Editorial Chris Avellone: What the Fuck Happened to Bloodlines 2?

[Shadenuat]

looks like MCA is in Empire Strikes Back mood.

 

[Alphons]

The absolute state of KOTOR 2 fans...

 

[The_Mask]

"In the meantime, I’ll be waiting for Bloodlines 2 like the rest of you."

Well, I am not anymore.

Can you imagine what kind of dumbfuck you have to be to have MCA writing on your game for 2 and a half years, and then toss his work away?

 

[supervoid]

Can you imagine what kind of dumbfuck you have to be to have MCA writing on your game for 2 and a half years, and then toss his work away?

Can you imagine how talentless you have to be to not produce anything of value in 2 and half years?

 

[Maximilian]

Avellone is back to writing what he's good at - complaints about game studios.

 

[ferratilis]

The best part:

- To be clear, me and Brian Mitsoda don’t get along. This is because he is way too tall, and I hate his fingerless gloves. He probably hates me because I am short and I do not wear gloves that aren’t made from human skin. Despite our height differences and choice of gloves, however, I have a lot of respect for him. He is the first person to use “filth maven” to describe a monster on the unreleased Torn RPG all the way back at Black Isle Studios (yes, he worked there, too, do your research), and I still can’t get that fucking description out of my head. Thanks, Brian, you filth maven.

Whatever this man writes, it's gold.

 

[KazikluBey]

But not to MCA's wife?

(swingers, or green card wife confirmed?)

 

[Grunker]

I hate [...] fingerless gloves.

chris is a HUEG LIER confirmed!

 

[TF]

That's a lot of swearing and undergrad level verbiage by a grown man in order to say 'I don't know'.

 

[Vladimuar]

"assholes", idiots", "fucking"

Now he sounds like a man. Stopped drinking Pabst Blue Oyster, I guess. Started drinking peat bog viking mummies whiskey.

 

[A horse of course]

I was browsing /v/ looking for the booba thread and noticed someone (Infinitron) is making threads on this using a screencap of the OP instead of the actual twatter/medium link. Infinitron have some self-respect for God's sake.

 

[NJClaw]

CHRIS COME BACK WE FORGIVE YOU

You can use this platform to shit on your ex-colleagues.

 

[vortex]

I would ask Chris Avellone if a super powerful jedi could use mind trick upon himself. Yes, can his jedi mind trick be more powerful than his strong will ?

 

[Fenix]

If I was MCA and I hadn't destroyed my public reputation by letting a bunch of used-up slags pillory me in the public square, I would have given up on the whole "writing" thing an

I would try to move to China, at least probed that posibility.

It's hard being MCA

I would say different - it's hard to be a competent man of the old era, of the renaissance of 90s, among modern generation of brandead brainwashed politicased secular fanatics.
It's liek you juvmed form Renaissancestraight to the Dark Ages.



MCA - TRY TO PROBE CHINA! FFS! YOU WOULD GET BOGGLED DOWN IN US SWAMP.

 

[Bladderfish]

7.5 out of 10. Good read. Could have used more dirt, but the vaguely pissed off, I-Couldn't-Give-A-Shit tone makes it all the more enjoyable.

Someone needs to give Chris an RPG where he can write jaded, drunkard, fucked-up, degenerate, depraved, depressed or distraught characters. Nothing but wall to wall anger and disgust. I bet he'd do a fantastic job.

 

[koyota]

Bloody dude...

This new F it all writing style..
Sure we can`t Kickstart him a gig to freelance at RPGCodex? he`d fit right in.

 

[Don Peste]

No, no, he should do this on Twitch. Or Youtube, whatever. Both.

 

[Maggot]

The article reads like his PS:T pitch and old Black Isle interviews.

 

[J_C]

RPG games

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Well what does this mean then? Is it all over or is it just beginning?

 

[samuraigaiden]

I remember some old interview with Ken Rolston where he pretty much says that his role in Amalur was to be a name in the box. It's a bad look for these devs that they agree with this bs, but anyway. Bloodlines 2 lol

 

[Absinthe]

A lot of people don’t see or appreciate what a good voice director does, but trust me, they are a big part of what makes crappy dialogue (I’m referring to mine, especially) sing and suddenly, huh, those lines you wrote hopped up on coffee don’t seem so bad.

Eh, when it comes to KotOR II, a lot of people recognize that Sara Kestelman's voice acting was a large part of what made Kreia as good as it was. I think most people also recognize that Thief just wouldn't be the same game with different voice direction.

But, when it comes to computer game voice direction, it often helps to simply not have any voices at all. It saves a fortune in your budget and being in love with voice acting everything breeds its own kind of spectacular failures, especially since, as noted, there is a world of difference between having voice acting and having good voice acting.

 

[S.torch]

I see that he is a lot more firm now and has dropped a good part of that corpo way of talking of nowdays.

Good.

 

[Tacgnol]

I remember some old interview with Ken Rolston where he pretty much says that his role in Amalur was to be a name in the box. It's a bad look for these devs that they agree with this bs, but anyway. Bloodlines 2 lol

I always felt sorry for Ken that Amalur was the game he retired on. He always sounded so enthusiastic about it when he first started working on it.

 

[Outlander]

he sounds a bit bitter

He sounds sober, and that's the problem, he just shouldn't write anything in that state. He shouldn't write games in that state. He goes down tumbling into some self-guilt trip (please cancel me now!).

What happened is he just wanted the game to be made, he helped with the pitch, but in his soberness, he didn't have the clarity to see the that the Hardsuit whatever cucks didn't have what it takes to make a game worthy to be called Bloodlines 2.