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| Re: Possible explanation | |
| Posted By: Hawaiian Pig | Date: 9/28/10 1:22 a.m. |
In Response To: Re: Possible explanation (General Battuta) Real explanation: It sounds militaryish. The game's chock full of jargon. No sense in bemoaning things like this. I mean, just a quick exercise in contrast; look at each game's first lines: Keyes: Cortana, all I need to know is, did we lose them? Elite Commander: There was only one ship. Cortana: They let me pick. Did I ever tell you that? Mickey: The Navy put up a good fight. Col. Urban Holland: Contact with Visegrad Relay was lost last night, all signals flatlined at twenty-six hundred hours. I responded with trooper fire teams, which have since been declared MIA. In media res is a great tool when you make the audience feel like they're happening upon a natural exchange. Now this may be a "natural" military exchange... but really Keyes addressing Cortana was natural and a request for a sitrep. Military jargon doesn't lend itself to interesting writing, like, ever. Maybe some people are into that sort of thing? I dunno.
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