motomotogirl wrote...
It's creepy how many people want to viciously kill what amounts to a bunch of pixels. And how they have to repeatedly state that desire to kill in any thread that even tangentially opens the topic for discussion. In the end, I guess it's good that these violent souls take their anger out on pixels instead of real people or animals. Still... creepy.
It just shows how well written and how realistic the characters are. BioWare knows how to get at your emotions. If it's creepy to hate one character enough to want to kill them for being a lying, betraying, mass murderer, then is it also creepy to want to romance a character, to feel emotional attachment towards your pixelated character's pixelated family? Is it creepy to feel sad when the pixelated characters you have come to know over the course of 1 or more games die one by one? Is it creepy to feel a sense of desperate urgency when your pixelated character's pixelated friends are in danger? The characters are realistic enough to be seen as people, and some people in real life are sick monsters that you wish would die in the most horrible way possible. Pedophiles, rapists, mass murderers, etc...and Anders falls into that category.
If we'd had the choice NOT to recruit him, and have him not be in the story at all, (like Fenris and Isabella) then people wouldn't have had such a big problem with him. He is not only repulsive but is FORCED on you, and no matter what you do you can't stop or even hinder him in any way or lessen the deaths he causes. Now people are implying he will be back from the dead again as a posessed corpse and our response is "oh HELL no! I will kill him AGAIN if he shows up and make sure he's dead this time by burning the body D:< "
PS, I cried when Ned Stark died, creepy right? It's pretend.