(11-28-2015, 07:09 PM)Telluride Wrote: I would rather have flamboyant Haurchefant than "Dead because SE's writers are really bad with the concept of earned drama and are more interested in letting villains get away forever and filling in the tension with arbitrary, forced character deaths because George R R Martin is cool right now" Haurchefant.
To be fair, Haurchefant didn't really die to a villain. He died to an antagonist. A society doesn't change abruptly without major losses - if anything, they should have killed off more than just Haurchefant. Perhaps some of the Scions?
I don't feel as if his death was done for 'cheap drama' either. It was handled pretty tastefully. I feel like a lot of people don't want any character that they like to die and so they end up claiming that the writing is 'terrible'. Something which I feel is rather unfair. I won't pretend as if it's the best writing around but as far as MMO's go? It's definitely a lot better than what certain other games are offering up on a platter.
Heavensward was an immense improvement over the 2.0 stuff I felt. Plus Final Fantasy games have always been bold enough to kill off major characters.
