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Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion
Posted By: General Vagueness <General.Vagueness@gmail.com>	Date: 10/24/09 8:48 p.m.
In Response To: Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion (Silent Knight) : They are more than I expected from a Halo game. I almost cringed myself into : the foetal position listening to Johnson. : The problem is that the writers were too busy working jokes into their work : than actually developing character. Buck's line about Earth being glassed : - amazing. Why the Hell couldn't they have worked more into it? Romeo was : a blank slate and they just made him into a womanising smart-ass. If they : wanted to develop his character, he should have shouldered Mickey or : someone away from the Chieftain, before later taking the hit. This sounded good but quickly soured on me and I figured out why: it's the brash tough guy with a heart of gold, as cliché as the day is long-- I was going to say having someone who's a "good guy" (does apparently the right things for seemingly the right reasons) be a complete jerk would at least be interesting, but I remembered games revolving around jerks is, not cliché exactly, but very common (apparently-- I haven't played one unless Conker counts). Either way it sounds like they didn't characterize him very well and while I won't entirely excuse that I'll also wait to see it myself and at the risk of being accused of cutting Bungie too much slack, they took significantly less time than usual to try to flesh out 5 characters instead of the usual amount for two or three-- although now that I type that it seems kind of messed up as they were rushed with Halo 2 and managed to get the Chief better defined, have the Arbiter be a pretty believable person, show Miranda Keyes pretty effectively, and lay good groundwork for Regret, Truth, the Gravemind, Half-Jaw, and arguably Tartarus. : They gave the troopers characteristics, and assumed that gave them character. : It really hurts my brain to consider how an actual writer would view the : script... Maybe someone else should handle this part...

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Message Index

Brutes in ODST	Archilen	10/22/09 9:21 a.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	Vociferous	10/22/09 10:25 a.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	RyanTheHeretic	10/22/09 10:46 a.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	Archilen	10/22/09 10:50 a.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	Avateur	10/22/09 3:06 p.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	SonofMacPhisto	10/22/09 3:23 p.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	Archilen	10/23/09 1:32 a.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	Archilen	10/23/09 1:45 a.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	Silent Knight	10/23/09 10:08 a.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	10/23/09 10:49 a.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	mendicantbias00	10/23/09 11:44 a.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	General Vagueness	10/22/09 4:03 p.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	Avateur	10/22/09 9:46 p.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	InnerRayg	10/22/09 10:32 p.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	Ragashingo	10/22/09 10:36 p.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	Silent Knight	10/23/09 12:10 a.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	Silent Knight	10/22/09 10:27 p.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	scarab	10/22/09 11:00 p.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	Ragashingo	10/22/09 11:43 p.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	Hikaru-119	10/22/09 11:47 p.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	chris101b	10/23/09 12:01 a.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	Silent Knight	10/23/09 12:21 a.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	repivemag	10/23/09 12:52 a.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	chris101b	10/23/09 1:00 a.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	chris101b	10/23/09 3:02 a.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	Silent Knight	10/23/09 10:29 a.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	10/23/09 10:53 a.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	Vincent	10/23/09 11:04 a.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	chris101b	10/23/09 12:53 p.m.
Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion.	Silent Knight	10/23/09 6:06 p.m.
Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	10/23/09 8:25 p.m.
Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion	General Vagueness	10/23/09 9:06 p.m.
Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion	Silent Knight	10/23/09 11:41 p.m.
Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion	Hedgemony	10/23/09 11:59 p.m.
Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion	serpx	10/25/09 4:35 p.m.
Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion	chris101b	10/24/09 1:02 a.m.
Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion	Silent Knight	10/24/09 2:26 a.m.
Re: Clarification and spoilers.	Hedgemony	10/24/09 4:56 a.m.
Re: Clarification and spoilers.	Silent Knight	10/24/09 6:31 a.m.
Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion	General Vagueness	10/24/09 11:14 a.m.
Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion	SonofMacPhisto	10/24/09 3:53 p.m.
Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion	Silent Knight	10/24/09 7:02 p.m.
Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion	SonofMacPhisto	10/24/09 10:44 p.m.
Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion	Silent Knight	10/25/09 3:27 a.m.
Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion	SonofMacPhisto	10/26/09 4:29 p.m.
Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion	Bry	10/24/09 10:01 a.m.
Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion	Silent Knight	10/24/09 7:20 p.m.
Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion	General Vagueness	10/24/09 8:48 p.m.
Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion	Silent Knight	10/25/09 3:38 a.m.
Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion	General Vagueness	10/25/09 11:15 a.m.
Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion	Silent Knight	10/25/09 5:27 p.m.
Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion	General Vagueness	10/24/09 11:20 a.m.
Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion	Silent Knight	10/24/09 7:15 p.m.
Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion	General Vagueness	10/24/09 8:27 p.m.
Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion	reprobate	10/25/09 2:48 a.m.
Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion	Silent Knight	10/25/09 3:44 a.m.
Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion	Hedgemony	10/25/09 8:22 a.m.
Re: Clarification. Slight Extrapolation. Expansion	Silent Knight	10/25/09 5:36 p.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	iMonkey777	10/26/09 3:11 p.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	FyreWulff	10/26/09 3:13 p.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)	10/26/09 3:50 p.m.
Re: Brutes in ODST	Silent Knight	10/26/09 4:45 p.m.
DOH!	scarab	10/23/09 7:51 a.m.