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Tyranicon

A Memory of Eternity
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Back on my kick on how the quality of writers in the industry has really degraded - Deus Ex was written by Sheldon Pacotti who majored in English at Harvard and math at MIT at the same time. Absolute prodigy, running intellectual circles around the current Creative Writing/English majors filling up the ranks of narrative designers.

You don't even need a degree for that, much less one from Harvard.

Anyone who calls themselves a narrative designer instead of a writer is just an upjumped barrista.
 

Roguey

Codex Staff
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You don't even need a degree for that, much less one from Harvard.

Anyone who calls themselves a narrative designer instead of a writer is just an upjumped barrista.
It varies by the studio, but Avellone mentioned some years ago that the distinction made between writers and narrative designers at Obsidian is "people who send their text that someone else implements" and "people who write the text and also script and work with the editor to implement their content"
 

MerchantKing

Learned
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Why is there so much shit happening on the screen. I feel like having a seizure from watching this gameplay. What is this crap:

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In a Larian game, you would romance that bear instead of fighting it.
 

shimadamada

Literate
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Croatia
only 3 classes, and they are the most generic shit from PoE
It's even worse than that, warrior and ranger only have 5 active abilities each, because you're not supposed to play a pure melee build, you're supposed to at least multiclass with a wizard. You WILL pick pronouns. You WILL play a wizard. You WILL be a "godlike". You will be allowed to have fun specifically and only in the way that the old faggots and fat women at Obsidian want you to have fun in.
Fighters and rangers in bg1 have zero active abilities and people here consider it to have better gameplay than poe1 and 2.
 

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