[ACT 3 SPOILERS] Loved this sequence at the Elfsong

[Orion Invictus]

Me: Strange bottle... Even stranger smell.
Halsin: Curious bottle... and the contents smell like an acquired taste.
Jaheira: Tainted with poison.

I dunno why I found it so funny that two characters can't figure out what's in the bottle and comment on how odd the bottle itself is, while Jaheira just goes "that's poison" like they're idiots, but I did. I hope you will too.

[EricHVela]

Many, many, many funny moments with follower comments and banter and dialog.

Finding the exsanguinated boar with Astarion in the party. Astarion protests all investigation, and nobody else connects the obvious dots. (The dots form a huge arrow that points to Astarion with the word Vampire in flashing lights over it, but everyone's clueless even though they obviously suspect in prior and later banter with him until the big reveal.)

Everyone likes to point out the solar lance with Astarion, but that's just one of oodles of great moments.

Ast: "Beer? It's not really up to my tastes."
L'z: "Yes. We know. You prefer blood."
Ast: "Yes, Lae'zel. It was a joke."
L'z: "I know that, too. It just wasn't funny."

[ahsanford]

Of all the things that Larian got right with BG3 characters, exploration / walkaround banter was only so so in this game.

I am shocked a game with how many hundreds of thousands of lines of dialogue have so few for interpersonal banter when you are walking around.

Opportunity lost there.

- A

[EricHVela]

Originally posted by ahsanford:

I am shocked a game with how many hundreds of thousands of lines of dialogue have so few for interpersonal banter when you are walking around.

I think that's a side-effect of spreading the dialog around. The right two characters have to be in the party for specific banter (and in some cases, it needs 3 specific characters).

I understand that, if you want to hear all the banter all the time everywhere, you have to break the party limit and keep everyone with you at all times (which puts a glitch in certain scenes meant for 4 characters such as crossing the lake and waking up from a long rest, both with workarounds I think).

[arikel.pv]

Originally posted by EricHVela:

Everyone likes to point out the solar lance with Astarion, but that's just one of oodles of great moments.
Ast: "Beer? It's not really up to my tastes."
L'z: "Yes. We know. You prefer blood."
Ast: "Yes, Lae'zel. It was a joke."
L'z: "I know that, too. It just wasn't funny."

Mine favourites for Astarion is his mild arguing with Shadowheart near the Rosemorn and with Karlach near Felogyr's workshop
Sh: I didn't exactly dress for hiking mountains. Shame we couldn't procure some pack mules, or horses.
Ast: Horses? Perish the thoughts - those ill-tempered beasts are prone to biting.
Sh: Well, so are you, but we keep you around, don't we?
Ast: I'm not offering any rides, if that's what you're thinking.

K: Oh man! WHIZBANGS!
Ast: Keep calm, Karlach. One bad flare and you could blow this whole place.
K: Oh man! Whizbangs!
Ast: That's better.

[EricHVela]

Astarion and Karlach have one in the mountain pass of a different nature but related to the same topic.

There are also situational thing that the player can stumble upon or orchestate.

There's an encounter where one follower gives credit for the victory to a summon-able tiny creature even if the creature isn't summoned, but summoning the woefully underpowered creature to deal the final blow makes the after-battle comment in that encounter have a very different (and more hilarious) tone.

There's an encounter with an excessively verbal and haughty enemy... but has difficulty with slick surfaces. It's funny to hear that character talk about killing the party only to fall backwards on the buttocks.

[Ghost]

Talk to the librarian in the Sorcerous Sundries.
Librarian: "These books are sensitive. They prefer an environment of quiet reverence."
Karlach: "IS THAT TRUE, BOOKS? ARE YOU SENSITIVE?"
*the books explode*

Don't forget to check out the comedy club at the Elfsong either.

[Orion Invictus]

Originally posted by Ghost:

Talk to the librarian in the Sorcerous Sundries.
Librarian: "These books are sensitive. They prefer an environment of quiet reverence."
Karlach: "IS THAT TRUE, BOOKS? ARE YOU SENSITIVE?"
*the books explode*

Don't forget to check out the comedy club at the Elfsong either.

Yes, how did I forget that one? I'd never yelled because I thought she'd just be upset and not talk to me, but I didn't expect the books to just go BOOM.

[EricHVela]

Dribbles tells gods-awful joke.
Jaheria: "Ha! {snort}" *looks at everyone else* "What?"

Making Gale go up on stage: "You're trying the patience of someone who could level a city the size of Waterdeep."

Having fun with Astarion and Gale and offering to share Gale to Astarion. He's up for the idea of sharing but not "with... Gale... ugh".

Gale apparently doesn't understand teasing and can make a right jerk of himself and sheepishly apologize for being a right jerk if the teasing is explained.

Lie to the Gondians about their loved ones being saved. Save the Gondians. Loved ones bodies float up to the shore on cue. Fight the Gondians.

"There are also doppelgangers out there."
"Well... if you show up asking for hugs and kisses, I'll know to shoot first."
"That's my girl."

"It's not enough we have a gallery of villains to look out for, but now we could be infiltrated by a shapechanger?! I can't even tell if any of you are acting strange because you've been replaced or because this group is full of weirdos!!"
Oh, Astarion. Never change... much.

[The_Dipl0mat]

Minthara: Do you have elder siblings, wizard?

Gale: You're about to say something awful, aren't you?

Minthara: In Menzoberranzan, after a house has two sons, every subsequent male-born child is slaughtered at birth, as it is useless, even for breeding.

Minthara: You have the aura of a third child about you.

[Orion Invictus]

Originally posted by The_Dipl0mat:

Minthara: Do you have elder siblings, wizard?

Gale: You're about to say something awful, aren't you?

Minthara: In Menzoberranzan, after a house has two sons, every subsequent male-born child is slaughtered at birth, as it is useless, even for breeding.

Minthara: You have the aura of a third child about you.

Damn, Minthara.

[The_Dipl0mat]

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

Originally posted by The_Dipl0mat:

Minthara: Do you have elder siblings, wizard?

Gale: You're about to say something awful, aren't you?

Minthara: In Menzoberranzan, after a house has two sons, every subsequent male-born child is slaughtered at birth, as it is useless, even for breeding.

Minthara: You have the aura of a third child about you.

Damn, Minthara.

The sheer confidence to say that to the thermomagical nuke guy as well really tops it off for me

[EricHVela]

She's got the personality for it.
Minthara: The shadows have lingered here so long. The land itself is corroded—a most persistent curse.

Astarion: I think I know a thing or two about persistent curses. Thank you.

Minthara: The rashes and sores you may have contracted over your decades of philandering are not the kind of curse that concerns me.

[Chroniver]

Originally posted by ahsanford:

Of all the things that Larian got right with BG3 characters, exploration / walkaround banter was only so so in this game.

I am shocked a game with how many hundreds of thousands of lines of dialogue have so few for interpersonal banter when you are walking around.

Opportunity lost there.

- A

I actually agree. Some of what is there is really good such as the OP's example, but I felt like there could be many more comments now and then.

I felt like in Kotor, DAO or Mass Effect things were a bit better on that front.

There is actually a mod that unlocks all the origin character specific banter for when you're playing a custom character. I'd like to try that when I do a new run.

[アンジェル]

While traving in the shadow cursed lands
Halsin: Once, you could hear nature's symphony in this place. Now it is quiet. Quiet and dead.
Shadowheart: I can make some animal noises, if it'll make you feel more at home.
Halsin: You bleat well enough as it is.