Honestly though I do feel rather angry, Larian has done this to me twice now. They know that critics are smooth-brains that often can’t even play the games they’re reviewing and often just play a few hours before writing their review. Game awards usually take an aggregate of the reviews to make their decision. So they make their first act excellent with plenty of choice then flop the rest of it only to possibly fix it later. They did this with the other game of theirs I played Divinity 2 where I was very excited after the first and to a lesser extent second act only to get to the final part and feel really unfulfilled.
What’s worse as a citizen of the Isle of Rain and Misery I do love nautical stuff so of course my favourite character was Beast who was the one they selected to get shafted.
From what I understand they fixed him a year later but by then I had moved on because although their policy of being silent is VERY smart from a business standpoint as often situations are made many times worse by bad PR management (see Mass Effect 3) it basically forces you to just move on and forget.
And THEY BLOODY DID IT AGAIN, they gave me an adorable working class lass with a London accent and decided she would be an excellent subject for some railroaded misery porn.
I was ranting to my scouse mates about how good the game was and how I had heard some scouse accents finally giving them some representation (while laughing that they were of course bandits and shady dealers) only to get slapped in the face after I realised they had done it again and somehow picked the character I liked to be the butt-monkey.
Perhaps they will fix it in a years time, perhaps they will double down and insist that this is excellent story telling and we’re just too stupid and sensitive to appreciate their genius.
It wouldn’t be as bad but they hire god tier voice actors that really make you care for the characters… Whatever, I’ll shut up and wait if they just this once break their silence policy and tell us they’re working on something but meh if not Larian are going on the Bethesda / BioWare pile for me.
