Originally Posted by Krom
Originally Posted by kanisatha
Very convenient, trite, and pathetic to me.

I am sorry but not only i disagree, but criticism and insults, even veiled ones, do not go together.

Now let's take a look at the actual argument.

A Sharran priestess. Do you know till the end of the story, who is the character named Shadowheart? Should i spoil it for you through datamining? You are assuming way too much. Let me remind you she has her memory wiped. I hope i gave you a hint.

A pact with a devil can come directly from your family having made the pact before you were even born, and even a non-evil char can make a pact if they are close to death and it's the only way out. Your imagination is the ceiling. Besides, regardless of the charade Wyll does as the Blade, you have to really get to know him to understand his motivations. So how can you dismiss it, even from EA?

A werewolf that probably doesn't even exist in the game, or we have no idea if they were scrapped, but it's somehow pathetic. And, again, we have no idea even how this hypothetical character would be written.
No, you are completely missing the point. The specifics of these characters are not the point. The point is that Larian is taking the very cliched approach of "a character who should be evil is secretly not" and repeating that same trope again and again with character after character. That's my point. That is lazy writing.

Edit: Also, there was nothing "insulting" in my previous post. Was it harsh? Yes, absolutely, and I stand by my harsh critique of the quality of Larian's writing, especially with respect to their companion characters. But insulting it was not.

Last edited by kanisatha; 21/11/22 06:08 PM.