Castle Paradox

Blazes Battles Inc. · **I'm a chimp, not a** Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Posts: 505

People having personal lives and love lives does not translate into them being normal. Neutral

For someone to want to destroy the REAL world, there IS something wrong with them. There are many more psychological problems a person can have than simply being insane. Maybe a superiority complex. The point I'm making is it ISN'T NORMAL. And you shouldn't use stereotypes, if you can help it. Archetypes are better.
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PIcaRDMPC · Joined: 28 Mar 2003 Posts: 186

Uh, maybe I'm being an idiot here, but what exactly is an archetype? Oookay...

Blazes Battles Inc. · **I'm a chimp, not a** Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Posts: 505

Sort of like a prime example of something. Like... if the stereotypical talking chicken was an idiot, an archetype of a talking chicken would be able to use his talents to his fullest and appear smart. It's kinda hard to explain. If I find the exact literary meaning, I'll tell ya. Just don't go looking in a dictionary, it means other things as well.
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Jack Slater · Joined: 13 May 2003 Posts: 43 Location: Secured Location

I see that most of us like our hero's to protry Solid Snake or Dirty Hary....
I think the poll was a.... little narrow minded, Weak is a bad trate to put in a hero so maybe compation would be a better word and please define pathetic attitude, and I what I would put in my hero some, flaws ( not everyone is perfect ) brave, stubern and follows his own rules.
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Setu_Firestorm · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2003 12:39 am Post subject:

B'ah! Either you're missing my point, or trying to make a new one. I'm gonna stop responding to this.
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Nagatoki · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2003 1:14 am Post subject:

Hmm...can we guess who's having a bad day?
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Uncommon · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 8:47 pm Post subject:

I like to think of every aspect. Not only how characters are, but how they became who they are. I like to think of everything that's happened in their lives and how these events have affected them.

I also don't believe in ultimately evil villains. It's so much more fun to make them human, to make them question what they're doing, the same way a hero would.

In other words, I don't like doing things only a little bit. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it all the way. No half-attempts.

This is why you don't see much work from me. Sure, I haven't had a computer, but I also don't want to release something unless I'm satisfied with it.

Setu_Firestorm · Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2003 12:44 am Post subject:

Sorry, I was having a sucky day on my last post.

*kneels down and grabs Blazes hand*

PLEASE FORGIVE ME!!!!!! PLLLLEEEAAAASSSEEEEEE!

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RPGrealm5 · Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2003 3:57 am Post subject:

In the end, if your enemy or heroes don't end up like Kefka in FFVII/III, then you should have a good character. Just had to make that point.

My poll is a little narrow, but that's okay, don't answer it. When creating a character, I try to make that character stick to the original attributes I gave him. One character in Deadly Illusions has a mysterious past. He does not speak much of it, if any to anyone. This guy is a badass and you wouldn't want to mess with him. When another character crosses paths with a character who has an attitude like that, a more soft character, the outcome can be quite interesting.

That adds to the story, and to the character's styles of solving problems. Two characters, one like the first, and one like the second I mentioned can change a character's way of thinking, adding a variety of things that they can say, and you believe that they would actually say that if it were a real situation.

Anyone understand that?
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Blazes Battles Inc. · **I'm a chimp, not a** Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Posts: 505

But Kefka was a great villain... at least for in the game. And it's FFVI!

Setu... I don't know how to respond. Really confused

If I don't then I'm being rude, if I do and say I accept your apology I come off as a jerk because you didn't do anything wrong in the first place, and if I don't accept it I look like a jerk for being a jerk.

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It's a dilly of a pickle. If anyone didn't pick that up though, I wasn't mad before and I wasn't mad now. Yay!
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RPGrealm5 · Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2003 6:55 pm Post subject:

Excuse my mistake.

But anyways, Kefka is one of those enemies that belongs in a mental institute. He's insane and he wants to take over the world. He's got some serious problems, as well as his obsession with clowns...
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Iblis · Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2003 2:20 am Post subject:

clowns?

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RPGrealm5 · Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2003 2:56 am Post subject:

Yeah, clowns. Kefka looks just like a clown. Well actually the Final Fantasy Anthology FMV made him look like one...
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Uncommon · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 2:41 am Post subject:

Kefka's insanity made him an extremely beautiful villain. I mean, how much fun is a villain that's just a normal guy with a normal, healthy mind? To do the things some villains do, you would have to be insane!

One of my favorite villains that I've made is Blaine, perhaps only because he is mentally unstable (an understatement). Example: Blaine enjoys killing people, but other people disagree with these morals. Solution? Create an almost religious philosophy that, on earth, people can only experience evil, pain and suffering, and can only be freed from evil, pain and suffering through death. Thus, Blaine, according to his philosophy, should sacrifice his passage to death by continuing to live, and free the hopeless others by killing them.

The scariest thing about Blaine is that he actually begins to believe all of this. He is a perfect example of a beautifully insane villain. I'm surprised that I made him myself.

RPGrealm5 · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 2:54 am Post subject:

Wow Chimera. That's good thinking on Blaine's personality. I have a character who has a personality almost as complex as his in Deadly Illusion. Although he isn't in the demo just yet.
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