Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1915529-20140702204420/@comment-1915529-20141031084843

You see it in real life. People being forced to stand still in the shadow of their leaders, Assassd, Gadafi, Muborak, Bush. And then one day they decide they’ve had enough and all hell breaks loose.

Maybe they do have an evil motive. Or maybe they weren’t so much as stopping the pendulum as much as they were keeping it at a controlled nudge. If the Trickster did not act and just let the world continue on its path, then true balance would be struck. The world would become a mix of nature and cities, beautiful forests of living wood and computers. But the night sky would be darkened and the stars would disappear. The Trickster of course was probably not happy to have to even share 10% of the world with cities and technology so he acted, swinging the pendulum causing it to crash down to the other side when he failed.

You said they brought in the combat levels because they feared a whole game focused on stealth. Ironic that Metal Age is preferred by most because it focuses on stealth.

So the future is written? The Keepers probably knew the un-balance would occur at some point and they knew Garrett was fated to stop it. So despite him trying to make his own fate he was trapped on the path to Trickster and Karrass.

And one thing that makes Karras an even better character apart from that he is the definition of Ego (so much so that he is willing to kill everybody to fulfil his own entitlement) that he is not some evil looking boss with a dark voice. He is a nerd with a lisp that appears as threatening as a bag of apples, until you start to listen to him that is. Of course with technology being the forefront of the threat, it would take a nerd to bring out the full capability of destruction that technology has to offer. After all it’s not like some terrorist organisation who is buying nerve gas and an elaborate way to use it. Before the Metal Age, robots and rust gas was unheard of. Karras is the one who is inventing it and going through the pain of getting everything made and manufactured. So he has to be a nerd. That makes him even greater as the main antagonist.

Poor poor Vork. Perhaps we should start a new thread for Thief and let these two talk about Assassins *cough* Creed.