Guild and Class selection

[negzee]

[noodles]

[ZetaBladeX13]

[pucha]

I can't wait to play this game I've already come up with names for my party members and everything xD



It's my tradition in EO for the "leader" of the guild to be a character who's almost useless in battle P= and how he/she comes to acquire trusted companions (even if that means I have a much harder time getting through the game). Well, it's all made-up stories in my head, of course, but what else is EO good for? XD

[noodles]

I will need to think of a real guild name.

The gender imbalance is really killing me but I hate some of the portraits ;___;

EDIT: SERIOUSLY ONLY ONE GIRL ARGH WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME

[ZetaBladeX13]

[Maxine MagicFox]

Still debating, though.

[noodles]

I both envy and feel bad for that farm boy

[Maxine MagicFox]

^_^; gender imbalance...

But I just REALLY like his portrait!! :3

Actually I'm probably going to change the Monk to be portrait 1 later on. Or probably, depending on the kid's performance, not even make the Farmer part of my main party.

:O THERE'S JUST TOO MANY CHOICES!!

[Kimiko]

Hmm, just a quick hack (don't have much time to waffle at the moment).

[negzee]

[Kimiko]

I just noticed that my Princess got renamed to a Prince. Yet my Beastqueen is called a Beastking. Atlus had better fix that for the translation

[negzee]

Your princess (portrait 3) was always a prince. You just pretended it was a princess. You know the standard ordering is male-female-male-female for portraits 1-2-3-4 respectively.

I agree beastking's not the best name, but I don't think they should split that class into two gender-named sub-classes. Rather, the better thing to do would be to just make the class name neutral, like beastmaster. The other class names are gender-neutral and don't have this problem. Princess/prince is one of those cases where there isn't really a good neutral term. I suppose they could call it "royal" or something, but that'd be a bit awkward.

[Kimiko]

It's just stupid that they introduce the first gendered-named class, yet don't apply that logic to another class that also should be gendered-named.

As for my pretending that Princess 3 is female, yes I know that's just me. But then again, part of the appeal of the EO series is that you can create your own character backstories and personalities. This gendered class name messes that up.

[negzee]

Indeed, it'd be better to not make reference to gender at all as much of the appeal in games like EO is that minimal specification affords your imagination a lot of freedom.