| ToraTiger said: Lol the conversations were natural to you? It was just everyone playing their cliche personalities to the highest point, to make it seem more interesting than it actually was. There is nothing natural about the characters as they were unrealistic as hell. Also the writing while done well suffers in this regard because of them |
I didn't say anything was natural, and I don't believe it was. I think the tone was very strongly in the focal point of almost all discussions and I think that it clearly was written to be a product of its own universe. What I mean by this is that the dialogue and characters were meant to exist inside of the created lore and not in the real world. When writing characters, you need to write them for the story and not simply transfer them from one universe to another. I think the characters all clearly existed within the universe that was created in FE:A.
What I said was that the character relationships all felt like they were designed as the true pairing which I would say is quite a feat. This pretty much means that all of the characters I married meshed quite well together and were charismatic and interesting as a pair, despite the large amount of potential pairing that existed.
I also think that a lot of the characters had moments where their backstory was fleshed out or they acted in ways outside of their cliche making them more likable and interesting as a result. This went a long way towards making me want to see more of their backstories through pairings and making me like pretty much every character in the game (although some more than others).
As I said, the characters are not "deep", but I don't think they were trying to be and i don't think they really needed to be. That obviously wasn't the focus of the game and I don't really consider that to be much of a weakness. Not every character needs to be a character study, especially if the story doesn't call for it and especially if the cast of characters is so large. While I do think that they can improve on the poignancy of the story, and I am certainly looking forward to what they do with FE:if, I think you are strongly overstating the weight of many of your complaints.
PS: You would do well to treat the people you are speaking to with some respect if you wish to have any sort of civil discussion. Laughing at someone's opinion will not win you any friends and it will more often than not destroy any chance at discussion.
