Guild Wars 2

A-net some of us really want to see this! Hehe, you aweful teasers.

We are waiting, but hoping, and I think alot of us are anticipating you’ll make something great, so take your time and make it fantastic but please, when you finally do, bring us this personal nemesis, make sure that ‘she’ (evidently teased) is going to be something we remember.

Please though, dont make this too slap stick, villians can be fun but making one thats too cliche will literally bore people, make it something that develops parallel to your own development, something that continues to evolve, possibly from being funny, to being an extremely serious threat.

(Kefka being a good example from FF6 was an example you should really take into account).

He starts off being literally the comic relief of the story, then turns into argueably the biggest bad in JRPG history and in an awesome, creepy way.

Throughout the plot he goes from complaining about the sand on his shoes, to poisoning an entire cities water supply (consequentially killing everyone) to eventually becomming a dark god.

People like transformation in their villians, people like to have a goliath to rise to their david. A bad guy needs to feel either strong… or powerful, and I dont just mean physically, I mean emotionally, mentally, cunningly.

The big bad really has to hurt you personally to make you want to go to any length to beat their face in with the nearest quaggan plushie.

So…, as a lesson to learn, make this nemesis one to remember.

Were all looking forwards to it, with eager eyes, ears for the VA too.

Make sure its a really good VA, we need someone that isnt just hired to say lines but someone that really enjoys the role of being “EVIL” and having fun with it, aswell as building into something deeper with it.

Im pretty sure im not the only one that feels that having played my fair share of games these days, the bad guy generally tends to be shallow and boring.

People like a deep nemesis.

Sounds nice, but don’t get your hopes up

Until now, Arenanet has used the flattest form of flat villains: dragons that just destroy everything without a reason. Heck, you don’t even deal with minions that turn against Zhaitan, because all Risen are just as mindless as the big bad.

Deep storylines are one of the points in which GW1 outclasses GW2 by far. I never really cared about anything, not even when my beloved companion (sarcasm) Apatia died.

Just an add to OP: Kefka was ok in my oppinion…. but Sepiroth in FFVII… my god I hated that guy by the end. And there was a VERY satisfying battle with him at the end.

And yes. Give us bad guys. Good bad guys, if you know what I mean.

And yeah, JRPGs tend to build up bad guys well (mostly).

They rebuild Tybalt into robo-Tybalt and he is your sworn enemy.

Soulstar.7812:

They rebuild Tybalt into robo-Tybalt and he is your sworn enemy.

Don’t… don’t say this.

Valento.9852:

Soulstar.7812:

They rebuild Tybalt into robo-Tybalt and he is your sworn enemy.

Don’t… don’t say this.

Look into your heart, you know it to be true.

I’d prefer an antagonist, rather than a villain, for the Personal Nemesis. Fantasy villains usually fall into the pitfall of insanity, and they are usually evil for the sake of being evil. Which isn’t much character depth on their part. Antagonists are a little more freed up motive wise. While they might be opposing the protagonist, their acts and/or motives aren’t necessarily evil.

Plus, Team Kefka! Because Sephiroth is overrated…

Valento.9852:

Soulstar.7812:

They rebuild Tybalt into robo-Tybalt and he is your sworn enemy.

Don’t… don’t say this.

Don’t go thinking an Apple-a-Day will keep Robo-Tybalt away. The effect is the opposite.

If you interrogate a prisoner dredge he mentions a silver-tongued snake-nosed guy that convinced dradge and flame legion to join. My money is on an evil genious asura =)

so another of zojja’s colleagues maybe

I hope the personal nemesis is somebody who has a kitten good reason for doing what they’re doing. Like I don’t know, something when they were growing up ended up making them despise the world, and they decide to destroy it. Then they meet somebody who changes their opinion on it, and as they’re slowly falling out of that phase, while we’re after them, we accidentally kill that person, causing the nemesis to go off the deep end.