(And btw Game of Thrones is full of 'special snowflake' characters, albeit in a low magic fantasy setting. I could outline the three main Stark pov characters alone to prove this point. Drama makes a good story, lack of it often makes a boring one)
GoT is based on books. The literary characters have more meat on their bones.
"People are so focused on their own intended playthrough experience they have allowed themselves to be blind to the other options available." Are they? That's just an opinion you have pulled out of thin air. I could just as easily claim that people are so focused on their own intended playthrough that they cannot accept that their choices are not being reflected by everyone else.
"You can certainly have an opinion on whether this whole idea was a good one or not, but use a bit of logical thinking when you're trying to grasp why they did it. " Why? Whether I think the idea is good or bad, I still think the origin companions are much of a muchness which means that if I dislike or am uninterested in one then I pretty much dislike and am uninterested in them all. Conversely I could like some or all of the companions be not be interested in playing as an origin character.
GoT is based on books. The literary characters have more meat on their bones. Irrelevant, but if you've actually read the books there's even more special snowflakery
"People are so focused on their own intended playthrough experience they have allowed themselves to be blind to the other options available." Are they? That's just an opinion you have pulled out of thin air. No, it's not. It's specifically focusing on the people who are rightfully pointing up the plot contrivance of so many special one companions by reminding them that each of the 'companions' are also MCs of someone else's playthrough. It's not an opinion, it's clear from many of the posts above me were focusing on them as companions without considering they are also protagonists too. There was no value judgment (which you seemed to have missed), I think it's a valid criticism of the origin system, but unfortunately a necessary side effect. You will notice (well you won't obviously but other people who can follow a train of thought will) I never once gave an opinion on whether the origin system was good and in fact suggested it might be a negative for a Tav playthrough. I have no argument with anyone that thinks this
I could just as easily claim that people are so focused on their own intended playthrough that they cannot accept that their choices are not being reflected by everyone else. I've no ideas what you were trying to accomplish here, it makes absolutely no sense
"You can certainly have an opinion on whether this whole idea was a good one or not, but use a bit of logical thinking when you're trying to grasp why they did it. " Why? Because thinking logically when you're trying to make an argument is pretty crucial. As evidenced by the following sentence:
Whether I think the idea is good or bad, I still think the origin companions are much of a muchness which means that if I dislike or am uninterested in one then I pretty much dislike and am uninterested in them all. Conversely I could like some or all of the companions be not be interested in playing as an origin character. Firstly I never mentioned once about the likeability of the origin characters. That was never the point of any of my argument. Why even mention this? My point was the duality of the origin characters leaves a lot of special one companions when they are used not as the MC. I mean other people got this, how was it so hard for you?
Secondly whether you like them or not is your opinion and as such it matters only to you. I mean I hate Laezel and Astarion, but I'm not so deluded to think that opinion is of relevance to anyone but me. It's cool not to like them, but it wasn't what my post was about. The fact that you're still calling them companions kind of proves my point. They exist in a bizarre Schrodinger's limbo. To stress this again, as I'm sure you didn't get it second time. I'm not talking about likeability, I'm talking about plot contrivance of so many weird and wonderful backstories in one place. And if you read (and understood) previous posts, many other people have this very criticism.
To re-iterate my point. The reason so many origin characters have such convoluted backstories is because Larian chose the origin system which by necessity brings these issues to the fore. I personally don't mind it that much, but I think it's a valid criticism if anyone has an issue with it. I think my suggestion of more Dark Urge style origins would have made it better (and probably have been cheaper).
You need to learn to carefully read the posts you're replying to because it's obvious you really didn't understand my point. At all.
