Ken Levine: Gamers are retards
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Darkside55
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I suppose not. Today is the day you make an ass of yourself in a thread and have six pages of people saying, "Boy, aren't you wrong?"
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Speaking as someone who writes for games/mods/stories/etc, I really hope that EA buys Take2 and puts Levine's ass to work on a ****ing Madden game.
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Yeah! That'll teach his stories to be critcally acclaimed, mass-appeal hits!
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Goddamn right.
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Haha, knowing Levine he would probably bring life back to the series. I'd fully support this.
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A more complex story doesn't make it better. Sounds like ken's pissed because they killed his darlings. The thing is, they do the same with the concept art, the audio/ music, heck the modeller's probably got a dustbin filled with props and characters that didn't cut it.
Games benefit from a good story no matter how you put it, but I watch movies for one reason and play games for another.
The level of interactivity and overall entertainment value is what matters most to me. And the fact is that generally speaking, the technology that's used for games, in addition to the usual budget+deadlines, is an environment in which a decade-spanning, multiple perspective story simply doesn't fit. Memorable characters and a few plot twists are enough.
The only memorable character, to me, was Big Daddy, and ironically that's because of Bioshocks excellent design, not its story.
If Ken can't write a condensed story, like a 3d graphics artist can't make a 3-million polygon bad guy to be used in the game, he should consider writing in another field of business.
Games benefit from a good story no matter how you put it, but I watch movies for one reason and play games for another.
The level of interactivity and overall entertainment value is what matters most to me. And the fact is that generally speaking, the technology that's used for games, in addition to the usual budget+deadlines, is an environment in which a decade-spanning, multiple perspective story simply doesn't fit. Memorable characters and a few plot twists are enough.
The only memorable character, to me, was Big Daddy, and ironically that's because of Bioshocks excellent design, not its story.
If Ken can't write a condensed story, like a 3d graphics artist can't make a 3-million polygon bad guy to be used in the game, he should consider writing in another field of business.
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