... all the NPCs love to insult you for daring to interact with them. It's like the game punishes you for being curious. I think they're forgetting that the player's enjoyment of the game should be paramount, not writing us to make us look dumb and their NPCs oh-so-sassy and witty. ...
This, in particular, resonates with me. Larian are so in love with their personal OCs that they've lost sight of the fact that the player is, against all seeming evidence, the main character.
They're so wrapped up in how epic and awesome and fantastic and witty and answer-for-everything their personal love-projects are, and how amazing they want to make them look, that they've created a situation where all of these super-special-awesome people have zero reason to be genuflecting to our level one random nobody... but they do. They follow us, and accede to our decisions on everything. Why? There's no justifying them doing so, because they do not feel, at all, like companions at this stage. We are not allowed, nine times out of ten, to ever get the last word on a conversation - Larian's babies have to always get the final snide/witty/prim/sarcastic/insulting/condescending/holier-than-thou comment in almost all of our interactions with them.
I've seen people comment that this feeling will improve when we're able to play origin characters ourselves - that's not the point. I didn't come to this game to play Larina's OC mary-sues for them... but that's what this feels like, so far.
