Originally Posted by fylimar
[quote=SerTomato][
I do understand, that you are mad about Viconia and Sarevok, but both are still different cases from Karlach. Kalrach was always good, Viconia and Sarevok not. You could maybe compare it with Astarion, who starts pretty evil, but can become better during the game depending on how you progress his story.
I believe Tomato is using hyperbole to show their point. They aren't directly comparable, but the gist is that a hypothetical BG4 could 'plausibly' rewrite the characters we love from BG3 into something like the unsympathetic characterization hit-pieces that Saraevok and Viconia got saddled with by Larian. And that would be wrong, just as Viconia and Saraevok's treatment was.

Like sure, we can imagine scenarios where Wyll turns out to be jaded and bitter after BG III, his morality is eroded, and we see him some 30 years later in a followup game as a corrupt politician lining his pockets with bribes from criminals. Then we find out that one of our companions was enslaved by his criminal underlings and we finally meet him in an emotional confrontation where all of his crimes against our companions, against the city, etc are laid out and we find him unrepentant. Cue boss battle.

IDK if you find that a 'plausible' scenario or not, but either I think you can probably imagine one where a party member from BG III is turned into an unsympathetic antagonist we get to fight in some followup.

But point of the matter, no matter how 'plausible' such a turn would be, it would be a huge disservice, a betrayal of the character and their fans to do so. For a game ostensibly focused on nostalgia and fanservice regarding the original games, such a portrayal is really, really awful.