I haven’t really gotten into the lore since witch queen, but I just started playing renegades and… the story is like super, super bad. Like really bad. I’m glad that Bael killed his ally at the end of that first mission though, otherwise I wouldn’t have known he was a bad guy. Anyways I’ve been sitting through these horrible horrible phone conversations. It’s just “I feel, I feel, I feel,” like we’re sitting in on a mass murderers therapy session. Who cares? Why is this the focus? What happened to Xivu? I distinctly recall my character being the soldier, the weapon, basically just carrying out mission after mission, and it was great. Why am I listening to two dudes I don’t care about talking about how being possessed by things I don’t care about makes them feel? I don’t care? Just get me Zavala or -blam!- I don’t know shiro 4 on comms and have them tell me where to go to kill the guy. We did this whole thing with crow and it was already boring then, we literally spent like 3 years rehabilitating a dude and listening to him (a grown man) speak with various others (grown men) about their feelings. I. Don’t. Care. Let me fight a god without talking about tea parties or whatever stupid bs Lodi has to say in my ear. I don’t know who is writing this -blam!- but it has fallen off so hard. It’s like I’m back in class at uni with 90% women just talking about how whatever was said by whichever professor or classmate makes them feel. It’s the most inane, bland, pointless drivel to ever be put into a sci-fi/fantasy SHOOTER. I don’t know why the narrative has pivoted in this direction other than it just being a way to pad out audio/quest time without actually adding more gameplay into the mix. Like 25 out of 45 missions in the renegades quest are ‘go here and listen to this’ and it’s just listening to Lodi or drifter or bael or Hell even eris talk about their feelings.