Guild Wars 2

First up, spoiler warning. Secondly, rant warning.

Third, please, please change the twins part of the sylvari story to give me the option of slapping Arlon. From the moment he’s introduced he seems to be treated as comic relief, a bit brash but his heart’s in the right place, but within in a couple of missions he’s burnt all a frightened Hylek traders goods to get her to talk, then suggested wiping out an entire Hylek tribe to avoid the risk of people getting hurt. Then the end of the storyline suggests that he’s learnt his lesson, and that lesson was not being so impetuous. Admitedly the guys supposed to be young, but the storyline is trying to frame me as a noble hero for a good race, yet I’m sent to work with a thug with a history of violence who casually suggests genocide as a solution to a problem and no one sees this as an issue. But the fact that he’d rush in without planning it properly apparently is.

I know this is an MMO, so mass murder is always the order of the day, but at least try and be subtle about it in cutscenes if you’re trying to pretend I’m on the side of good. There needs to be an option in one of those missions to give him a punch in the teeth. Rant over.

I never saw any hints genocide from him. Maybe it really was subtle, because I completely missed it.

What I did see was a very headstrong young warrior who just wanted to take everything he needed by punching through whatever stood in his way. But he was still caring, to a point.