Jdawg
Commodore
I know I make a lot of threads and I hope I dont bother anybody with them, but since I just beat wc4, wc3, and wc2 and expansions I have been thinking about hobbes and how his character arch could have made other character archs make more sense at least to me. This is just my opinion, and I still love the original idea and story, but I like this idea too.
lets say hobbes never was a top secret spy, and he did actually betray the empire, to fight for confed, I think that would off the bat make more sense and show that just bc you are fighting an enemy its not all black and white, and you can have some similarities with your foe. Now you could have kept 95 percent of wc3 the same, but instead of hobbes being a spy, lets say thrakhath kidnapped hobbes family and is threatening hobbes to kill them unless he feeds the kilrathi information on confed plans, so he does. the game still plays out the same way and the behemoth is destroyed, but when you go after hobbes, he tells you why he did it and you can choose rather or not to believe him and help him, (in my universe the cannon would be he is telling the truth and you have a mission where you help rescue his family, it could be they are on a transport and you help hobbes take down the protection wing and free them.) after that mission hobbes returns with you to the victory to face charges, and eventually he is executed for treason. So how does this help with other character arcs. it would help with hobbes arc by continuing his better storyline from wc2. it could also help the blair, and tolwyn's relationship angle. bc of course tolwyn would semi blame you for the behemoth for being destroyed and siding with hobbes and he might even think you were in on it just to help hobbes, which would in turn help the plausibility of why he hates blair so much by wc4 and does not trust him, and it would also give depth to why tolwyn eventually goes mad and is chasing shadows by wc4. it would also help to make thrakhath to be even more the villain than he already was, bc not only does he kill blairs love interest aka angel but he cost blair a dear friend in hobbes
what do yall think just an idea
lets say hobbes never was a top secret spy, and he did actually betray the empire, to fight for confed, I think that would off the bat make more sense and show that just bc you are fighting an enemy its not all black and white, and you can have some similarities with your foe. Now you could have kept 95 percent of wc3 the same, but instead of hobbes being a spy, lets say thrakhath kidnapped hobbes family and is threatening hobbes to kill them unless he feeds the kilrathi information on confed plans, so he does. the game still plays out the same way and the behemoth is destroyed, but when you go after hobbes, he tells you why he did it and you can choose rather or not to believe him and help him, (in my universe the cannon would be he is telling the truth and you have a mission where you help rescue his family, it could be they are on a transport and you help hobbes take down the protection wing and free them.) after that mission hobbes returns with you to the victory to face charges, and eventually he is executed for treason. So how does this help with other character arcs. it would help with hobbes arc by continuing his better storyline from wc2. it could also help the blair, and tolwyn's relationship angle. bc of course tolwyn would semi blame you for the behemoth for being destroyed and siding with hobbes and he might even think you were in on it just to help hobbes, which would in turn help the plausibility of why he hates blair so much by wc4 and does not trust him, and it would also give depth to why tolwyn eventually goes mad and is chasing shadows by wc4. it would also help to make thrakhath to be even more the villain than he already was, bc not only does he kill blairs love interest aka angel but he cost blair a dear friend in hobbes
what do yall think just an idea