My experience as the Dark Urge felt lackluster. I was really appalled at how my character slaughtered a squirrel without an ability check to resist it or anything, but seconds later I was intrigued, and really into seeing what's my character gonna do next. I tried talking to many animals and stuff, but all the way to mid-act3, besides Alfira, I've never seen my character do anything similar, and played her as a nice-hero type....
I was really disappointed not to have more challenges in trying to be good, or more hurdles thrown at me. I got almost no reactions from other party members despite trying all the dialogue options to confide in them. Fel's reveal felt out of character for me, and the demand to kill Isobel, after I had to fight to save her felt silly. IMO Violence and murder should be presented as tempting to achieve my character's goals, instead I got a weird creature demanding that I work against my already selected goals, followed by a demand to kill the one I'm attracted to.... Hardly feels like a dark urge, more like a demanding master, and his doing this while pretending to be my butler makes this even harder to believe.
Dark urge should ease us into being murderers. Start with taking pleasure in killing enemies (be they goblin or whatever), then let us off an annoying character that's impeding our progress... Tempt the player to kill the character with lowest approval rather than the one you like most. (Astarion's particularly tempting to kill, after his racist remarks about saving Gnomes. Link the murderous urge to them being annoying - Shadowheart's evasiveness, Gale's Arrogance... Or try to link it to attaining a goal like taking the artifact from Shadowheart) I would also have liked to have more options to seek help from good holy characters, only to lose control and kill my would be savior. I loved the feeling that I had no control over killing Alfira, that I need to keep innocents away from me lest I lose control and kill them etc. But to my disappointment, besides very rare isolated incidents, there was nothing.
Last edited by Tottenheim; 29/08/23 02:20 PM.
