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I’m actually really upset with this, I was looking towards the armour more than the weapons. Misleading wording like this doesn not make me positively inclined towards this change. I would suggest alternating a weapon and an armour piece. Basically my enthusiasm for pvp went way down, since I was only doing it for the armour. Will still, but I am most displeased. In the words of a certain queen: we are not amused.
I was about to make a similar thread, so I might just as well put my rant here. My problem with Scarlet is pretty simple, really. She’s the Joker’s clone (Batman’s Joker for those uninitiated). Now, Joker, and to some extension most Batman villains work because they represent or challenge an aspect of Batman: Catwoman challenges his principles, Scarecrow represents his use of fear driven to extreme, Killer Croc is brute strength to Bat’s cunning, and Joker… Well, Joker takes everything Batman stands for and turns it into a sick joke. He’s the perfect foil. With Scarlet, there is no one to compare and contrast her to. No one to give context to her craziness, because the cast of the living story is too large. You have Rox&Braham, you have Marjory&Kasmeer, you have Elen… yet no one willing to take center stage and be the driven hero to Scarlet’s nutty villain. The obvious character to fill that role from a narrative point of view would be Traehaerne, but we’ve all had more than enough of Treesus for the time being. But, there is an even more fitting choice: you.
Yes, you. And you. And you and you and you. Oh, and me as well I guess. Basically, the player character. This was a golden opportunity for the LS team to finally give the PC center stage, instead of having them run around in other people’s footsteps. And yes, I know, voice acting costs. But you know what? I don’t need VA. I played BG, I can survive without voice. I just need some dialogue choices where I can tell Scarlet off and tell her “I will stop you, nutjob”. I need for her to acknowledge me as a threat in some of her cutscenes, instead of being all “mwahahaha now let me boast of my triumphs and walk through this here portal while you stand motionless because the cutscene tells you so”. The elements for this relationship are already there, think about it: you were building alliances of good, she is building alliances of evil. It’s a simple, crude connection, but it can be used to build something deeper, something that makes the player feel involved. But nooooo. Why would we do that.
My other problem is something that Mint touched on already: the fact that we never face her directly. The writers commit a cardinal sin: they have her appear, spout some smug lines and then disappear without giving the heroes a chance to react. During all her appearances after the jubilee her presence wasn’t required for the success of her plans. She did absolutely nothing useful. She was there simply to be bloody annoying. And the writers shouldn’t be surprised if that gets on the people’s nerves. To go back to my Joker comparison, he always has a reason to be there when Batman is in jeopardy. He has a personal vendetta, which is well grounded in his backstory and his behaviour. And he doesn’t gloat about past triumphs, he focuses the next step of the game he has prepared there and then. When he has Bats hanging upside down over a tank of piranhas, he doesn’t take the time to reminiscence about the time he almost blew up Gotham three months ago, and oh, remember how he caused half the district to die of laughter? Good times. And he only does that where he beleves Bats is secured. Now let’s take Scarlet: she appears at the top of the Tower and stands there for five minutes blathering about her greatness, while the good guys stand there slack jawed, and then she walks leisurely through a portal. WHY IN THE WORLD DOES THAT SCENE EXIST. It can only be a clumsy attempt to remind people of the stuff that happened and reassure them of Scarlet’s awesomeness. Well, LS writing team, it backfired. For me it just symbolises all the things wrong with the character. You want us to take Scarlet seriously? Let us face her. Make her crush us into paste, but for God’s sake, let us land a few hits first! For a credible villain-hero showdown arc, you need both sides to be a threat to one another. So far, I’m not seeing it.
Whew. That’s long. And that’s not all, but I can’t think of all the other things now. Will add stuff later, maybe.
I would definitely buy sittable chairs. All of my yes. And really, it can’t be harder than all those dancing animations…