Favorite bits of in-game writing
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Abraxxus,
Posted on: 2011-03-26 11:42 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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I have that voice in my head for Marauder |
Originally Posted by Dante
That his voice sounds like Mr T in my head?
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@Golden Girl
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Well it does have Arbiter Daos in it to tell you to do the painfully obvious, but other than that it's pretty good.|
Originally Posted by Dante
No, I agree. I'd love to see more things with the patrons. Scirroco's is the only one I haven't done yet but I will be as soon as I get my next toon red side. I hear good things about it.
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There is one mission that I can think of redside that has you do the exact opposite of what your contact tells you. It's from Tavish Bell I think. Scirocco's arc could use some of that instead of yet another "talk to stupid Daos" mission.
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My favorite line in the game is actually a 2 for 1 in Vernon Von Gruns arc.
One mission debrief ends with:
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The next mission begins with:| Something must have gone awry when the growth bomb went off, but what? I can only hope that nothing goes disastrously wrong before I have a chance to figure out what has happened. |
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| Something has gone disastrously wrong! The Devouring Earth have started attacking Arachnos bases! If they've been infected by my Force of the Earth mutagen, this could all lead right back to me, er, us! Oh, who could have anticipated such a turn of events could come to pass when I began playing with an intricate and alien eco-system and the semi-intelligent monstrosities that dwelled within it? I have learned of one such base already under attack. You must investigate it! |
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It's fun because it's hilarious.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
That quote you gave is an unusual definition of the word "fun".
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My favorite bit of recent writing is Dean MacArthur's dialogue. It amuses me because I know people in real life that are just like him.
My favorite bit of the old stuff is still the Freaklympics.
Oh, and I still laugh every time I see the villain respec team's banter in the STF.
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
Can't believe no one has mentioned dear Dr Hetzfeld's arc. Great arc where the character is (generally) in control, and the contact is (supposed to be) your flunky.
And man, does Doc Hetz flunk like a champ.
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Ditto. The one hero arc where your best isn't even close to good enough. It still haunts my dark tanker to this day. I wrote a follow-up story for it in the roleplay section where she goes to visit Terra in the research hospital where they keep the now-monster under extreme guard and drugged up to prevent a second rampage... the search to cure it all but abandoned. The whole thing is very sad.
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Originally Posted by Cosmic_Cowboy
I don't know about in-game writing, but the story arc that has stuck with me the most is the Terra Conspiracy from Ginger Yates in Founders. At the finish of the arc I always feel so sad for what happens, and it really makes me hate Hamidon.
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I wrote an AE Arc called "The Terra Cure" where you're involved in trying to come up with a cure for Terra. I enjoyed it because I used some of the bosses you encountered in earlier DE missions ... and gave them some special dialogue. |
Originally Posted by Golden_Avariel
Ditto. The one hero arc where your best isn't even close to good enough. It still haunts my dark tanker to this day. I wrote a follow-up story for it in the roleplay section where she goes to visit Terra in the research hospital where they keep the now-monster under extreme guard and drugged up to prevent a second rampage... the search to cure it all but abandoned. The whole thing is very sad.
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Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
Scirocco's second patron arc kinda serves a similar purpose, in that it provides some character development, although of course you can't do it until after you've picked him as a patron. Mako needs one badly. Black Scorpion is...dumb and paranoid. What more do we really need to know about him?
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There is one line of dialogue Black Scorpion gets that I just love though:
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| That went okay, I guess. At least, you didn't betray anyone and then attack them after ratting them out to the arbiters or nothing. At least, not today. |
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The real kicker in that mission is, after you break his other hand he says|
Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
I don't remember which mission it is, but there's one where you go to interrogate someone, he refuses to talk, so you break his hand. Then he offers to talk, and one of your dialogue options is "break his other hand."
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"AHH! I told you what you wanted! Why'd you break my other hand?!"
and you say something like
"I wanted to see if you could talk like a normal person. Imagine that, you can."
I am so evil. xD
(Just as a reference, the mission is Warrant's "Stop Novahold Raid" in which you have to interrogate a Resistance member.)
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By itself, the Shadow Shard is strange, almost surreal. Then you start reading the exploration badge descriptions. Especially this one:
Hearing Voices
"Low voices vibrate the very air around you, issuing from no mouths that you can see. No matter where you go, you cannot escape the constant chanting of the nonsense phrase "...uuLArUUruUlaARUuaALuU..." You cover your ears but it cannot deaden the sound. You dream of earplugs, you fantasize about cotton swabs suffused with wax, you wish for an ice-pick to puncture your eardrums, anything to make the chanting stop. It is not long before you realize that the chanting is not coming from without, but from within, from you. It is your own mouth that chants this dark refrain, something commands you to speak and unless you leave now you wonder if you will ever stop."Holy crap...
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I'll be looking for that later then. As Golden_Avariel says, your best just isn't enough and my fire blaster who completed that arc the other day will be looking for redemption/payback. |
Originally Posted by BlueBattler
I wrote an AE Arc called "The Terra Cure" where you're involved in trying to come up with a cure for Terra. I enjoyed it because I used some of the bosses you encountered in earlier DE missions ... and gave them some special dialogue.
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I think it works because it focuses on the victim so much. We rescue citizens from danger every day but very rarely do we get 'close' to them. We need more arcs like this.
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Am I the only one who hates these? They're god-modding. I especially hate the "you drink the water" one and the one that goes on about your mom.
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Originally Posted by JAG-01
By itself, the Shadow Shard is strange, almost surreal. Then you start reading the exploration badge descriptions. Especially this one:
Hearing Voices "Low voices vibrate the very air around you, issuing from no mouths that you can see. No matter where you go, you cannot escape the constant chanting of the nonsense phrase "...uuLArUUruUlaARUuaALuU..." You cover your ears but it cannot deaden the sound. You dream of earplugs, you fantasize about cotton swabs suffused with wax, you wish for an ice-pick to puncture your eardrums, anything to make the chanting stop. It is not long before you realize that the chanting is not coming from without, but from within, from you. It is your own mouth that chants this dark refrain, something commands you to speak and unless you leave now you wonder if you will ever stop."Holy crap... |
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Arc ID#431270 Until the End of the World
I haven't seen them in-game yet and I hate them already. :-P
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That sounds more like a PvP badge.
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Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
the one that goes on about your mom.
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@Golden Girl
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Just to nitpick, but it's "god moding," the etymology being from God Mode in first person shooters. "Modding" is a misspelling that just won't die.|
Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
Am I the only one who hates these? They're god-modding.
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Oh how I long for Rhy'Din again when everyone used to get it right despite throwing around the word "moder" like it was going out of style.
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No, you're not. I know they're just flavour text to get you in the mood for what the Shadow Shard can be like but they take a few too many liberties with my characters for me to regard them as anything like canon. I grab them on my badger then move on.
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Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
Am I the only one who hates these? They're god-modding. I especially hate the "you drink the water" one and the one that goes on about your mom.
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If they bug you, ignore them and act like they don't apply. Bam.
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You should go see them. Monster Island too. You'll get some merits out of it at least, and I look forward to your rants on the subject.|
Originally Posted by Venture
I haven't seen them in-game yet and I hate them already. :-P
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Originally Posted by Xzero45
If they bug you, ignore them and act like they don't apply. Bam.
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I like the Shadow Shard badges - they add another layer to the area by giving details that you can't get from just looking at the place.
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The "High Roller's Last Gamble" arc from Slot Machine (its second arc) is my favorite bit of writing. It is both beautiful and tragic, particularly toward the end and when you read the Souvenir. It is much more powerful if you complete the contact yourself so you can its "no more missions" dialog.
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Originally Posted by Mega_Jamie
The whole of the "Wretched Man" arc I find very well written red-side and (although its infrequent now) I always try to cover it with a new villain.
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I actually started Redside and the Wretched Man arc was so well-written that I stayed there 6 months before going to Blueside. I've always liked Wretch and Ghost Widow and I wrote her into a piece of fiction I'm working on.
This thread makes me want to go back through all these great missions...
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Like Dante, I'll definitely be looking into that. Thanks.
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Originally Posted by BlueBattler
I wrote an AE Arc called "The Terra Cure" where you're involved in trying to come up with a cure for Terra. I enjoyed it because I used some of the bosses you encountered in earlier DE missions ... and gave them some special dialogue.
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No, I agree. I'd love to see more things with the patrons. Scirroco's is the only one I haven't done yet but I will be as soon as I get my next toon red side. I hear good things about it.
@Dante EU - Union Roleplayer and Altisis Victim
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