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| Re: More Adventures in 'Who Writes This Stuff!?' | |
| Posted By: General Battuta <seth.dickinson@gmail.com> | Date: 9/28/10 9:17 a.m. |
In Response To: Re: More Adventures in 'Who Writes This Stuff!?' (BanditORR) : No, this isn't a big deal at all. This crosses over from serious complaint : (like a "To war!" line) into just nitpickish. It's like saying : "Really, Bungie? Do you have to call him SPARTAN 117? I mean, do you : have any one else running around identifying themselves by numbers?" : I'm fairly certain that this type of nonsense has happened in other
As I mentioned in the reply below, this is the kind of critique we do at writing workshops - we look for lines that jump out and whack the player/reader with something that breaks immersion. When my own mod team was finishing work on our first release, we did a big dialogue run through our scripts, looking for problems like this: cheesy lines, clunky lines, weirdly redundant lines. I think Reach needed another one. Attention to detail pays. I wouldn't have enjoyed Black Hawk Down if somebody had gotten on the radio and started calling to "American helicopter Uniform Six-Four!" or what have you. :D
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