Disclaimer: This is going to sound like I'm roasting you. That is NOT my intention. At all.
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I once again ask you Flipz, are you going to be returning to SHIRA at any time? =P
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Probably not. Bailey's development was kinda rooted in the whole school thing when I couldn't get to MLNO, and now that that is past, her storyline is somewhat irrelevant. My first character (can't even remember his name
) is functionally dead, and even though
technically he's a live, he's actually more useful as a prop than anything else. Bade's storyline was supposed to be about getting the people out of the school thing, and the bad guys' storyline was tied into the school thing and interacting with Bailey (who I sort of don't want to play anymore, she has nowhere to go and I have no reason to make her rejoin the others, assuming she even made it out of the school thing in the first place). Servo's the only one I even remotely remember how to play, but I'm semi-uninterested in playing him.
Also, the boss battles kinda went on too long; I was planning to find a spot to rejoin once that fight was complete, but I got bored with the explosions and stuff and stopped reading. Boss battles are great when there's something else happening besides just blowing stuff up (i.e. you have to beat the boss before X happens, and some other people are trying to stop X from happening so there's more time to beat the boss). It's...hard to put my finger on it. Somewhere along the way, S.H.I.R.A. became a laserfest mech-fight instead of being about the
people and the connections they made, and I lost interest. Nothing against you guys or anything, it's just that I'm not that into that sort of RPG; I like a good fight as much as the next guy, but I have a low tolerance for them compared to others; there has to be a
reason for the fight, and/or an internal conflict to go along with the external battle. It's the reason I got stuck on PCG and couldn't continue; everything was building up to a big fight to get Kaze out of sickbay, and I didn't know how to run it. (Plus I got stuck in the story version, as there was
another fight, this one plot-critical, and I just couldn't manage to set it up.)
TL;DR, probably not. Heck, most of my characters in Symbiosis are going to end up dead once I finish telling their stories; I learned from previous mistakes and set these characters up with a deliberate start, middle, and end in mind. Right now, Regulus is at his "middle", and Carter is at his start still. Jarvis, too, but he's mostly a background character intended for the convenience of MTM's character and the others once Regulus dies.
