the main thing wrong with dawntrail all comes back to the writing, the plotpoints and the premise was fine. the execution was really bad, the characters were really bad. the plotholes were really bad, scions not acting like themselves. the big bads had terrible idiotic motivations and ideas that made no fucking sense. zoraal ja is cool but wtf was his problem. his ideas were all vague and dumb and never properly addressed. sphene was just insulting, the constant overexplaining, handholding and repetitive boring writing and absolutely no feeling, no emotion. the npcs we meet seem lifeless. theyre only there to progress the main story. they dont feel like real people that live there.

which is what this game was so good at. the whole reason I love the story and im sure many of you can attest. is because they felt real, theyre deep and flawed and unique, they talk and act and behave and interact with eachother in such ways that we started caring about them. ive never cared so much for game npc characters in any game too date and ive been gaming since i was 8.

is there anyone here that has a new favorite character in dawntrail? one that tops any of the other characters? one that really stood out. one that if you watch a scene of them years later you still get tears in your eye?

ive been playing old tribe and crafting/gathering quest storylines from shb and endwalker. and theyre more interesting and better written than anything from the dawntrail msq