zazei wrote...
Well since it's a wish thread I would personally want something different from what Bioware done in the past. As much as I adored Valen, Carth, Kaidan, Sky and Alistair they all shared some similarities I'm getting a bit tired of and I'm not talking about the whole dead wife thing either.
I love Alistair in many ways but at times he can be horribly annoying to take along just because I prefer not to play my nice characters as saints. I would like their next attempt to be a nice guy that accually understand that sometimes messy things needs to be done and won't yell at my character for not being 100% nicer then anyone could ever be.
I think I would like to see Bioware attempt to create a character like Obsidian's Gannayev-of-Dreams for their next romance if I was given a choice but If we have to get another paladin type to rescue us I would prefer a male version of Kaelyn the Dove. At least Kaelyn admitted to following a very narrow path instead of telling us to do one thing and then getting mad after like Alistair did. 
I don't think BioWare has ever made a leading man that was truly "dangerous". I always liked Gann, he was really well-written. Not really a bad boy through and through, more just cynical and selfish, but BioWare hasn't made a character quite like him either. Zevran is probably the closest, but Gann is better-developed and easier to take seriously. And certainly much better than the NWN2 - God, what a bunch of annoying morons.
Kaelyn the Dove is one of my favourite characters in a video game. I thought that her crusade, well-meaning as it was, was naive, reckless and dangerous. But man, her passion and her integrity felt so alive that you really wanted to help her, even if you knew it was a mistake. The wonderful, emotional voice acting helped a lot. Betraying her tore me up - as narrow-minded as she could be, she had such a strong sense of honesty and experienced so much suffering that it was heartbreaking to just abandon her at such an important time. That's what you call a tough choice.
I think that passion would be the key for a paladin-type to make them interesting and sexy to a woman. They need to have passion about an ideal that they would give their lives for in a heartbeat, even if that ideal is naive and foolhardy. It can't be something vague and lame like "protecting the innocent" but something tangible, like Kaelyn's quest to tear down the Wall of the Faithless.
However, that would mean that in order to make sure that the character would make sense, there would be no happy ending here, only a sense of what could have been. The PC and this kind of character would never be together, because that person's ideals would always be more important than any single person. A happily-ever-after type story would cheapen things.
Modifié par Dick Delaware, 25 juillet 2010 - 08:00 .