Tali rules so that's good, mordin is awesome, garrus is awesome
miranda, well
I mean
you did the best with what you have?
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
And he's the one that did "Big stupid jellyfish"
His greatest contribution to the arts.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
According to my wife, I already do speak like Mordin when I get excited about something.
TLB, I would say that some of those choices kinda screw you, but honestly, they result in you getting to shoot more people a lot of the time, so... win-win?
ME1:
Mostly just side plots. I'd say that if any planet is "mine", it's Feros, as the main writer for Feros was off the project by the time I came on (mostly to help out while another writer recovered from a back injury). I didn't write much of Feros, but I revised and touched up a lot of it, so some stuff in there is mine. Beyond that:
Citadel: Homecoming (Samesh Bhatia)
Citadel: Presidium Prophet (Hanar Plot)
Citadel: Reporter's Request (Emily Wong)
Citadel: Signal Tracking (AI in the Soda Machine)
Citadel: The Fan (Conrad)
Citadel: Family Matter (MY BABY)
Citadel: Planting a Bug (Emily Wong)
Citadel: Negotiator's Request (Drug Guy)
Feros: Power Cells (May O'Connell)
UNC: Hostile Takeover (Helena Blake)
UNC: Hostage (Biotic Standoff)
UNC: Besieged Base (Crazy Drug Guys)
UNC: The Negotiation (Warlord Darius)
UNC: Dead Scientists (Toombs)
All the news.
All the elevator talks between all followers.
At the time, that seemed like a lot.
ME2:
I was on ME2 for most of its development -- not all, as I was on a project that got canned and came on in time to do writing, but not all the planning. I also finally got to write followers.
Mordin
Tali
Garrus: Not his acquisition or loyalty mission, but his personal relationship dialog and his in-mission interjections. (He belonged to another writer, and I came in to help.)
Miranda: Not her critpath dialog, but everything else -- her loyalty mission and her personal relationship dialog (ie, the romance).
Illium's roleplaying-plots-and-stores area
Ambients all throughout other hubs to fill space (on Tuchanka, the krogan talking about having kids, for example)
All the news.
Most of the sound sets for generic enemies.
I didn't write every word of "Lair of the Shadow Broker", but I was kind of the critpath writer. The car chase, the hostage scene, the final talk with Liara, that kind of stuff.
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Beneath Heaven Above Hell
He Born Not from Shell
Continence of the Fen
Mind Which Cannot Ken
What Zephyr Weather Not
What Fyre Burn Not
Centurion of the Ocean INTERRUPT: Massive Explosion
Takyris - He was loved; then misquoted.
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Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
We were talking at lunch today. It's amazing to look at Mass 2 and see how relatively few impacts the previous game had. In ME3, you can look at every non-N7 mission in the game and see a not-inconsiderable difference based on some choices. The presence or absence of a character, even if that character is "just" presented through two or three conversations and a bunch of ambients as they help you out, can change the entire feeling of a mission.
Hopefully it ends up being worth it.
Taky, do you delight in torturing us?
Ugh, hurry up and get here March!
I think we all know the answer to that question
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
I don't hate her, I just think she's silly. Her father issues I can understand, but her problem with being "perfect" doesn't really do it for me. I always imagine my Shep just sort of humouring her whenever she mentions it because honestly a lot of people have a lot of weird hang-ups so I don't hold it against her.
ME1:
Mostly just side plots. I'd say that if any planet is "mine", it's Feros, as the main writer for Feros was off the project by the time I came on (mostly to help out while another writer recovered from a back injury). I didn't write much of Feros, but I revised and touched up a lot of it, so some stuff in there is mine. Beyond that:
Citadel: Homecoming (Samesh Bhatia)
Citadel: Presidium Prophet (Hanar Plot)
Citadel: Reporter's Request (Emily Wong)
Citadel: Signal Tracking (AI in the Soda Machine)
Citadel: The Fan (Conrad)
Citadel: Family Matter (MY BABY)
Citadel: Planting a Bug (Emily Wong)
Citadel: Negotiator's Request (Drug Guy)
Feros: Power Cells (May O'Connell)
UNC: Hostile Takeover (Helena Blake)
UNC: Hostage (Biotic Standoff)
UNC: Besieged Base (Crazy Drug Guys)
UNC: The Negotiation (Warlord Darius)
UNC: Dead Scientists (Toombs)
All the news.
All the elevator talks between all followers.
At the time, that seemed like a lot.
ME2:
I was on ME2 for most of its development -- not all, as I was on a project that got canned and came on in time to do writing, but not all the planning. I also finally got to write followers.
Mordin
Tali
Garrus: Not his acquisition or loyalty mission, but his personal relationship dialog and his in-mission interjections. (He belonged to another writer, and I came in to help.)
Miranda: Not her critpath dialog, but everything else -- her loyalty mission and her personal relationship dialog (ie, the romance).
Illium's roleplaying-plots-and-stores area
Ambients all throughout other hubs to fill space (on Tuchanka, the krogan talking about having kids, for example)
All the news.
Most of the sound sets for generic enemies.
I didn't write every word of "Lair of the Shadow Broker", but I was kind of the critpath writer. The car chase, the hostage scene, the final talk with Liara, that kind of stuff.
So taky, this means you are responsible for deciding that when Miranda wanted to bang she wears white and not black?
I don't hate her, I just think she's silly. Her father issues I can understand, but her problem with being "perfect" doesn't really do it for me. I always imagine my Shep just sort of humouring her whenever she mentions it because honestly a lot of people have a lot of weird hang-ups so I don't hold it against her.
I feel about Miranda the same way I feel about Morinth in Dragon Age. Sort of bitchy super-hotty with knockin' tits and otherwise not very much interesting going on. The father issues are sort of mentioned, but since Miranda just follows behind Shep all day her issues are never given a chance to actually affect how she behaves. Contrast that with say, Shep, who's background deeply affects his decision-making process (or at least the fans' interpretation of it, as we can see in the last page or so of players' background choices).
One of my favorite moments in all of ME2 was just when Tali mentions that if she's convicted she'll be exiled from the fleet. Tali and the Quarians had been really well characterized and I immediately responded, "Oh, shit!" I immediately wanted to help out Tali and knew just how serious a sentence that would be for her. It was far more emotionally compelling than actually saving the galaxy, which anyone who's ever played an RPG has already done about a dozen times over.
Toombs AND all the elevator conversations AND Darius AND Emily Wong?
Wow. Every time I hear what you did, I find a little more of everything I like in Mass Effect is your fault.
Normally I sort of roll my eyes at all of those "how to get into the industry" panels at Pax.
But whenever taky starts talking about his job writing I'm just green with envy.
Maybe if we eat him we can absorb his powers? Worth a shot at least...
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A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
Now I gotta find a place to put that poem on a plaque and shit.
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Christ. I really need to stop thinking of you as "the guy who wrote that quest that actually wasn't pro-choice/pro-life allegory at all."
Because you're responsible for a good portion of what I like about those games.
I also need to stop starting with the default assumption that whenever someone in the industry posts on PA, they're going to be asset guy responsible for the rock mesh on level 3. Because I totally did that with Vsove too, and probably a few other forumers (like Nevs).
Christ. I really need to stop thinking of you as "the guy who wrote that quest that actually wasn't pro-choice/pro-life allegory at all."
Because you're responsible for a good portion of what I like about those games.
I also need to stop starting with the default assumption that whenever someone in the industry posts on PA, they're going to be asset guy responsible for the rock mesh on level 3. Because I totally did that with Vsove too, and probably a few other forumers (like Nevs).
First thing I knew about Taky was he did that sidequest.
And that he was sorry it sucked, and it was his fault, and he had a very good explanation how it happened, but would try to do better in the future.
It was an admirable degree of frankness, and the small matter of the quest sucking was minor in comparison. Then in Mass Effect 2 he wrote the same two people debating over another minor thing and ending the conversation with "Maybe we should ask complete strangers what they think."
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Taky wrote Mordin's loyalty mission, which is the gold standard in video game moral choices. I mentioned as much in a thread and taky went "I wrote that" and I went "Gat damn"
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Taky wrote Mordin's loyalty mission, which is the gold standard in video game moral choices. I mentioned as much in a thread and taky went "I wrote that" and I went "Gat damn"
The little talks you have along the way during the second half of that mission are probably my favorite bits of dialogue in the game
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Well, he did Mordin, Garrus's shipboard conversation in ME2, Tali in ME2, Miranda outside the main plot, and a lot of miscellaneous stuff.
Including Shadow Broker.
Why I fear the ocean.
miranda, well
I mean
you did the best with what you have?
His greatest contribution to the arts.
yesss
I an pro shoot first what the fuck's a question
Worrrd.
this is just your love of chuck talking, isn't it
full disclosure
that's part of it
Love aliens
Here, going by Wiki names for shit.
ME1:
Mostly just side plots. I'd say that if any planet is "mine", it's Feros, as the main writer for Feros was off the project by the time I came on (mostly to help out while another writer recovered from a back injury). I didn't write much of Feros, but I revised and touched up a lot of it, so some stuff in there is mine. Beyond that:
Citadel: Presidium Prophet (Hanar Plot)
Citadel: Reporter's Request (Emily Wong)
Citadel: Signal Tracking (AI in the Soda Machine)
Citadel: The Fan (Conrad)
Citadel: Family Matter (MY BABY)
Citadel: Planting a Bug (Emily Wong)
Citadel: Negotiator's Request (Drug Guy)
Feros: Power Cells (May O'Connell)
UNC: Hostile Takeover (Helena Blake)
UNC: Hostage (Biotic Standoff)
UNC: Besieged Base (Crazy Drug Guys)
UNC: The Negotiation (Warlord Darius)
UNC: Dead Scientists (Toombs)
All the news.
All the elevator talks between all followers.
At the time, that seemed like a lot.
ME2:
I was on ME2 for most of its development -- not all, as I was on a project that got canned and came on in time to do writing, but not all the planning. I also finally got to write followers.
Tali
Garrus: Not his acquisition or loyalty mission, but his personal relationship dialog and his in-mission interjections. (He belonged to another writer, and I came in to help.)
Miranda: Not her critpath dialog, but everything else -- her loyalty mission and her personal relationship dialog (ie, the romance).
Illium's roleplaying-plots-and-stores area
Ambients all throughout other hubs to fill space (on Tuchanka, the krogan talking about having kids, for example)
All the news.
Most of the sound sets for generic enemies.
I didn't write every word of "Lair of the Shadow Broker", but I was kind of the critpath writer. The car chase, the hostage scene, the final talk with Liara, that kind of stuff.
As Luke (the first BioWare writer, who is still there) once said, there's a pretty good chance I wrote someone you like and someone you hate.
Toombs AND all the elevator conversations AND Darius AND Emily Wong?
Wow. Every time I hear what you did, I find a little more of everything I like in Mass Effect is your fault.
Why I fear the ocean.
This is pretty much how I'm feeling, too.
if only there were interrupts in ME1
I think Darius -- LORD Darius -- may be part of the reason Interrupts were made.
"Why, yes, I WOULD like to shoot that guy. Thank you for asking!"
Here Lies Taky
He Wrote "Big Stupid Jellyfish"
Beneath Heaven Above Hell
He Born Not from Shell
Continence of the Fen
Mind Which Cannot Ken
What Zephyr Weather Not
What Fyre Burn Not
Centurion of the Ocean
INTERRUPT: Massive Explosion
Takyris - He was loved; then misquoted.
I think we all know the answer to that question
I don't hate her, I just think she's silly. Her father issues I can understand, but her problem with being "perfect" doesn't really do it for me. I always imagine my Shep just sort of humouring her whenever she mentions it because honestly a lot of people have a lot of weird hang-ups so I don't hold it against her.
sometimes she just needs to fail, you know?
that's what the suicide mission is for
So taky, this means you are responsible for deciding that when Miranda wanted to bang she wears white and not black?
Satans..... hints.....
This explains your decisions so well.
feels good man
I feel about Miranda the same way I feel about Morinth in Dragon Age. Sort of bitchy super-hotty with knockin' tits and otherwise not very much interesting going on. The father issues are sort of mentioned, but since Miranda just follows behind Shep all day her issues are never given a chance to actually affect how she behaves. Contrast that with say, Shep, who's background deeply affects his decision-making process (or at least the fans' interpretation of it, as we can see in the last page or so of players' background choices).
One of my favorite moments in all of ME2 was just when Tali mentions that if she's convicted she'll be exiled from the fleet. Tali and the Quarians had been really well characterized and I immediately responded, "Oh, shit!" I immediately wanted to help out Tali and knew just how serious a sentence that would be for her. It was far more emotionally compelling than actually saving the galaxy, which anyone who's ever played an RPG has already done about a dozen times over.
Normally I sort of roll my eyes at all of those "how to get into the industry" panels at Pax.
But whenever taky starts talking about his job writing I'm just green with envy.
Maybe if we eat him we can absorb his powers? Worth a shot at least...
Now I gotta find a place to put that poem on a plaque and shit.
Because you're responsible for a good portion of what I like about those games.
I also need to stop starting with the default assumption that whenever someone in the industry posts on PA, they're going to be asset guy responsible for the rock mesh on level 3. Because I totally did that with Vsove too, and probably a few other forumers (like Nevs).
and did a good job!
First thing I knew about Taky was he did that sidequest.
And that he was sorry it sucked, and it was his fault, and he had a very good explanation how it happened, but would try to do better in the future.
It was an admirable degree of frankness, and the small matter of the quest sucking was minor in comparison. Then in Mass Effect 2 he wrote the same two people debating over another minor thing and ending the conversation with "Maybe we should ask complete strangers what they think."
Taky is excellent.
Why I fear the ocean.
Dude that made me feel like a pervert.
The little talks you have along the way during the second half of that mission are probably my favorite bits of dialogue in the game
Better than letting all those deaths going to waste.
Skyrim's been fun, but the sense of moral ambiguity permeating the game is just really depressing.
I miss being able to punch reporters in the face just for the fun of it, as opposed to serving the agenda of some malevolent force.