I'll agree with the majority here, David Werner displays some impressive voice acting in his role as Jon Irenicus.
This was a character that was really easy to hate. In the end, though.... that hate was totally and completely justified. If there's a flaw with his story, it's that he has practically no redeeming qualities, nothing to cast doubt on his motivation. There just wasn't a whole lot of conflict there.
Wish i could get this game back somehow lost my disc version 2 years ago and have not been able to find a decent download of it . ( one that works without errors or bugs that is)
Quick question that has been bugging me, but in the intro sequence when Irenicus is talking to the PC he doesn't have any spoken dialogue, npc dialogue plays correctly but half the time Irenicus doesn't speak, be it when you escape or at the very beginning, I think the sometimes the mages don't speak either. I can't find anyone with a similar problem anywhere and it's starting to bug me....
Irenicus' brilliance and hatred is so far beyond the Cowled Wizards pathetically limited scope of perception it's not even funny. He's simply a magnificent beast of a villain, empowered by his calculating genius and fueled by a hollow hatred and unquenchable vengeance against the Seldarine and all who betrayed him.
@TheBaconlaser I dont get it. How did they betray him, he was a douche and defiled all that was Elven. He is clearly in the wrong lol. He killed hundreds for his own self gain and hes suprised he was given such a hard punishment?
He was my number 1 best villan of all time in a gamespot char...didnt win because most kids dont know who he is. He was awesome though best villan of all time you really got the impression he could kick your ass at the start.
No ones voices play during cut scenes, at the very beginning his voice nor the golem's voice played, and no ones voice plays during this scene either...but speech during text dialogue plays fine. Suggestions???
Look, no one is going to defend "You will c... cease your spellcasting and come with us". That line makes me cringe every time. But David Warner definitely sells the badass mage. Overall the voice acting in BG2 was pretty good, at least as far as important story characters were concerned. Can't get all caught up in random baddie #46's botched line, even if you hear it every generic thief fight.
still sucks that when I went through my second playthrough with PST had some severe doubts when selected a spell versus the abis.. or however you spell it.
@goodflo911 There's nothing wrong with the voice acting in this game.
Or any of the old Black Isle RPG's for that matter. If anything, Baldur's Gate is the shining beacon that game developers should look up to and hope they can capture some of the spark that it held. The voice acting is really bad? Well, in my humble opinion, you sir are an idiot.
@isair81 Hah I dont care if you have bad taste nerdboy. The voice acting is just really bad. But who cares, it's a fun, huge standard rpg with a kickass story and good/complex mechanics.
But hey, if you think star wars movies carry great acting I'm sure you won't notice the voice acting in BG2 being atrocious. Nostalgia is blind;)
@goodflo911 The voice acting in BG2 was incredible. What's wrong with you? If you're referring to that generic NPC that's definitely not the norm. In fact, that's probably the worst line in the entire game.
From the main antagonist: ''It is time for more.... experiments''
If you put this in a movie it would probably be hailing from a grindhouse garage horror movie shot for 10.000 dollars. Ok it's a great game, but the voice acting is just atrocious.
@goodflo911 u clearly dont understand voice acting mate ^^ and besides why are you comparing a game with a movie. whole diffrent things. yes games are expected to be more lower budget than movies especially older games like this. but that doesnt mean the vioce acting is shit. and it clearly isnt, it suits the game pretty well actually. and if u had seen the old tron you would know who david warner is. hes a good actor and a good vioce actor. U my friend is the one who doesnt know anything. GLHF
@xivlia haha, you even speak in cliche's, no wonder you think thisi s good voice acting. I know who david Warner is, he's possibly one of the worst B-actors ever, and you mised my reference to him, so I guess your movie knowledge isn't that big anyway. ''GLHF'' hahaha, supernerd. No seriously, go read ab ook or watch a proper movie, not some kid movie aimed at a <90 IQ audience. Come back when you've grown some hair on that ballsack of yours and lost your virginity you bottom feeder.
@goodflo911 mate i have watched proper movies. Gladiator, Saving private ryan, troy, LoTR, 300 spartans, 300, tron, tron legacy, limitless, unknown, matrix god father 1 2 3, good fellas, scarface kick ass, spiderman, iron man, transformer, i can go all day long stuffing your face with all the good movies ive watched. u just dont get it do you? the voice acting in this game is not bad, its normal and it suits the game u dumbass.
@xivlia ROFL that you even dare name gladiotor, spr, troy, tron legacy, matrix and 300 with a movie like god father shows me how much of an embarassment you are. Your parents should be dissapointed. It's clear that the gap between our understanding of movies is too big to abridge. Where I observe what is shown in a movie you .. let's say, have a more periferal outlook. I hope you wll continue prizing puposely ham fisted voice acting of john irenicus. ''You will suffer, you will aaallll suffer''.
@goodflo911 Ok, kid, go and play Mario Bros. We all here like this voice. Irenicus has made some top10 of Evil characters of video games, so other people does too. Just stop trolling here and go play Under 12 years old games. Good luck with that and try not cheating.
@NerdyHippy, actually I would say the Spanish dubbing of the game surpasses the original. It must be a first, but characters like Jaheira, Minsc or Irenicus sound just amazing in the Spanish version. Minsc loses the accent, but sounds just like a "big good guy". Jaheira sounds very mature and secure, while Irenicus sounds a bit older, but very evil and tormented.
ït is obvious that Joneleth Irenicus accepts to be taken away for his own purposes (he becomes the new ruler of spellhold, but i don´t know if those were his intentions from the start). Either way i don´t doubt for a second that he could defeat anything the Cowled wizards could bring. Maybe their numbers are many, but that matters little when you face a foe who can kill you in less than a second.
Honestly, all I think BioWare needs to make another gem is what this one had; the polish BioWare puts into their game, and the genius of dialogue, characters, and plot of Obsidian Entertainment, and you'd have another great gem, honestly.
Damn that guy is the most badass villain in gaming history. It pains me that he doesn´t get the recognition he deserves from console gamers and the younger generation
@GameSheriff He probably can, perhaps he was aware of Spellhold and how such a place might work to his favor, so he changed tactics,...that and it must become boring slaughtering the Cowled Wizards after a while,...so being 'captured' might prove fun.
I usually went with Monk, or full Mage/Sorceror. With Monk, had to love the fast movement speed, the near immunity to magic, immunity to disease/poison, the high damage output, insta kill Quivering Palms, etc. Mage/Clerics were pretty useful to with a Spell Trigger with Lower Resistance, Lower Resistance, Greater Malison, and a Spell Sequencer with Doom, Doom, Chromatic Orb. The combination of those two spells let you kill practically ANYTHING in 2 insta casts.
@Bojaxs I replayed this game some months ago, and yes.. i'm almost ashamed to say i did make a kensai / mage char. After i had played through the original game and moved on to the expansion, the character was so ridiculously powerful almost all of the challenge went out of it. Still, i had fun reliving the story again after many years :)
Baldur's Gate is the best RPG ever! I think that BioWare and Wizards of the Coast should make another game just like Baldur's Gate but with better graphics because to be honest, the new games like Neverwinter Nights and Dragon Age, are too narrow.
It's even more narrow than NWN2. Ouch, DAO was really disappointing considering it's reviews. The story is so mundane and cliched. BGI and II were interesting stories.
Irenicus is the most important reason why BG is better than Dragon Age. Being a Demi-God as opposed to a "grey Warden" is the second most important one. It cannot get much more epic than that.
Who knows, perhaps som Addons will expand DA-O to the level of Baldur's Gate. I doubt it.
"I cannot be caged, I cannot be controlled - understand this as you die, ever pathetic, ever fools."
This however is the best part of all BG II...The Beholder dialog. I DIED laughin.
Hmmm,well he screamed "My Chest" as i would recall. A spear was being thrust trough his own chest at the same time,so he could have been refering to that.
I assumed he was talking about "This Chest"though. So that means im afraid i cannot let you open it
Yeah nothing ever beats the first time you do something as you don't know what to expect :) NWN was great but it didn't match the quality of this game but I have to admit Hordes of the underdark was really cool; I enjoyed Hordes of the underdark as much as this masterpiece :) Let's hope Dragonage origin's is good.
NWN initially lacked the quality of Baldurs Gate but in it's expansions especially Hordes of the underdark they addressed this issue and made the characters more interesting :)
The introduction of the character of Deekin in the first expansion pack plus Hordes of the Underdark saved Neverwinter Nights for me. Because of Hordes of the Underdark and Deekin, I have come to enjoy the entire game and return to it often. Hordes of the Underdark was a return to the greatness of Baldur's Gate, with even a touch of the same kind of romance. Too bad it was so brief.
Man I hope someday we get Baldur's Gate III: The Wrath of Irenicus, where he comes back from the hells to kill the PC's children (who you play as) for revenge (or something along those lines).
@TheDashRendar Meh, that doesn't really make any sense. No, leave Irencus where he is, thoroughly dead. And besides considering how Throne of Bhaal ended, (assuming you chose to become a god, and seriously, who wouldn't?) there wouldn't be all that much he could do, no matter how powerful a mage he is.
... Imoen had the most poorly acted voice in Baldur's Gate II, in my opinion. It's a shame, because she's one of the more prominent characters in the series.
Irenicus, on the other hand, was voice acted superbly. No video game villain has ever sounded so convincingly evil and bereft of sympathy.
The Diablo games were great! But goddamnit nothing can even coooomppppaaaaareee to The Baldurs Gate games. They're epic masterpieces with no other comparisions! Iwe seen BG on the shelves, not the old versions on a billion CDs but they sell a collectors edition with both the games and both the expansions in a nice DVD set.
The best thing about the voice acting in BG is the way they meshed it together to make it seem like an actual conversation.
For example with most of Bioware's later RPG's the lines of dialogue don't seem quite right in they way they are spoken between character's. They don't flow seamlessly like they do in BG.
SERIOUSLY. I can understand comparing Fallout to Arcanum (the game engine was virtually the same), but Baldur's Gate and Diablo can't be compared...except for the fact that Diablo II still sells on shelves and BG doesn't because of Black Isle falling apart.
I KNOW, I'm like "You just wiped out like eight people in the open" and he's like "I haven't the time for this" hahaha. David Warner was great in this.
God I love Baulders gate. Irenius had a real intellectual superiority that all evil villans possess except he was more fleshed out as a character, which made it more believable. Now I think of it, no other game has dialogue quite so good as the BG series. Massively underated game, which is probaly a good thing as overly commercialised games are generally shit.
If we take a look at what turned Irenicus evil, we must realize that his vengeance is well supported. Also, he has such style that he cannot be resisted :)
His vengeance is in no way justified. He tried destroying the tree of life and got punished for it. It's like committing murder then being pissed your in prison.
That's correct, I'm sick of people thinking Irenicus was a bhaalspawn, too. OMG. And Sarevok is...er, WAS an heir to the throne of bhaal before the Protagonist defeated him in BG1. Sarevok was purely chaotic, and pretty much wanted to watch the world burn as the new Lord of Murder.
@MaverickAlvis When Sarevok turned Chaotic Good in the ending of the Throne of Bhaal expansion, I forgave him for everything though. Such a great ending.
@Athaeus Hmm. I keep hearing there was a way to change his alignment but I rarely had him in my party during ToB, unless I absolutely needed him around. His banter with Imoen and Jaheira is good stuff.
I do not remember your love, Ellesime. I have tried to. I have tried to recreate it, to spark it anew in my memory. But it is gone.. a hollow, dead thing. For years, I clung to the memory of it. Then the memory of the memory. And then nothing. The Seldarine took that from me, too. I look upon you and I feel nothing. I remember nothing but you turning your back on me, along with all the others. Once my thirst for power was everything. And now I hunger only for revenge. And.. I.. Will.. HAVE IT!!
Jon Irenicus stands on the same level as Elminster in BG2. they have about the same level and intelligence. but jon is badass Elminster is a nice guy :D nice vid thanks for sharing. Love this part hehe ;))
You will suffer! You will ALL suffer!
RossMarlow 3 weeks ago
I'll agree with the majority here, David Werner displays some impressive voice acting in his role as Jon Irenicus.
This was a character that was really easy to hate. In the end, though.... that hate was totally and completely justified. If there's a flaw with his story, it's that he has practically no redeeming qualities, nothing to cast doubt on his motivation. There just wasn't a whole lot of conflict there.
"But is he really so evil?"
"Yep."
dunnono00 1 month ago
Guys guys, let's give some credit to the amazing voice actor David Warner. Royal Court Theater, Batman, FALLOUT and this. Magical!
Szederp 2 months ago
You Bore me Mageling. (best line ever)
jsomerville85 3 months ago
"Enough, I will no longer listen to the babbling of ignorant children." - Seems pretty fitting after reading some of the comments on this video.
DefeatedElitist 3 months ago 4
@DefeatedElitist your mind works in clichés? interesting.
goodflo911 2 months ago
If this scene were to be reimagined in glorious 3D cutscene much like the "Sacred Ashes" of Dragon Age, it would be the most awesome!
StormSaga2 4 months ago
What the heck is this... powerful magician.
PaulosTheGamer 4 months ago in playlist Liked
Irenicus is the evil equalivent to a Bruce Lee wizard.
Marinanor 4 months ago in playlist Liked
4 people (or more) are cowled wizards :)
Mrsubzor 4 months ago 2
@Mrsubzor I think he slaughtered like 500 when he took over their prison fortress. Or maybe the rest simply ran off in fear.
Foxstab 3 months ago
this game has a sense of freedom that games have not came close too.
Ghostx510xx 5 months ago
You gotta love how even when Irenicus is being captured by the cowled faggots he's still giving THEM orders
Dennsithebest 6 months ago
Irenicus = the Aleister Crowley of D&D
iostream1 6 months ago
David Warner = Win
NerdyHippy 6 months ago
Imoen probably SOOOO regretted that wee Magic Missile :)
ronaldsanfran 6 months ago 19
You bore me mageling.
xmnemonic 7 months ago
@LoreYseult Him and the late Tony Jay always made such great villains.
NerdyHippy 7 months ago
Wish i could get this game back somehow lost my disc version 2 years ago and have not been able to find a decent download of it . ( one that works without errors or bugs that is)
The1WeirdGuy 7 months ago
@The1WeirdGuy You can buy both BG1 and BG2 and their expansions on Amazon for about 20-30$, bought that little combo myself about a month ago.
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Quick question that has been bugging me, but in the intro sequence when Irenicus is talking to the PC he doesn't have any spoken dialogue, npc dialogue plays correctly but half the time Irenicus doesn't speak, be it when you escape or at the very beginning, I think the sometimes the mages don't speak either. I can't find anyone with a similar problem anywhere and it's starting to bug me....
mrcow94 8 months ago
Irenicus' brilliance and hatred is so far beyond the Cowled Wizards pathetically limited scope of perception it's not even funny. He's simply a magnificent beast of a villain, empowered by his calculating genius and fueled by a hollow hatred and unquenchable vengeance against the Seldarine and all who betrayed him.
TheBaconlaser 9 months ago 24
@TheBaconlaser I dont get it. How did they betray him, he was a douche and defiled all that was Elven. He is clearly in the wrong lol. He killed hundreds for his own self gain and hes suprised he was given such a hard punishment?
ItIsTheInvisibleMan 3 months ago
@ItIsTheInvisibleMan Elves are only good for glazing when a dragon attacks the party. Pointy-Eared Tree-Huggers.
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You will suffer! You will all suffer!
AebelAlmighty 9 months ago
He was my number 1 best villan of all time in a gamespot char...didnt win because most kids dont know who he is. He was awesome though best villan of all time you really got the impression he could kick your ass at the start.
Ashbringer85 10 months ago
You BORE me, mageling. BAD. ASS.
moonshadow100 10 months ago
"Our numbers are many... ", If you say a line like that, you're destined to be owned. :/
lukepham101 10 months ago
bg2 only has one flaw. there's no happy end (for irenicus).
zork0001 10 months ago
Well, I guess nobody can accuse the Cowled Wizards of being cowards... nobody can accuse them of being geniuses either, but definitetly NOT cowards.
TheGoldenKing20 11 months ago
DAMN... Imoen is just toooooooooooo ANOYING!!! ah for christ sake SHUT UP WOMAN!!!
PS: Cowled wizards n00bs, HAHAHA!!!
clonegreivou 11 months ago
ahhhh! nostalgia!
iostream1 1 year ago
shut up Imoen
themasteriswatching 1 year ago
"No, You will warrant no villains exposition from me."
Says it in such an awesome way.
Unotuchable 1 year ago
*Picks through the corpses* Thanks Jon! O.O
freakazoid318 1 year ago 2
"MUST I BE INTERRUPTED AT EVERY TURN?!"
David Warner KNOWS how to play villains :)
MegaFafnir 1 year ago
Irenicus>chuck norris
ilovehell666 1 year ago
@ilovehell666 Chuck Norris wouldn't know what hit him!
ShatteredOne2007 1 year ago
@ShatteredOne2007 chuck Norris would rape irenicus
felderantyo 1 year ago
No ones voices play during cut scenes, at the very beginning his voice nor the golem's voice played, and no ones voice plays during this scene either...but speech during text dialogue plays fine. Suggestions???
mrcow94 1 year ago
Look, no one is going to defend "You will c... cease your spellcasting and come with us". That line makes me cringe every time. But David Warner definitely sells the badass mage. Overall the voice acting in BG2 was pretty good, at least as far as important story characters were concerned. Can't get all caught up in random baddie #46's botched line, even if you hear it every generic thief fight.
DoNotABarrelRoll 1 year ago
@DoNotABarrelRoll he was stuttering out of fear i guess
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Citadellion 1 year ago
still sucks that when I went through my second playthrough with PST had some severe doubts when selected a spell versus the abis.. or however you spell it.
Akathla ruined, RUINEEEEDEMEEEEEEEHAAHAHAHHHHAHAAHA BUUURRNNNN
goodflo911 1 year ago
Can you say: ''really bad voice acting versus nerdy nostalgia''
??
goodflo911 1 year ago
@goodflo911 There's nothing wrong with the voice acting in this game.
Or any of the old Black Isle RPG's for that matter. If anything, Baldur's Gate is the shining beacon that game developers should look up to and hope they can capture some of the spark that it held. The voice acting is really bad? Well, in my humble opinion, you sir are an idiot.
isair81 1 year ago
@isair81 Hah I dont care if you have bad taste nerdboy. The voice acting is just really bad. But who cares, it's a fun, huge standard rpg with a kickass story and good/complex mechanics.
But hey, if you think star wars movies carry great acting I'm sure you won't notice the voice acting in BG2 being atrocious. Nostalgia is blind;)
goodflo911 1 year ago
Why would you assume that i think the acting in Star Wars is good, because of my opinion of the voice acting in Baldur's Gate?
No wait, don't answer that.
I don't really want to know, it's likely just to consist of more incoherent rambling and random derogatory statements.
isair81 1 year ago
@goodflo911 The voice acting in BG2 was incredible. What's wrong with you? If you're referring to that generic NPC that's definitely not the norm. In fact, that's probably the worst line in the entire game.
PharodWormhair 10 months ago
@PharodWormhair nostalgia blinds your judgement.
From the main antagonist: ''It is time for more.... experiments''
If you put this in a movie it would probably be hailing from a grindhouse garage horror movie shot for 10.000 dollars. Ok it's a great game, but the voice acting is just atrocious.
goodflo911 10 months ago
@goodflo911 Do you even know who voices Irenicus? David Warner, look him up.
xivlia 9 months ago
@xivlia And that is supposed to convince me of the QUALITY of Irenicus's voice acting ?:P
By gargoths hammer... ahhahahahaha. No srlsy, you probably never read a book or seen a good movie in your life. I think it ends here.
goodflo911 9 months ago
@goodflo911 u clearly dont understand voice acting mate ^^ and besides why are you comparing a game with a movie. whole diffrent things. yes games are expected to be more lower budget than movies especially older games like this. but that doesnt mean the vioce acting is shit. and it clearly isnt, it suits the game pretty well actually. and if u had seen the old tron you would know who david warner is. hes a good actor and a good vioce actor. U my friend is the one who doesnt know anything. GLHF
xivlia 9 months ago
@xivlia haha, you even speak in cliche's, no wonder you think thisi s good voice acting. I know who david Warner is, he's possibly one of the worst B-actors ever, and you mised my reference to him, so I guess your movie knowledge isn't that big anyway. ''GLHF'' hahaha, supernerd. No seriously, go read ab ook or watch a proper movie, not some kid movie aimed at a <90 IQ audience. Come back when you've grown some hair on that ballsack of yours and lost your virginity you bottom feeder.
goodflo911 9 months ago
@goodflo911 mate i have watched proper movies. Gladiator, Saving private ryan, troy, LoTR, 300 spartans, 300, tron, tron legacy, limitless, unknown, matrix god father 1 2 3, good fellas, scarface kick ass, spiderman, iron man, transformer, i can go all day long stuffing your face with all the good movies ive watched. u just dont get it do you? the voice acting in this game is not bad, its normal and it suits the game u dumbass.
xivlia 9 months ago
@xivlia ROFL that you even dare name gladiotor, spr, troy, tron legacy, matrix and 300 with a movie like god father shows me how much of an embarassment you are. Your parents should be dissapointed. It's clear that the gap between our understanding of movies is too big to abridge. Where I observe what is shown in a movie you .. let's say, have a more periferal outlook. I hope you wll continue prizing puposely ham fisted voice acting of john irenicus. ''You will suffer, you will aaallll suffer''.
goodflo911 9 months ago
@goodflo911 lohol ohok dude ^^
xivlia 9 months ago
@goodflo911 Ok, kid, go and play Mario Bros. We all here like this voice. Irenicus has made some top10 of Evil characters of video games, so other people does too. Just stop trolling here and go play Under 12 years old games. Good luck with that and try not cheating.
Anonimolino 5 months ago
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@Anonimolino I'm not sure if I should laugh or cry at a person trying to be elitist with a game wich such atrocious voice acting.
Go read a book or something, go outside of your musky sperm endowed basement, anything;)
goodflo911 5 months ago
@goodflo911 Obviously, I overestimated you, ' cos you are like 8 years old. So... you are not the public for this kind of game.
Anonimolino 3 months ago
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goodflo911 3 months ago
@goodflo911 "hurr durr i am mad cuz i'm being bad at trolling".
Yes, you can be elitist with a game like Baldrus Gate, and voice acting is not equal to the quality of the game.
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slipshodcoqbgg 1 year ago
"...do you even know whom you face?"
DrMongrel 1 year ago 3
This is why we all loved Baldur's Gate, and why John Irenicus was the best.
Uthandir 1 year ago 2
is it bad that I can recite this verbatim?
jle717 1 year ago
You bore me mageling...
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David Warner, you are under arrest by David Warner!
LambadLambadLambda 1 year ago
David Warner, you are under arrest by David Warner!
LambadLambadLambda 1 year ago
@LambadLambadLambda lol delta knights reference?
crazypants88 1 year ago
@crazypants88
Wow! I should send you $100 as a reward for getting that obscure reference!
LambadLambadLambda 1 year ago
Imoen's magic missiles merely tickled Irenicus.
PikminOxidane 1 year ago
sheesh against such a powerful spellcaster all she can think of is magic missile to respond? "You will suffer! you will all suffer!"
Razz1024 1 year ago
I can't think of anyone better than David Warner to voice for Irenicus. He gives him that extra boost of evil to him.
NerdyHippy 1 year ago
@NerdyHippy, actually I would say the Spanish dubbing of the game surpasses the original. It must be a first, but characters like Jaheira, Minsc or Irenicus sound just amazing in the Spanish version. Minsc loses the accent, but sounds just like a "big good guy". Jaheira sounds very mature and secure, while Irenicus sounds a bit older, but very evil and tormented.
Rivvil 1 year ago
best villain ever .D
damnhot 1 year ago
i just nerdgasmed
IsilionNELE 1 year ago 6
"No one crosses the Shadow Thiefs and lives"
teshanovic1 1 year ago 9
Ign did a top 100 villans list and irenicus wasnt even on the list, WTF is with that!
troopatroop 1 year ago
@troopatroop IGN IS FULL OF IDIOTS!
diramus 1 year ago 3
@diramus sad but true
FattyEffect 1 year ago
@troopatroop @troopatroop Obviously they see Irenicus as an anti-hero. They're saving him for #1 of that poll.
TheEponet 1 year ago
the title pretty much says it all dont you think?
Mannetasi 1 year ago
ït is obvious that Joneleth Irenicus accepts to be taken away for his own purposes (he becomes the new ruler of spellhold, but i don´t know if those were his intentions from the start). Either way i don´t doubt for a second that he could defeat anything the Cowled wizards could bring. Maybe their numbers are many, but that matters little when you face a foe who can kill you in less than a second.
Dimajo 1 year ago
I prefer polish voice of Irenicus but it's also good.
DianaPoland 1 year ago
I prefer polish voice of Irenicus but it's also good.
DianaPoland 1 year ago
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DianaPoland 1 year ago
Honestly, all I think BioWare needs to make another gem is what this one had; the polish BioWare puts into their game, and the genius of dialogue, characters, and plot of Obsidian Entertainment, and you'd have another great gem, honestly.
ChaoticAngel121 1 year ago
I love how he just takes the spells head-on; who needs wards and protections when you're a level 30 wizard? :D
OverusedChewToy 1 year ago
Damn that guy is the most badass villain in gaming history. It pains me that he doesn´t get the recognition he deserves from console gamers and the younger generation
Ruslakall 2 years ago 4
This is an unsanctioned use of magical energy!
Man, many years of that line, over and over again, I never got tired of this scene though.
qqs764 2 years ago 6
Gotta love Irenicus
AikoSaori 2 years ago
you bore me mageling.
ottopotomas 2 years ago 4
Irenicus always had the best little speaches of his throughout the game, such a colorful vocabulary
thatscrap12543 2 years ago 71
I honestly think Irenicus could slaughter the entire Cowled Wizard order before running out of spells, I honestly think he could.
GameSheriff 2 years ago 67
hehe, i believe you are right. :)
Felipe550710 2 years ago
@GameSheriff
You don't fight Irenicus; you interrupt him.
OverusedChewToy 1 year ago 18
indeen. They dont know how lucky they are .. i mean if he wants to he could use his magic to wipe out the entire city.
Mannetasi 1 year ago
@GameSheriff
Irenicus like clown. He think he is tough badass, but he not even close to Kangaxx. And I kill Kangaxx on lvl 12.
Crazmuss 1 year ago
u cant kill that which has no life ;)
kangax 1 year ago 2
@GameSheriff He does :)
Phoenix7786 11 months ago
@GameSheriff He probably can, perhaps he was aware of Spellhold and how such a place might work to his favor, so he changed tactics,...that and it must become boring slaughtering the Cowled Wizards after a while,...so being 'captured' might prove fun.
TeronEtrius 10 months ago
@GameSheriff Have to agree with you there ! :)
Shane88L 9 months ago
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Baldur's Gate 1 was better. More exploring and side quests. Better story.
Everyone I've talked to who's played Baldur's gate 2 choose kensai and usually dual classed as a theif or mage.
Am I the only one who went full wizard slayer!?
Bojaxs 2 years ago
I went monk, myself. Who doesn't love beating dragons and liches to death with their bare hands? I know I do!
Chronische 2 years ago
I usually went with Monk, or full Mage/Sorceror. With Monk, had to love the fast movement speed, the near immunity to magic, immunity to disease/poison, the high damage output, insta kill Quivering Palms, etc. Mage/Clerics were pretty useful to with a Spell Trigger with Lower Resistance, Lower Resistance, Greater Malison, and a Spell Sequencer with Doom, Doom, Chromatic Orb. The combination of those two spells let you kill practically ANYTHING in 2 insta casts.
PlayerSkillFTW 2 years ago
@Bojaxs I replayed this game some months ago, and yes.. i'm almost ashamed to say i did make a kensai / mage char. After i had played through the original game and moved on to the expansion, the character was so ridiculously powerful almost all of the challenge went out of it. Still, i had fun reliving the story again after many years :)
isair81 1 year ago
Baldur's Gate is the best RPG ever! I think that BioWare and Wizards of the Coast should make another game just like Baldur's Gate but with better graphics because to be honest, the new games like Neverwinter Nights and Dragon Age, are too narrow.
Nokitiman 2 years ago 2
They did: it's called Dragon Age: Origins. Seriously, try it, it's like Knights of the Old Republic meets Baldur's Gate II - with great graphics.
OroborusFMA 2 years ago
It's even more narrow than NWN2. Ouch, DAO was really disappointing considering it's reviews. The story is so mundane and cliched. BGI and II were interesting stories.
Dearmad 2 years ago 7
@OroborusFMA The only thing Dragon Age lacks...is David Warner!!!!
screwoffreg 2 years ago
Irenicus is the most important reason why BG is better than Dragon Age. Being a Demi-God as opposed to a "grey Warden" is the second most important one. It cannot get much more epic than that.
Who knows, perhaps som Addons will expand DA-O to the level of Baldur's Gate. I doubt it.
"I cannot be caged, I cannot be controlled - understand this as you die, ever pathetic, ever fools."
gudlbua 2 years ago 13
This however is the best part of all BG II...The Beholder dialog. I DIED laughin.
Hmmm,well he screamed "My Chest" as i would recall. A spear was being thrust trough his own chest at the same time,so he could have been refering to that.
I assumed he was talking about "This Chest"though. So that means im afraid i cannot let you open it
Undertaker1012 2 years ago 4
Heh, yeah, between him and that Githyanki wild mage, the game was truly hilarious at times.
Hessar 2 years ago
was jon playable charecter
Patruiq 2 years ago
no,he's the villain
AngelosL 2 years ago 2
PD: Jon Irenicus was voiced by David Warner
Zardozthedestroyer 2 years ago 4
I envy those who are going to play it for the first time. :(
brusin01 2 years ago 4
Yeah nothing ever beats the first time you do something as you don't know what to expect :) NWN was great but it didn't match the quality of this game but I have to admit Hordes of the underdark was really cool; I enjoyed Hordes of the underdark as much as this masterpiece :) Let's hope Dragonage origin's is good.
Damocles178 2 years ago 4
NWN initially lacked the quality of Baldurs Gate but in it's expansions especially Hordes of the underdark they addressed this issue and made the characters more interesting :)
Damocles178 2 years ago 2
"ExpansionS" (plural)?
HotU was great, definitely, but Shadows of Undrentide was rather lacklustre, don't you think?
Zaggutch 2 years ago
they still need more character photos and voices.For the player.
Rock1Golem 2 years ago
The introduction of the character of Deekin in the first expansion pack plus Hordes of the Underdark saved Neverwinter Nights for me. Because of Hordes of the Underdark and Deekin, I have come to enjoy the entire game and return to it often. Hordes of the Underdark was a return to the greatness of Baldur's Gate, with even a touch of the same kind of romance. Too bad it was so brief.
SeaZephyr4JC 2 years ago 6
Irenicus thinks very hingly of himself.
HELLINMAN 2 years ago
I remember this! Irenicus is a badass MOFO. Srsly.
terrysan 2 years ago 3
Jon Irenicus is the best game super villain ever, he even beats kane in my opinion
Lethn 2 years ago 6
Man I hope someday we get Baldur's Gate III: The Wrath of Irenicus, where he comes back from the hells to kill the PC's children (who you play as) for revenge (or something along those lines).
TheDashRendar 2 years ago
@TheDashRendar Meh, that doesn't really make any sense. No, leave Irencus where he is, thoroughly dead. And besides considering how Throne of Bhaal ended, (assuming you chose to become a god, and seriously, who wouldn't?) there wouldn't be all that much he could do, no matter how powerful a mage he is.
isair81 1 year ago
His vengeance was totally justified.
They basically striped him of everything that made him elven.
That would be like taking everything away from you that made you human.
He was a freak of nature, wasn't even a "race" any longer.
While I don't condone what he ended up doing, what they did to him was pretty damn harsh.
HandyMan101 2 years ago 5
Do you not think it fitted the crime?
GodwinCarpenter 2 years ago 3
I like Irenicus' acting, but Imoen isn't as good as I remember her.
Andreware 2 years ago
Dare I say it?
... Imoen had the most poorly acted voice in Baldur's Gate II, in my opinion. It's a shame, because she's one of the more prominent characters in the series.
Irenicus, on the other hand, was voice acted superbly. No video game villain has ever sounded so convincingly evil and bereft of sympathy.
Zaggutch 2 years ago 6
I'd say there's only one I can think of - Kain, as in Legacy of...
Though just watching Simon Templeman on Angel gives me the willies...
FeynmanIsTheMan 2 years ago
Hold the phone, where did you say you can see simon!?
theothercommentguy 2 years ago
Angel, season 5 episode 4, "Hell Bound". One of the best episodes in my opinion.
FeynmanIsTheMan 2 years ago
Imoen has also the worst portrait in Baldur's Gate II.
Irenicus, on the other hand, was superb in every way ;)
StworcaMGlade 2 years ago
Well, there are quite a few masterfully dubbed. Particularily those by Tony Jay (The Elder God in LoK, TTO in Planescape: Torment).
I'm sort of curious as to whom dubbed Jon Irenicus, though.
Zardozthedestroyer 2 years ago
David Warner. Also played a Cardassian Gul who tortures Cpt Picard in Star Trek TNG.
darthbandon10 2 years ago 2
@darthbandon10 and the evil buttler henchman in Titanic!
omegastar19 2 years ago
Tell me, how many lights do you see?
Narrifani 2 years ago
@Narrifani There are four lights.
TwistyMcFisty 1 year ago
The Diablo games were great! But goddamnit nothing can even coooomppppaaaaareee to The Baldurs Gate games. They're epic masterpieces with no other comparisions! Iwe seen BG on the shelves, not the old versions on a billion CDs but they sell a collectors edition with both the games and both the expansions in a nice DVD set.
Vejo3 2 years ago 10
Awesome!
The best thing about the voice acting in BG is the way they meshed it together to make it seem like an actual conversation.
For example with most of Bioware's later RPG's the lines of dialogue don't seem quite right in they way they are spoken between character's. They don't flow seamlessly like they do in BG.
carsormyr 2 years ago 7
SERIOUSLY. I can understand comparing Fallout to Arcanum (the game engine was virtually the same), but Baldur's Gate and Diablo can't be compared...except for the fact that Diablo II still sells on shelves and BG doesn't because of Black Isle falling apart.
MaverickAlvis 2 years ago 4
I KNOW, I'm like "You just wiped out like eight people in the open" and he's like "I haven't the time for this" hahaha. David Warner was great in this.
MaverickAlvis 2 years ago 5
"You will be overwhelmed--"
"--You BORE me, mageling" lmao he totally cuts him off LMAO. I LOVE that line! Priceless
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MaverickAlvis 2 years ago
God I love Baulders gate. Irenius had a real intellectual superiority that all evil villans possess except he was more fleshed out as a character, which made it more believable. Now I think of it, no other game has dialogue quite so good as the BG series. Massively underated game, which is probaly a good thing as overly commercialised games are generally shit.
Redat23 2 years ago 4
BG is underrated? lol
DXXX79 2 years ago 4
Jon Irenicus is on a killing sphre
Mannetasi 2 years ago 3
If we take a look at what turned Irenicus evil, we must realize that his vengeance is well supported. Also, he has such style that he cannot be resisted :)
Szederp 2 years ago 4
His vengeance is in no way justified. He tried destroying the tree of life and got punished for it. It's like committing murder then being pissed your in prison.
CINA3125 2 years ago 4
Maybe you are thinking of Sarevok.
homokladin 2 years ago
No no, Irenicus wanted to become a god by destroying/absorbing the tree of life... Nasty man.
UKFabMan 2 years ago 2
That's correct, I'm sick of people thinking Irenicus was a bhaalspawn, too. OMG. And Sarevok is...er, WAS an heir to the throne of bhaal before the Protagonist defeated him in BG1. Sarevok was purely chaotic, and pretty much wanted to watch the world burn as the new Lord of Murder.
MaverickAlvis 2 years ago 5
@MaverickAlvis When Sarevok turned Chaotic Good in the ending of the Throne of Bhaal expansion, I forgave him for everything though. Such a great ending.
Athaeus 1 year ago
@Athaeus Hmm. I keep hearing there was a way to change his alignment but I rarely had him in my party during ToB, unless I absolutely needed him around. His banter with Imoen and Jaheira is good stuff.
MaverickAlvis 1 year ago
He still is one of the Coolest Villians Ever
hermitcrab3 3 years ago 10
I do not remember your love, Ellesime. I have tried to. I have tried to recreate it, to spark it anew in my memory. But it is gone.. a hollow, dead thing. For years, I clung to the memory of it. Then the memory of the memory. And then nothing. The Seldarine took that from me, too. I look upon you and I feel nothing. I remember nothing but you turning your back on me, along with all the others. Once my thirst for power was everything. And now I hunger only for revenge. And.. I.. Will.. HAVE IT!!
Zaggutch 3 years ago 13
Jon Irenicus stands on the same level as Elminster in BG2. they have about the same level and intelligence. but jon is badass Elminster is a nice guy :D nice vid thanks for sharing. Love this part hehe ;))
SilentRichard 3 years ago 2