I don't think the writing is an issue here or it is corny.
"Death's design will be complete" "Bow before me, bow before the Absolute, bow, bow" "But you have something he doesn't, allies worth having", "together, we will strike down the absolute"
This is only from a 1:30 min video. Looks written by children for children.
I was pleasantly surprised that the very few lines in Elden Ring were actually decently written.
Yeah. Unforunately this. They put so much obvious passion into their ‘things’ that I didn’t have the heart to say it as you did.
But that’s exactly it.
Every one of those quoted lines fizzles out as fast a belch.
They have their audience nailed down. And they could just pull out a plastic phallus and wave it around, and they’re Hemmingway as far their dedicated is concerned.
We won’t have a BG2 again from a financially prosperous company.
It doesn’t matter. I work with AI quite a lot my job. It’s good at mediocre code-related tasks. It takes care of the ‘donkey-work’, up to a point. You still have to double-check everything. And chatGPT didn’t even know how to round up at one point.
As for the ‘stories’ they write – they are on the level of what Larian reguriates. Just pulled from every cliché that web ‘data’ provides. Larian writers are like a poor man’s ‘model’ – they just ‘train’ themselves on all the stock stuff.
Irenicus was a nasty, vicious, hateful mf – he had a history even in BG1, where he cursed a former lover out of spite and turned her into a grotesuque, obsese slob, robbed of all her former powers, with only spiders to keep her alive.
That’s good villain-writing.
The villain needs to be loathsome, not just child’s cartoon ‘bad’, like what we seem to have in the latest trailer.
Think about it. What gets you more fired up to kill the big bad – is it the dude that just wants to be a ‘big evil god’?
Or is it the dude who pretended to be your friend and conned you into letting him into your house. You gave him sanctuary: he then raped your wife, slit you childrens’ throats and sacrificed their blood to his cackling mad hobgoblin god.
You’re tied down, watching all of this. He drags you outside, and his his vicious, neatherhal friends do likewise to all your friends, then gut them before you, calling you a fucking cuck all the way, a little miserable bee-atch.
Which one gets you going for the revenge story?
Apocalypse now – you can say what you want, but it built up a huge respect for the ‘hereos’ and realy made the villians out to be complete bastards.
That’s good story-telling.
We’re simply missing this in BG3.
