tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post7139720907365864356..comments2024-01-04T06:27:01.723-06:00Comments on Troll Racials are Overpowered: Factions are the enemy of the characterKlepsacovichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-53285798217425472202013-05-15T02:39:09.762-05:002013-05-15T02:39:09.762-05:00Well, so much for the experiment of allowing anony...Well, so much for the experiment of allowing anonymous posting again, I guess...<br /><br />I'm not 100% sure where you're going with the post, or whether my thoughts go anywhere into the same direction, or ricochet off like you climbing a tower in Far Cry, but to add at least something of (dubious) value:<br /><br />I prefer games in which factions have as little influence as possible. Where I can pick and choose where to go, what to do. Not a lot like that exist, I think. EQ2 comes close in that you can switch factions whenever you want, and they don't have much influence on your daily affairs anyway.<br /><br />Next come games where everyone is implied to belong to one faction, which therefore doesn't add much additional restriction inside the game. MMO-wise, I guess you can put LotRO into that category.<br /><br />My least favorite is the two-faction setup with entrenched, but strangely artificially trumped up differences. That's WoW for me. Why do I have to follow Jerk #1 when he's clearly behaving like an idiot? Thanks, but no, I'll do my own thing.floschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05784402621836933199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-49006454284669247612013-05-07T22:44:49.808-05:002013-05-07T22:44:49.808-05:00A faction may be the sum, but then on average, wha...A faction may be the sum, but then on average, what is the member of the faction? That's the difficulty: it's tremendously hard to present a large number of unique individuals. We can't even remember them in real life (which is why we invented stereotypes, despite their flaws). The result is that a faction tends to be represented as either the sum or the average, neither of which are representations of heroes, villains, or hangers-on.Klepsacovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-73649501695548252272013-05-07T02:46:28.352-05:002013-05-07T02:46:28.352-05:00A faction is just the sum of individual heroes, vi...A faction is just the sum of individual heroes, villains and hanger-ons fighting on the same side.Ephemeronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16403198085556121203noreply@blogger.com