Original Comment by: Gearoid Reidy
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Thanks again for the fantastic comments - I'm really pleased to see this much reaction to the article. It's an issue I'll have to return to. A few quick thoughts:
- Yeah, no-one wants to see Dostoevsky in Quake 5 - in fact, I think shoehorning plots onto games that shouldn't have them is one reason that there are so many bad ones. I recently had the misfortune of playing the single-player in Unreal Championship 2. Bad enough to put me off the entire game!
- Young screenwriters are exactly the type of people the games industry should be actively searching for. They should be buying up scenarios by the dozen and competing amongst themselves for the best writing talent they want they compete for graphics and progamming talent.
- Great point about body language being non-existant. In fact, the lack of body language and facial expressions. By and large the feel and movement of characters in cut-scenes just seems wrong - it's still an imperfect art. In fact, sometimes it's even worse when Samuel L Jackson or someone is emotively expressing his lines, but his on-screen persona doesn't seem to be feeling those same emotions.
Good to see this is an issue people other than me care about. It can only better...right?
http://www.gearoidreidy.com/weblog
Thanks again for the fantastic comments - I'm really pleased to see this much reaction to the article. It's an issue I'll have to return to. A few quick thoughts:
- Yeah, no-one wants to see Dostoevsky in Quake 5 - in fact, I think shoehorning plots onto games that shouldn't have them is one reason that there are so many bad ones. I recently had the misfortune of playing the single-player in Unreal Championship 2. Bad enough to put me off the entire game!
- Young screenwriters are exactly the type of people the games industry should be actively searching for. They should be buying up scenarios by the dozen and competing amongst themselves for the best writing talent they want they compete for graphics and progamming talent.
- Great point about body language being non-existant. In fact, the lack of body language and facial expressions. By and large the feel and movement of characters in cut-scenes just seems wrong - it's still an imperfect art. In fact, sometimes it's even worse when Samuel L Jackson or someone is emotively expressing his lines, but his on-screen persona doesn't seem to be feeling those same emotions.
Good to see this is an issue people other than me care about. It can only better...right?