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We put a lot of work into making it so can have an evil party that won’t screw you over, that will work in the game. One of the problems in BG 1 and 2 was that it was kind of hard to have an evil party that worked. You can build whatever kind of party you want. “There’s a very wide and large roster in this game. “We’ve got four new companions, and then there’s the returned Enhanced Edition companions and then a bunch of companions from Baldur’s Gate 1,” said Daigle. But it’s not just about representation for representation’s sake. There’s even a monster companion, a throwback to a Baldur’s Gate II easter egg. There’s also four new companions, one of whom is gay, one of whom is bisexual. “I got to write a little tender, romance-y side quest for Khalid and Jaheira where you could learn a little bit about how their marriage works and how they really feel about each other.” In the same interview, Scott goes on to note that almost all of the writing done is to enhance the characters and their relationships, while Beamdog Lead Designer Philip Daigle discusses the importance of having options in the game for players to make a choice. However, it is clear Beamdog has taken some care in crafting this new Baldur's Gate game. One of the first sites to weigh in on this controversy was NicheGamer, who added several of their own opinions of what they thought was wrong with Dragonspear, citing an 8chan board as the source of these claims. Forums on both Steam and Beamdog have also been bombarded with topics on these issues, while others have flocked to Twitter to chastise or defend Beamdog. Many have since begun to complain about the game's writing on several forums and social media, which have been overrun with criticisms over the Mizhena character (despite the fact that she is killable in the final product), the Kotaku piece, and a random line of dialogue said by the party member Minsc, which directly references the catchphrase of Gamergate as an in-joke Easter egg as one of many lines that can trigger when you select him.
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If people don’t like that, then too bad.” We were able to say, ‘No, that’s not really the kind of story we want to make.’ In Siege of Dragonspear, Safana gets her own little storyline, she got a way better personality upgrade. "Or if not a lot, there’s a couple, like Safana was just a sex object in BG 1, and Jaheira was the nagging wife and that was played for comedy. “In the original there’s a lot of jokes at women’s expense," noted Scott. The quote in question comes from one of the game's writers, Amber Scott, who talks about striking a balance between the original game's tone and a modern take in regards to the portrayal of female characters. This sparked some outrage over developer Beamdog, along with a quote circulating from an interview conducted by Kotaku on March 31st. The scene involving Mizhena, via Twitter.