Hmmm it’s one of those things that I’m enjoying the varied chat options that crop up ( I also had that dialogue this evening), but I’m not sure I would miss it. By that i mean I find a lot of the chat options are there as fluff.
Don’t get me wrong, it does help make the world seem as though it reacts to my character’s choices in life, more so than other games, but most of it isn’t impactful. And that’s fine too, not every piece of dialogue should be sparking rifts in the story. It’s just none of my religious or class choices have yet (and I stress - yet!) had any bearing on the story or my companions other than some neat lines of dialogue.
Yes if I play it through again there will be plenty to read that will be different, but the story doesn’t change (afaik) based on those options, more on my decisions.
Yeah I’m not really complaining, I enjoy the variation in dialogue options that crop up, it’s just often it feels like it’s in chats that are cute (like the above screenshot), but aren’t meaningful.
Until now at least I found your race, background, deity or class (you can multiclass so that would be a mess) does not change substantially the play, mechanically wise, only the dialogues.
The Mythic paths are what largely change the shape of the world, at least based on what we´ve seen in the first chapters, and some dialogue, alignment and other decisions you made by roleplaying during the campaign, not constrained by what you choose at level one. I prefer to shape the story by my decisions ingame, not by my character sheet.
Some examples with Ultra high spoilers. Really, if you do not want to be spoiled, do not open it.
You are a brave soul, ain´t you.
If you don't follow the Aion path, the city of Drezen was conquered years ago, and you defeat the infame traitor Staunton Vhane. If you are an Aion, and Aion only, you change the timeline, redeem Staunton Vhane and in the end the city of Drezen was never conquered by demons, because the legendary hero Staunton Vhane was defending the besieged city for more than 30 years until the crusaders came and broke the siege, defeating the demons. Vhane finally retires as a revered figure and past his last years in peace. Also, the wardstone that protect the city from demons are destroyed, because they were made by angels trapped inside. That was a perturbation of the planes equilibrium and the Aion will erase them, returning the trapped angels to the planes, angering Iomedae, the goddess that created them.
If you are a Lich, the land is slowly turned into Geb, the undead kingdom. . Some companions leave, others are corrupted, and you resurrect some powerful characters you find to serve you. The Queen is dead and you can make her your undead figurehead so you become the de facto ruler of the lands. Also your main crusade forces are now undead, you replenish your forces by killing and resurrecting enemy units, and it´s very hard to recruit people from other places, so the land is increasingly becoming a land of the dead.
...And that's only in chapter 4 out of 6, I´m still eager to discover where this goes.
Even if I like reactivity based on your character traits, I think that makes more sense this way. I mean, there are +50 class choices, 9 races and 12 deities, realistically it is not feasible to shape the world based on all those options unless you are making a visual novel. We were lucky about the stretch goal in the Kickstarter to add more deities and dialogues because we wouldn´t have that either.
