Lesifoere said:?
Medieval authors wrote like this:
Geoffrey Chaucer said:Yclenched overthwart and endelong
With iren tough; and for to make it strong,
Every pyler, the temple to sustene,
Was tonne-greet, of iren bright and shene.
You aren't complaining that Bioware fails to capture medieval speech; you're complaining about speech that doesn't fit into the average fantasy reader's idiotic idea of what medieval speech is like, which is neither authentic nor particularly good, in general.
Yes, I'm aware of this. I know that what qualifies as 'medieval' speech in games (or movies or books) is not REALLY medieval speech. Maybe it's my own fault for not expressing it properly, but my problem with Bioware's writing is not that it doesn't capture how people spoke a thousand years ago, but rather its inconsistency. One moment the writers are going for medieval (or faux-medieval if you will), the next they aren't. One moment characters are pulling thee's and thou's out their ass, the next they're telling you they 'don't truck with demons'.
To me, this seems like an inconsistency, as if the writers had no idea which direction they wanted their own writing to go in.
I'll take "fuck this shit, let's move on" (yes, medieval people swore; yes, they used the word "fuck") over a hack writer trying too hard with thee/thou/'tis any day. "Shall we move on" isn't anymore "old school" than "you're pretty awesome, dude," just FYI.
No, you're right. But the bottom line is that the writing switches back and forth between two 'modes' of speech, if you will. If some characters consistently spoke old school like and others consistently didn't I might be able to live with it, but when the same character goes back and forth constantly, it's poor writing, right?
Morgoth said:It's not a medieval setting, it's a fantasy setting, you fucking dumbfuck. They can use whatever language they want to.Vibalist said:I hate how Bioware have always failed to capture medieval speech in games that take place in medieval settings.
R00fles.