Guild Wars 2

I guess some suspension of disbelief is required in anything related to Tybalt (at least he makes it amusing), but this one really got my eyes rolling.

So we’re tasked with escorting this girl to our HQ so she can provide information. Right as we get there, she decides she’s tired of running and wants to make a stand.

And yeah, maybe I get the sentiment. But I don’t get why neither Tybalt nor my character realise that risking losing the information she knows and thus jeopardising our mission – without any actual need for it – just because our charge wants to be a hero is, um, maybe not that good an idea? In the time spent setting up those apple-traps, couldn’t she maybe tell the Order of Whispers what she knows, then come back outside for her little self-esteem exercise? Heck, she’d help a lot more people doing that – maybe that would improve said self-esteem?

Then there’s this gem: “I have to stand up to Landon myself. I have to show my father that he can’t manipulate me.”
Well, apart from that she doesn’t – there are at least four others that I saw helping her – how’s her father going to know she stood up to Landon herself? It’s not like there were any surviving witnesses? Might as well bring out those “hundred agents” anyway and just claim she pulled it off solo. Okay, maybe she has an aversion to the underhanded… in which case, interesting choice of order to join, but I digress.

Anyway. It just got to me, I guess – nothing can be done to “fix” this storyline step, but if the writing in future could be better/more intelligent then that’s a start. I’ve seen enough of this “NO I HAVE TO PROVE MYSELF” nonsense in the likes of Naruto, and it’s not exactly a strength of the genre.

Yes, this bothered me as well. My first reaction was: “Hang on a second, who put YOU in charge?”

I wanted to kick her butt the hell out of there. None of that nonsense, we don’t have time for you to prove yourself. First give us the information, and then later you can go back and get yourself killed. I was frustrated that I did not get the choice to do something else.

Yeah it would be nice if you actually got the chance to say: “You want to prove yourself? Go ahead, now let me get out of the instance!”.

I had the exact same reaction. It’s like someone in the witness protection program deciding they want to reveal themselves to the mafia before testifying against them.

Throughout much of the personal story I really wanted some SW:TOR like options. B. Kill her. C. Leave her to her own Devices… etc.