Both of these ideas are good but I prefer if we both start as newbies. We get a better feel for the nemesis especially when they first meet. That is ripe for drama that would like to see
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Sooner or later someone will ask if mc can romance ae or not
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I think Author already said that there wont be an actual mc X ae romance. maybe our mc can be obsessed with ae but thats about it.
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I kind of agree with that. I donât see romance being a thing since who could love a villain like the mc especially if we picked the alien. It doesnât really tie in with this game
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âIâm sorry team, but that Intimate:99% arch-enemy got me acting unwiseâ
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Yea I agree with you. Not only it would not fit in most cases, it would add a massive problem to an already heavily customizable game and its not even adding different arch enemies archetypes that author wanted to add back in a day.
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Not much of an arch-nemesis if you secretly care for them. I mean, I guess it could still work, like Telltaleâs Joker being best friends with Bruce before turning Joker, but I prefer the traditional definition of an arch-enemy: your ultimate enemy. One that could never get caught up in emotions regarding you. One you couldnât simply manipulate using a relationship between you as leverage or an aggravation. One who would kill you with barely a second thought, or who would gladly lock you up and throw away the key, walking away with a smirk on their face, ignoring your cries and pleas through the bars of the cage.
An ultimate opposer. Your greatest adversary. The antithesis. Such as Spider-Man and Green Goblin, or a more classic Batman and Joker.
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While youâre right that you canât be an arch-nemesis without hating each other, the actual state of the rivarly must depend. You canât exactly compare everyone to batman and joker. For example,a a classic villain might decide he wants to force his nemesis to see him take over the world before he throws him in the pool of sharks, rather than killing him without a second of boasting.
I mean, youâre going on a literal autobiography to your enemy in real time, thatâs the plot of the game.
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I was stating my preferred type of rivalry, rather than trying to state something objective about the nature of an arch-nemesis.
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I suppose it depends on the MC? I canât really see peaceful MCâs having a Joker and Batman type of rivalry.
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I really like the idea that the arch and PC âgrowâ together. Not only can it be more disturbing if the PC takes an âinterestâ in their enemy, but it can also be really nice to see that dynamic we donât see often in superhero media. Most villains just kinda happen and while they get stronger or weaker as the story demands, they often donât stay on the same power level as the hero.
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The kids are back in school and that means my butt is up at 5:30 in the morning, and THAT means that I am at the dining room table by 6:30 with a somewhat quiet house (with a schnauzer in the house, the concept of âquietâ is always modified by âsomewhatâ).
Knocked out 700 words of Mission #2 today and plan to knock out another 500 words over my lunch break. The goal is to get Mission #2 finished and uploaded by Friday.
OhâŚand the results from my Twitter poll the other night. I can always depend on you folks to be 
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Canât wait to shoplift grocery stores and not pay my taxes. 
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I need to save that top tier stuff for Part 2.
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Could we get more dialogue options that make the MC feel more like they have an ego or treat themselves like a big shot, when interacting with villains and heroes. Like if were getting mocked for being a newbie we could get a few dialogue options like âIâm sorry, maybe your a little confused cause you donât seem to know who your talking to, Iâm insert MC nameâ or something similar or âMaybe youâve been living under a rock cause Iâm a pretty big deal.â
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Yeah, your MC really hasnât had many opportunities to interact with others, but that will change with the bar scene, which will happen after Mission #2, and which is being reworked again to give your MC more flexibility. The goal will be for you to do anything from have a drink (or three) and make a new friend, get into a bar fight, try to steal from other patrons, etc. I think it will be fun and you will have chances to be bold, cocky, humble, reserved, flirty, etc. (by then, I can also run some stat checks for variables like Legend Points, Funds, etc. that can come into play too).
And Putty Queen will show up (I should have official art of her soon), but Iâm pushing back introducing her crew until later in the story. It was just too much too soon, as some of you pointed out. Introducing characters more slowly makes more sense.
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This concept definitely appeals to me so I decided to give the WIP a go. I ran into something pretty quickly thatâs a bit confusing though - after selecting the Technology origin and the battle suit, it says âMy battlesuit, my very own creationâŚâ but then in the next paragraph it mentions sometimes âadding features the original creators were too short-sighted to install.â
If the MC is the creator of the suit Iâm not sure that makes sense. Maybe the implication is that he created the suit based on stolen plans or something, but if thatâs the case I do feel like it could be made a lot clearer.
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Good catch. I appreciate it.
And I needed to tweak that section because I realized that I canât really accommodate MCs having âpowered suitsâ anyway, as that would imply MC has a lot of built in protection/defense, which is not the case at all. Some players might (rightfully so) be like, âhow can the Cartel guys even hurt me?â
So Iâll switch it to either gadgets andâŚhmmmâŚtech implants or something, just something other than armored suit.
(This is one reason Iâm thrilled to have a public thread; you all are helping me improve the game as I go, instead of me moving forward with mistakes and then having to fix a ton of things later).
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Yeah, I definitely think tech implants/augments would make more sense with the available powers than an armored suit. Seems like a solid idea to me!
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stealthing here to offer my two cents as someone who enjoy villain/hero romance - the foe yay is always hot and also i think thereâs some merit to having a forbidden romance where in the end love wasnât enough to overcome all obstacles the push and pull to corrupt/redeem between both parties before finding out that neither will compromise. i think that can also be delicious in its own way. romantic tragedy is fun 
Obviously iâm not trying to super convince the author if their vision is already set, but i thought iâd add another pov since it seems the others in the thread mentioned they canât fathom a villain/hero romance working so i wanted to offer a pov from someone who can o/
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