Don't get me started on Astarion, this guy is supposes to be a vampire and D&D vampires are not "Normal human who from time to time bites the head off a mouse" but "undead monsters kept moving by negative energy whos mere existence spreads misery". Dracula, not Cullen.
Whatever D&D says a Vampire is. Important is what LARIAN made of them. So it doesn't count what they are outside the game, it counts what is IN the game. I can only go and read about D&D Vampire and then think: Oh shit. Larian did an awful job! OR I just play the game and don't count on it and enjoy the game, how it is. You are free to dislike the way Larian portrayed Vampires. Astarion is one of the favourite characters, so I think, a lot of players, especially but not only those who romance him, enjoy the Vampire for how he is in the game.
[Cullen? Edward Cullen? Maybe your comparison is a little off? I don't know much about Twilight, but I thought the Cullen guy isn't narcissistic, sarcastic, manipulative or murderous, or is he? But maybe you just know twilight better than me. I cannot imagine, that Astarion's writer took inspiration from it. But honestly, of course I don't know Larian's sources.]
Originally Posted by Ixal
But as I said, too much time has already been spend on fanfiction level cringe shipping and its a disgrace that Larian wastes the little support they are willing to give BG3 on even more of it instead of making the, lacking, adventurer part of their "fantasy adventurer game" better.
But sadly, BG3 got mainly praised for the sexual content and fanfiction level shipping, so that is what they focus on. And also the reason why I will definitely not buy their next game on release and first wait if they continue this strategy or went back to make games instead of visual novels.
I don't know the other games of Larian, but I could assume, after this success and winning a lot of awards, that they will try to continue this strategy.
"I would, thank God, watch the universe perish without shedding a tear."
