Guild Wars 2

I love this game. I love it dearly. I find it fun and engaging. I know I make a lot of petty complaints about the game (lots of them are not too serious haha).

But this…this cannot stand. Holy heck, who on Earth designed the default human NPCs?

The default “villager”, “citizen” etc. NPCs are what I’m talking about. Why do so many of the girls walk around in pigtails? Granted, quite a few of them don’t, but of all the available hairstyles to make a staple of the human NPCs, why the pigtails? The men tend to look a lot more generic and therefore believable for me. And the orange-clad, dark-skinned NPC with the not pigtails works! But…that one. Why?

Also, there is one human male voice actor that whenever I hear I get irrationally upset. He just sounds so sarcastic and hilariously out of it that once I get a whiff of his voice I am upset. I am in tears. I have flooded my city with rivers of frustration. And he is EVERYWHERE!

(Also, in my opinion, Petra’s design is really boring compared to Lord Faren and Quinn. I guess that might have been intentional, but the dang pigtails strike again! I do not have a problem with player characters having them and I don’t have a problem with some npcs having them but when Petra has them…and seemingly half of all the females in the world, I feel a sadness in my heart. I cannot remove my suspension of disbelief for these people. Why do you wear pigtails. There is no reason for this nonsense. You are an adult and they are not even adult pigtails, they are pigtails you see on five year olds.)

Ahem. Other than that I don’t have too much of a problem with the NPCs. They are hilarious and, sometimes, sad. I suppose this is just a pigtail rant, but interpret it as you wish.