@sterling: Jeff got to Iron Bull's character quest where he has to make a big choice and based on that and what he and the others thought of Iron Bull, he made it on. Why are you getting angry? Blackwall is still a dullard for the first 30 hours even with the revelation. Putting 80 hours in doesn't change the fact they enjoyed Iron Bull from the beginning. In fact, he's the only character that starts good and has a compelling character quest which makes him more interesting. Most either start bad and get good later (Cassandra, Blackwall), or start good and have a kind of boring character arc(Varric, Vivienne) and some are just kinda bad the whole way (Cole, Solas). You can disagree if you want but that you want to discount their opinion because they didn't get to the dinner scene at hour 70 or whatever is nonsense. Be reasonable. You're saying some "you cant have an opinion on FF13 until you get to Pulse" kind of stuff. Like, that's now how this works. They don't owe you to put the amount of time in that you did and even if they did there's a good chance they still would think Blackwall or Cassandra or whoever you thought blossomed in hour 60 was not at all interesting.
Broken Age is super short, its literally half an adventure game, and you immediately have an opinion on most characters in that game. Borderlands is super long but similarly, you have opinions on characters immediately. And granted, those characters don't arc like DA characters but hey, first impressions matter. I kind of think if your first impression of any character, regardless of what's exposed later, is indifference, you've written your character poorly. And I felt a good amount of indifference to half the cast, and half of that half got interesting later but not more interesting than the people I liked to begin with.
And keep in mind again, nobody was impassioned about this category so it seems superfluous to argue about it. Truth is, based on the segment, no character really moved them that much or they're not actively looking for good characters, that's not what they play games for. The category went by so quickly because very likely no character really hit them that strongly this year. So Jeff went "Iron Bull seems alright, he's got them horns and an eyepatch I'll bring him up" and that was that.
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