Larian is known for its humor and realy as of late most fantasy stories that have taken themselves too seriously have been boring.
One thing humor does is actually create a sense of "anything is possible", this is one thing to consider with fantasy archetypes.
Original Sin had talking Snowmen that fought you. And why wouldnt it? Its magic afterall.
Im a bit sick of games treating magic like some kind of science with strict limitations, it tends to deemphasize the entire thing.
Also most settings that try to be "dark and edgy" fail to do so and just end up beeing silly. Like the Dragon Age games which try realy hard but as a result i just cant take the world they created seriously.
If you wanna overod dark and edgy, you need humor too, such as 40k. Dark Humor is humor too afterall.
I like Larians humor and i hope it sticks around.
Tho i gotta reply on the Oblivion/Skyrim comparison: realy?
For one thing, TES is a series that isnt exactly known for its great humor, Skyrim was mostly darker than Oblivion in artstyle, which is to say it had an artstyle of its own.
It was much closer to Morrowind, which is the gold standard for a TES game as far as im concerned.
Last edited by Sordak; 19/03/16 12:33 AM.
