Lets talk about villains

[Amaeth]

First, 2 of my favourites:

Personally I feel Gaius was an excellent villian, mostly becuase of the speech he gives in Praetorium. Making us question what we do and if our goals/beliefs really are right - I actually found myself agreeing with most of what he said, just not his method of dealing with it.

The Griffin was excellent - built up over a huge period of time, we got a real history of him and see how he changes to what he is. Plus he is used well to highlight dilemmas and flaws in other characters and fill in a bit of the social effects of pre-game and of what we do.

Then a couple of unsures:


Nidhogg...i'm not sure about. I think partially because they just wouldnt let him die (a recurring theme in this game it seems) and...I don't know. I understand his motivations they just seemed in some ways a touch...bland? plain? It's like all he was all rage, he has no other personality or character. At he same time though, he felt threatening; powerful. Also the fact he was kinda in the right was a nice way to make him more understandable.

Zenos - What to say. There was clear potential there, but he just ended up falling flat.
The little extra at the end of 4.1 and 4.2's MSQ really just ruined him totally for me. After all the cutscenes and everything at the end of SB base they then do that. But I could rant about that for forever.
Plus side, he was a good mirror of what we could be, what we could become. Plus his motivation is actually kinda cool. He's been made into this super being, so powerful he feels no fear, he can't understand or really empathise with anyone as he's just on a different scale is actually kinda interesting - except they did very little with it bar make him look like a spoiled brat.


Finally, the Warriors of Darkness - much potential, unfortunately they were a 1 patch here'n'gone which I felt was a massive shame. Still, they showed some important new sides to the whole Hydalyn and Ascian business.

Overall, i'm hoping the whole little bits from the end of 4.1 and 4.2 fizzle and instead they focus more on the new character they introduced in 4.2 - he, and his...organisation has the potential top be quite interesting depending how they play it.