Marcian Tobay

With gallons of due respect, an Arachnos soldier's origin is very explicitly detailed in the Archetype description. This is unlike Stalkers (generic hiding villains) or Blasters (generic power houses).

If you have a specific concept that defies what is laid out on the character creation screen, I'm sorry to say that's on you.

Did you read my list of suggestions above? They may help.

Repentant villains are bad for your immersion? Explain, would you kindly?

Don't need to. I would assume that any hero is repentant of their time with Arachnos, but ever heard the phrase "Gone, but not forgotten"?

A lot of heroes purposely keep negative mementos on their person for one reason or another. In Nolan's Batman, Bruce Wayne is scared of bats and uses the emblem of Batman to help him focus on the concept of fear and bringing it to his opponents. Superboy's colors are a call-back to his emergence during the "Death of Superman" series. On and forth.

I'd say an Arachnos symbol could mean any of the following (for RP reasons):

• A sign to others that anyone can change and repent.
• Intimidation (I'm the best of the worst and your now your worst nightmare)
• A scarlet letter (The other heroes make him wear it to represent past sins)
• He just really liked spiders after that.
• A disguise to help him earn the trust of those too wicked to repent.
• It's not a symbol, per se. The vital components to the backpack are shaped like that and you can't change it without breaking the entire thing.

Or add your own.

Bah and spit.

Ra-ra-roma-maaaahhh...

Collectively known as "The incident".

And my main just became a Rogue.

He's a billionaire that does it all for the lulz.

So Going Rogue right there.

Quite happy.

... so obvious... how did I not notice it?

Yeah. Malcolm Reynolds has a canon. Nathan Fillion does not.

How could I resist!?

I thought that, too, until I realized that the entire point of the movie is that Scott Pilgrim is learning what is wrong with him and what needs to change for him to be a worthy person. In Twilight, much like The Little Mermaid, Bella/Ariel is wrong and flawed, but the universe seems to make everything all right for her, as if she's at a dinner part with Time, Meaning, Rhyme, and Reason and Meaning seems to polite to point out that she's using the Salad Fork... for soup.

Really? I've never seen it, but I'll consider it. Thanks!

My response.

Two weeks ago, my girlfriend didn't know what "MMO" meant but "hoped it meant she and I could play co-op". She was afraid of 3-D worlds because they were disorienting.

One week ago, she's saved my butt and had my back through most of the Praetorian content we've explored together. And she's leveling faster than me. She's a Blaster, and she's absolutely shredding through the Praetorian story-arcs while soloing.

It's anecdotal evidence, but I don't think Praetoria is "too hard for absolute newbs", as she simply must be the type of person you're describing yet she hasn't missed a beat in a song she never heard before.

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Then again, I suppose the only real way to check would be to do a follow up survey on people that had a free trial going during GR's launch and then quit. The survey would need a section on game difficulty. If a significant number of people complained that it was too hard, then we'd have it. Until then, it's anecdote against anecdote.