Gil Brodie - Chief Engineer (Official Thread)

I finally finished my first playthrough, yay!

Gotta say that the whole game is far from bad but it's also far from good. The Gil romance is definitively too short content-wise, if you do not rush through the main-story quests you are basically stuck with a vegetable-kind-of-lethargic pace of the romance since only real new stuff about him happens at beginning and around ending of the story of the game. :/

Now I can peacefully wait (maybe play some DAI or Resident Evil with bara-Chris?) for the next patches and see if they'll improve something about this romance or not...

Yeah. All the romances have this annoying pacing problem right after Ark Parchero. Gil's is just noticeably worse because he has the least content in the first place.

The timeline in game is inconsistent at best. It feels like a few days, except for when you set up Prodromos. No way that place is set up and ready to begin exporting produce to the Nexus in a week. More like a couple of months.

It's less 'generous' and more 'by god there WILL be time between these events and for the sake of my sanity I will accept no other option.'

It's June already, folks! Gather the tools and let's go back to the salt mines! 

Happy pride month loves!

It's quite here...almost like the whole Gil thread moved.

Indeed, it's very suspicious...

Tiberius

The big problem I see with that is that... Gil's story really needs rebuilding from the ground up. It needs to be changed significantly, on a level that isn't just some e-mails and a cutscene alteration here and there, it needs to address a lot of the major issues - Jill's involvement, the lack of content and involvement, the focus coming back to him in the first place... All of that takes money, because they have to write new dialogues and get the actors back into the studio.

And while I certainly believe that they SHOULD eat the cost, that this was something that should never have been allowed to happen in the first place... Ultimately, I have a difficult time seeing them doing that. Like, MAYBE, if it's part of the contract that the actors will come in for DLC or something (since the EC/Leviathan had the actors come back, plus Citadel and Inquisition's DLCs), they could get away with it, but... I don't know if I have the faith and trust that's required to believe that they will do this.

I mean, like you said, they said they were happy with what was there to begin with - I can't bring myself to believe that they understand what is wrong with what is there at this point, because this was SO wrong, and a casual glance should have said as much, let alone a roomful of writers.