Who are the Signature Heroes?

[Ambler]

New 'Sea Slug' Quest = Acolyte Armour at last!!!!!! (thats with a green trim btw, my mate did some artwork for it, ill dig up soon!

[Zilla]

New 'Sea Slug' Quest = Acolyte Armour at last!!!!!! (thats with a green trim btw, my mate did some artwork for it, ill dig up soon!

 

Interesting, find it fast! Would be enjoyable to see.

[viralaether]

at first i thought this had great potential....

...then i realized jagex is putting it out :wall: :wall: :wall: :wall: :wall: :wall: :wall: :wall: :wall:

 

if this had been the idea from the beginning im sure it would work, but the effort to weave new characters into the game at this point i believe would be very difficult

giving them minor rolls in older quests as well as pumping out a [cabbage]ton of new quests is the only viable method they could use. Also if they are such big shots why did they not help me fight in wgs

and if no one mentioned it yet, the tower in the background of the girl is the one from grim tales

 

 

 

offtopic: i still want a way to replay old quests :c

 

also: the first guy is aladdin prove me wrong

[Tim]

It would certainly be interesting. A bit like Swan Song with the Wise Old Man, how he fights along side you and you each support one another.

 

perhaps they'll even help us defeat Lucien in the continuation of While Guthix Sleeps.

[Troacctid]

Well, I posted a blog entry detailing my reaction to these guys. Basically, I'm cautious because they have a lot to live up to, but there's definitely potential for great things. I'll cross-post it to this thread:

 

I've always been a fan of team quests. Not Shield of Arrav and Heroes Quest--those were a pain in the neck. I mean the quests like Swan Song, My Arm's Big Adventure, and Dream Mentor, where we get to work alongside NPC versions of heroes like ourselves. Zanik, My Arm, Cyrisus, and the Wise Old Man all made it onto my Top 10 Quests back when I first wrote the list. (As an aside, if I were writing it again, I'd probably add the Temple at Senntisten someplace towards the front. I liked that one a lot.)

 

As it turns out, I'm not the only one who's a fan of Cyrisus et al. They're popular enough that Jagex is catching on, and apparently the future will herald a whole new batch of NPC allies with which we'll share some of our adventures--so they've announced in this dev blog posted on Tuesday.

 

 

"Signature heroes" in dungeoneering garb. From left to right: Ariane, Sir Ewain, Ozan.

 

 

On the one hand, this is awesome! Not only is there a new Wise Old Man quest coming up next week, but eventually we'll have a whole new crop of fellow adventurers that will hopefully be just as cool as Zanik and Cyrisus are/were!

 

On the other hand, what if they aren't that cool? Xenia's supposed to be the first of these "signature heroes," and she's hardly awesome at all! She's more like the person who sends you on the quest in the first place. Y'know, like Sir Tiffy Cashien or something. And who likes Sir Tiffy Cashien? He's not awesome at all. At least, I've never seen him doing anything awesome. As far as I can tell, all he ever does is lounge around on a park bench like some panhandling bum.

 

 

Get a job!

 

 

I think the signature heroes are a fine idea, but they won't work without good writing. Like, dialogue that's actually good. Seriously. And they need to do things that players do--that's a big part of the charm. My Arm plays Tai Bwo Wannai Cleanup, farms herbs, and gets random events. Zanik collects Tears of Guthix. Cyrisus had a bank full of Barrows armor, magic logs, and ranarrs. The Wise Old Man casts Saradomin Strike, wears a party hat, and solos the Kalphite Queen. They do the stuff that we do. And we do it with them. They're just NPC versions of us. The whole "painting the fourth wall" bit is a big part of what makes these characters so charming. Xenia doesn't quite have that charm for me. I hope Sir Ewain and the rest will do better! :^_^:

[Cassynder]

blahblahblah butthurt

 

You sure whine a lot.

[Dire_Wolf]

Makes me kinda sad imagining how great runescape would be if a company that didnt have their heads up their asses ran runescape.

 

But your right i GUARANTEE these 'heros' will all be weak npc's that we have to protect in a some crappy level 40 quest with a cheesy story line and to top it off it will have lvl 20 skill requirements.

 

Just the type of [cabbage] you can expect from jagex :thumbsup:

Either they are very weak, or they are equally strong as our character but acts arrogantly stronger. I hate npcs that "lecture" me on how to play a game.

[andrewgg]

Am I the only one who thought they would help you in dung? Solo a dungeon with help from them?

[Pirate_Felix]

I actually like this, and i wish runescape looked as good as it does in the artwork. maybe some day prehaps? :unsure:

Never.

[The_Avatar]

Seems fine to me, as long as they don't take the spotlight off the Player Character, I'm the hero dammit! Not some random adventuring douche-bags.

[Drakolord7]

Am I the only one who thought they would help you in dung? Solo a dungeon with help from them?

 

This is what I thought at first too.

 

I must say, I don't particularly like this idea. They compare them to Zanik, but Zanik worked because she was created for the quest series. It wouldn't have worked if you just replaced Zanik with Xenia and adjusted the story so it worked with her, which I think is basically going to happen with these 'heroes'.

 

These heroes seem tailor made to do a team-up, a Runescapian Avengers/Justice League if you will. Ariane seems to be the closest thing to a main character, and not in a good way. A rational, idealistic, pretty young mage who has studied at the Wizard's Tower and Mages' Guild and knows almost all varieties of magic, who happens to be a limited pre-cog. That's dangerously close to Mary Sue-dom.

[JustAGamer]

I wouldn't mind if they were similar to Arianwyn's combat-prowness during Within the Light. XD

[Quyneax]

We have Crysius (deceased), Zanik, My Arm, the Wise Old Man, Arianwyn, Hazelmere (deceased), Baba Yaga, Azzanandra and Jhallan, Ali the Wise, Savant, and Koschei, plus all knights of the round table... who needs another adventuring party? I say we slaughter them at the upcoming ritual :twisted: Me wants at-will miasmics (make them work on monsters, please?)

 

We also have that Guardian Of Armadyl, a druid and a Sardominist from WGS, forgot the name. And I'm sure Kuradal (and perhaps Sumona :P) will join us to fight soulgazers if we have to.

 

BTW, this would be the opportunity to present a crossover Temple Trekking/Dungeoneering minigame. These adventureres got their levels up by Tears and penguins and now have to unlock the floors :thumbsup:

[Pirate_Felix]

We have Crysius (deceased), Zanik, My Arm, the Wise Old Man, Arianwyn, Hazelmere (deceased), Baba Yaga, Azzanandra and Jhallan, Ali the Wise, Savant, and Koschei, plus all knights of the round table... who needs another adventuring party? I say we slaughter them at the upcoming ritual :twisted: Me wants at-will miasmics (make them work on monsters, please?)

 

We also have that Guardian Of Armadyl, a druid and a Sardominist from WGS, forgot the name. And I'm sure Kuradal (and perhaps Sumona :P) will join us to fight soulgazers if we have to.

 

BTW, this would be the opportunity to present a crossover Temple Trekking/Dungeoneering minigame. These adventureres got their levels up by Tears and penguins and now have to unlock the floors :thumbsup:

Screw you, you forgot the guy from sheep shearer

[Quyneax]

We have Crysius (deceased), Zanik, My Arm, the Wise Old Man, Arianwyn, Hazelmere (deceased), Baba Yaga, Azzanandra and Jhallan, Ali the Wise, Savant, and Koschei, plus all knights of the round table... who needs another adventuring party? I say we slaughter them at the upcoming ritual :twisted: Me wants at-will miasmics (make them work on monsters, please?)

 

We also have that Guardian Of Armadyl, a druid and a Sardominist from WGS, forgot the name. And I'm sure Kuradal (and perhaps Sumona :P) will join us to fight soulgazers if we have to.

 

BTW, this would be the opportunity to present a crossover Temple Trekking/Dungeoneering minigame. These adventureres got their levels up by Tears and penguins and now have to unlock the floors :thumbsup:

Screw you, you forgot the guy from sheep shearer

 

I'm terribly sorry, please tell me his name and I'll edit that :oops:.

[Lizzard]

So they'll basically be mascots. I don't know, RuneScape already has some good NPCs that could of served that purpose.

But being aided in adventures sounds nice. :o

[Grimy_Bunyip]

So this was from the dungeoneering trailer.

Presumably these are 5 of the signature heroes in order from left to right:

Raptor, Ozan, Ariane, Ewain, and Linza

 

sry to dig up an old thread btw :P.