Thread: Our passive characters and why the 2.55 story fails (BIG SPOILERS) (rant warning)

Originally Posted by Drakkaelus

As opposed to making your character overly passive?

There's no decision making/dialogue choices in the game, no opportunities to put any of your personality onto your character. Your Warrior of Light acts exactly like my Warrior of Light who acts exactly like everyone else's Warrior of Light. If SE really wants your character to feel like you then they need to (at least occasionally) take the SWTOR approach and let you actually react to what's happening. As it is, you can't even imagine what your character is saying because other characters always react as if you said something specific anyway.

And whatever dialogue choices we DO get only results in a slightly different response from the NPC while the story proceeds as normal. Even towards the end of 2.0 where you encounter Gauis on the elevator, he has the same response no matter what reply you give him. It's a waste of time, really.

Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

And whatever dialogue choices we DO get only results in a slightly different response from the NPC while the story proceeds as normal. Even towards the end of 2.0 where you encounter Gauis on the elevator, he has the same response no matter what reply you give him. It's a waste of time, really.

It's a MMO, I'm not expecting drastically different outcomes with every choice you make. But I don't agree that merely making your character silent and passive makes them "you". IF SE is really trying to make the WoL feel like an extension of the player then it'd be nice to have at least a few chances to react to things. Otherwise just give them a voice and a personality and call it a day.