Cyber Bowling
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- Jan 2, 2017
On the flip side, while the game does allow characters to leave...the approval system is also pretty generously weighted in favor of the player. I barely used Astarion in my first playthrough, but I still managed to get enough approval with him just through camp conversations and the like where we never clashed or had to make any social rolls. I don't think I've ever heard of anyone having other issues, usually the big Astarion decision is whether he survives his first feeding. Phil must have really botched all of Astarion's dialogue/approval chances if they were that tumultuous.phil often treats video games like he does real life. His word is law and if you don't agree go fuck yourself. usually, this works just fine in video games because video games almost never push back on the player, BG3 is different. characters will tell you to fuck off and will leave your group if you piss them off. someone posted phils chat earlier where he said "I wasn't making the choice for him to leave my party, I was making the choice for him to not be an evil overlord."
phil honest to god didn't think the game would allow Astarion to make any choices of his own. he didn't think Astarion could leave without his permission, the fact Astarion did, and had actual negative consequences for him, took him completely by surprise and fucked his shit up. it was an area where he's used to having 100% power and control and the game went "nah, you did x, now character is responding with y, live with it." and a moronic narc like Phil didn't see it coming.