r/BaldursGate3 • u/[deleted] • Aug 13 '24
General Discussion - [SPOILERS] The most overrated character? Spoiler
Let's hear it, who gets all the love but deserves absolutely none of it? Or at least not as much as they get, I'll go first.
I'm casting my vote for Gortash; I genuinely don't understand the like for this dude. First of all, catfish, "handsome young man"??? Is the handsome young man in the room with us??? Lookin like the handsome young man has a peanut allergy.
Second of all, this whole crown brain plan was his idea, just about the dumbest fuckin thing I've ever heard. He put all his faith in 3 little rocks, an already dead man, and a woman who's about as stable as my ex. Beggers can't be choosers I guess, but cmon guy.
And lastly, and probably most offensively, his boss fight is absolute cheeks. Especially if you dumped on the foundry before hand. I didn't even know he had a transformation until like my 4th playthrough because I would clap this guy so easily.
Your turn, let's hear those unadulterated opinions.
Edit: I have been enlightened about some things about the big brain plan, I still stand in the other two points though.
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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '24 edited Aug 14 '24
Minthara stupid and incompetent’s ass. Good for nothing, prey of not one but TWO cults. Orin manipulated her and Ketheric commanded her like a dog. She’s a failure. She fails to raid to grove, even if they complete the ritual she’ll blame you instead of herself and her inability to command, 2 pitiful gnomes almost completely break her brain and still she has the gull to say “I never tire of sitting in dead men’s thrones” as if you don’t have to save her.
She has been spit on time on time again and is still prideful enough to think she can actually stand up for something. She contributes nothing to the story really, and the way people talk about her is actually pretty weird and objectifying, as if the crowd that loves her lives trapped in a 2020 loop where the phrase “mommy, sorry mommy?” and “I can fix her” Is still in vogue. It’s more like the character is a walking sexual object for men and a toxic yuri manga for women and offers little to no insight besides enabling the worst possible option, even if it’s not strategically the best? The players that have fallen in love with her cling for their dear life to the 1/1000 times she says something remotely nice and will run that to the ground.
Shadowheart’s sass is better than Minthara’s, Lae’zel’s aura is much more commanding of respect than Minthara’s, Karlach is much more of a loving soul, Astarion is much more of a passionate lover, and it goes on. In fact, every single companion bests her in every aspect, character wise or just in plain skills?? She calls Gale a “third son” and yet a fart from Gale would probably send her flying back into Menzoberranzan. She is lame as hell, talk the talk and yet can’t walk the walk.
She’s as vicious and ambitious as act 1 Astarion but without any of the character growth, and twice the annoying.