OLDIRTYBARON wrote...
Former_Fiend wrote...
Lord Raijin wrote...
Why all the hate for Alistair? For a character he wasn't all that bad. His voice? What do you expect him to sound like? Hating someone over the sound of their voice is silly.
Loghain was a legitimate traitor who committed high treason against his King. He deserves death, and that's what I gave him, especially slight in the fact that he tried to have me and Alistair killed a few times.
Alistair is, if unhardened, weak willed, whiny, judgmental, and insensitive. He places the weight of saving the world on the player characters shoulders and gets b*tchy if they complain about it, regardless of whatever trauma they may have suffered just prior to potentially being forced to join the wardens.He has an unrealistic idealism about the wardens that ultimately shows that he doesn't understand their purpose. He complains constantly about being pushed as king and tries to seize it the moment it looks like he isn't going to get his personal vengeance and refuses to put his feelings aside for the greater good.
He sounds exactly like his father before he became king.
I always wondered if maybe that was a subtle theme in Origins. That Alistair was a stand-in for King Maric and that you were playing the role of Loghain. It certainly made sense with how I roleplayed my Warden (deeply pragmatic but idealistic as well).
I always had that interpretation, at least when playing the human noble. Didn't hurt that my Cousland warden bore some physical resemblance to Loghain, quite coincidentally.
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