Originally Posted by The_Red_Queen
Originally Posted by Zerubbabel
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.

Okay, you just caught me before I logged off smile.

I can sympathise with this view, and I know you’re far from alone. I was just getting grumpy about people talking about facts and truths as opposed to views. I mean, obviously we all know that actually we’re right, but it usually makes for a more constructive discussion if we at least pretend others’ perspectives have some merit biggrin.

I’ve already said my two penn’orth about the story and party dynamic in this thread so I won’t repeat my position but, having poured oil on troubled fire, I really will ban myself from it now.
I'm so sorry for dragging you back in as you're trying to leave, but you have a point. I think we just say statements, and the "It is my view that," is usually implied (but of course everyone has to be right... I AM ALWAYS RIGHT!!! :P )... It leads to absolutist language, which is not helpful. I respect that you may feel differently. It's entirely possible for two people to look at the same thing and come away with fundamentally different impressions. I guess that's why we have a forum, so that we can engage dialectical process by which we come to some semblance of agreement. Not on everything, but on some things.

Remember the human (This is a forum for a video game):