likely I'd never see this AMAZING dialogue. ♥
You did the ritual and you came out safe, therefore you have seen Indiana Jones movies.
@@marytichelaar7225. Recently. lol
I was looking for this again, and like. The screen shake just adds so much. Gods help me.
🤣🤣 That's too funny! Thank you for sharing it.
This entire dialogue scene is a masterpiece.
As a Cleric of Lanthanian, this is going to be very conflicting.
The 3rd option was the most hilarious.
Literally at the Lance part repeatedly trying to escape and leave Astarion there just to get that dialogue
I am playing through BG3 right now and literally just did this 3 mins ago, Astarion definitely now *does* have the dialogue if you revive him right after 'the incident'- I did it the second his orb poped up with a scroll
Hahaha I love this dialogue. Gale also has a cute little conversation if you're a mage with him in the group, the first time you encounter a Susur Flower in the UD. 🤣
When Stewie from Family Guy grows up to become a vampire.
With the right dialogue options he becomes Megamind.
i saw a giant glowing weapon on a pedestal and i was like.... ya no ive seen enough horror movies to know to not touch that xD damn i shoulda touched it lol
That's like every horror movie ever just looking at a cursed object and being like huh I want to touch that! Even though objectively that's the terrible idea, like seriously I got a question the intelligence of horror movie protagonists
Astarion is my least favorite character to play with (I tend to play the Rogue types and he requires for his approval some pretty shitty choices)... but my God does he have the best VA and lines in the entire game. I genuinely think that this might be the finest Voice Cast in recent memory.
I think it's because it's basically just another version of Neil, the guy who plays him 😂.
You don't have to do anything shitty to get his approval. I always play good aligned characters and have him at high approval in act 1 every time. Just keep him out of earshot during the odd scene and make non-committal choices in others. It's quite easy. The more the game progresses the more he starts approving of kind and heroic choices. He's just a product of his trauma at first that's all. He's also the best companion to have in terms of fun and a total beast if you build him right. I've run him in my party while playing a rogue and monk myself and to be quite honest, we didn't need anyone else.
@@jenni5104This. No need to commit to bad choices. Just be yourself and your influence redeems him along the way to a more understanding person.
I mean the only truly terrible thing I did was tell the tiefling kids they were probably going to lose their breathing licences... Possibly also letting him discontinue the monster hunter. Lae'zel did not like that. To be fair, I didn't know we'd ALL have to fight 😅 But Karlach loves her new crossbow so... Good in the end? Or this is my awakening as a villain idk he could be making me worse 🫣🤣
That could be a revenge dialogue if the player let Astarion bitten to death before.
2nd, I watch a dungeon master playing, or directing rather, this game. He is too good on solving, so too bad that didn't happened. He recently switched to Tactician level in Act II.
"the full concentrated power OF THE SUN!"
yes, this is the kind of videos i'm looking for on BG3 ;)
i would never see this scene ;)
I love how expressive he is here 😂
Can't handle him so angry, is too funny lol
i like my whiny vampire pretty boy. seriously though, he's legit become my favorite character bc of his fuck-all attitude.
>Resurrects Astarion
Narrator: “And that is when Astarion calmly tells the player that he did not approve of his methods”
Everyone else just casually moves on to talk about something else but i think on two occasions Astarion complains or comments on it. Makes him feel real
I just got to this scene, grabbed the mace, made it out, brought back Astarion but he says a different dialogue: Ive killed my fair share of people, but wiping out an entire building with the power of the sun? Well that will take some time to process. I mean, its cute but I want the other one. :( why didnt I get the other one?
Nevermind, got it now. I used a scroll to get him back to life, which seems to trigger this other dialogue, Bringing him back with Withers at camp did the trick. Happy. :D
Funnily enough, it was a scene of this exactly that is the reason I'm playing Baldur's Gate 3 now 😂
Hahaha Astarion is probably my favourite character! So sassy! In another encounter he says something like "I don't know, we will kill a bunch of people, poke around, it seems to be working for us so far" 😂😂
I just love him 😂❤
Astarion is megamind confirmed
Astarion is one of the funniest characters I've come across in a long time 😆😆😆😆
and the full CONCENTRATED POWER, *OF THE S U N!!!* (I’m sorry I cannot stop laughing at that part bahahagahhaha)
i heard about this dialogue but didn't even try to grab the weapon because i could never hurt my poor boi that way, but at least now i've seen it lol
the way he says I WAS RIGHT THERE pointing the ground its hilarious skjcndjkvfd
LOL :D Thank you SO MUCH for uploading this. I had no idea. Thia is epic :D I should do that (sorry Astarion, my love, i need to hear that from you :D)
I honestly did not think I would think Asterion was gonna be my favorite character.
Oh my god. This was absolute perfection. Thanks for sharing. 🤣
VA just won a Best Performance award for this role.
I will have to absolutely meta getting this scene because it's hilarious
this is brillant level of detail :D
His outrage is so perfect haha
Hmmm... I was disappointed that you could not answer Astarion's "Or do you have any other chaos you need to unleash here?" question with a reply of something like:
Well now that you asked... The weapon DOES contain something like a god's blood, so thinking of you as VAMPIRE I was thinking of maybe... EXPERIMENTING what does a sun god's blood do with you! ): D
I WAS RIGHT THERE!
💀💀💀
That's hilarious. I love this.
But he approves when u took the mace 💀💀
I love how his voice croaks at a certain point 😂
Ah. So that's what happens when I decide to yank the mace out of the altar
Interestingly, I got my 2 other allies apart from Astarion, into safety, standing right next to my leading character, but they still died even though my main character survived. Still had to pay 600 gold for all of them 😭😂
This shit has me laughing so hard, I love Neil so much
He is sooo cuuuuute!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💕💕💕💕💕💕✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️
The zoom in and screen shake killed me 😂