okay so i'm SUPER obsessed with Baldur's Gate 3 right. like so obsessed. this happened while i was playing today (minor spoilers for a few characters ahead lol)
my first real playthrough where i made it through the whole game, there was this one part where i was supposed to save a bunch of characters from the bad guys, who have kidnapped them. one of the characters is this gnome (the game is set in the Dungeons and Dragons world if you don't know) named Wulbren. His gnome friend Barcus basically follows Wulbren across the world trying to save him, and Barcus gets repeatedly captured along the way. because. he is a gnome. on average, not super strong adventurers lol. anyway the player can save Barcus several times and can eventually figure out where Wulbren has been taken and offer to rescue him. Cool. Barcus is very happy. (Awkward but happy lol , he's very endearing)
So anyway, my first playthrough, I did the sequence of events kind of out of order? so when i went to rescue Wulbren and a few other characters, their captors had already killed them. rip. and to go back and save them, i would have had to reload a previous save and then replay several hours of the game and several hard fights, so i was just like "welp.... they stay dead..... sorry guys"
SO ANYWAY, i'm on another playthrough and this time i know the proper sequence of events, so i went and rescued Wulbren and the others. they escape and go back to the Last Light Inn which is this safe haven basically. I do my other stuff, whatever, eventually make it to the Inn to make sure all the characters are safe and sound and talk to them.
so i go to tell Barcus that Wulbren is back and he's like "WHAT :D HE IS??? :D" and goes running to see him. i follow behind Barcus and he starts talking to Wulbren.
and THIS MF blows him off. Barcus is over here overjoyed that HIS FRIEND is, yknow, ALIVE, and wulbren is literally like "oh...... it's you...... what are you doing here" and barcus is like "i saved you! :D" and wulbren is like "well actually *they* saved me" (referring to the player character). and then just says barcus should go back to Baldur's Gate (the city they're both from), and barcus is like "well... ok but i would love to talk to you!" and wulbren snaps at him and tells him he has business to attend to.
so i call him a prick, because that's what he freaking is, and he's just like "lol ok" the bastard. i talk to Barcus, he's clearly kind of sad but he's just sort of accepted it??? i'm like "this friendship seems really one-sided man" and he's kinda just like "haha.. yeah.."???? man i genuinely feel bad for the guy, Barcus deserves better, justice for Barcus
Hehe. I heard Baldur's gate was good.