i disagree
i really enjoyed the lore from AA and the gods, minds, mutations, curses, and legendary items were cool as hell
it’s a shame that a lot of that was… uh, changed
Yeah, definitely the one thing I hate about the plot. I don’t know where I read this, but within like the last week somebody said it didn’t feel like it was your adventure, and you’re just playing a prewritten character, something I entirely agree with.
And I also feel like this is the reason I just can’t like the main cast of the plot at all. We have a Prince with “untapped power” (
), a prodigy with a sad origin story, able to use strong magic ( ) and an Emo with a literal curse (). Then theres the MC, who’s literally a demigod so er… Percy Jackson called, that book series was ass anyways…
This whole “Spirit Energy to obtain Magic” is just stupid to me.
Blah blah blah
No, because the lore has to be the focus, vetex said he’s going to create the book in the au so if i have a critique in the lore I’m pointing it out because I believe it will make future content relating to the au less enjoyable. Yes people should be able to get lucky as it makes it more realistic, but enough effort should always overcome the boost you get from luck. It’s like that dumb trope where the villain trains for 10 billion years but because the hero has the power of friendship and is the chosen one that means nothing. The idea that a person should be on top exclusively because of luck is simply stupid, and heck even in real life theoretically you can find a way to become powerful on your own, it’s just preposterously difficult. Our character got enough power to beat iris and calvus before even discovering why we are special, even though those twos innate powers should allow them to far surpass us. Shouldn’t the same apply the everyone else in this universe?
TLDR: the idea that lucky people are able to permanently surpass hard working people without doing anything is stupid and because vetex wants a book it’s even worse.
TLDR: eugenics, prophecies and nepotism are the only way to get strong
Fair enough—I liked AA’s lore a bit better too. Heck, even WOM felt a bit more interesting than AO. The game just feels so… idk, sanitized? It feels like the kind of lore you’d get from asking an Ai to make lore. Or like if you had 10 people write it and took the 5th best / worst of the lores.
You said critique, you didn’t say opinion anywhere.
Criticism are not objective fact, they are very much considered opinions.
peak fridge response
arcane adventure universe is gun level
i am pretty sure that is the point of ao, whether we like it or not. the ao mc clearly has some personality traits (some revealed in dialogue and via the i2 text) that may not align with your own
I mean if the character is going to exist in future au media they have to have some form of personality, it’s gonna be real boring if one of the most powerful people in existence was just a bland Everyman.
my issue isn’t that we’re playing a prewritten character, but that this prewritten character has no personality
like seriously, give me one personality trait the ao mc shows other than the generic “cares about others / strong sense of justice” bullshit
ao character’s “personality” is literally just
“yo take this rowboat and fuck off”
“ok”
“beat up this goofy samurai for us”
“ok”
“beat up this redhead for us”
“ok”
“beat up this twink for us”
“ok”
and so on and so on
they feel less like a character and more like a plot device
Also the dialogue stats will probably become more important during major plot decisions later on otherwise why would they exist? The game is constantly tracking the personality of your character so probably at some point vetex will try to flesh out our character either retroactively or at a major event in the future.
yeah an entire sea and a half into the story aint enough to flesh out a character apparently
Hence why I said retroactively, vetex has more important things to do then make every line of dialogue fit the character, so he may change it in the future to fit the character more
Several years to improve on his writing skills and somehow he’s still unable to write a compelling protagonist
Personally like that type of characters tho.
Gives more space to imagination.
generic main character personality that diverges into:
Edgy “I kill my Villains” Hero who does the same thing as the peaceful version regardless of his decisions
‘Good Guy’ “I spare my Villains” Hero who does the same thing as the violent version regardless of his decisions