Baldur's Gate 3: The Honest Interview

0:00 and pretending to like each other.

0:06 Hi,

0:06 we saw some Balders's Gate reactors from across the tavern and like their vibe.

0:10 Let's see if we pass the charisma check

0:12 in the honest interview of Neil Nubon and D'vorah Wild.

0:17 Boners Gate 3 was a lot of people's first experience with RPGs.

0:20 Is it all downhill from there?

0:26 Really?

0:25 Wow.

0:26 The hard-hitting questions.

0:28 I'm going to be optimistic and say no.

0:30 Although Boulders Gate 3 set a very very very high bar.

0:33 It is one of those lightning in a bottle moments.

0:35 However, it doesn't mean that other people can't do similar ventures

0:39 with similar um aspirations as also the passion has to be the same.

0:43 U that's not impossible at all.

0:44 I just think Gate proved a lot of things in the games industry that maybe

0:50 some bigger companies who are just really chasing the money need to learn from.

0:54 Good answer.

0:55 Good question.

0:55 Does it suck that no one knows what you actually

0:57 look like in real life or is that a plus?

1:00 The amount of times we get recognized in random places.

1:04 I got recognized up a redwood tree in New Zealand.

1:07 That was wild.

1:08 Up the tree.

1:09 Yeah, I was up a tree walking on gang planks between trees.

1:11 Okay.

1:11 And somebody went, you're like, I'm up a tree.

1:15 That's very funny.

1:17 I feel like it's a level of um anonymity.

1:20 You can still have like a normal life.

1:22 So, I think it's actually perfect.

1:23 Yeah, it's a good balance because I think we get recognized for our work

1:26 which is amazing but because often we can also take our face off.

1:29 So you get this lovely balance of recognition in a nice

1:32 positive way but also you can go to the shops.

1:34 How do you take your face off Neil?

1:36 This okay just just wondering.

1:41 Okay, good.

1:42 You're both in Crimson Desert.

1:44 What the is going on in that game?

1:46 There's too many things to do.

1:47 There is too many choices.

1:48 You're just going to have to deal with it.

1:55 So much you can do in that game.

1:57 Like more choices than Boulders Gate.

1:58 It's the things, the activities in the world that you can do.

2:01 There's so many things you can do in different play styles and such.

2:04 Yeah, it's a really impressive game.

2:05 What message do you have for people who press the skip dialogue button?

2:09 Oh my god.

2:10 I don't think I can talk to them.

2:14 You don't do it.

2:15 I know somebody that did it and they're no longer with us.

2:20 I think I think the um I think if you're on your fifth play through,

2:23 it's totally understandable to skip a catch that you're not in

2:27 on your fifth play through.

2:28 I think so.

2:29 But how can you play Boulders's Gate without with skipping the dialogue?

2:32 You You literally can't because it's the whole story.

2:35 I mean, I don't read any every letter in book.

2:37 I probably should, but you know.

2:39 Yeah.

2:39 I know.

2:40 I know you do.

2:40 I know you do.

2:41 I'm the gamer here.

2:44 Are you pissed every time a voice acting

2:46 role goes to a celebrity with no VA background?

2:49 No.

2:50 No.

2:50 It's still acting.

2:50 They may not understand quite what's going on.

2:52 They'll have people and teams around them to help them.

2:54 I don't see the difference.

2:56 As long as they're good.

2:58 Yeah.

2:58 Okay.

2:59 We'll check back in when Chris Pratt plays Aarian in the movie.

3:02 Let's turn the tables on those fameers.

3:04 Who are your best celebrity impressions?

3:08 Oh, got quite a few.

3:09 Do you have a celebrity impression?

3:11 No, but I can do birds.

3:13 Yes.

3:14 Yes.

3:14 Yes.

3:14 You have to be witness to this.

3:16 Okay.

3:16 What bird would you like?

3:17 I can only do two, but you can choose one and then just do the ones you want.

3:20 And just do the ones I want anyway.

3:21 Yeah.

3:23 Cardinal.

3:23 Pick another one.

3:24 Bald eagle.

3:26 Crow.

3:25 Okay.

3:26 Crow.

3:28 That's pretty good.

3:28 That's pretty good.

3:29 Yeah.

3:30 Holy.

3:30 Do you want to hear my owl?

3:31 Yes, please.

3:35 It's a timid owl, I feel.

3:37 Anyway, you you go.

3:39 I can do a pretty good uh David Atenburgh.

3:43 And here we see two actors plumemed in the wild.

3:48 Their native habitat a green screen.

3:51 As you can see, the female of the species

3:53 is not interested in anything around them.

3:57 Searching for food, foraging, they realize, oh, they got to do an interview.

4:02 Work into a pretty good JFK9 actor.

4:06 Can you honest for a second?

4:08 No.

4:08 Come on.

4:11 Let's have the next question.

4:12 As a gamer, don't I deserve half the credit for your performance?

4:15 I mean, you wouldn't even get to say your lines

4:17 if I didn't reach that part of the story.

4:19 I'm not going to give you any credit for that.

4:21 Nice try.

4:23 Nice try.

4:25 But no.

4:26 So, you're saying you're basically saying we we're grateful to gamers

4:30 to allow people to see our work because you play the game.

4:33 That's crazy.

4:34 You play the game really well.

4:34 That's the hottest take I've ever heard, actually.

4:37 ever.

4:38 I actually respect that level of boldness, but you get zero credit.

4:42 Zero credit.

4:44 Yeah.

4:44 D'vorah, you're in a game of the year,

4:46 Claire Obscure Expedition 33, where everyone 33 or older disappears.

4:50 How much of it is based on being an actress in Hollywood?

4:57 Good luck.

4:58 I'm out this game.

5:01 Woo.

5:02 Listen, back in my day when I started acting in my early to mid20s,

5:08 I genuinely had a conversation with a director.

5:12 I don't know if he was really a director on Zoom or something.

5:14 I was coming up to 13.

5:15 He was like, "Well, 30 is not a good uh age for a for an actress to be."

5:19 That guy was a[ __] Yeah.

5:21 You think?

5:22 Yeah.

5:22 I think back in the day it was really about being a, you know,

5:25 25 hot young actress and then after that, sorry.

5:29 Uh but now I think uh people are uh waking up to the fact that uh women

5:34 of all ages can have interesting varied experiences

5:36 and lives and they are worth seeing on screen.

5:39 So actually I feel very positive about it

5:40 because um yeah as a woman in this industry

5:43 you do you do think about that and you're

5:44 like oh you know is Mike's expiration date due?

5:48 If you can move and sound like a 20-year-old and you're not

5:52 that age or much older then you can still get cast in that role.

5:56 It's actually very liberating in that way.

5:57 Yeah.

5:57 Very liberating.

5:58 Yeah.

5:58 Are you too aware of how much

6:00 money you would make narrating romantic audio books?

6:03 Right.

6:03 Yes, I am.

6:04 We We literally had this conversation last night.

6:09 Yeah, we are.

6:09 But we don't think it's enough.

6:12 It's ever enough.

6:13 It's never enough.

6:14 Um Yeah, we Yeah.

6:16 Yeah.

6:17 I'd love to do one I think at some point.

6:19 Yeah, why not?

6:20 Um I just think it would have to be the right

6:22 kind of thing and it would have to be interesting to me.

6:24 Um because we don't take projects just because they're offered.

6:26 Do you know what I mean?

6:27 It has to be speak for yourself.

6:30 I don't take offers just you know dev will do anything.

6:36 A lot of fans have serious crushes on you too.

6:39 Share something about yourself that will put an end to that.

6:42 I don't like talking about my private life.

6:47 That's such a good question though.

6:49 It's a good question.

6:49 Well, you're kind of nerdy.

6:51 Oh, but everybody knows that I'm a total geek.

6:53 A massive geek.

6:54 I'm

6:54 trying to think of something.

6:56 I like ranch.

6:57 I think people are okay.

6:59 And actually, I think people have lent into that.

7:00 I don't know.

7:01 I can't think of a single thing that would make somebody not like me.

7:04 Can't think of a single thing.

7:04 I can't think of a single thing.

7:06 How many dates should I go on with someone until I let them know I play D and D?

7:11 That is a good question.

7:12 Having been in that situation sometime,

7:16 what you want to do is is leave like a single miniature out somewhere.

7:20 I'm just thinking this.

7:21 Leave a single miniature like on a television set or like in the kitchen

7:24 or like a dice and just

7:25 or like a dice put a whole dice set and just leave it there

7:28 and just see what happens and they go, "Oh,

7:31 you do you play?" And then you start going,

7:33 "Do you play?" And it's like a swinging question, isn't it?

7:36 Do do you do pineapple?

7:40 If they don't like your hobbies, they're not for you.

7:43 That's right.

7:43 That was a trick question.

7:44 I've never been on a date.

7:47 Well, does the phrase Withers Big Naturals mean anything to you?

7:50 Yes.

7:50 Yes.

7:51 Next question, please.

7:54 Mhm.

7:53 Nice.

7:54 We pulled our fans and everyone voted that Boulders Gate 3 would have

7:57 been better if it were a live service multiplayer shooter with the battle pass.

8:01 Do you agree?

8:02 No, no, no, no,

8:05 no.

8:05 Who are these people you're talking to?

8:07 Kidding.

8:07 I wanted to see the look on your faces.

8:09 Balders's Gate 3 has one of the all-time great character creators,

8:12 but you only have a few default voices to choose from.

8:15 I'm going to show you a couple created characters.

8:17 Just give them the first voice that pops into your head.

8:19 Oh, okay.

8:20 We got to give the characters.

8:21 Love that.

8:22 Okay, cool.

8:25 This is my one.

8:28 Yeah.

8:27 Um I think she'd be like, "All right, love." Yeah.

8:32 Bit of a smoker.

8:33 Yes, she would.

8:34 Yeah.

8:34 Yeah, she would.

8:35 Yeah.

8:35 You want to sit on my lap?

8:38 You want to sit on my lap?

8:39 Oh, sit on my lap.

8:40 You want to sit on my lap?

8:41 Consensually.

8:42 You want to sit on my lap?

8:43 Consentually, of course.

8:44 Consensually sit on my lap.

8:45 Sit on my lap.

8:45 I got lots of scales here.

8:48 that.

8:48 Okay.

8:49 Well, my my dude who's from these southern hills, well, I'm a ranger, you see.

8:55 I like to I like dogs.

8:56 I like wolves.

8:57 I like animals.

8:59 Oh, and you like animals.

9:01 I'm an animal.

9:02 I do.

9:02 Yeah.

9:03 And you know why?

9:04 Sit on your lap.

9:04 You can sit on my Actually, you can sit on the pig cuz he's quite meanable.

9:08 But you know what I always say?

9:10 What you say?

9:11 I always think horns on a teling fit kind of like socks on a rooster.

9:16 It's kind of crazy.

9:17 Kind of weird.

9:19 I've never heard that one before.

9:22 Nope.

9:21 Oh my god.

9:22 I wish I hadn't done the voice that I just did.

9:25 Oh, dude.

9:27 You got to get the other one.

9:28 Oh, hi.

9:29 It's me.

9:31 I'm also from the south.

9:33 I like the fact she's quite nervous.

9:35 Oh, yeah.

9:36 I love clown.

9:37 Are you wearing clown makeup?

9:40 Where should we make him?

9:41 Hey, you know what?

9:42 He's a bit scousy, isn't he, mate?

9:43 He's a bit upress.

9:44 Where is that exotic accent from?

9:46 Oh, I'm from I'm from the Whirl, which is near Liverpool.

9:50 Oh, sounds incredible.

9:51 Yeah, right.

9:52 I'm a bit of a scall, you know, mate.

9:54 You know, I like a bit of way, a bit of wo, you know.

9:56 Apologies to anybody from Liverpool, by the way.

9:59 Never apologize to Liverpool.

10:00 They see it as weakness.

10:02 You've probably recorded hundreds of taking damage sounds,

10:11 but dying by swords or fire is too easy.

10:13 What would Earion and Lazelle sound like

10:15 if they were pelted to death by Skittles?

10:23 STOP IT.

10:23 NO.

10:24 WHAT?

10:24 OH, come on.

10:25 Candy.

10:26 Chased by an angry goose.

10:28 It's pronounced honk.

10:30 I think all of mine are just like Yeah, it's kind of geese.

10:34 Yeah, it's very much a It's kind of like that, isn't it?

10:37 For just take out geese and put intik.

10:41 Yeah.

10:41 How about rub vigorously with a balloon animal?

10:43 I don't think I'd say anything.

10:44 I just The hair would just start gradually staticking up.

10:47 Do you know what I mean?

10:48 Just like I just like this.

10:51 And I kind of like it.

10:55 Yes.

10:55 Stepped on a Lego.

11:05 I don't know.

11:05 Sounds like you're enjoying it a little bit.

11:07 Yeah.

11:08 Yeah.

11:09 Tracks.

11:09 Yeah.

11:09 Tracks.

11:10 Okay.

11:10 Thank you both for being good sports for our entertainment.

11:13 I suppose it's only fair that now you get to plug your podcast.

11:16 Hey, Dev.

11:17 Yeah, Neil, did we mention that we do a podcast?

11:19 We never talk about it.

11:20 I think now is a good time cuz the people should know like nobody knows.

11:23 Yeah, we have a podcast.

11:24 It's called uh Dungeons and Dragons and Dramas.

11:26 Think of the name faster, Neil.

11:28 Think of the name faster.

11:28 Uh it's I think it's on Patreon.

11:30 Yeah, I think it might be.

11:31 Yeah, it's a D3 pod.

11:32 I think it's patreon.com/d3 pod or something.

11:35 Something like that.

11:35 We don't know the we don't know the the website.

11:37 It's very difficult to remember because we never talk about

11:39 we never talk about it.

11:39 Um, and we're in it.

11:41 Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's this price for coffee.

11:43 Like if you have a coffee, maybe just buy coffee at home as opposed to going

11:47 out for coffee and you can afford it, I think.

11:49 I mean, we never talk about it.

11:51 No, can't remember.

11:51 Should we plug the other thing that we're in?

11:53 Yes, we should.

11:54 We're in a new actual play called Dungeon Masters.

11:57 What is Dungeon Masters, Neil?

11:58 That's a very good question, Devon.

11:59 Thank you very much for asking me.

12:00 So, Dungeon Masters is an actual play.

12:02 Uh we're working very closely with Wizards on uh

12:05 their new material that hasn't even come out yet.

12:07 And we're doing an actual play uh with Jasmine Buler, Christian Navaro, and also

12:12 Maya Baron.

12:13 Maya Baron.

12:14 Uh and us.

12:15 And we're having an absolute hoot.

12:16 Season one is going to be out on the 22nd of April.

12:20 Uh your first two episodes.

12:21 The first two episodes.

12:22 And then every week thereafter on the Wednesdays, I think it is.

12:25 Yeah.

12:25 Also, we're in a podcast together.

12:27 Yeah.

12:27 What's that called again?

12:29 It's called D3.

12:33 Give me strength.