Sooo I was doing some video gaming research, as one does on lazy Sundays, and came across the last Final Fantasy (Shadowbringers) and Dragon Age: Inquisition, two beloved franchises played by everyone else in the planet except me who also have
a shitty wizard with a massive secret
as part of the party.
There's Solas, who to me looks like Lex Luthor and Alex Ward had a baby, who is an ancient god in disguise trying to find a way to destroy the world you live in to bring back the age of elves that he personally messed up or some such sympathetic villain nonsense. If you play as a female elf, he can even fall in love with you and will tell you that he loves you before cutting your arm, lovely man all around.
Then there's FF-SB's Emmet-Selch who is basically Solas but with better hair and boots, whose plan is basically the same -- torn down the current world, bring back the old, yadda yadda yadda. He won't romance anyone, but will be Very Happy To See You whenever you walk in.
Anyway -- my question is... do you think that Larian is playing with the player's expectations of "shitty wizard in the party" regarding Gale? Are we supposed to suspect him because his predecessors in similar RPGs
are well-mannered destroyers of worlds,
and are these expectations going to get subverted later?
My go-tos when I started playing BG3 were literary, so I placed him more between Rincewind and Raistlin than
Emet-Selch and Elf Luthor
(so more a talented loser with a crush and a debilitating orb than
), but what do you think?
