Quote Originally Posted by Cilia View Post
Serious faces on:

I enjoyed Emet-Selch as a villain, but don't see why so many people treat him with some kind of reverence. I've seen such villains before and already decided on my answer to their question(s), so while he was well-written he was nothing new. You'd think he's some kind of revolutionary or revelatory antagonist... maybe it's just that I've seen villains of his ilk, maybe because I'm schizoid, but he just didn't tug at my heartstrings the way he seems to have for so many other people.

Durante ("Golbez") was a filler villain and performed adequately in that respect. Not every villain is going to be an Emet-Selch and that's not a bad thing; variety is the spice of life (kind of why Athena was such a breath of fresh air after so many villains with loads of pathos). Given the constraints placed on the story he was important to (filler, had to wrap in 6.5 at the latest) I think he was decently handled - had a good reason not to comply with the Message™ of the story and victory came within his grasp. I don't have a problem with his character or how he was portrayed; it's everything else that's an issue with 6.x for me.



I mean, they've been alive for who knows how many thousands of years... while I imagine they'd want to get the ecosphere up and running again, they've earned their rest.
It's kind of funny for me as it's the same feeling for me when it comes to another villian (in a different game) who has done a lot(though maybe not as high of a body count as Emet-Selch) horrible things that a lot of the fanbase goes wild for and keeps on asking for them to show up somehow. That being Handsome Jack. Or as I like to do is use Tassiter's name for him aka John. Is he a great villian and one I love killing? Yes. But he is an annoying piece of trash that any time I'm playing the pre-sequal I'm constantly telling him to stfu. And his reson for why he did ANYTHING was all due to a very bad parenting decision in response to trauma. That he then used to go and do all of those other horrible things. Well that and greed. The only thing that's connected to him and well it's more of a person that I like and give some level of sympathy for and want more of is poor Timothy cause that guy didn't know wtf he was signing up for when he made the deal to become a doppelganger in order to clear out his debt.