01-20-2018, 05:38 AM
Well, first of all thank you guys so much for your responses! I really appreciate every bit of input, more than you may think :yay:
It's also interesting to read about why you guys made your characters, I quite enjoy the insight it's giving me as to the hows and whys of people who are playing here. Very nice!
Responding to what everyone's posted!
@Revan: Unfortunately I am wildly unfamiliar with Digimon. I've scraped the surface a few times but I wouldn't feel comfortable playing as a character from the series. Although, Labramon might be something Guu would enjoy :hee: can see her playing one. And that SCP-049 thing seems... interesting :frog: I'll have to delve a bit further into the topic. Thank you for the suggestions!
@Leonardo: Hmm, to be honest I didn't consider my characters from a "supporter" stance yet. But both Hobbes and the Black Spirit would fit well into that archetype, Hobbes as more of an emotional support and comfort, and the Black Spirit on a much more pragmatic side.
@Jaixe: Great thoughts! I figured that both Hobbes' and the Spirit's reliance on other Primes or Secondaries is a weakness, but seeing how there's constant new arrivals at the Nexus or respawns after someone dies, I would always have potential friends to go with. Assists are unfortunately not an option as I'd have to be level 6 before I can use a T1 for an entire fight. Secondaries may work, but yes. I'll have to think over if I am okay with a near 100% reliance on other players for those guys.
Do you find the Drone to be very gimmick-y? I realize where it's coming from (same with the Dragon, really - they're instinct-based animals at best) but I didn't see it as big of an issue. Definitely a good point. I might do a little test writing for this one to see how it works out. For the Dragon... it's true that it's very much a "evil because that's that" character. Especially with how Grimm have been portrayed in RWBY as far as I got, they're pretty much mindless antagonists with no goals. Might decide to discard the Grimm Dragon.
As for the WoW dragons, I already decided to not go that route, mainly because I haven't delved into WoW nearly enough to remotely know the characters. If I did, Ysera would be my primary pick because of her affiliation to the Druids and the whole 'Emerald Dream' idea (as well as her looks being awesome) but she is extremely passive and doesn't really have goals outside of keeping the dream alive (pun intended).
@Gaston: Yeah, the Black Spirit has next to no story, even the hints dropped throughout the game are vague at best. BDO isn't nearly as story-focused as most games out there, especially western ones. Your point pretty much supports Jaixe's though, because it made me notice that the dragon doesn't have much going on besides shapeshifting, which I want to be Malon's schtick. I would be better off going the other way around, with Malon acquiring Grimm forms. Alexyana I abandoned because I feel like I ran into a dead end and was unfamiliar with the Omniverse at the time, and I believe now that I could play her better if I retry now. Maybe.
On that note, I pretty much thought the same as you did with Gaston: that you made him for the memes, but then stayed with him because he works. I've skimmed through some of your writing and I'm quite surprised (in a good way) to see how fun he seems to be. Good for you!
@Pyrrha: Pretty much supporting Jaixe for the Grimm dragon too :frog: It's a "for the evulz" character, and rampaging around is going to get a dozen bounties on my head before I know it. Doesn't mean that I don't appreciate the input though, but I think you're not going to be able to hunt down the Grimm dragon with Pyrrha anytime soon
@Takanomiya: You don't know about Calvin and Hobbes? :woah: I promise you, it's an awesome comic series. Unfortunately it was discontinued but there's some 20 years of short strips which are more than worth reading.
You're also raising a good point with how dragons should be big and scary... hmm, maybe if I made the Grimm Dragon I should start off as a hatchling :frogpipe:
A random thought would be to copy Saiss's old forum-play idea (it's in the Arcade somewhere, I believe!) where the players took control of the Zerg Hive-Mind and posted what actions the characters should take. It would be a curious concept (though I can see several huge problems with it) to have a thread going parallel to the Zerg Drone's adventures, where other people can post commands from the Hive-Mind. Or maybe the Drone has a chip in its tiny brain from experimentation at the hands of the Terran Dominion (pre-Omniverse) or the Empire (post-arrival) which capts random radiowave signals from the Dataverse and translates them into orders?
I might have to do a little test-writing for Hobbes, the Drone, the Spirit and the Grimm Dragon. You guys's input is helping me a lot with clearing the pros and cons for each of them though, and again - I super appreciate every bit of it!
It's also interesting to read about why you guys made your characters, I quite enjoy the insight it's giving me as to the hows and whys of people who are playing here. Very nice!
Responding to what everyone's posted!
@Revan: Unfortunately I am wildly unfamiliar with Digimon. I've scraped the surface a few times but I wouldn't feel comfortable playing as a character from the series. Although, Labramon might be something Guu would enjoy :hee: can see her playing one. And that SCP-049 thing seems... interesting :frog: I'll have to delve a bit further into the topic. Thank you for the suggestions!
@Leonardo: Hmm, to be honest I didn't consider my characters from a "supporter" stance yet. But both Hobbes and the Black Spirit would fit well into that archetype, Hobbes as more of an emotional support and comfort, and the Black Spirit on a much more pragmatic side.
@Jaixe: Great thoughts! I figured that both Hobbes' and the Spirit's reliance on other Primes or Secondaries is a weakness, but seeing how there's constant new arrivals at the Nexus or respawns after someone dies, I would always have potential friends to go with. Assists are unfortunately not an option as I'd have to be level 6 before I can use a T1 for an entire fight. Secondaries may work, but yes. I'll have to think over if I am okay with a near 100% reliance on other players for those guys.
Do you find the Drone to be very gimmick-y? I realize where it's coming from (same with the Dragon, really - they're instinct-based animals at best) but I didn't see it as big of an issue. Definitely a good point. I might do a little test writing for this one to see how it works out. For the Dragon... it's true that it's very much a "evil because that's that" character. Especially with how Grimm have been portrayed in RWBY as far as I got, they're pretty much mindless antagonists with no goals. Might decide to discard the Grimm Dragon.
As for the WoW dragons, I already decided to not go that route, mainly because I haven't delved into WoW nearly enough to remotely know the characters. If I did, Ysera would be my primary pick because of her affiliation to the Druids and the whole 'Emerald Dream' idea (as well as her looks being awesome) but she is extremely passive and doesn't really have goals outside of keeping the dream alive (pun intended).
@Gaston: Yeah, the Black Spirit has next to no story, even the hints dropped throughout the game are vague at best. BDO isn't nearly as story-focused as most games out there, especially western ones. Your point pretty much supports Jaixe's though, because it made me notice that the dragon doesn't have much going on besides shapeshifting, which I want to be Malon's schtick. I would be better off going the other way around, with Malon acquiring Grimm forms. Alexyana I abandoned because I feel like I ran into a dead end and was unfamiliar with the Omniverse at the time, and I believe now that I could play her better if I retry now. Maybe.
On that note, I pretty much thought the same as you did with Gaston: that you made him for the memes, but then stayed with him because he works. I've skimmed through some of your writing and I'm quite surprised (in a good way) to see how fun he seems to be. Good for you!
@Pyrrha: Pretty much supporting Jaixe for the Grimm dragon too :frog: It's a "for the evulz" character, and rampaging around is going to get a dozen bounties on my head before I know it. Doesn't mean that I don't appreciate the input though, but I think you're not going to be able to hunt down the Grimm dragon with Pyrrha anytime soon
@Takanomiya: You don't know about Calvin and Hobbes? :woah: I promise you, it's an awesome comic series. Unfortunately it was discontinued but there's some 20 years of short strips which are more than worth reading.
You're also raising a good point with how dragons should be big and scary... hmm, maybe if I made the Grimm Dragon I should start off as a hatchling :frogpipe:
A random thought would be to copy Saiss's old forum-play idea (it's in the Arcade somewhere, I believe!) where the players took control of the Zerg Hive-Mind and posted what actions the characters should take. It would be a curious concept (though I can see several huge problems with it) to have a thread going parallel to the Zerg Drone's adventures, where other people can post commands from the Hive-Mind. Or maybe the Drone has a chip in its tiny brain from experimentation at the hands of the Terran Dominion (pre-Omniverse) or the Empire (post-arrival) which capts random radiowave signals from the Dataverse and translates them into orders?
I might have to do a little test-writing for Hobbes, the Drone, the Spirit and the Grimm Dragon. You guys's input is helping me a lot with clearing the pros and cons for each of them though, and again - I super appreciate every bit of it!
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