Because they like the other stuff. It’s not exactly a TellTale game we’re talking about.

This isn’t the first RPG AC to have that feature, I’m pretty sure, just the first to label it “canon.” And it’s true there are people out there who are extremely strongly opposed to narrative freedom and obsessed with knowing objective canon, considering it infantilizing to allow players the freedom to influence characterization in dialogue. I cannot fathom what leads anyone to that mindset but I’ve met a few.

They may be a tiny minority but this seems like a harmless and low-effort way to accommodate that handful of weirdos.

(Hilarious that this is happening in a game where the series villains are the people trying to eliminate free will, though.)

Plus two Fallouts and an MMO.

That may be silly to think about but it worked.

It’s got a beautiful flow when you say it out loud, though.

Anything with a subtitle that isn’t a sequel or licensed game.

• Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
• Blood Omen: The Legacy of Kain
• Condemned: Criminal Origins
• Immortals: Fenyx Rising

That sort of thing.

The last shot of the trailer shows properly animated dialogue, meaning they removed those awful portrait conversations from Director’s Cut.

Are we thinking this is fully just a remaster of the original version or are we getting the best of both worlds?

From what I saw in 4 and what I hear of 76, it’s hard to imagine Todd Howard is averse to missing the point.