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fandomsecrets2013-10-08 06:43 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #2471 ⌋
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(Anonymous) 2013-10-09 03:19 am (UTC)(link)Skyrim is just a different type of game, though. It's not a character game. I wouldn't even call it a story game. It's a beautifully developed fantasy world that you can immerse yourself in, but the characters are just not there (and probably not meant to be).
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and yeah i feel you on skyrim. fallout 3 and new vegas are like that too kinda, where only a few characters have a whole lot of development and the others might have names but their stories are so impersonal and secondary that i don't connect with them at all. the only thing is that i can't be mean to ed-e or any other robots cuz i really feel for them on an emotional level but other than that idc about anybody. sometimes i make playthroughs where i just go around killing literally everything that moves when i'm feeling particularly broody.
eta: but yeah most of the bioware characters (like the main ones at least) are really personable or at the very least are developed to a point where i recognise them as more than just game filler. they have lives and purpose and feelings and shit.
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(Anonymous) 2013-10-09 06:00 am (UTC)(link)no subject
like ok i actually like anders but there are some things he says and does that i can't really forgive. like if you do sell fenris back to danarius anders actually approves of this - he, a mage, who has suffered at the hands of those in power over him all his life, would rejoice at a slave being returned to his former master, all because fenris rightfully did not like or trust mages. that really pissed me off because it's really not that difficult to see where fenris is coming from, and i myself am a mage sympathiser. in the tevinter imperium the mages have all the power; fenris obviously isn't accustomed to mages being oppressed and since they were the source of pretty much all his suffering he's obviously going to be hostile towards them. but anders basically says at one point that fenris let one bad experience ruin him or whatever, and it makes me really mad. if you kill anders, fenris doesn't really give a shit. i mean he might not be weeping at anders' feet but at least he doesn't fuckin find joy in anders' death.
and the whole mage-templar thing like... i get why anders did what he did. the tinder had been piling up for ages at that point and all it needed was a spark, one that was arguably necessary for change that'd been a long time coming. but the way he went about doing what he did, and at the time in which he did it, was so shitty. don't get me wrong, i personally would like to see each and every chantry burn to the ground, but jesus. the whole issue required an artistic level of delicacy imo and he blew it (literally and figuratively). i wholeheartedly believe that at best the chantry should be dismantled but i see a lot of ways in which that could have been attempted without costing scores of guiltless lives. i don't really like the whole ends-justify-the-means approach that was taking especially since i don't think that type of mindset is ultimately just.
and in light of all this, that he deems himself a worthy vessel for justice is laughable. i don't have much da2 dlc and i haven't finished awakenings (he shows up in that one right?) so i don't know a whole lot about the circumstances but i know anders is a warden so he's obviously got the taint and harbouring a good spirit seems like a bad idea when you've got the taint. justice seems more like vengeance at its worst, which is arguably not a good spiritual trait, so idk justice seems kinda corrupt. plus what was that bit where justice comes out and summons shades?? how the hell is a good spirit gonna call on demons to fight alongside it. ?? sketch as hell
so like... on one hand i want to cut anders some slack since hes clearly not wholly in control of himself, and the good spirit he once acted as a husk for isn't completely "good" anymore imo (plus he makes that sad face and i can't handle the sad face), but on the other hand, he's done a lot of stupid shit and he has a lot of really questionable opinions and it drives me insane. i loved him so much until the whole fenris thing and it all went downhill from there.
but he's a really dynamic character i think. he might have done some shitty things but he's a darn good character, even if not a wholly good person (imo).
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(Anonymous) 2013-10-09 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)(And neither the reasoning behind the merging nor the impetus to stir shit up with the Chantry necessarily come from where you might expect them to.)
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