Spoilers for the King of Dragon Pass LP: Not making friends with the ducks would have screwed us. They are implacable foes, friends with the death-worshipping undead hunter ducks of the great swamp, and with the beastmen of the west valley.
video games can look very pretty and they can play well but for some reason not a single person in the video game industry can write dialogue in an enjoyable engaging or believable way
good video game writers are a rare species. by 'a rare species' i mean 'there arent any'
video games can look very pretty and they can play well but for some reason not a single person in the video game industry can write dialogue in an enjoyable engaging or believable way
good video game writers are a rare species. by 'a rare species' i mean 'there arent any'
now, somebody please tell me where i can find a high school art show full of pictures of horses where someone has gone round nailing rotten potatoes to all of the paintings
Spoilers for the King of Dragon Pass LP: Not making friends with the ducks would have screwed us. They are implacable foes, friends with the death-worshipping undead hunter ducks of the great swamp, and with the beastmen of the west valley.
video games can look very pretty and they can play well but for some reason not a single person in the video game industry can write dialogue in an enjoyable engaging or believable way
good video game writers are a rare species. by 'a rare species' i mean 'there arent any'
perhaps this is a good game writer, because i have never seen it before in my life
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
There was a time when writing Great Literature/Films wasn't a goal of making a fun game, even a game that's moving. Miyamoto recently said that all the big devs trying to make a movie instead of a game was a problem.
Not stopping there, Macklemore analyzed how mainstream America has digested his image and music in an unfair way to hip-hop culture. He said, “I’m the ’Same Love guy’ who’s all for equality. Like, ‘This is the first time we’ve heard any rapper talk about equality! Wow, he’s a hero!’ I got put in that “hero” box. When that happens, it’s because of privilege. White privilege."
There was a time when writing Great Literature/Films wasn't a goal of making a fun game, even a game that's moving. Miyamoto recently said that all the big devs trying to make a movie instead of a game was a problem.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Devil Survivor 2, the only SMT game I played, was pretty well written and presumably the same goes for the rest of the series. Most Nintendo games are written well in the sense that they're economical and not terribly awkward. Kid Icarus is charming but the pacing seems "off" until you realize it is fundamentally designed around being replayed. I'd argue that Portal's, uh, monologue is damn near perfect. Mass Effect alternated between meh and some of the most heartwrenching stuff I've ever heard. Katamari Damaci has exactly the kind of dialogue it needs to have. Spec Ops: The Line may superficially sound stilted but it always conveys emotion extremely well (your squad mates never shut the fuck up and it actually really sells the chaotic, unpleasant nature of shootouts). 999 and Virtue's Last Reward were mostly dialogue and prose and they were really really good dialogue and prose.
That's all I have off the top of my head, and it's not as much as it looks like. At any rate I think video game dialogue should be handled and as such be viewed in a manner different from other mediums but I'm not certain how.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Because secretly all the negativity on the Internet is bringing people down and that was as good a target to unload unexpressed criticisms of other things on as any other.
...I have been very frustrated with negativity and dismissiveness recently
"Now, most of the link in question is just flaming and “he’s full of shit,” and I don’t care about that, because either you enjoy reading John Solomon and company’s rants or you don’t. It’s a taste. Presumably the people who don’t like reading John Solomon likewise have an intense dislike for the works of Joe Queenan or Ambrose Bierce or Lester Bangs, and this is, I believe, their loss."
probably there are more bad webcomics than good webcomics
but that's because anyone can just post a comic online
and tbh when i first encountered webcomics the idea of free online comics was so novel and exciting to me that it didn't matter that some of them were, with hindsight, not terribly good
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You know, people complained about the Firefox 29+ interface for aping Chrome's appearance
But I find I like it better than the default Firefox 4-28 interface with that awkward orange "Firefox" button
Hell, it's even a little nicer than Chrome itself, in some ways
"Now, most of the link in question is just flaming and “he’s full of shit,” and I don’t care about that, because either you enjoy reading John Solomon and company’s rants or you don’t. It’s a taste. Presumably the people who don’t like reading John Solomon likewise have an intense dislike for the works of Joe Queenan or Ambrose Bierce or Lester Bangs, and this is, I believe, their loss."
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
As for why John Solomon was so important, I figure it was because no one really did much criticism of webcomics in general before that, and what there was usually focused on subgroups that were stigmatised anyway (furry comics, anyone?)
I also suspect it was because his blog was more "manly" or something; places like the sporking community and fandom_wank had been doing similar stuff for years, but they were more popular with women and the LGBT community.
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Not stopping there, Macklemore analyzed how mainstream America has digested his image and music in an unfair way to hip-hop culture. He said, “I’m the ’Same Love guy’ who’s all for equality. Like, ‘This is the first time we’ve heard any rapper talk about equality! Wow, he’s a hero!’ I got put in that “hero” box. When that happens, it’s because of privilege. White privilege."
Why is that a suggestion, Google? What are people trying to learn?
That's all I have off the top of my head, and it's not as much as it looks like. At any rate I think video game dialogue should be handled and as such be viewed in a manner different from other mediums but I'm not certain how.
like when your game is nothing but dialogue that dialogue had better be pretty darned excellent
...I have been very frustrated with negativity and dismissiveness recently
but i don't really care
i like a lot of webcomics
probably there are more bad webcomics than good webcomics
but that's because anyone can just post a comic online
and tbh when i first encountered webcomics the idea of free online comics was so novel and exciting to me that it didn't matter that some of them were, with hindsight, not terribly good
i'm not dissing anyone who prefers a challenge
but exploring fictional worlds is a thing i can only get from games
i'm not dissing anyone who prefers a challenge