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Re: Not bad.
Posted By: General Battuta <seth.dickinson@gmail.com>	Date: 12/10/10 8:01 a.m.
In Response To: Re: Not bad. (General Vagueness) : now I'm confused I'm sure the line delivery can handle it. : one I don't think most developers would take-- I'm not saying you should play : to the least common denominator, I'm saying you shouldn't make it so half : or more of your audience has to get a dictionary or fire up Google : afterwards to figure out what the dialog means I've released a product that made extensive use of much more complex military terminology and it still got rave acclaim. And BSG did the same. Both trusted the audience to figure out what was happening. I think Reach can do the same. : I could've sworn that was a Skirmisher Nope, Field Marshall. : well I don't like the idea of a character that has no lines and is given no : chance to emote in a meaningful way, isn't that exactly the kind of thing : you were trying to eliminate from the script? Every enemy in the game has no lines and has no real chance to emote in a meaningful way. This one just happens to pop up a few times. What I want to do here is supply meaning to the things that happened in Reach. That 'Phantom overhead' sequence was meaningless; you could merrily sprint along without issue. Now it - along with something that happens in Tip of the Spear, and then events in later levels - has a connection to other events in the game.

Message Index

Reach, Rewritten: Nightfall	General Battuta	12/9/10 5:36 p.m.
Re: Reach, Rewritten: Nightfall	Hawaiian Pig	12/9/10 6:17 p.m.
Not bad.	BlueNinja	12/9/10 6:18 p.m.
Re: Not bad.	General Battuta	12/9/10 6:20 p.m.
Re: Not bad.	BlueNinja	12/9/10 6:36 p.m.
Re: Not bad.	Hawaiian Pig	12/9/10 6:39 p.m.
Re: Not bad.	General Battuta	12/9/10 6:47 p.m.
Re: Not bad.	General Vagueness	12/9/10 7:38 p.m.
Re: Not bad.	General Battuta	12/9/10 7:44 p.m.
Re: Not bad.	SonofMacPhisto	12/9/10 7:50 p.m.
Re: Not bad.	General Vagueness	12/10/10 1:29 a.m.
Re: Not bad.	General Battuta	12/10/10 8:01 a.m.
Re: Not bad.	Wayward Spleen™	12/10/10 8:59 a.m.
Re: Not bad.	General Battuta	12/10/10 9:31 a.m.
Re: Not bad.	Wayward Spleen™	12/10/10 9:50 a.m.
Re: Not bad.	General Battuta	12/10/10 9:55 a.m.
Re: Not bad.	Wayward Spleen™	12/10/10 10:10 a.m.
A wizard did it. *NM*	Beckx	12/10/10 10:14 a.m.
Re: Not bad.	Kermit	12/10/10 10:23 a.m.
Re: Not bad.	General Battuta	12/10/10 10:59 a.m.
i fail so hard *NM*	General Battuta	12/10/10 10:59 a.m.
Re: Not bad.	BlueNinja	12/9/10 7:09 p.m.
Re: Not bad.	Kermit	12/9/10 8:23 p.m.
Re: Not bad.	Hawaiian Pig	12/9/10 9:34 p.m.
Re: Not bad.	7he grunt w/a plasma pistol	12/9/10 9:57 p.m.
Re: Not bad.	Kermit	12/9/10 10:46 p.m.
Re: Not bad.	Hawaiian Pig	12/9/10 11:02 p.m.
Re: Not bad.	Quirel	12/9/10 11:16 p.m.
Re: Not bad.	Quirel	12/9/10 11:17 p.m.
Re: Not bad.	Hawaiian Pig	12/9/10 11:55 p.m.
Re: Not bad.	General Battuta	12/10/10 12:01 a.m.
Re: Not bad.	Hawaiian Pig	12/10/10 12:35 a.m.
Re: Not bad.	General Vagueness	12/10/10 1:38 a.m.
Re: Not bad.	General Battuta	12/10/10 8:02 a.m.
Re: Not bad.	Hikaru-119	12/10/10 12:38 p.m.
Re: Not bad.	General Battuta	12/10/10 12:55 p.m.
Re: Not bad.	Hawaiian Pig	12/10/10 1:04 a.m.
aaaaaaaaagh	General Battuta	12/9/10 6:24 p.m.
A much tighter rewrite *NM*	SonGoharotto	12/9/10 7:07 p.m.
Re: Reach, Rewritten: Nightfall	SonofMacPhisto	12/9/10 7:15 p.m.
Re: Reach, Rewritten: Nightfall	General Battuta	12/9/10 7:17 p.m.
Re: Reach, Rewritten: Nightfall	SonofMacPhisto	12/9/10 7:24 p.m.
Furthermore...	SonofMacPhisto	12/9/10 7:43 p.m.
Re: Furthermore...	Hawaiian Pig	12/9/10 9:38 p.m.
Re: Reach, Rewritten: Nightfall	Quirel	12/9/10 10:26 p.m.
Re: Reach, Rewritten: Nightfall	General Battuta	12/9/10 10:27 p.m.
Yes and No	7he grunt w/a plasma pistol	12/9/10 10:31 p.m.
Re: Reach, Rewritten: Nightfall	Quirel	12/9/10 11:10 p.m.
Re: Reach, Rewritten: Nightfall	General Battuta	12/9/10 11:16 p.m.
Re: Reach, Rewritten: Nightfall	Quirel	12/10/10 12:23 a.m.
Re: Reach, Rewritten: Nightfall	Louis Wu	12/10/10 7:35 a.m.
Re: Reach, Rewritten: Nightfall	General Battuta	12/10/10 8:03 a.m.
Alien bastards are gonna pay for busting my ride	Beckx	12/10/10 7:40 a.m.
Re: Reach, Rewritten: Nightfall	Hikaru-119	12/10/10 12:42 p.m.
Re: Reach, Rewritten: Nightfall	SonGoharotto	12/10/10 4:29 p.m.
Re: Reach, Rewritten: Nightfall	7he grunt w/a plasma pistol	12/10/10 4:44 p.m.
Re: Reach, Rewritten: Nightfall	SonGoharotto	12/10/10 7:31 p.m.
I really like these.	SPARTAN-034	12/9/10 10:37 p.m.
Re: Reach, Rewritten: Nightfall	Archilen	12/10/10 8:17 a.m.
There is a a Recon Alpha	Hikaru-119	12/11/10 9:10 p.m.
Re: There is a a Recon Alpha	General Battuta	12/11/10 10:06 p.m.
Re: There is a a Recon Alpha	Hikaru-119	12/11/10 10:18 p.m.
Re: There is a a Recon Alpha	General Battuta	12/11/10 10:55 p.m.
I did one better than write a quote	Hikaru-119	12/11/10 11:06 p.m.
Re: I did one better than write a quote	General Battuta	12/11/10 11:11 p.m.
Re: Reach, Rewritten: Nightfall	Jo	12/11/10 10:47 p.m.
Re: Reach, Rewritten: Nightfall	General Battuta	12/11/10 10:54 p.m.
Re: Reach, Rewritten: Nightfall	Jo	12/11/10 11:20 p.m.
Re: Reach, Rewritten: Nightfall	General Battuta	12/11/10 11:28 p.m.
Re: Reach, Rewritten: Nightfall	Jo	12/12/10 1:34 p.m.