I already have 101 games that I played that can be used for that purpose (some of them are even indie). I don't think adding one more gonna make a difference.Quote:
Originally Posted by ViaDesperare
Also for me, there is no such thing as a "well done gacha". I don't even gamble in real life, and masking it behind a game does not make it any difference.
-
08-12-2024, 08:34 AMRaven2014
-
08-12-2024, 08:46 AMJojoyaWhich is likely because he was already the bad guy before she even came to Old Sharlayan to recruit us. When we had that sit down feast of roast parrot, both she and Erenville said that there was one claimant above all others that could not be allowed to take the throne. Once we made it to Tuliyollal and the claimants were all introduced, Erenville tells us that Zoraal Ja is the one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason_Ashford
She was not going to try to reach out to him during MSQ because by that point she knew it wouldn't work.
But I agree in general that Zoraal Ja didn't get the "screentime" needed to develop his character. We never got a good explanation of why he decided he needed to be the warmonger and would be conqueror. All we get is "people have to live through war to appreciate peace" then "let's just kill everything and screw peace". -
08-12-2024, 11:14 AMZXNQuote:
Originally Posted by Jason_Ashford
During Zoraal Ja's trial when he summons the visions, the text that pops up from the visions that appear all say either "The First Promise was born to sit on the throne!", "He will be a great Dawnservant!", or "None can compare to the Resilient Son!" This shows that for practically his entire life he had to shoulder a ton of expectations that pretty much the ENTIRETY of Tuliyollal had forced onto him simply because he was Gulool Ja Ja's kid, the "miracle" part adding even more pressure due to the assumption that Two-Headed Mamool Ja couldn't have children, so he HAD to live up to expectation no matter what.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jojoya
Combine this with Krile's Echo sensing his feelings towards Wuk and Koana in the scene after the Xibruq Pibil feat, where it might be safe to say Zoraal Ja absolutely DESPISED Koana and Wuk, along with all the other small context clues, and you had everything to somewhat build up a very good antagonist, even if it was just for 80% of the MSQ and then was over after the trial, and giving players a lot of "Food for thought" about Zoraal Ja as a whole.
Instead the writers decided to use Zoraal Ja's time in the entire MSQ to build him up as some generic and boring one-dimensional cartoon villain who did the big bad villain things and now Wuk Lamat must defeat them in the name of peace. -
08-12-2024, 02:31 PMManamaru
Also that brief bit in solution nine with the people that are afflicted with a sickness due to lightning; didn't we have the end of SHB and a first portion of EW dedicated to Alisaie discovering a way to undo the effects of those that have had a little too much elemental juice? It just seemed really out of place or out of character not to have any of the twins go "Hey, that sounds like tempering. We can fix that!" And was conveniently glossed over for plot
-
08-12-2024, 08:12 PMRemiferiaThis is one of the more baffling parts of the game because finding a cure to elemental sickness has been Alisaie's character arc for over ten YEARS now with Ga Bu's parents dying to summon the original Titan in ARR.Quote:
Originally Posted by Manamaru
To be generous, it doesn't paint a good picture that the writers know anything about the characters they've inherited and it's likely why the Scions take such a backseat and Krile is missing her usual sass and quick wit.
This lack of understanding culminates at the end where we send two civilians and a rookie fighter to the Living Memory expedition team and leave behind five universe-saving scholars whose observations would have been infinitely more interesting than three sets of 'watch this person's mother die lol'.
We're in quite dangerous territory now where we have a lead writer that seemingly doesn't know or doesn't care enough to know how to write the characters he's been given, but also butchered all his new OCs across a single MSQ. The Scions were reduced to existing for Trust mechanics, we get fleeting conversations with Raha and Alisaie where their voice sounds frighteningly close to a person capable of individual thought and personality before Wuk Lamat presses the factory reset button on them and they become Yes Men. It's awful. -
08-12-2024, 10:30 PMLady_SilvermoonYeah, I was sure we brought it up because we just discovered a cure for it and were gonna tell them and help foster peace between our two peoples given they lectured me for forty straight hours about peace. But hey, we need our second and third trials, so forget about peace, I guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by Manamaru
-
08-13-2024, 02:33 AMZXNI wouldn't be surprised if during the post-patch MSQ Alisaie DOES solve this problem...by assisting Wuk Lamat with solving the problem. Until Wuk Lamat brings up the problem and comes up with an answer to that problem, nobody else can or will do anything about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Manamaru
-
08-13-2024, 02:37 AMHallaremI don't think the new writers have played or read the old story up until now, except some bulletpoints. I'd bet money on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Manamaru
-
08-13-2024, 02:58 AMTurtledeluxeI agree. It feels like they read Wikipedia summaries the night before.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hallarem
-
08-13-2024, 06:43 AMHighlanderCloneI am frankly sick and tired of half the MSQ being bloated with "let's make centuries-old problems disappear with a flick of the wrist" """""""plot"""""""Quote:
Originally Posted by ZXN
It also just goes to show that this game's story is catered to people with extremely fragile mental conditions. They cannot handle that children can be paralyzed like in the real world.
The story writers are taking the word "fantasy" far too literally. The renowned works of the fantasy genre have always portrayed a world full of grey, unfulfilled dreams, and inequality.
To CBU3 fantasy apparently means children's storybook utopia.