I'm just stopping by to say that as one of the "got willingly spoiled and mad before even reaching the end themselves" crowd I'm finally home and finally reached the end of Gortash's part of the game for the first time (yup still not the whole game but I'm working on it)

So now I actually have first-hand feedback on that!

Hearing Karlach's whole speech after Gortash's defeat (a monologue which I carefully did NOT spoil for myself) and then IMMEDIATELY being hit with the "Completed: Our Fiery Friend" notification and the "We did all we could for Karlach's heart" popping up in our journal AS she's walking away to camp absolutely devastated WHILE we're standing among a bunch of broken Steel Watchers full of goddamn infernal iron felt just, I dunno, flabbergasting.

The dissonance is SO strong in this one, because within the given plot in a vacuum the way Karlach is dealing with her situation and the way you the player react to it in dialogues is so well-written and brilliantly voice-acted and heartwrenching and beautiful in a tragic way, but then the second you look at it in the overall scale of the game and what you've "done" for her so far you as a player just feel like a clown. Did I do all I could? DID I?! A complete breakdown about going through a shitton of suffering and being betrayed and surviving all that only to die and rot is her quest's COMPLETION?! Not a beginning of a new one, not the middle, but COMPLETION?

I am switching between being horribly sad in-character and being incredibly mad as a player so fast it's giving me whiplash.

No amount of spoilers could've prepared me for the actual punch this sudden 'quest completion' gave me. 100% would've thought I horribly screwed up somewhere if I didn't know.

Last edited by tarraxahum; 17/09/23 01:47 PM.
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