My spirit animal is a dwarf. It comes with a deep distaste for elves, tho. It’s nothing personal, we just hate your entire race.
All joking aside, elves and dwarves are definitely the most unique characters of high fiction. Elves just got really, really overdone in the last couple decades, especially in video games. There’s just soooo many kinds. Dark Elves, High Elves, Wood Elvis, Sun Elves, Night Elves, everything is Elves! In Eldar Scrolls, even the Dwarves are Elves!
It’s like they’re competing with zombies and the Whopper to see who can come up with the most variations of the same concept.k
Exactly, even the ORCS are elves. While also like Elderscrolls, Dwarves are often extinct or going extinct and used as a backround fluff/lore race (i blame tolkein). Not to mention how many MMO’s have been excluding them in favor of more lithe and attractive races. Neverwinter online had 6 or 7 playable elf races >: | ArchAge is probably never going to add Dwarves, still hoping Black Desert Online does, Kingdom Under Fire online same problem, elf/dark elf troops and heroes but dwarves are just the guys that build warmachines. CCG’s have a good amount of Dwarf though, probably because its an easy format vs a 3d mmorpg.
She kills people with poison, one of the worst slowest deaths and she ENJOYS it!! Mellka does too, because Elves = evil horrible creatures that put on the skin of attractive females to fool people into liking them
TES:O:TU made me enraged at the site of an elf. (Yellow forts. Site. Its a pun see? EP 4ever)
Battleborn made me begin cringing at elves.
I love how unique every character is in this game and the different twists and takes on it that I have’nt seen before (such as a Russian-sounding dwarf [no offense if there is somehow some to be derided there. people find a way]) and the “space elves”.
I’ve got to agree with dwarfurious that Thorn is a messed up person, but ofc I main ISIC and like him for being messed up. Thorn is constantly angry all the time and this is really well-illustrated in the intro animation (b’dum tssss). I really can’t get over her constant rage. Disturbs me a bit and annoys me. I can’t push past it to play her in game. I appreciate that in a character though. I’d be more disappointed if I liked every character. I mean where would the NWN Mercs be without Grimgnaw and that half orc from SoU. Hopefully Deekin was right and something devoured that Half-Orc.
I love Boldur’s jolliness by contrast. Reminds me of Braum from League. He’s just too likeable.
yeah boldur takes joy in battle and wrestling and stuff. Thorn just wants to stick arrows in things and watch them die. Its a lot of the ‘tough girl’ trope gone wrong
I sadly have to agree with ya on this one, I mean even Mellka is the same as Thorn. …
I mean, you can design a character to be pissed off at the injustices done to them without making them a “Hollywood-standard badass action girl psycho”…
Of course Boldur isn’t much better - he’s playing the “bumbling lovable brickhead who just wants to break stuff”, and his antics are trying WAY too hard to be juvenile and appealing to the 12-14 year old target demographic…
I honestly have been noticing a GIGANTIC shift in many subtle ways after the CCT in an attempt to target the “preteen and earlier” age range. I was honestly GREATLY surprised when I first saw they had managed a “T” (Teen) rating in the U.S., considering all the Borderlands games were rated “M” (Mature).
A LOT of the dialog has been scaled back to be juvenile and “slapstick-fart-joke” kind of stuff (I mean ffs, Boldur’s first taunt is even him mooning you with a FLIPPING CENSOR). I mean, I really couldn’t tell you why exactly, but I found all the comedy in the Borderlands games hilarious, but honestly, besides the lines up to Geoff in The Algorithm (at least not the new ones injected into the mix after the CCT), I really did not find much of the dialog funny. A lot of it really did seem to me like something that adults thinks that kids would laugh at, like some of the PAIINFUL lines that the Spider Sentry had in The Void (i.e. "Mom, Dad? You’re home! You’re finally home! cries - I mean WTF is this? >_<)
“The kids are into anime these days, so let’s change our intro and all of our cinematic to that!”
Violence was scaled back SH*TTONS! Prime example: apparently even showing a ROBOT get decapitated by a guillotine in the prologue was “too violent” for them… >_<
I finished one of Thorn’s lores (the “Daughter of Stone” one where you need to win 5 times on a team as Boldur), and it’s a letter where Boldur refers to himself a few times as “padapa” - whatever that means! XD
In Boldur’s lore, Thorn is his adopted grandaughter after she she got poisoned by some plant thorn (I believe also where she gets the name) and Boldur took care of her
Boldur loves fighting, he’s the kind of guy who would just wrestle for fun. Thorn is the kind of person that shoots you in the kidneys with arrows and then watches you die, she even has dialogue saying your death will be slow and how pleasant screams of agony are (similar to isic) Boldur mourns when he kills other Eldrid, Thorn LOVES it.
Poison is a slow and painful death, mellka and thorn know this, they want to enjoy killing like a serial killer does.
Fair enough, except that technically this isn’t that much different than most of Gearbox’s heroes…come to think of it, Thorn’d fit right in with most the Vault Hunters, but that’s not a bad thing (hell, Salvador’s over the top enjoyment of this stuff is one reason I like to play him).
They might enjoy poison, but then again there’s no shortage of characters in this or Borderlands who similarly enjoy violence in the same way, however you have a point that Boldur is different in this aspect as to how he doesn’t enjoy killing other Eldrid, especially since in Multiplayer mode nobody can truly ‘die’, he does seem to be the more friendly of the two…haven’t listened too much to Thorn’s quotes though, so I’ll have to give my assessment of her later.
