For sale: child’s coffin, outgrown. (Destiny)

by SonofMacPhisto , Saturday, December 14, 2019, 13:21 (1811 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

A couple we’ll-written lines of dialogue can tell us as much about the characters as pages and pages of written exposition.

A couple of well written lines of text can tell us as much about the characters as minutes and minutes of spoken exposition.

Very true. I should have just said “exposition”, lol

"Does this unit have a soul?"

Writing is hard, for sure. I can't imagine how it is in a multi-disciplined medium like computer games. You've got visuals, sound, gameplay, and everything else and it all costs money and time.

I suspect what we see is simply the result of decisions balancing all those things. Obviously, of course, but it reminds me to keep perspective. I'm certainly not in place to try making things like Destiny, so I won't be too hard on the ones that are!