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Just finished replaying BG2 EE, so this is pretty fresh in my mind. The more niche the audience, the more niche the budget has to be. In my opinion if folks want AAA amenities, they need to accept that games will need to appeal to folks whose tastes differ from theirs, as well as provide features that they themselves enjoy. I'd regularly prefer a little less edginess in games, but understand that it's often there because it adds to the experience for people who aren't me. Remember the woodsman making dark cavern jokes in BG1? It was a reference to, ahem, adult movies actor.Īlso, if talking to squirrels were likely to annoy me, I just wouldn't (except in situations where the conversation is likely to be plot-important).
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It had some very silly, genre skipping moments too. And it was great! It was very BG, it was dark and mature as it should be.The BG saga was not all dark and mature as you portray it. The reveal trailer introduced us into gruesome body horror which set the mood. I'm getting an increasing feeling that BG3 doesn't know what it wants to be and who it's made for. If movies and games could be everything, genres wouldn't exist. Cold, calculating and driven by desire to feel something again. So he was actually evil before but becomes a very different type of evil after the loss of his soul. He's so busy blaming Elliseme and Elean (sp?) for his misery, so convinced that the way to undo the curse is through magical mastery that he's blind to the path Elliseme wanted him to follow, redemption through acts of goodness and compensation. Bodhi encouraged his ambitions and he tried to take over the tree to become a god even before the removal of his soul. That's the story from Irenicus' positions but we very briefly learn that there is another side to story. And there are layers to the story as well. What is left for him but to seek power for the sake of power, and maybe settle some scores along the way? He didn't set out to be a monster initially, but now that he has become one anyway, why exactly should he not pursue his old goal? Why should he care about torturing some shadow thieves or a couple of bhaalspawn? "The law" means nothing to him and his conscience has been taken away with his soul. He still remembers it as a concept, much like one might remember having learned to ride a bicycle or flying for the first time at some specific point in one's life without actually remembering what it was like.Īnd with his ability to feel destroyed and his memory of his life as an elf badly deteriorated he has become the monster they punished him for being previously. Intellectually he knows that he probably still loves Ellesime, but he is not capable of love, and his condition has eaten away even his memories of what it was like to love. Intellectually, he knows that he loves his sister, but his emotional capacity to do so has been removed.