Quote Originally Posted by Denishia View Post
Ah yes, the tiny circle of people who also found Hythlodeaus a manufactured bland pretty boy friend and thus was repelled by him. That it’s more acceptable and wide-spread to admit bouncing off of how strongly the game pushes you onto Haurchefant and the Scions when Hythlodeaus is a shallower rushed version.
Actually I find people get, like... legitimately mad when I state my opinion on Haurchefant is that he's so forgettable that I did forget about him. He's just one of a deluge of completely generic friendly people we meet across 2.0 that I couldn't allocate enough brainspace to actually remember, let alone like. I'm not sure I'd call it 'bounced off' so much as 'missed entirely', it wasn't even rejecting his appeal so much as never even registering it. So he was on a major deficit for me when he actually became important, and I never reached the point of actually caring who this guy was.

I dislike Hyth more, though. Because Haurchefant starting as 'Generic Friendly Man' meant that I never had any expectations for him to be anything more; the bar was low, and he never fell below it. Hyth had the potential to be interesting and then just refused to be (especially if the developers think he's actually reckless, which... did not come though).

In fact I'm actually sort of curious: what sort of person did all of you picture Hyth as like in Shadowbringers? Because I know I didn't default to 'hot guy'; I actually pictured him as much older, and friendly but weirdly distant and inhuman. Like a really weird grandpa from another planet, basically Montichaigne from Sharlayan mixed with the Ea.