Our passive characters and why the 2.55 story fails (BIG SPOILERS) (rant warning)

[Hyrist]

They don't like being defeated with a cutscene. in addition the whole thing vanishes in a puff of smoke after.

Semantics, and unnecessary ones at all.

If you want to say "I want a fight scene/battle I can't win." It's going to still be the exact same issue. "Why can't I beat these Brass Blades I was able to handle so easily during my level 15 Uldahn quest!?"

Don't interject without context, thank you. It's that simple, or you'll look a fool.

Context is there, plain to see. You're taking agency for a character you don't own, arguing that someone else's speculation is less valid than yours, when in fact you both stand on equal ground argumentatively.

If you don't like having interjections on a conversation, you should attempt to contact the individual privately. Else-wise, this is a public debate.

[Kallera]

Semantics, and unnecessary ones at all.

If you want to say "I want a fight scene/battle I can't win." It's going to still be the exact same issue. "Why can't I beat these Brass Blades I was able to handle so easily during my level 15 Uldahn quest!?"

Never had any sort of discussion like that with the higher levels guards before.

Dragon Age: Origins's fight against Ser Cauthrien handled arresting the player better. It gave agency and consequence, and hard enough to make escape/submission look the wiser choice. Now I'm not saying make taledji an elite boss, but they both got a wall of guards ,isn't involving the player's interaction in the plot what makes a video game a video game?

Instead of saying "the WoL did this, then the WoL did that, then the WoL left Minfillia behind" Shouldn't I, with my created character, be saying " I did this, I did that before running, and I said this to minfillia but she went anyway."?

[Zeno-Ira]

Nothing beats the epic 1.0 ending.
ARR is 'just' a prologue to Heavensward.
And i missed my name in the credits roll.

[Felis]

Nothing beats the epic 1.0 ending.
ARR is 'just' a prologue to Heavensward.
And i missed my name in the credits roll.

That ending, that ended with the question what happened to our companion and why the garleans brainwash kids?

The ending of the 1.0 mainstory was still very open at the end.