The voice of Baldur's Gate 3's most unhinged romance option didn't know they were romanceable: "The most awkward thing was recording the sounds"

Baldur's Gate 3 voice actor Scott Joseph's depiction of the Mindflayer Emperor brought to life one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:most disturbing romance scenes in the game. The disturbing descriptor here is really saying something, considering you can 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:make love to a literal bear in Baldur's Gate 3.

As it turns out, Josepܫh 💛wasn't initially aware that the character he was voicing was romanceable at all, though he was still good and game when he did find out.

Speaking to Dan Allen of Dan Allen gaming, Joseph describes the whirlwind that was entering the reco🃏rding studಞio for the first few times. "On the first day it just kind of passed me by, because I was so anxious to get in the volume and get the character - If I can understand the character and make that natural, then I can focus on anything else."

It seems like he's not entirely sure whether the studio told him 💫straight up, since he was so focussed on getting into🧸 character. Three or so sessions in, the directors slip in the depravity that the Emperor's storyline might lead to for some players.

"So then I was probably told 'Oh and, by the way, you do know that you can romance this character?♚' And I was like 'Awesome, yeah! Bit of illithid love going on there. I like that", sa𒉰ys Joseph.

"And it was fine, I was ok with it", he laughs, remembering how delicate the directors were being with the whole thing. They kept asking 🥂him if he was alright with being put in a sex scene like this, but he makes a point that there's been a push toward including more and more romanceable characters in games, and it goes a long way to making the world believable.

Sure, making love to a Mindfꩵlayer is not for everyone, but "If it's not your cup of tea then that's totally cool as well. Just slap them on the back and go and have some mead, or something𝐆", he says.

One of the main difficulties for them in the studio was his character's animations, "because꧂ I can't float and I don't have tentacles."

"The most awk𒅌ward thing about it was recording some of the sounds," he says. "You've gotta get over yourself and go 'What would an illithid do in a situation like this?'"

In the end, he notes, they managed to get the whole scene in one take. I'm sure that lightened som𝔉e of the psychic damage the poor man had to endure from embodying a s♔exy tentacle monster.

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