Positive Gaming News - Chris Avellone working on a new "golden age" RPG
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I want to be tentatively optimistic, but these days it feels like hoping in the video game world is just asking to get slapped down.
доверяй, но проверяй.
Trust, but verify.
Hope it's good. There's only so many OG RPGs that scratch my particular form of autism out there. Pretty sure I can play Arcanum and Underrail blindfolded now.
Quantic Dream writer?! Heavy Rain and Detroit are some of the worst written stories I have ever had the displeasure of watching (I didn't subject myself to 'playing' them). I strongly believe the only reason they had any success is because videogame writing is usually mediocre, and they managed to trick people into thinking they were 'well written' with some cheap emotional tricks.
That being said, I am a big fan of Chris Avellone's videogame writing, so perhaps he can lead them down the right path.
Heavy Rain only existed to be a vehicle to show off the Six Axis controller's capabilities and if you played it at the time it was quite obvious.
This doesn't absolve how fucking terrible of a game it is, and its writing is very beginner's "the twist carries it!" (except the twist falls apart numerous times if you go back and them adding the twist late in development leaves all the elements like the "blackouts" unexplained). But it does go from a 2/10 to a 3/10 if you are the one actually playing it. The tension is palpable at times with you having to actually make the QTEs (many deliberately way too hard for most people to get) and that does invest you slightly more than watching.
Yet even with that minor caveat, it, like all things David Cage, is not worth playing and exists entirely as a novelty to show off technology. Farenheit for the QTEs and the "life sim" elements, Heavy Rain to add motion controls to the QTEs and "branching story," Ellen Page's game to show face capture with Detroit showing it further. This is probably why it keeps getting success, more than anything about the actual games themselves.
Someone needs to reel him in though. His writing in poe wasn't great tbh compared to his earlier stuff.
Didn't play it, but honestly I feel like he's one of the few that beat a false rape allegation. Im sure going through that and being out of the game so long that he lost his edge.
Imo, just him being back to work is a win. Hell, even his worst work is still better than AAA gaming writers.
nah his poe stuff was best part of that game that is after his stuff getting cut out he is a rare one that needs to have a bit more freedom instead of getting cut all the time like in poe
Durance is one of the best written companions in any CRPG if not any RPG at all. Grieving Mother was most certainly too conceptual and abstract, but Durance carried that game alongside Eder and Hiravias.