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[AwkwardSilence]

Keldorn's character ending made me sad, yet happy that he went down a legendary paladin. Same with Minsc, an excerpt from his ending.

" Well, what is Minsc without Boo? The two would never be seperated,
and some say they are together still, up amongst the stars where
hamsters are giants and men become legends."

That my friends is spine chilling stuff.

[SometimesSpring]

Keldorn's ending evokes a strong sense of respect for his self-sacrifice and courage, plus the fact that he'd never again see Maria or his kids. This combined with paladins and barbarians being my favorite fantasy/RPG character class gave me relief that the game designers gave Keldorn a truly fitting end to an impressive life. As for Keldorn's in-game character, well that's another story.



Minsc's ending is really friggin awesome. The fact that he and Boo are together even in death (no bestiality ******?) is beyond wonderful. That's the kind of friendship most of us will never experience.



I loved the Viconia romance ending, the fact that she dies before your kid grows up and you seek to eradicate the Drow as revenge (a task CHARNAME is surely capable of) is again, awesome.



The other endings I didn't enjoy so much. Though I find it funny that Anomen's romance ending has him as female CHARNAME's bi**h.

[Morbidest]

Regarding Viconia, I've always felt the developers shortchanged her by not giving her the breaks that a male drow exile, Drizzt, got. It's as though they started with the assumption "she's drow, she must be evil". Yet she never does anything evil, except to applaud the PC when He acts evil, or rejoice over slain enemies. She was exiled from drow society for refusing to kill a baby, and keeps looking for another "society" she can fit into. Yet at the end drow assassins are able to kill her, so she never really escaped the drow culture that condemned her. Compare that with the forgiveness that a sociopath like Sarevok gets 

[Seagloom]

I liked Cernd's ending quite a bit as it was a direct extension of his irresponsibility before and after you meet him. He goes through all this trouble to save an infant he never knew, then leaves his child with fellow druids to go off adventuring with Charname. His ending was the culmination of making too many lousy personal decisions. When Cernd finally owned up to his mistakes and was forced to deal with an embittered son, it cost him his life. I found that ending both poetic and fulfilling.



It occurs to me there are still party members I never finished ToB with. The other endings I can remember were good, but I hesitate to call them best. I was kind of disappointed in Keldorn's ending. Not because I thought he wasn't heroic, but he left his family behind to fight evil again after swearing his quest with Charname would be the last. All I can think about when I read that ending was how his wife and children had to suffer through all those long periods of absence only to lose him again to duty... this time forever.



I also liked Nalia's ending as it shows what we begin to see a little of in ToB: that she has grown out of her childish naïveté. She retakes control of her family's keep and eventually gains a seat on the Amnish council; using that influence to fight for commoner's rights the rest of her life. Seeing Nalia go from the unsure, desperate woman we meet in the Copper Coronet to the kick butt ruler in that finale was great.

[Ed boy]

I loved keldorn's ending because it is such a classic paladin ending, and done so well.

I also loved minsc's ending because I had minsc in my party for most of (including my original) playthroughs of BG1+SOA+TOB, and I have grown to love the character, and he got an ending that lived up to the character.

Sarevok, however, I felt did not get an ending that lived up to his character. I loved how sarevok came back at important moments in SOA, and I was delighted when I found I could get him in my party. After all, this is a man who was the major villain in BG1 (and a bloody good villain at that), survived to fight the PC in hell in SOA and even survived that to force the PC into ressurecting him in TOB. No other villain managed that.

Modifié par Ed boy, 12 août 2010 - 02:52 .

[AwkwardSilence]

To be honest, i shed a few tears when I saw Minsc's ending, its very heartwarming.

Jan's ending is really funny, lots of monkeys 

[jaxsbudgie]

I take Viconia with me no matter what I do, I have a problem, I can't help myself. And yet both her romance and non-romance endings tug at my heart strings. Yet I still can't understand how anyone could poison a level 30+ drow Cleric no doubt in the highest regard of her goddess. Bah!

I liked Cernd's too, again a sad ending, I gravitate towards tragic characters. Nalia's is good too, it's nice how we see her develop from SoA, into ToB and beyond that.

Edwin's is hilarious. I think if there was to be a BG3, the PC should play as a low level mage named Edwina with a burning contempt for everything and anything.

Modifié par jaxsbudgie, 12 août 2010 - 09:33 .

[HoonDing]

Minsc's ending is definitely the best of all. Mazzy's is pretty "feel good" as well.



Viconia's romance ending... sucks. Though it is kinda cool to imagine <charname> invading the Demonweb Pits looking for revenge. Jaheira's romance ending is much better.

[dheer]

I really liked Jaheira's romance ending. I usually go with Viconia but hers was fantastic.

Mazzy had a fitful end as well. Heroic to the last and died happily in her old age.

[SometimesSpring]

AwkwardSilence wrote...

To be honest, i shed a few tears when I saw Minsc's ending, its very heartwarming.

Same here, reminds me of The Lion King for some reason.

Seagloom wrote...

I liked Cernd's ending quite a bit as it was a direct extension of his irresponsibility before and after you meet him. He goes through all this trouble to save an infant he never knew, then leaves his child with fellow druids to go off adventuring with Charname. His ending was the culmination of making too many lousy personal decisions. When Cernd finally owned up to his mistakes and was forced to deal with an embittered son, it cost him his life. I found that ending both poetic and fulfilling.

That's what you get for being an irresponsible babydaddy. 

Seagloom wrote...

It occurs to me there are still party members I never finished ToB with. The other endings I can remember were good, but I hesitate to call them best. I was kind of disappointed in Keldorn's ending. Not because I thought he wasn't heroic, but he left his family behind to fight evil again after swearing his quest with Charname would be the last. All I can think about when I read that ending was how his wife and children had to suffer through all those long periods of absence only to lose him again to duty... this time forever.

That's the tragic flaw of a paladin, hence very fitting to Keldorn's character and quite possibly the best ending (after Minsc's of course).

[bloodanddarknessfillmysoul]

The pitying thing about no specific sequel to BG is that there are no references to this [literally] epic character whom shaped the world they travelled through.



I'm sure there must be some fan fiction to fill this void though.

[Sparky The Barbarian]

Aerie's Romance ending was really sweet and fitting. Viconia's was fitting as well, though in a more poignant way. I think the developers were going for one good, one bad, and one neutral ending to match the one good, one evil, and one neutral romance options. It makes sense, but after playing over 100 hours of game through BG, SOA, and TOB, after putting up with the buggy Jaheira romance script (forcing me to do three playthroughs to get it right) I was quite unhappy with that neutral ending. Thank the gaming gods for the mods.

[faction699]

Unfortunately I feel that none of the endings of the game do the characters justice.  They're just too short.  It's true that BGII's endings do, essentially, end the saga of them all, and leave no questions, but you still have to wonder what could have been if there was a BGIII.

[SometimesSpring]

You know what would have been awesome? Epilogue movies for each character, kinda like the post-hell one where Irenicus gets mobbed by demon critters.

Just imagine watching Keldorn lead a bunch of Radiant Heart paladins into battle and take serious blows, only to end up dying and ascending to Torm's side. :happy:

Or Sarevok at a funeral, burying his lover then walking off into the Kara-Tur wilderness. 

Or Boo and Minsc's constellations letting out dialogues and squeaks denouncing evil to adventurers walking the earth below. 

Downside: watching Viconia die. 

Modifié par SometimesSpring, 18 août 2010 - 05:30 .

[Fallschirmjager007]

Ahaha, I beat ToB for the first time 2 days ago! So I can actually contribute to this thread...

As many others have said, Minsc's ending was great. I love the idea of Minsc and Boo forever memorialized in the stars, "where hamsters are giants and men become legends." As OP said, spine chilling stuff

Anomen's ending was also cool. I thought it was interesting how he had a "crisis of faith" after the adventure and wandered around aimlessly for a bit. It fits him kind of well, as during the quest he was completely devoted to Helm, and then after the epic adventure's conclusion he just felt... empty. Then finally, he realizes the deeper meaning to order and duty, and ends up becoming a warrior of Helm once more.

I romanced Aerie during my playthrough, so I thought her ending was pretty sweet. I really enjoyed how Aerie developed from SoA to ToB (when she became a badass). Aerie's ending, I thought, was the happiest, and I'm a sucker for happy endings

Overall though I agree that the epilogues were way too short, given the amount of time I invested into playing with all those characters from SoA all the way to the end of ToB. But some closure is better than none :happy:

Modifié par Fallschirmjager007, 19 août 2010 - 12:02 .

[Korva]

Keldorn's and Minsc's were epic, yes, I absolutely loved them. Jaheira I felt deserved better. Imoen's is upbeat but bland. Mazzy's is nice but I never used her so it doesn't make me feel anything special. The others pretty much leave me cold.

One thing that made me sad is that the party just falls apart after the final battle. I went for ascension, but if I hadn't it would sour the victory to have everyone apparently run off on their own right away, never to meet again. It'd be nice if friendships forged (between NPCs and between the NPCs and the protagonist) would have been allowed to endure more.

[Seagloom]

I was disappointed Mazzy and Valygar did not team-up, and that Imoen went her own way. Her tone if Charname chooses divinity wrenched my heart. I thought it was Melissa Disney's best work in the series. After that I was disappointed there was no mention of Charname in her epilogue; whether she ascended or not.

I find ascending makes for a much more depressing ending if Charname is in a romance. When that is not the case, it is a fairly easy choice to make from a metagaming perspective.

[HoonDing]

Wouldn't Mazzy rather team up with Korgan?