I feel if I played the dark urge the first time and had never played the EA, I would never find out gale is a companion?
Not true. Unless you always wanted to play the character the same way over and over again, always giving in to every instance of the dark urge, never being curious about who the dude in the rock is...but that's not really how people work. We get curious, explore alternatives, etc. Plus there is no real reason or benefit for giving in to the dark urge on most occasions. As far as I am aware there is no real reason or reward for going all in on the Dark Urge and give in every time or for never giving in. It provides some extra fancy story and animations to take out some people that the game would otherwise not give you much reason to kill, and the same for others you'll likely always end up fighting anyway...now you have some more fun alternative ways to pick fights.
