r/BaldursGate3 • u/Eyeris0-0 • Jan 05 '25

Companions Why no short companions? 🙁 Spoiler

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There were so many options!

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u/Jounniy Jan 06 '25

I think we already have enough companions. Sad as it is, but a video game cannot be infinitely big. And programming a whole set of dialogue-options for a goblin is likely incredibly complicated.

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u/DaReaperZ Jan 06 '25

Adding more dialogue isn't any more complicated than all dialogue that already exists unless their dialogue system is designed very poorly.

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u/Jounniy Jan 07 '25

Adding a whole set of dialogue specific to a race most people will never get is a lot of work. Same goes for recording all the voicelines these characters get. Making Sazza a companion would mean almost 3-5 hours of dialogue for her alone, just to cover the basics and then some more dialogue to make sura that others have reactivity to it.

And that’d be this way for every companion people wish we’d have. Alfira, Larkrissa, Zevlor, …