CHARACTERS - DAY TWO: Kieran
(Technically this is an addendum to yesterday, but I make the rules here so nyah!)
Heading into DAI, I had a bite-sized problem on my hands. I knew Morrigan would feature. I also knew we were importing previous choices. So now I had to contend with: the Old God Baby. 🧵
(Technically this is an addendum to yesterday, but I make the rules here so nyah!)
Heading into DAI, I had a bite-sized problem on my hands. I knew Morrigan would feature. I also knew we were importing previous choices. So now I had to contend with: the Old God Baby. 🧵
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(My dwarf warden easily accepted the kid took off more after their mother)
At the time, I had for finnancial reasons resorted to piracy, and having no access to Tapestry, I had to use a non-friendly plot flag editor, but I would never let go of my OGB, it ot serves you any consolation.
How do you feel about the reaction to Veilguard's cutting of the worldstate entirely?
It only took producing a game without the continuity that so many fans took for granted. Now those same fans are saying things don't "feel" the same now that they're gone.
On behalf of those fans, I'm sorry for taking that amazing storytelling for granted.
<3 thank you
Your vision and passion touched our hearts and still does. ❤️Thank you.
Thank you for taking the time to do this, from a long time DA fan.
I just hope Alistair and Cassandra and Leliana are safe 😊
Thank you so much for answering!
Personally, I never expected massive divergent plot points anyway, so I was perfectly happy just seeing any "evidence" of past choices carried forward.
But you will never be able to deliver divergent plot.
In Redcliffe when you save Conner, he reappears in Inquisition as a cameo, and that alone justified everything I did to me. I don't care if it's a tangent to the main story, I can see the character I saved and that means everything.
Just erasing prev choices complitely makes the choices feel like they do not matter anything and worth nothing. Which is not a good way to look at a choice in game.
It's a question of resources, and there's never enough to go around.
The Old God Baby was one of the main choices from DAO -- Morrigan has a baby? With the Archdemon's soul?!
Likely not but I'd love to know-- having to tell her that her Warden died after losing Justinia wouldn't of been fun I'd imagine.
Or is this fanfic territory?
If you don’t mind, I’d love to pick your brain around the ‘cost’ aspect, is there more to it than just voice acting and animation for 1 quest etc?
Oh that would have been brilliant, I really wanted closure on that character. Being left to wander the hinterlands looking for a cure to the calling is just so open ended. And if you sacrifice in DAO you can't import your world state to Awakening
Unless this is data from the Keep's choices for the later games. Suffice to say, I am surprised that it is a small minority.
Finally, I realized there WAS a solution, and that was changing how I thought about the choice: don't make it about Kieran. The players don't know him, never have. Make it about Morrigan.