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Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
@Kyler: That's what Warcraft did with the current expansion. The Big Bad of the expac before this one was literally trying to destroy the world after the Big Bad before him was trying to convert everyone in the world into the undead, so Blizzard decided to hit the threat level reset button by making the current Big Bad just a megalomaniac warlord trying to conquer the world (with the bonus of said warlord being the current leader of one of the player factions). It was a very smart move, considering that the only way they could have really upped the threat level from Deathwing would be by making the next Big Bad out to destroy the entire universe (granted, Warcraft does have a villain like that).
Everybody bitched about the expac having no feeling of threat. :P
edited 15th May '14 4:29:09 PM by Wryte
That's one reason Chrysalis worked so well. She isn't really a step up from Nightmare Moon or Discord power wise, but she still manages to be an interesting threat.
Tirek was fun, but I'll be disappointed if all the major villains from now on are of the "and now I will throw even more large magical beams at you!" That sort of crap gets tiring fast. One big mountain shattering beam is pretty much the same as every other big mountain shattering beam, I'd rather see subdued but creative magic use ala Trixe vs Twi in Magic Duel than endless iterations of the same damn spell.
Because it didn't. Since Garrosh was just some whiny daddy's boy idiot. And if you were Alliance, fuck you, you don't get any story or development about the main villain, just him showing up once or twice and you dealing with his schemes.
Not to mention just more dealing with the bullshit, forced and idiotic 'faction conflict' that yet again, had no point. All the players on both factions are technically teaming up to take down the same massive villain. Since at that point he was no longer the Horde leader, but just the leader of those fanatics that followed him among the orcs, and no one else. There was no actual feeling of a threat to him for the alliance. Beyond "he horde, he evil, must kill." It was a massive let down of a final boss.
Oh and about taking things down a notch, he ends up absorbing the latent powers of a dead Old God's heart. So yeah not just a common everyday vanilla threat.
The issue with WOW vilains isn't the scale of what they are doing, it's blizzard fails at using them right and building ANY threat about them. BC, Illidan did jack shit, and had no bearing on anything outside one or two early quest chains, so why are we killing him?
Wrath, Arthas showed up all the time, just to go "I'll kill you later" granted they ended up giving him a reason for it. But again, there was no sense of threat to him.
Deathwing. Again outside one or two quest lines, he had no presence, beyond randomly appearing in a zone and killing everything, which was cool the first time, then just got annoying as you had to wait for it all to respawn, and since nothing permanent ever happened, again no feeling of threat.
edited 15th May '14 4:45:45 PM by Seraphem
I just started running a Pathfinder game. It's my first time D Ming, and I'm pretty nervous about screwing things up.
So far, FIM has been doing a good job making their villains different rather than just bigger. Look at the progression:
- Nightmare Moon: Possible world-ending threat.
- Discord: Even more powerful than NMM. Possible world-ending threat, or make-you-wish-the-world-were-ending threat.
- Chyrsalis and the Changelings: Paranoia-inducing but less a threat than NMM. Wanted to conquer and enslave Equestria.
- Sombra: Power level unknown, but probably about on the level of Chrysalis. Again, wanted conquest and slavery rather than destruction. Mainly a threat because he was crazy prepared a thousand years in the past.
- Plunder vines: Power level unknown. A force of nature rather than a character. They spread chaos.
- Tirek: Started off quite weak, but used deceit to become the single most powerful villain yet. It's unclear if he wanted to conquer the world or destroy it.
I sort of play pathfinder, though I haven't in a couple of months.
And a bit of distance has made me kind of realize that two out of the four people I play with are either severely uncomfortable and frustrating to deal with - One has, in every different game we've played so far, done his damnedest to harass or outright rape any female characters, PC or NPC, to an escalating degree where he is the current parties cleric and will only heal you if you have sex with him, and the other is just generally kind of a huge, sexist neckbeard cock-nose.
Yeah, I live with him so I may be a bit harsher than I would be otherwise, but...
edited 15th May '14 5:04:39 PM by kegisak
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.I'm still waiting for a villain whose primary power lies in their manipulation ability. Sort of like a cross between Chrysalis and Discord, but without the enormous power. They could have an arc over the season where they slowly sow seeds of dissension between various ponies (e.g. they might try to cause a rift between Twilight and Luna, or between Luna and Celestia), so that when they make their big moves most of the threat is the result of characters being at odds with each other.
Reaction Image RepositoryMaybe after Story gets back from his trip I can talk to him about trying to set up a Pathfinder game. That'd be fun.
http://h0useb0und.tumblr.com/Any chance you could remake that image with a black outline around that text? White text on that background is kind of hard to read.
Me? Or Wryte? If the latter, it's not his image.
I put my friend in a coconut! He lives in my hat! Hey, come hang out!

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