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The following rant contains spoilers on a level 10-18 asura questline. If you care about that sort of thing, then you shouldn’t read it. I guess.
Title sums it up, really. This is, so far, the worst questline I have encountered in the game (and I’ve really liked most of them). Say whatever you want about Trahearne – he hijacks your personal story. This one hijacks your character.
In development, they talked about how hard they were trying to make the player feel that they were their character – and for the most part, they succeeded. Which only makes it worse when this story chain rips you immediately out of that feeling by forcing your character to do something you would never, in a million years do. The NPC driving all these events is an imbecile. He is so obviously a power-hungry, inquesty, incompetent jerk that I lost count of the times I would prefer to say ‘yeah… no’ and walk away. I realize that my character can’t have that option because then there would be no story, but the answer to that it to never put me in a position where I would want to do that. Because being forced to do stupid stuff is just frustrating.
Then there’s also that Zojja acts needlessly unpleasantly in this one. She pretty much yells at the player for doing the same stupid stuff she was doing, and after the PC cleans up his own mess and apologizes… she goes right back to yelling self-righteously, and we’re just supposed to accept that she is right and we are wrong, period. Which is frustrating, considering that I was forced into making all these bad decisions and honestly, when future, evil me says she’s been forcing me into her shadow… I feel like he has a point.
I like the story in this game. But this is atrocious.
It should have been, in hindsight. Would have been funnier.
Hey, you. That’s right, you.
I want you to make a new character. A Male Asura. Choose the college of Synergetics and Infinity ball. Play through most of the personal story missions. Then come back here and tell me that Zojja and your character don’t have the hots for each other.
Go ahead. I’ll wait.
No, but seriously, am I the only one getting that vibe?
Post any areas where you find you’re reading too deeply into things.