Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Story & Character Discussion Fixing Astarion's "Good" Ending

Larian has given us a lot of great possibilities to roleplay our characters and have thought of a lot of odd situations that can occur, but the moments where they railroad us into a certain behaviour to make the story work are really frustrating. And it's very often in the companion moments (thinking of not being able to hug Shadowheart in that certain Act 3 scene, argh!).

I've mentioned this before, but the dock scene gets even worse if you are doing a playthrough with Astarion as the only companion as you hear his whole conversation from the hopeful "maybe the sunwalker effect was permanent" to him running away and then you totally unfazed turn your back to him and sheepishly smile into the sunset with the narrator saying that Astarion will probably seek comfort in the shadows now but that his own comfort luckily always was one of his specialities. Not even the epilogue can make up for that experience.

I agree with the "infected wound in a bandage" comparison.

My only hope is that they might revisit the dock scene at a later date if we keep this discussion alive via feedback in different channels. Up to now their story focus has been the epilogue so maybe they have time to tweek other bits.