Incline Chris Avellone Appreciation Station

[Ninjerk]

- my only two friends -

Sounds like he thought he had a 3rd one, and then he found out he didn't.

It sounds like someone implemented factions in the Obsidian offices and no one told him about it.

 

[Fairfax]

- my only two friends -

Sounds like he thought he had a 3rd one, and then he found out he didn't.

It sounds like someone implemented factions in the Obsidian offices and no one told him about it.

Vilified by Sawyer's Legion, Shunned by the Great Dunks, Idolized by the New Codexia Republic.

 

[Prime Junta]

- my only two friends -

Sounds like he thought he had a 3rd one, and then he found out he didn't.

It sounds like someone implemented factions in the Obsidian offices and no one told him about it.

Vilified by Sawyer's Legion, Shunned by the Great Dunks, Idolized by the New Codexia Republic.

Huh, I would've thought Codexia is the Legion. It's got the raging misogyny and general destructiveness down pat. Even got an Underlord.

 

[Fairfax]

- my only two friends -

Sounds like he thought he had a 3rd one, and then he found out he didn't.

It sounds like someone implemented factions in the Obsidian offices and no one told him about it.

Vilified by Sawyer's Legion, Shunned by the Great Dunks, Idolized by the New Codexia Republic.

Huh, I would've thought Codexia is the Legion. It's got the raging misogyny and general destructiveness down pat. Even got an Underlord.

No analogies with the actual factions intented, just word play with the names.

 

[Fairfax]

Denying theory that he's working on a new Fallout.

 

[Ninjerk]

- my only two friends -

Sounds like he thought he had a 3rd one, and then he found out he didn't.

It sounds like someone implemented factions in the Obsidian offices and no one told him about it.

Vilified by Sawyer's Legion, Shunned by the Great Dunks, Idolized by the New Codexia Republic.

Huh, I would've thought Codexia is the Legion. It's got the raging misogyny and general destructiveness down pat. Even got an Underlord.

It lacks the discipline of pure balance.

 

[Roguey]

Icewind Dale not being canon means Siege of Dragonspear definitely isn't either.

(Yeah, I know about how the Bhaalspawn was killed by a level 3 assassin in FR canon)

 

[Beautiful Clown Painting]

Let's get back to the eighties: great game designers and writers as rockstars, baby, great game designers and writers as great filmmakers (don't get me wrong, there's nothing in common between video games and movies, except for a vision, I'm just proceeding via half-baked analogies).
Even if it means dealing with unconscious crooks like Molyneux, it's part of the game towards an incline.
As for now, only the producer has the narcissistic kick (Fargo anyone?).

I'm still waiting for a ""Spy Realm Unlimited" by MCA".

Romero was just the useful idiot (while being one of the greatest level designer ever) that the industry waited for with baited breath: see, see, we can't trust those weirdoes.

Yes, I do trust in these weirdoes.

 

[Fairfax]

The Players Behind The Games Panel @ Midwest Media 2016

Unfortunately, the audio is a bit shit and MCA is not very close to his microphone, so it's very hard to hear his voice with a normal volume.



- Moderator ask what was the most embarrassing moment in their careers. Chris says it was when the producers didn't show up and he had to explain to Ron Perlman he'd do the voice for a tranvestite dragon.
[The other guys tell their stories and he doesn't say much until ~16:30]
- "What did you have most fun designing for FNV?" He says the companions, and explains why he likes to write them in general.
- Says a lot of publishers won't pay for the time with voice actors in the studio, and that these meetings make a huge difference.
- "What is the most embarassing job you've taken?" Chris quotes Bill Murray in Zombieland and says "we've all had our Garfield moments, where the paycheck was nice but you feel like you've sold your humanity [laughs]". I wonder what's MCA's Garfield?
- "I have insomnia".
- "If you could step foot into anyone you've voice acted, or in Chris' case anyone you worked on in a game, what would be the first thing you'd do?"
Chris: "I would step inside Felicia Day. Deeply." He says the VA sessions were fun and she was hilarious. Says he had to "go to the bathroom" after she said she had to play a lesbian, then got lectured by the VA director for actually saying it out loud.

[Note: they're drinking on stage, though I must've missed the part where they said what it was, if they did at all. I think it's tequila? They only had one at that point, so I don't think it's because MCA was drunk or anything]

- "Chris, what is you favourite game to play?"
"The games I enjoy actually aren't fun", then mentions Darkest Dungeon as an example and says that's what he's playing right now. Didn't answer the question, though.

- Favourite game question to the whole panel now. Chris says he really enjoys XCOM and naming characters in the game after people he knows.
- "Sometimes we get an audition so good that we rewrite the character to match the actor". Says it happened with James Urbaniak and Doctor 0.
- Panel asked if they buy merchandise from games they worked on. Chris tells a funny story about Brian Menze and the Vault Boy.
- Kyle Hebert says he's lucky to get copies of the games he works on. Jon St. John says it should be a given. Chris says you actually have to structure the contract with that, and that the companies he's worked for do make it a given, but some don't and it's a "douche nozzle move".
- Chris says Jim Cummings corrected his grammar once.

 

[Fairfax]

PS: by "time with the voice actors in the studio" I don't mean the actual studio where they record everything. They were talking about when actors meet the writers and designers at the developer's office rather than just get instructions from the voice director.

 

[Drax]

The Players Behind The Games Panel @ Midwest Media 2016

Unfortunately, the audio is a bit shit and MCA is not very close to his microphone, so it's very hard to hear his voice with a normal volume.

Jesus christoffolo that volume, how fucking hard is to record sound ffs.
I mean, it's actually and literally 2016 guys.

 

[agris]

if that triggered you, don't ever watch twitch with more than 1 person speaking. jesus christ, there's un(der)employed audio engineers out there! every shitty band in the world has a tag along who doesn't make shit and could set these things up better than what i've heard

 

[Roguey]

of Avellone

 

[Athelas]

Coming off his heart-felt endorsement of Siege of Dragonspear, this would actually be incline, relatively speaking (although not by much).

Still, considering how much of a departure Kotor 2 was from the first one, this sounds like MCA"s usual 'open-mindedness' towards other people's works.

 

[Roguey]

Coming off his heart-felt endorsement of Siege of Dragonspear, this would actually be incline, relatively speaking (although not by much).

Still, considering how much of a departure Kotor 2 was from the first one, this sounds like MCA"s usual 'open-mindedness' towards other people's works.

Karpyshyn is the sack of crap who retconned kotor 2 with Revan, turning the Exile into a Revan-loving joke, Kreia into a Sith, and Darth Nihilus into nonexistent because the Sith Emperor has that same power and she's never seen anything like it before. This is battered person syndrome.

 

[Ninjerk]

Gotta keep those doors open.

 

[Lhynn]

Sometimes i dont know if the dude is humble, or just has a very low self esteem.

 

[Athelas]

Coming off his heart-felt endorsement of Siege of Dragonspear, this would actually be incline, relatively speaking (although not by much).

Still, considering how much of a departure Kotor 2 was from the first one, this sounds like MCA"s usual 'open-mindedness' towards other people's works.

Karpyshyn is the sack of crap who retconned kotor 2 with Revan, turning the Exile into a Revan-loving joke, Kreia into a Sith, and Darth Nihilus into nonexistent because the Sith Emperor has that same power and she's never seen anything like it before. This is battered person syndrome.

Karpyshyn is no doubt a terrible writer, but I think Avellone's wise enough to know that those characters were out of his hands when Kotor 2 was finished and belonged to the franchise - if anything, the real tragedy was that Kotor 2's truncated ending meant he couldn't properly wrap up the Exile's story himself. Which is why I said this strikes me as par for the course for how MCA is always very diplomatic about other people's work.

 

[Grimlorn]

Sometimes i dont know if the dude is humble, or just has a very low self esteem.

Just think how political the game industry is for him to act like this and kiss so much ass.

 

[Immortal]

- "If you could step foot into anyone you've voice acted, or in Chris' case anyone you worked on in a game, what would be the first thing you'd do?"
Chris: "I would step inside Felicia Day. Deeply." He says the VA sessions were fun and she was hilarious. Says he had to "go to the bathroom" after she said she had to play a lesbian, then got lectured by the VA director for actually saying it out loud.

[Note: they're drinking on stage, though I must've missed the part where they said what it was, if they did at all. I think it's tequila? They only had one at that point, so I don't think it's because MCA was drunk or anything]

Evil Chris Priestly cracks sexual jokes about Felicia Day.. Completely unemployable.

MCA does it... Room of applause.

 

[Fairfax]

Coming off his heart-felt endorsement of Siege of Dragonspear, this would actually be incline, relatively speaking (although not by much).

Still, considering how much of a departure Kotor 2 was from the first one, this sounds like MCA"s usual 'open-mindedness' towards other people's works.

Karpyshyn is the sack of crap who retconned kotor 2 with Revan, turning the Exile into a Revan-loving joke, Kreia into a Sith, and Darth Nihilus into nonexistent because the Sith Emperor has that same power and she's never seen anything like it before. This is battered person syndrome.

Yes, always thought that was ridiculous and petty, but maybe he's just a shitty writer who didn't know any better. I doubt MCA has read the book or knows what he did anyway.

- "If you could step foot into anyone you've voice acted, or in Chris' case anyone you worked on in a game, what would be the first thing you'd do?"
Chris: "I would step inside Felicia Day. Deeply." He says the VA sessions were fun and she was hilarious. Says he had to "go to the bathroom" after she said she had to play a lesbian, then got lectured by the VA director for actually saying it out loud.

[Note: they're drinking on stage, though I must've missed the part where they said what it was, if they did at all. I think it's tequila? They only had one at that point, so I don't think it's because MCA was drunk or anything]

Evil Chris Priestly cracks sexual jokes about Felicia Day.. Completely unemployable.

MCA does it... Room of applause.

They do know each other (she got him in the Guild). Also, it was clearly in good fun, and he's made similar jokes before, so I think she's ok with it.
I don't know what was Priestly's joke, but it's a different context entirely.

 

[Immortal]

They do know each other (she got him in the Guild). Also, it was clearly in good fun, and he's made similar jokes before, so I think she's ok with it.
I don't know what was Priestly's joke, but it's a different context entirely.

Not really.. Priestly made a joke about her taking her shirt off for a free meal.
He claims he knew her as well... From when she was doing voice acting work on Dragon Age 2.

The line between creepiness and romance is a thin and very grey one..


Spoiler: Hot guys get away with more shit.

 

[Barbarian]

Sorry, I haven't been following the board the last few days. Can someone link/quote his endorsement of SoD?

 

[Excidium II]

Sorry, I haven't been following the board the last few days. Can someone link/quote his endorsement of SoD?

It's on their magazine or something. You will remember MCA played the game before release and gave them feedback.

 

[Barbarian]

Oh well, I guess he was trying not to burn bridges or something? I seriously doubt a writer/designer such as Avellone would actually think highly of a steaming pile of turd such as SoD.

The man tries his best to avoid controversy as we all know.