So...can someone explain what Hawke's role in the story was?
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Posté 28 mars 2011 - 10:07
dcvdg
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There is no use speculating whether the events in the game would occur or not. Call it fate if you want, but the game is a story/history told to us. There is no option that the Deeps Roads didn't happen and that Hawke wasn't there.
The game isn't about altering fate or the outcome of crucial events. The game tells the story about *how* the events that occurred came to happen. That is the control that the player, and Hawke, have control over. In some cases, it comes down to who lives or dies. Or, it comes down to which side Hawke was on when the revolution started. Etc. The choice the player has is not whether the revolution started, or even whether Hawke is involved in the revolution. Those are immutable facts. There is a choice on whether your sibling dies, becomes a warden, or joins the Circle/templars. There is a choice on whether the Dalish camp is killed or spared, on which dwarf brother in the Deep Roads dies, on whether Varric kills Bartrand or attempts to cure him, etc. On whether Castillon dies or sails away, on who is romanced by Hawke, etc. Fate has already decided that the primary events, such as the revolution, would already happen, and that Hawke would be at the center of these events. There is no avoiding those, because we know by way of Varric and the Seeker, that they have already occurred. The retelling by Varric (and the player's choices) explains *how* they came to happen.
It's a more subtle storytelling, I think. The player is not causing the events to happen by their choices, but is instead shaping and defining them.
The game isn't about altering fate or the outcome of crucial events. The game tells the story about *how* the events that occurred came to happen. That is the control that the player, and Hawke, have control over. In some cases, it comes down to who lives or dies. Or, it comes down to which side Hawke was on when the revolution started. Etc. The choice the player has is not whether the revolution started, or even whether Hawke is involved in the revolution. Those are immutable facts. There is a choice on whether your sibling dies, becomes a warden, or joins the Circle/templars. There is a choice on whether the Dalish camp is killed or spared, on which dwarf brother in the Deep Roads dies, on whether Varric kills Bartrand or attempts to cure him, etc. On whether Castillon dies or sails away, on who is romanced by Hawke, etc. Fate has already decided that the primary events, such as the revolution, would already happen, and that Hawke would be at the center of these events. There is no avoiding those, because we know by way of Varric and the Seeker, that they have already occurred. The retelling by Varric (and the player's choices) explains *how* they came to happen.
It's a more subtle storytelling, I think. The player is not causing the events to happen by their choices, but is instead shaping and defining them.
Modifié par dcvdg, 28 mars 2011 - 10:09 .
