I'm interested to see how playing as Gale will work. I might be wrong, but I don't see Larian suddenly throwing up a "Game Over" sign one day if the player decides not to sacrifice anything and thus they blow themselves up. He doesn't like it, but you can still have Gale as a companion if you don't feed him items, and he doesn't blow up. He just conveniently works something out on the side.
Not really seeing the point to the whole deal if him actually blowing up isn't ever really likely.
