Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-74.104.206.83-20130730235710/@comment-170.38.99.34-20130926025134

I would much rather play a RWBY game where the MCs are the main casts and not original characters. I mean, playing as them is infinitely more cooler than playing an OC you know; things just work that way.

This would allow us to play from each character's point of view: Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang. Each character will have their own Main Missions, and when Team RWBY come together then they'll be in for some Grand Missions (Multiplayer Co-op, 4 man action game Kingdom Hearts style OH MAN).

By setting things up this way, we'll get to explore the RWBY world as well as their backgrounds from unique individual point of views. Ruby's daily life is not going to be the same as Weiss, vice versa, and so on. Their individual storylines would almost never be the same except when they go to missions together as a team. That makes things really interesting. Some of them might even have hidden agendas that are not shown if you're playing as another character. Take Blake Belladona as an example, where I speculated that she's spying on Beacon's movements - perhaps an infiltration mission where she tries to steal top secret documents and such?

This fact is amplified by the character's personalities, as they're just so different from each other. Their skillsets for example, calls for at least 4 possible different styles of gameplay. When playing as Blake you get to listen to conversations from afar, steal objects, hide from things, instantly assassinate monsters from behind etc - basically just imagine the game mechanics of various stealth FPS games such as Splinter Cell or Dishonored or whatever and add anything that fits her style.

Then you have Weiss, who is an honor student where you'll get to attend various classes, learn new spells from there, have the ability to concoct powerful Dust vials (basically alchemy) that can enhance weaponry etc. Just the magic system alone (such as Air Steps homing and targetting) she uses in combat can distract me for a whole day. Since Weiss' combat mechanics is extremely rhythm-focused (I'm sure many people thinks that if we disrupt Weiss' tempo in combat, she's going to perform poorly right? same concept in gameplay), the longer she can chain her spells and attacks, the more damage she's going to do exponentially. Also, considering that she has an eye for weak points (like when she tried attacking the Armored Golem knees in White Trailer and demobilize it) she should be able to identify weak them immediately in combat, though I guess all of the girls can do that as well.

And then there's Ruby whose route would be the most straightforward and direct combat-oriented, and her backstory may involve, I don't know, dreams about the White Cloak or something? Maybe even her days in Signal and Uncle Qrow! Since she usually makes 'insane plans' perhaps out of all four characters she also has the craziest and hardest achievements of all? I know there are people who would willingly fling money just for the challenge lol. Ruby's route should also have a surprising amount of puzzle challenges, since her speciality is thinking out of the box and make working plans. And not just the normal 'pass terrains' type too, but also puzzles in combat. Normally if you're playing as the other 3 characters you would not be able to interact with these 'puzzle checkpoints' (or only a few) and use them in combat, but as Ruby you can interact with them and execute a much grander, far more damaging epic combo. Like, imagine re-enacting the Nevermore beheading scene from the beginning to the end, as Ruby Rose, first/second person POV from start to end with epic Red Like Roses Part II blasting in your head. Just wow.

And since Ruby's a weaponry expert, she should be able to customize and enhance her weapon far more than any of the other 3 characters. Note: the difference (taking Weiss as example) is that Weiss improves her damage by concocting stronger Dust vials and magic - I doubt she could customizes Myrntenaster even nearly as much as Ruby's Crescent Rose. Same goes to Blake, whose focus in damage is more in pinpoint accuracy, assassination and her own techniques rather than weaponry upgrade; basically just being a ninja.

And then there's Yang. Unlike Ruby, whose Scythe Gun form is rather weak and even lackluster (though I imagine Rifle form can be used to snipe from afar), Yang's ranged combat would be far superior. Also, considering that she's a martial arts expert she may have a variety of kungfu moves and skills that she can obtain as the player progresses in levels. Since she's a sociable person she may also gain style points and combo and STUFF SO MANY as you ensure - quoting Moczo's fanfic - that her hair was the single greatest mane in the country XD. Her weaponry customization should also be pretty good - unless she turned out to be completely inept at this, though it would definitely be surprising - and the upgrade focus here is put mainly on bullets and recoil.

All said and done, my final point is just this: You seriously want an OC (whose skillsets are completely defined by the game designers and probably boring as fuck as usual anyway) when you can play RWBY as Team RWBY themselves?