It's light and it's quippy and it's entertaining and it's disposable
and there's nothing wrong with that, it gets the job done
But I would sure hope that a guild for writers would be interested in championing things that are more daring and ambitious and challenging, and I'll grant that there's not a ton of that in games, especially in the AAA space
But there's better than "competent action movie with a generically charming male lead"
And that's also when I realized that Rhianna Pratchett hasn't written a single thing I'd qualify as "good."
Maybe her comics are decent, I don't know.
But her games writing is all pretty mediocre or bad.
Err
As someone who disagrees and thinks the tomb raider games are pretty well written
Her comics work is worse
What's weird is I actually thought Tomb Raider was okay? Like, the narrative was whatever, but the characters were fun.
So I wasn't expecting to be wowed by Rise, but figured it'd at least entertain me.
And then Rise was like, "Hey, you remember all those characters you got to know in the previous game? Fuck all of them. Here's some generic ones instead."
The beginning of that game turned me off real hard and never fully got me back on board (except for the Baba Yaga DLC, which was so much better).
What pratchett did with Sam in those comics to write her out is terrible
That said
I actually suspect she was told she could not keep the characters from the first game.
I still haven't finished Rise of the Tomb Raider, but so far I'm pretty sure they haven't even mentioned any of the other characters from the first game and I didn't read any of the comics, so in my headcanon, Sam is hanging out back in England, waiting for her girlfriend to get back from raiding tombs and nothing anyone can say will take this away from me.
And that's also when I realized that Rhianna Pratchett hasn't written a single thing I'd qualify as "good."
Maybe her comics are decent, I don't know.
But her games writing is all pretty mediocre or bad.
Err
As someone who disagrees and thinks the tomb raider games are pretty well written
Her comics work is worse
What's weird is I actually thought Tomb Raider was okay? Like, the narrative was whatever, but the characters were fun.
So I wasn't expecting to be wowed by Rise, but figured it'd at least entertain me.
And then Rise was like, "Hey, you remember all those characters you got to know in the previous game? Fuck all of them. Here's some generic ones instead."
The beginning of that game turned me off real hard and never fully got me back on board (except for the Baba Yaga DLC, which was so much better).
What pratchett did with Sam in those comics to write her out is terrible
That said
I actually suspect she was told she could not keep the characters from the first game.
I still haven't finished Rise of the Tomb Raider, but so far I'm pretty sure they haven't even mentioned any of the other characters from the first game and I didn't read any of the comics, so in my headcanon, Sam is hanging out back in England, waiting for her girlfriend to get back from raiding tombs and nothing anyone can say will take this away from me.
Jonah shows up briefly in the first half hour, is punted to the side, and then shows back up at the very end to be completely inconsequential for a few minutes.
And that's also when I realized that Rhianna Pratchett hasn't written a single thing I'd qualify as "good."
Maybe her comics are decent, I don't know.
But her games writing is all pretty mediocre or bad.
Err
As someone who disagrees and thinks the tomb raider games are pretty well written
Her comics work is worse
What's weird is I actually thought Tomb Raider was okay? Like, the narrative was whatever, but the characters were fun.
So I wasn't expecting to be wowed by Rise, but figured it'd at least entertain me.
And then Rise was like, "Hey, you remember all those characters you got to know in the previous game? Fuck all of them. Here's some generic ones instead."
The beginning of that game turned me off real hard and never fully got me back on board (except for the Baba Yaga DLC, which was so much better).
What pratchett did with Sam in those comics to write her out is terrible
That said
I actually suspect she was told she could not keep the characters from the first game.
I still haven't finished Rise of the Tomb Raider, but so far I'm pretty sure they haven't even mentioned any of the other characters from the first game and I didn't read any of the comics, so in my headcanon, Sam is hanging out back in England, waiting for her girlfriend to get back from raiding tombs and nothing anyone can say will take this away from me.
actually sam got thrown in jail in a comic because she's crazy now, hooray
It's light and it's quippy and it's entertaining and it's disposable
and there's nothing wrong with that, it gets the job done
But I would sure hope that a guild for writers would be interested in championing things that are more daring and ambitious and challenging, and I'll grant that there's not a ton of that in games, especially in the AAA space
But there's better than "competent action movie with a generically charming male lead"
Oh yeah, that's true
Looking at the list of nominees puts it in a weird perspective, too
Like
Are you telling me that X-Men Origins: Wolverine was the 5th best written game that year or whatever
And that's also when I realized that Rhianna Pratchett hasn't written a single thing I'd qualify as "good."
Maybe her comics are decent, I don't know.
But her games writing is all pretty mediocre or bad.
Err
As someone who disagrees and thinks the tomb raider games are pretty well written
Her comics work is worse
What's weird is I actually thought Tomb Raider was okay? Like, the narrative was whatever, but the characters were fun.
So I wasn't expecting to be wowed by Rise, but figured it'd at least entertain me.
And then Rise was like, "Hey, you remember all those characters you got to know in the previous game? Fuck all of them. Here's some generic ones instead."
The beginning of that game turned me off real hard and never fully got me back on board (except for the Baba Yaga DLC, which was so much better).
What pratchett did with Sam in those comics to write her out is terrible
That said
I actually suspect she was told she could not keep the characters from the first game.
I still haven't finished Rise of the Tomb Raider, but so far I'm pretty sure they haven't even mentioned any of the other characters from the first game and I didn't read any of the comics, so in my headcanon, Sam is hanging out back in England, waiting for her girlfriend to get back from raiding tombs and nothing anyone can say will take this away from me.
actually sam got thrown in jail in a comic because she's crazy now, hooray
Man that's crazy fanfic you wrote! Can't wait for the next Tomb Raider game which starts with Lara and Sam lounging around her mansion before Lara has to go on an adventure!
And that's also when I realized that Rhianna Pratchett hasn't written a single thing I'd qualify as "good."
Maybe her comics are decent, I don't know.
But her games writing is all pretty mediocre or bad.
Err
As someone who disagrees and thinks the tomb raider games are pretty well written
Her comics work is worse
What's weird is I actually thought Tomb Raider was okay? Like, the narrative was whatever, but the characters were fun.
So I wasn't expecting to be wowed by Rise, but figured it'd at least entertain me.
And then Rise was like, "Hey, you remember all those characters you got to know in the previous game? Fuck all of them. Here's some generic ones instead."
The beginning of that game turned me off real hard and never fully got me back on board (except for the Baba Yaga DLC, which was so much better).
What pratchett did with Sam in those comics to write her out is terrible
That said
I actually suspect she was told she could not keep the characters from the first game.
I still haven't finished Rise of the Tomb Raider, but so far I'm pretty sure they haven't even mentioned any of the other characters from the first game and I didn't read any of the comics, so in my headcanon, Sam is hanging out back in England, waiting for her girlfriend to get back from raiding tombs and nothing anyone can say will take this away from me.
actually sam got thrown in jail in a comic because she's crazy now, hooray
And that's also when I realized that Rhianna Pratchett hasn't written a single thing I'd qualify as "good."
Maybe her comics are decent, I don't know.
But her games writing is all pretty mediocre or bad.
Err
As someone who disagrees and thinks the tomb raider games are pretty well written
Her comics work is worse
What's weird is I actually thought Tomb Raider was okay? Like, the narrative was whatever, but the characters were fun.
So I wasn't expecting to be wowed by Rise, but figured it'd at least entertain me.
And then Rise was like, "Hey, you remember all those characters you got to know in the previous game? Fuck all of them. Here's some generic ones instead."
The beginning of that game turned me off real hard and never fully got me back on board (except for the Baba Yaga DLC, which was so much better).
What pratchett did with Sam in those comics to write her out is terrible
That said
I actually suspect she was told she could not keep the characters from the first game.
I still haven't finished Rise of the Tomb Raider, but so far I'm pretty sure they haven't even mentioned any of the other characters from the first game and I didn't read any of the comics, so in my headcanon, Sam is hanging out back in England, waiting for her girlfriend to get back from raiding tombs and nothing anyone can say will take this away from me.
actually sam got thrown in jail in a comic because she's crazy now, hooray
Wait
Really?
Godammit.
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It's light and it's quippy and it's entertaining and it's disposable
and there's nothing wrong with that, it gets the job done
But I would sure hope that a guild for writers would be interested in championing things that are more daring and ambitious and challenging, and I'll grant that there's not a ton of that in games, especially in the AAA space
But there's better than "competent action movie with a generically charming male lead"
Oh yeah, that's true
Looking at the list of nominees puts it in a weird perspective, too
Like
Are you telling me that X-Men Origins: Wolverine was the 5th best written game that year or whatever
I fell off Magic Tavern for a little while, mostly due to traffic being better to the point where I could conceivably make a Bombcast last until the Beastcast went up
And that's also when I realized that Rhianna Pratchett hasn't written a single thing I'd qualify as "good."
Maybe her comics are decent, I don't know.
But her games writing is all pretty mediocre or bad.
Err
As someone who disagrees and thinks the tomb raider games are pretty well written
Her comics work is worse
What's weird is I actually thought Tomb Raider was okay? Like, the narrative was whatever, but the characters were fun.
So I wasn't expecting to be wowed by Rise, but figured it'd at least entertain me.
And then Rise was like, "Hey, you remember all those characters you got to know in the previous game? Fuck all of them. Here's some generic ones instead."
The beginning of that game turned me off real hard and never fully got me back on board (except for the Baba Yaga DLC, which was so much better).
What pratchett did with Sam in those comics to write her out is terrible
That said
I actually suspect she was told she could not keep the characters from the first game.
I still haven't finished Rise of the Tomb Raider, but so far I'm pretty sure they haven't even mentioned any of the other characters from the first game and I didn't read any of the comics, so in my headcanon, Sam is hanging out back in England, waiting for her girlfriend to get back from raiding tombs and nothing anyone can say will take this away from me.
actually sam got thrown in jail in a comic because she's crazy now, hooray
Its so weird and stupid that I cant help but think it was studio mandated
it kinda feels like someone figured out that a lot of people were picking up on some subtext and just hit the "eject" button on the character so they wouldn't have to deal with it anymore
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The character interactions are legitimately great!
...I liked that game...
and there's nothing wrong with that, it gets the job done
But I would sure hope that a guild for writers would be interested in championing things that are more daring and ambitious and challenging, and I'll grant that there's not a ton of that in games, especially in the AAA space
But there's better than "competent action movie with a generically charming male lead"
http://www.audioentropy.com/
I still haven't finished Rise of the Tomb Raider, but so far I'm pretty sure they haven't even mentioned any of the other characters from the first game and I didn't read any of the comics, so in my headcanon, Sam is hanging out back in England, waiting for her girlfriend to get back from raiding tombs and nothing anyone can say will take this away from me.
uncharted 1 had that part where drake found drake's body that was good
Jonah shows up briefly in the first half hour, is punted to the side, and then shows back up at the very end to be completely inconsequential for a few minutes.
actually sam got thrown in jail in a comic because she's crazy now, hooray
Oh yeah, that's true
Looking at the list of nominees puts it in a weird perspective, too
Like
Are you telling me that X-Men Origins: Wolverine was the 5th best written game that year or whatever
Man that's crazy fanfic you wrote! Can't wait for the next Tomb Raider game which starts with Lara and Sam lounging around her mansion before Lara has to go on an adventure!
HAHAHAHA
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Nothing. Anyone. Can. Say.
Wait
Really?
Godammit.
we don't need to post the trailer for white man's burden again
Well that part at 8:00 where he stabs a helicopter almost made me cry
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anyway, been continuing to listen through it
the Can The Wizard episode was pretty great
but man I love Klax the Skeleton
he's just so nice!
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!!!!!!!!! My joke has borne fruit !!!!!!!!
(this was not me)
It was a really good joke!
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yeah! it's real dumb
I could really use that extra $15
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it kinda feels like someone figured out that a lot of people were picking up on some subtext and just hit the "eject" button on the character so they wouldn't have to deal with it anymore
Y'know if you emailed rorie he might be able to help you, that guy is very good at his job
nah, it's not so bad as needing to do that
"could really use" is a bit of an exaggeration. "Would be nice to have" is probably more accurate
I can go a week without going out much to support gb
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Dan no
Not Clash Royale...
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