>>3680337
I just want more basic robina and classic aqw character fanart like mazumi, Yara, beleen, like God why isn't there more>>3680337
>the story concluded in under an hour
ewww this nigga doesn't carefully read all the characters' dialogue.>ywn groom a lonely, touch starved, haunted hotel that can take on whatever form you wish for
why live>>3680904
qrd>>3679740
It was mainly a political drama focused on attempting to reunite their broken ties to face the Queen, which is needed to establish the status quo before moving on after such a world shattering finale to the Chaos Saga. Personally I think everyone shits on it unnecessarily because it followed such a hype finale and it felt a bit directionless where it seemed like the Hero never progressed, but the dreariness and hopelessness of the whole QoM saga was a really nice contrast I think. Not only to both the Chaos Saga's bombastic heroic nature and the Malgor Arc's somber tone of acceptance, but also in the visuals where the enemies switched from legendary mythological beasts and varied motives from the villains to just being monsters motivated by grief and anger.
That saga serves to properly humanize the Hero as an actual character before placing them as the central role, which is something you need to do to also build on the other characters like Gravelyn and Victoria going forward. Everything was devastated after the Chaos War from the alliance factions to even (you), the unbeatable wise cracking hero. The Chaos War was the start where (you) caused so much pain to the world (you)'re supposed to protect, but QoM is the point where the hero truly starts to lose faith in their role and their own strength to make a change when every minor arc was at best maintaining the status quo. The whole Queen > Malgor arc is mainly wearing down the hero on all fronts to the point that (you)'re basically just going through the motions until the finale Mana Core segment, which is the spark to that drives the rest of the cast into action when they see how truly hurt (you) are and it ultimately creates an actual alliance (albeit strained) unlike the faux one from before.
That might just be coincidence or the work of the new Malgor writer salvaging the arc to be fair, but I think it's really compelling.>>3681018
>>3680223
SPOILERS
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________read the story.Wrote this as a reply to your post >>3681046 but realized it had very little to do with it and was mainly me giving some insight about offtopic shit but I'm too retarded to delete any of it so..
AQW had four big "oh fuck"s around the time of Chaos Saga finale.
The first was writing the hero to be the dragon of time. I know some people like it but me personally I thought, and still think, it was a massive asspull that wrote themselves into a corner since now powerscaling is on a cosmic level, plus introducing a threat stronger than Drakath at the last minute (QoM).
Two was AE feeling in their hearts it was a good opportunity to move onto AQ3D as they've done before with their other games after major storyline finales. Problem was AQ3D was still grossly undercooked and didn't see a profit for several years, on a project they reallocated some of their main AQW driving force to work on.
Three, major employees jumping ship. Nulgath, Cysero, Beleen, Artix (technically since he seems to just fuck around or work on AQ3D), pretty sure Zhoom, Samba and Yorumi aren't there anymore either.
And four was NEVER releasing a mobile port. Don't even have to tell you how wildly successful it could've been had it released around 2012 like people begged, but as 2013 turned to 2014 and 2014 turned to 2024, well, we just never got it did we?
All four situations collided to form a massive buttfuckery moment that led to the AQW-Dark Ages where releases were stale, the story was totally directionless, servers were cut back and most players left. In a perfect world AQW would've ended, Mobile would've released funding AE for the foreseeable future and its players would've all moved onto AQ3D which would've been fun to play.>>3681086
>The first was writing the hero to be the dragon of time. I know some people like it but me personally I thought, and still think, it was a massive asspull that wrote themselves into a corner since now
The EDoT stuff has been built up since like 2009 at least though, years before the ending of that saga. And it's not as if the Eternal Dragon is even the peak of the scaling in the lore, let alone the hero being capable of wielding that power 100% of the time. There was, and still is, threats stronger than the EDoT. Galanoth killed him in his prime for starters, and there are things like Kathool Atchoo that are implied to be incomprehensibly strong well before the reveal. Remember that we genuinely died against Drakath as well, we had to cheat death just to fight on even ground.

>introducing a threat stronger than Drakath at the last minute (QoM).
I mean, I would argue that the nature of Chaos and the fact that he's trying to open a Chaos Gate that existed well before his transformation implies that there always was something higher than Drakath right from the beginning. He obviously got the powers from somewhere else since he was initially resurrected by the amulet after losing. That Drakath doesn't really make any major decisions about the Chaos Lords or his "plan" implies that he's just following a script despite supposedly embodying Chaos, since they're already predetermined to become them even before the needlessly confusing Lords of Balance/Mirror Realm stuff.

Sadly the rest of your post while correct can be summed up as,
>Artix made a stupid business decision
We're doomed to be led by a passion first guy without any direction, being held together by duct tape and Brazilians. I wish he'd realise his shortcomings and step down as the lead like Steve did for Warframe. I really hoped Beleen coming back was a sign of the good times returning, but the only thing that changed was the writing and getting better fights.The creation of AQ3D was a mistake in and of itself, especially with how bland the designs looked compared to the more expressive 2D characters in AQW. They should have started AQ2D a decade ago and ported Dragon Fable, not release some ugly and half baked game.I'm just waiting for aq mobile.

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