Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-628612-20151126212359/@comment-25786152-20151214222139

@A tempered Ace, it's interesting you bring (AC5) Edge to the table. I realize Janice "Razor" Rehl was meant to be an expy of Edge in many ways (similarly themed callsigns, for a start), but the ironic twist of fate is, Razor ended up being a hell of a lot better character than Edge.

Look how Edge is. She is a tough-as-nails woman, much of an "ice queen" type of character who only thaws to Blaze in the end. But how could Blaze "win her heart" through sheer fighter pilot skills alone? This makes no sense whatsoever. One thing is to be an amazing fighter pilot and other completely different thing is to be a person so good-hearted that's able to love and be loved by someone else.

The result is that Edge ends up looking like a slutty woman compared to Razor.

And don't even get me on how AC5 epically ignores the RIOs/WSOs/"guys in the back" (ditto for AC6).

Everyone loves good stories. No exceptions here.

But there cannot be a good story when you have poorly developed characters and plotholes all over the story. The result of this is that you often end up HATING the story in the end - and with it, the game that brought it to you - rather than liking or loving it.