Did anyone else get to Orr in their personal story and find themselves surrounded by people they had never heard of? I was going from mission to mission with all these strangers with back stories I had never heard of. Reading this forum I’m filling in a lot of blanks in MY personal story by reading someone else’s personal story.
I would have encounters with humans who would refer to Petra in Orr when I had never met her (I was a charr) and talked about her as if it meant something. There were also NPCs with “big death scenes” I had never met. There were sylvari who got sucked into a mirror or something and were rescued and I was like “OK, that’s weird -is this supposed to be relevant to the mission?” but now I read there was a sylvari story which deals with them. Why is MY personal story not dealing with the characters I worked with in the past? Why am I constantly working with these strangers everyone but me knows?
When it came down to the final fight (before the dungeon) I was surrounded by allies only a couple of which I recognised because I got used to them in Orr. Everyone else I had worked with up until that point I had either forgotten or wasn’t there. When it came to the finale (after the dungeon) I was in Fort Trinity and I had no interest in talking to anyone because I didn’t recognise them. A couple people I spoke to seemed like there was a mission with them (I think they were pirates) but I didn’t recognise them at all. It was like a bunch of NPC in-jokes. I felt like I was at a party full of someone else’s friends and they were all talking about good times they had together before I met them, and this is how most of my personal story went while in Orr.
Does anyone else feel like the Orr section of personal story would have been far more enjoyable if they had removed the choices and put us on the correct path based on our past choices? It feels like the missions were designed to assume you had done certain other missions before them, and if you hadn’t things just didn’t make sense. I’d rather play through a solid serious of missions with the same people who build on the same plot points and don’t introduce plot elements I didn’t take part in because I made different choices – that feeling sucks. I was more confused by my story in Orr than I was feeling like it was about me. Not only did I seem to be building on someone else’s personal story choices, but I assume the ones I did make were continued on in choices I didn’t make.
In the end I didn’t have a cohesive story, I saw a lot of plot holes and I feel like I need to play another character and make different choices to make sense of the ones I made on my first character. Not to see other parts of the story, to make sense of the parts I’ve already seen – there is a difference.
Anyone else not recognise the NPC allies in Orr or constantly confused by continuations of choices you didn’t make?