Why don't more games have actual writers doing the actual writing?
Why don't more games have actual writers doing the actual writing?
Connor Gutierrez
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Gavin Bailey
Wtf are you talking about, the writing in DE is fucking awful.
Lincoln Hall
Name a 1 (one) single game with better writing than Disco Elysium.
Bentley Jackson
Open steam, click on the first game you see.
Bingo, you've found it.
Caleb Kelly
I wonder this myself but if I had to guess I would assume it's a combination of most studios not thinking great writing is worth the cost investment of hiring one, most good writers not being very interesting in video games or in working with developers, and the video game industry as a whole being disgustingly nepotistic meaning dogshit writers can just float from studio to studio.
Nolan Cox
Pathologic 1/2.
Adam Thomas
Lack of standards. I remember playing 1 hour of horizon zero dawn and immediately dropped it because of how awful the writing was. Barely any journo talked about this. Standards for writing in vidya are abhorrent.
Brandon Perez
Injustice 2
Asher Peterson
The writing of pathologic, at least the english translation, is kinda awful.
Maybe the original is a masterpiece but I have a feeling you never played that.
Jonathan Wood
Can't stand DE's writing. It's barely a step above some smug redditor who got an A- in 10th grade English and now think they're the next Douglas Adams or something.
Liam Sullivan
Who's your favorite author?
Jordan Ramirez
Yeah, it was complete trash, but I can see how ethno-masochistic communist discord groups would like it since it appeals to their lack of self-worth
Brandon Parker
because the majority of the market plays video games for gameplay and escapism. not to experience a psued visual novel.
Jonathan Clark
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Jaxson Wilson
I can understand someone feeling that way about Classic HD, that games writing is quite unusual and strange. Characters speak more like poetry and philosophy dispensers than actual people. I can understand that not being appealing, though I love the writing style.
Pathologic 2's writing is undeniably great imo. A quite drastic change in the writing style but it nails what it's going for imo.
Aaron Young
>J-JUST GOOGLE IT...I-IT'S ALL OVER TWITTER
>your brain on fighting games
Debatable but they both have different types of writing. DE is written in prose and feels like a Steinbeck novel while Pathologic is more poetic. Pathologic 2 is also unfinished.
Fun but no
Ian Morales
>Fun but no
elaborate.
Brody Ross
>brain on fighting games
How does that detract from the story?
Nicholas Rogers
he's downplaying for the sake of it.
Grayson Martin
>Pathologic 2 is also unfinished.
That's true, but Pathologic is also three full games stuffed into one.
Also, there is this website for Pathologic 1 full of stories and lore concerning the Town. Many of these were written by the games writers. The English translation may not be the best, but it may give us a feel for how these writers can handle prose, or at least how they handled it over 15 years ago.
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Joshua Russell
Play Japanese games or mystery focused titles
Henry Ross
Planescape
Ryan Richardson
meant for
Carter Scott
Because then they turn into pretentious dialogue dumps like the one in the image you posted
Sebastian Sullivan
I honestly can't think of a game that has worse writing than DE.
Logan Bell
Have you played any video game ever?
Isaiah Lee
Because games are not for smart people
Ryan Davis
probably the closest out of everything mentioned here. Even still I'd give it to DE for being more polished, snappier and better paced.
Julian Brown
Some of this stuff is pretty good imo, if a little rocky in a couple spots, probably due to translation issues.
Jaxson Richardson
Samuel Price
Okay, real talk. No political bullshit, no "is this a VN" or anything else. Just real talk. Answer me this one question.
Was The Man From Hjelmdall a real person?