Is it me or all these examples of a character personality that might not fit the Tav the player created?
I don't know if this is a reasonable complaint, but it's something I find myself thinking about. Maybe all the comments are 'vanilla' enough that they work fine for most players. Just something I've been meaning to mention.
I definitely find this stuff annoying. Facial expressions and the random comments both are rather jarring at times.
or because they need that character to say or act a certain way in order to be a springboard for their origin characters; essentially being the patsy and a line-feeder to help their own origin characters show off their personalities (Such as lae'zel's warrior line). In this latter case in particular, the play character's personality swings around quite a bit, because they are made to mouthpiece whatever line they want the origin character in question to counter - and it's always the origin character countering and negating whatever the player character says, and having the final word, in these cases.
I feel like a long time ago there was a mod that allowed people to play as the origin characters. Do you know if they had anything special to say at these points or were they treated like our characters?
The underlying root of it seems to be that Larian are at first brush unfamiliar with, and generally not comfortable working with the idea that players may be interested in having their own personal character, roleplaying it, and having a personality of their own design in mind; when they first started working on the game, this seemed like a completely alien concept to them, and it hasn't improved much.
I agree with you, but the cynical part of me thinks it also has to do with how many people in the real world act nowadays. People are constantly trying to force unnecessary emotions and opinions into facts to attempt to influence how people think. Perhaps Larian doesn't see anything wrong with doing the same because it seems to be normal behaviour now.
