And no matter what else is said about BioWare, their storytelling and character/world building have always been excellent as far as I am concerned.
I suppose different strokes...
Personally, I've found Bioware's storytelling quite lacking after DAO and ME1. These initial games did well in building their worlds and telling a story. But sequels never quite performed as well.
ME2 was carried by the characters and honestly I thought ME3's writing to be absolutely garbage, full of plotholes and inconsistencies and inexplicably shallow characters...
DA2 and DAI I found to be pretty forgettable in terms of writing.
With Andromeda being utter trash.
Which is why I have little hope that DAV will be particularly well written.
I really hope, they don't plan on Varric getting sacrificed in that prologue. If he dies, I'm not buying the game. I had too many books, movies, games, where my favourite character died and I don't want to see it in one of my favourite gaming fandoms. I don't care, if it makes for good storytelling, leave Varric alone.
Hey I'm so with you on this. I also love the Varric character, and would be seriously pissed if BioWare killed him off.
Varric did look fantastic in what we got to see.
Personally I'd be pleased if Varric died. I never particularly liked him as a character and very much disliked his shoehorning into the series as the main character.
But because of that I doubt he'll die. He'll live and continue to be the main character for the next titles in the series too.
