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I was expecting him to be more annoying. I don't get why everyone hates him tbh

Ok so I've barely played this game so far, I'm only up to the Blighted Village. But I heard this guy is an annoying as fuck Redditor but so far he's just been a lovable dork. Does he get worse or something?

Honestly having Moss from The IT Crowd in my party is a breath of fresh air considering the other party members consist of an angry green fascist, a goblin racist, a foppish dandy who immediately tried to cut my throat, and someone called Shadow Fart.

I heard he was more obnoxious before patches. Do tell.

Edit: Oh and Wyll is there too I guess. I unironically forgot he existed lmao

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  • He's both incredibly horny and also incredibly up his own ass

    • The bit where ::: spoiler spoiler You can manupulate the moon lantern ritual circle and he's like "oh you better leave it to an expert"

      and if you dare to try it without him he gets pissy at you and basically says you're not competent enough for it to have been anything other than luck. I actually hated the little shit after that. My wizard PC has better stats than you, dumbass cracker magician!

      Then you learn he got into a toxic relationship with the goddess of magic where he of course knows better than literal gods and gets himself super cursed with a magic WMD that could kill half a continent - and he still hasn't learned his lesson and tries to guilt and emotionally manipulate the PC into letting him control the artifact of doom macguffin! I hate Gale lmao :::

    • Oh that explains it, I haven't got to that part yet lol

  • i quite like gale and never got the hate either

    im convinced at least part of the hate was, prior to some patches, he was basically guaranteed to hit on you, which probably made straight men uncomfortable

  • Aside from the romance issue, the problem is that Gale is a whiny douchebag who basically trips his way into higher power, ascribing many of your achievements to himself (even if you do not bring him along on quests) and thus thinking himself worthy of praise and other things that I will not reveal because of spoilers.

    My friends and I were pissed that even after we made the choice to deny him one of these 'really bad ideas' he has, we were forced to see him achieve it in the post-game, and then were not allowed to kill him for doing something explicitly against our wishes, which we were entitled to make since we were the ones who actually saved the city, which he then seemingly forgot that we were opposed to because the BG3 writers aren't always to maintain coherent character emotional arcs and memory after Act 1 ( omg I love Act 1 though, so good), which can lead to some very funny story moments.

    Perhaps he is better if you take him along (though he was already an annoying wizard to begin with) but if you are playing multiplayer and simply wish to save him by not dismissing him from your party, the story devs will still try to force him and his frankly absurd OC level goals down your throat because he is clearly one of their favorites.

    Edit: That said, I am honestly not a huge fan of any of the NPCs especially compared to the interesting people you met in Divinity 2, which is the superior Larian game imo because it isn't tied to the exploitation strategies that plague D&D 5E as a system, so much so that bosses have to randomly lose status effects to maintain any level of difficulty.

    That isn't to say BG3 is bad, just that, having played hundreds of hours of both, D2 is the more compelling game, in large part due to its much more difficult, and intricate combat system, which allows you to actually use status effects on bosses though they were a pain to get to stick, and encouraged you to really combo powers, rather than just have a couple one-trick pony styles.

    Anyways, my point is that most of the characters are pretty meh, but Gale is absolutely the most annoying if you play the game not really interacting with him.

    Edit the 2nd: Basically none of the characters are that great unless you want to have sex with them. Karlach was my favorite though, story-wise, because at least she has a character reason to be a dumbass.

  • I've only played about 8 hours of bg3 because my laptop sucks, but I completely missed Gale lol. I failed the check to pull him out of the portal and now he's just... Gone. Idk where the fuck he is.

    It's fine with me though, I have Shadowheart and Astarion and I'm basic and attracted to them

    • I will admit, a part of me likes Astarion even though I know he's a manipulative, self serving shit.

      I don't know enough about Shadowheart to judge her

      • I like Astarion because he's a manipulative, self serving shit. I let him drink my character's blood until they died just because I didn't want to say no to him lol

        All I know about Shadowheart is that she's pretty and nice and gets white hair later in the game, and that's enough for me to like her

      • They all have layers - it's pretty fun

  • I had him in my party the first go 'round before they patched him to be less pushy about entering a relationship. But even now he's a bit of a twat especially if you play either a wizard or a sorcerer where he's frequently talking down to you despite not actually being any better at the whole magic thing. There's one conversation in act 2 earns him a permanent place on the bench in my opinion. And the only reason he gets that is because:

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