Your Character, the Next Scarlet?
Now I wouldn’t have guessed this until the very last line of dialogue in Entanglement, but in your very last choice you have a dialogue selection that is basically.
Choice 1) We need to go warn the Pale Tree together
Choice 2) I have to go
I thought it was an interesting way to end Entanglement simply because it’s an odd place to make a choice like that. The first choice is what your character would normally say during all the plot points so far, and the second choice is more like you’re turning away from your friends and going to walk your own path, much like Scarlet.
Your character went into the machine like Scarlet, and I think this may be a hint that you will be able to choose whether to keep your character on the sane path, or go down a darker route, like Scarlet.
Might be too much to ask for from an MMO, but it certainly seems at least possible.
Doubt it. Expences on voiceovers, scripting and et.c. are twice as big, if so. Who would take such a risk?
Plus branching living story journal would be a mess, taking in account you can replay every chapter and try different choises. Choise itself between options given to player becomes irrelevant in the end.
I like think of the Player Character as Commander Shepard from the Mass Effect Trilogy. She is somewhat immune to indoctrination and will not be corrupted by Sovereign one of the “Reapers” (Elder Dragons in Guild Wars 2) unlike Saren Arterius (Scarlet Briar in Guild Wars 2) did who revered his master.