So I just got to Barrowholm and I have to say I am very disappointed.
I know it’s the first time that the devs try out a questline with a clearly evil faction and trying to mask what they are, but did no one think it might be a bad idea to have that first decission in your first dialogue with their elder be FINITE?
I mean seriously!
The player obviously notices that something is very off with that village but might not decide to say “Hey, these guys are kind of strange. I am going to MURDER them all!”.
I did not decide to immediately murder them all and instead agreed to help them out in hopes to gather more information. I hoped that maybe my character would have the option to tell the captured travelers that there was another village (Coven’s Refuge) or that I could destroy the remaining Wendigo Wards instead of repairing the broken ones but nothing of that sort was possible.
So the game is telling me that I either have to murder everyone in Barrowholm solely based on them seeming sketchy to me at first or I have to work with them even though it is obvious that they are cannibals or worshipping a wendigo/demon thingy. As I said, I understand that it’s the first time that the devs are trying out this kind of quest but one of the things that makes Grim Dawn unique is that it’s an ARPG that features sidequests with decissions and consequences and I quite frankly expected more of this quest.
I am terribly disappointed with this quest and unless there are some engine limitations of it not being possible to become hostile with a faction after being friendly with them on the same difficulty, then there is NO excuse for this.
It would not have been hard at all to have had more options here. Sure the questline would have become bigger with more ways how it could turn out, but it would not have been challenging to implement.
TLDR: Terribly disappointed, especially since I am playing a Thor-kinda character that purges evil with righteous lightning as soon as he identifies it as such without a doubt. So I will just have to ignore that he is acting COMPLETLY out of character and pretend that this never happened…
It’s Grim Dawn, where ethics and real world decision making don’t always go as planned and you end up conflicted.
It’s not the only quest in GD like this, this one is just bigger.
There is a story in this game? I use the basis of do they offer good augments or not. For me this is a kill baddies faster better type game, story never interested me. I stopped reading notes so long ago just click for xp and move on.
I’m quite amazed how these only seemingly sketchy people manage to be such obvious cannibals/demon worshippers all at the same time.
I’m sorry but you cannot have it both ways and say they only seem sketchy and yet obvious demon worshippers at the same time. It’s one or the other.
For me, I don’t care much about them. I have my morals and i don’t need their augments. I sure enjoyed murdering them after that guy NPC was threatening me.
I’m pretty sure @Chthon is a bit dissapointed about it tho. 