Originally Posted by The_Red_Queen
Originally Posted by Zerubbabel
Originally Posted by pachanj
Originally Posted by mrfuji3
Whereas in other games, the MC is usually given some sort of special power/calling/authority/tie to the story, which helps explain why you have followers.
Plainly, Tav isn't the protagonist. Tav is shell to give people customizability while the writing is in the origin stories. Because of this, Tav is always ancillary to the events of the group other than direct interpersonal dialogue which is all discovery about the companions anyway, and eventual relationships. And the fact that his is how all Larian games work, I don't see this one being any different.
+1. This is the truth. The story here is more like Icewind for Tav, but like Dragon Age for companions. Which means your Tav is ultimately nothing more than a tag-along who does dialogue sometimes.

*Clutches head in despair*

It’s of course totally valid to feel this way, but can’t we accept that these are personal opinions and it’s okay for other players to feel differently? Talking in absolutes this way we’re never going to be able to have a constructive discussion. If all we want to do is restate our immovable opinions in opposition to others, then it feels as though we’ve already done that to death. Apologies for getting frustrated. I’d probably better bow out of this thread, too.

*Dejectedly trails offstage following @Wormerine*
If you disagree that's fine. I'm not going to yell at you or anything. I'm just agreeing with the position about the vibe I get from the story. My view is that you could continue the story without Tav, but Larian won't let you, not because Tav is integral to the narrative, but because Larian sets the mechanics around the player. Everything progresses with Tav as proxy, and yet if this were a novel, you could erase every reference to Tav and the story wouldn't be any different.

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