Creating complex and intriguing characters is always a challenging task. However, when it succeeds such characters can become an intricate part of the people who experienced them and be a sole reason to revisit a game. What kind of interesting characters would you like to meet in the game?
Personally, I like it when there is more to a villain than “buahahah im evil”. Often writers try to give villains a certain amount of debt, but many times this is done through having something evil done to the villain back in the days to justify his pure evelness now.
What I would like to see was a “villain” with good intentions. A character who you might get a few chances to fight together with in the beginning, a man you could come to respect – he might even save your party once. Then in the later game to have an event where you find yourself on opposing sides. Not because your old friend has turned evil, but because you have different goals and agendas, neither which can be perceived as good or evil – just different. I’d like to see an ending scene with such a character, where he and his men are beaten and he looks your character in the eyes and tell hims that unless he kills him, he will continue to oppose what you are doing, because it in his wiews is the just thing to do. Would you kill an old friend who has noble intentions or would let him god in the knowledge he might end up costing you finishing your end goal?