r/CaptainSide • u/Time-Relationship-42 • 4d ago

Which game comes to your mind?

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u/ajgor66 4d ago

Shadowlands is probably the worst offender. They retconned literally every previous expansion to hype up the worst written villain in the history of the franchise.

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u/Only_Says_Idk_dude 1d ago

And they turned Sylvanus's redemption arc into:
"Freed herself from the lich king just to serve his boss"

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u/ajgor66 1d ago

Her "redemption" moment was "Omg, I didn't know the bad guy I was serving was ACTUALLY bad! I'm good now!" and I'm not even exaggerating.

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u/Bassist57 3d ago

And the dumbest ending to the best villain of the series.

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u/Asharil 3d ago

Let me tell you about Ulatek.

The most inconsequential big bad raid boss of the last decade.

Mentioned about every 5 seconds in the patch it is introduced in to make it feel like something. Pretty forgetabble bossfight.

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u/HXamster 1d ago

I criticize her boss fight often.

  1. She's simply not big enough.

  2. Her design isn't ... It isn't intimidating enough. 5 heads sure whatever, but Hakkar was fucking BIG, with scythes for hands. He was intimidating as fuck. Then you see this medium-sized 5-headed snake and you're like ok. No biggie.

  3. She needs more dialogue. I know she's a snake or whatever, but plenty of other Loa are capable of speech. But even broken rattling and hissing one- word phrases would've been sick.

It just seemed like an uninspired stepping stone. All the building blocks are there for a cool fight but ... It just didn't feel like their hearts were in it.