Part of the reason for my Long Rest Poll was to get at that Boblawblah, because I knew from my first playthrough I had done everything in my power to take as few long rests as possible, I blew through who knows how many flags, and really messed with the pacing of the story. Based on that, not necessarily helpful, poll, a large portion of people on their first playthrough will do the same. I think Larian, has been adding stuff to signpost for players that the narrative thrust of the prologue doesn't need to dictate their playthrough of the first area, whether or not it's enough I can't say. For instance, Shadowheart's dialogue about whether or not resting is a good idea, in order to get that scene you already have to be comfortable enough to take a rest, and take one early enough on that the trigger isn't overridden by something else. I didn't know that scene existed until someone mentioned it here, who knows how long into the EA, and that was already after I stopped trying to put off resting.
As for whether or not the story will loop us back to the grove-goblin quest after following leads elsewhere, is taking for granted a lot about how the game maps will work. I'm not sure we'll ever return to the EA map after this act concludes, and if we do, I'm not sure any of the quests will still be there. It's possible after going to the creche we'll be put back on Halsin's trail, but I think it's more likely we'll just be put onto the Moonrise path. Also, ticking clocks don't need to actually follow through for them to set the pace of your adventure, we're talking about a dissonance between character and player motivation, good storytelling should make it so our characters aren't acting illogically just because the person playing them knows they're just in a silly video game. It's a separate conversation but I wish video games did play with time and sequences more, considering unlike most mediums, it can actually do interesting things with them.
And to be fair based on the first conversation with Lae'zel, most Tavs don't seem to know what ceremorphosis is, neither do Astarion and I think Wyll; Gale, and even SH, I can believe it of.
Last edited by Sozz; 05/11/22 07:12 PM.
