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Yeah. While I didn't really think it was the next coming of Baldur's Gate like so many espoused upon release, I really enjoyed much of the banter, especially between Morrigan and Alistair. There have been plenty of games before, and since (before was primarily just text) that have had competent party banter, but I honestly can't think of any that did it better than Baldur's Gate 1&2, Mass Effect 1&2 and Dragon Age.
Also, while not really party banter, the only other games with character interactions that were on par, if not superior would be The Witcher 2&3. Pillars of Eternity 1&2 have their moments, but I'd say they are not really as consistently good throughout.
"Shepard..."
Still waiting to play that, and it's one of the few reasons so far I'll be getting a Switch revision whenever that releases. Hopefully it's more party banter, and not just combat yelling like in the first Xenoblade Chronicles (which I still thought was good).
Except that much of it isn't, and if not for Mimir's long winded stories, and sarcastically bowing out when being cut off, it was mostly just "boy this, boy that". And to an extent you're right. Crucial information isn't "party banter", it's key dialogue.
I've been meaning to replay it for a long time now with mods. Might end up doing it just because Claudia Black is so amazing in that game. It's not even so much the dialogue, but the way she delivers it. She basically made both of my original playthroughs worth the dated mechanics (they were seriously dated when it released).
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Everytime time a character talks they sound like they're rushing to get through their dialogue. It just sounds so unnatural. Like a script not written by an English speaker.
Baldurs Gate 2 is still probably the king of this. With characters having tons of reactivity with each other and the world as well as your choices. Characters fighting each other refusing to be in the same party and even killing one another if it gets bad enough. I really liked DA:O as well like with the ashes where the religious characters will leave if you defile the ashes.
Prince of Persia 2008
Elika and the Prince had an incredible fun dialogue and banters. The best thing is that it was totally interactive, you were on command of when you wanted to talk with her, so it always felt totally natural.
Elika and the Prince had an incredible fun dialogue and banters. The best thing is that it was totally interactive, you were on command of when you wanted to talk with her, so it always felt totally natural.
Party banter is literally the only thing that keeps XV afloat (well, that and the absurdly-pretty visuals).
It's incredible how depthful and interesting they made exactly four of the characters in that game...
I don't suppose anyone has ever gone through Kid Icarus Uprising and worked out what percentage of the playtime has characters chatting? I swear it must be at least 50%. It never ends (and the game is better for it).
Especially if you pair Sera/Vivienne with the quippy ones (Bull, Dorian, Varric).
But the one that blew my mind is Solas and Cole.
Their banter suddenly makes sense (in second playthrough) because Cole know Solas true nature from the start...
amazing
i love how disconnected this is from the actual game - the characters feel so real
I really like the bants in RDR2.
It feels more genuine, whereas for example in GTAV they are too overbearing with the whole satire thing.
Like when Arthur says to John at the start of one mission:
"You must be the first man to have half his brain eaten by wolves and come out smarter."
Then at the end of the mission he says:
"Next time let the wolves eat all your brain... Then you'll be a genius."
You'd never make that kind of burn these days, but I just find it to be very endearing and it makes me like the characters even more.
Playing Dragon Age Inquisitions right now and this is fucking great. In the other two, I never really cared for diversity of the characters. Now, I take all kinds of combinations to battle with me just to hear what they would say. Also, I just got the DLC on XBL, it's 75% off now.
I remember a random conversation on Dragon Age Inquisition were Dorian gets angry and is about to insult your character,only to stop, breathe in and apoligise as he's learnt over the game to be more.friendly with the Inquisition teammates and by extension have a bit more empathy for those around him.
Needs to be quoted more, the just natural act of them talking about mundane and weird shit is one of the most lovable things about these characters. It's not deep philosophy, they're not laying out their life history and try to work it through with you the protagonist, there is no long deep issue they need solvedi, it's not even often related to what's currently going on in the mission you're playing.
They just talk to pass time, like actual people. And they feel more real than any others for it.
As far as I am concerned, it is unbeaten as of today as no other game have really attempted to do the same.
I agree with both. ME with its loading screen of elevators along with other banter.
RDR2 is altogether a different proposition with its banter as you ride to a mission.
Admittedly, I wasn't too fond of the characters from the main game so Torna did manage to win me over by constantly roasting Mythra.
Came to post this. Great stuff. Almost made up for the lacklustre game.
The Last Story has some great battle/exploration banter! The characters were the stars of that game.
Man, I grinded our support conversations for all the characters in those games and those character quirks do not endure through that much exposure. Not to mention that some pairings really had to force it.
The first couple convos are amusing though.
Barret losing his rag with everyone, particularly Cloud, is a highlight of FFVII. It's a shame that he inevitably gets pushed into the background as the story develops and more characters join the party, but hey, there's a reason Midgar is widely recognised as the best part of the game.
Yeah I feel like I get attached to the initial 2-4 characters that you start the RPG adventure with since the game knows you only have a set number of characters and can script dialogue accordingly.
As more characters get added to the mix, the interactions start to feel less punchy.
