I have to confess, I don’t really understand this modern TV series/game series mentality of ‘let’s hire an army of writers, because more is clearly better’. Really? Should we list out the ‘famous’ novelists of the world, and how there was only really one of them that wrote the whole shebang?
Thing is, the party members in this game are clearly all written by individuals, because they’re so clinically isolated from one another that I don’t believe they ever really have any meaningful interaction throughout the whole game. I can’t even begin to imagine how you might realistically put a team of writers in a room, each responsible for an individual character, and have them come out with a natural ping-pong of dialogue between their various imagined characters.
It’s batshit. Only in game and tv land. No wonder half of it is disjointed dross.
Act 1 is very good though imo. Act 2 very competent. And Act 3 and 4 are like something from a half-formed planned expansion that they included in the game anyway because it makes it longer…
It’s all a very interesting mess. Because they have all the material they need (from forum comments etc), as well as their own common sense – which I think is pretty damn good – to know Act 3 and Act 4 are undercooked, creative-fatigue type chapters that are a predictable result of over ambition.
And they know the armour system is pants. Tactician mode is subpar. And so on.
I think they’ll correct these things, honestly. The game just needs another year of development.
Many of the mods have really good ideas, and they’re obviously looking at them.
Once is enough of a play through for me. But if they go back give it one last hurrah (with everything they’ve learned so far), I do believe they’ll create a classic that’ll withstand all the futuristic graphical bells and whistles that are to come…
