1. The game looks great overall. Extremely excited for it. It is crazy they have added so much to even Act 1 given that the game is already pretty enormous as it is.
2. The amount of choice and consequence they are promising is perhaps the most intriguing thing about the game to me. Seems like it will be worth playing through several times.
3. I think people (myself included) may be overthinking the 'good' and 'evil' companions. They seemed to bring up a few times how all of them can become heroes or villains. My primary worry on that front though is that can you help guide them if you play a custom rather than playing as them? Or do they have presets where they will always follow the same path regardless of your choice/influence?
4. While I do not particularly want to play an origin character, I might. They seem to get unique choices, dialogue, romance options, etc. that a custom character will not offer. Not sure how/if Larian can ever overcome that as I know it was a common complaint about DOS2 as well. They just seem like the superior way to play the game right now. It also seems like you would be missing out on a lot if you do not play one of them. Perhaps the solution is doing what the did with 'The Dark Urge', but having like two or three customizable templates rather than just a serial killer one?
5. The Dark Urge thing is an interesting concept, will be curious to see how many people try it.
6. It is going to be very interesting to see how popular this game is and how well received it is. They are saying if you rush through the game it takes about 80 hours... and if you explore everything it can start multiplying that amount out (I believe they phrased it as it could jump to like 160, 240, 320 hours for a single play). That is great for very hardcore gamers - but I am not sure if you average player wants to sit with a single game that long. I am pretty sure that is why CDPR chopped down the length of Cyberpunk 2077 after The Witcher 3, because they found tons of the players weren't actually finishing the game due to the length of it.
