Any memorable characters?

[Dr Fallout]

I really wanted to like Cait but her story pretty much starts and ends within an hour of meeting her.

That's really the issue with even many of the main characters.

Compare these companion characters to any character you meet, even in the smallest encounter, from Witcher series, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Fallout New Vegas, Pillars of Eternity, Wasteland 2, or even Fallout 3 where you could at least ask characters about topics, and you soon realize just how shallow these companions really are. A dwarf blacksmith who gave me a one-off side quest in the beginning Witcher 3 had more going on than Cait.

Too many characters are cliches that I have seen repeated countless times. Mama murphy is a cliche of the standard drugged-up spiritual oracle you see in all sorts of fiction, Cait is a cliched drunk Irish stereotype, Nick is a cliche 1950s detective. They're all cliches. Even the gangsters in the vault where you pick up Nick are a bunch of cringe-worthy cliches that had me quitting the game at how out of place they all sounded. Why were there a bunch of gangsters looking and sounding like that? To be silly? Just for funsies?

In the end it doesn't matter because the companions are just there as pack mules for when you have to go clear out Corvega Assembly Plant for the 5th time because your settlers at Sanctuary Hills are very adept at getting kidnapped the second you leave.

Tell me about it, loads of other games have so much more character writing and stories even if they have less participation or aren't as important.

 

[Walpknut]

I hate your use of the word trope. Please stop spreading it's misuse. EVERYTHING has tropes. If they didn't they just wouldn't exist.

What's wrong? I used it in exactly that context. Everything has tropes. That's not a bad thing. I hate a lot of people's use of the word trope too.

The entire point of everything I wrote was in agreement with you.

I agree Zigzag, what's the problem even?

The incorrect usage of the word Trope as synonymous with cliche that has become so widespread thanks to people like Anita Sarkeesian skimming through Tvtropes but not even bothering to read a Semiology book before using the word like a coma on their discourse.

 

[Crni Vuk]

Sarkesian >_<

Another one of those that get to much attention for making obvious statements.

 

[RangerBoo]

Can we not talk about that miserable joyless women here? This a sacred and fun place.

 

[Tom Bishop]

I'm always amused by how the people who apparently hate Sarkeesian the most are the ones who talk about her the most. Angry gamers made her famous, and angry gamers continue to keep her relevant today. If you dislike what she has to say so much, than just stop talking about her. She will never fade away as long as people keep invoking her name as some weird kind of Internet effigy.

 

[Dr Fallout]

Who the hell is she?

 

[MercenarySnake]

She's an unpleasant person that wants all men to suffer while walking around with feminism cramed up her ass.

 

[Ninja]

Who the hell is she?

A professional victim.

 

[ZigzagPX4]

A trope is a figure of speech. When using this literary device, you intend for the word or words to have a meaning that is different than the literal meaning. In other words, there is a shift from the literal meaning of a word or words to a non-literal meaning. It can also also described as the use of figurative language – via word, phrase, or even an image – for artistic effect.

The word trope has also come to be used for describing commonly recurring literary and rhetorical devices, motifs or clichés in creative works, and are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations.

Metaphors, allegories, and irony are examples of literature tropes. For other media, it's simply a set of recurring storytelling devices. If it's fiction, it has tropes, pure and simple. Why, Walpknut, do you assume everyone uses the word "trope" in a negative sense?

I hate your use of the word trope. Please stop spreading it's misuse. EVERYTHING has tropes. If they didn't they just wouldn't exist.

What's wrong? I used it in exactly that context. Everything has tropes. That's not a bad thing. I hate a lot of people's use of the word trope too.

The entire point of everything I wrote was in agreement with you.

I agree Zigzag, what's the problem even?

The incorrect usage of the word Trope as synonymous with cliche that has become so widespread thanks to people like Anita Sarkeesian skimming through Tvtropes but not even bothering to read a Semiology book before using the word like a coma on their discourse.

I've never watched a single one of her videos, but I've seen them used in the title of her videos. I've never bothered with watching them because they looked like a cringe-worthy waste of time. Give me an example of using the word "trope" incorrectly, because I'm not really seeing how my understanding of it conflicts with yours.

 

[Dr Fallout]

She's an unpleasant person that wants all men to suffer while walking around with feminism cramed up her ass.

A feminazi?

 

[Crni Vuk]

Eh, I would not go that far. Really, the problem isn't that her points have no merit or value. She is correct with many of her points - the interpretation is a whole different story though!

I just feel it's like 10 or 15 years to late. You know, like someone screaming fire, while the building is already burned to the ground and a steaming pile of ash and the firebrigade back at home.

 

[Dr Fallout]

Eh, I would not go that far. Really, the problem isn't that her points have no merit or value. She is correct with many of her points - the interpretation is a whole different story though!

I just feel it's like 10 or 15 years to late. You know, like someone screaming fire, while the building is already burned to the ground and a steaming pile of ash and the firebrigade back at home.

Oh okay. I have never heard of her so can't comment on that.