Gotta say I wouldnt mind a bit more chaotic approach. My favorite character is my ranger. An entity in which (in my mind atleast) shouldn’t give much of a kitten about other people in general. Oh if he sees a little girl about to be killed by a bandit sure hel put an arrow in his face and take her home. But he wont stay for dinner and he certainly wont decline the reward for finding her before going off to collect the bounty on the bandit head he has tied to his belt.
He won’t even hide it when getting the little girl safely home?
On my side, I play my ranger more as a scout, or someone who is more comfortable acting alone or with a smaller group than as a soldier in a strictly regimented arrangement. That’s why he told the Vigil to go jump off a bridge when they tried recruitment
So when I see him say some of the lines he does in the game its kinda… well it kinda feels like. “This is NOT the character I raised from level one”
I got over it when I facepalmed hard several times during Prophecies. “Put an arrow in Markis’ back now . . . now . . . NOW . . . aw darnit, you know he’s going to betray you later.”
See? Exactly what I mean. I play my Mesmer as an insane person who creates clones of herself because she is the only one who will get the job efficiently done. If she finds that little girl, she will kill the bandit for kittens and giggles, she might even help the girl depending on her mood. She isn’t however by any means a nice person.
Now imagine if you will that during one of the missions, you had an objective to do. You would have three options, to send all your forces to rush the main gate, to go on a solo scout mission to get as much information as you can get about the weakness of the keep, or go in as a small strike team, to remove the leaders quickly and quietly. I believe that would be much more fun and give most people the chance to do what they want. After all the roleplaying part of the game should be about roleplaying if nothing else.