coolbeans said:
Panama said:
coolbeans said:
Panama said:
She deserves all the criticism she gets. She once stated the worst part about her job was having to test the games, because she doesn't like videogames. What a great example of the state of the industry and the people hired to work in it. |
She's a writer. What part of her contract obligates her to like playing the games she's writing about? If anything, that just proves she's less distracted at the office.
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Hah, I was hoping for someone to bring up that argument. She's not even qualified as a writer either beyond an English degree. The crux of her work revolves poorly written fanfiction and a terrible novel no one bought. She wouldn't seem out of place partying with Stephanie Meyer. Also Dragon Age 2 was unanimously hated by the fanbase, or at least those within the fanbase that have at least played more Bioware RPGs than just Dragon Age Origins. Poor writing was a heavy component of that animosity. Granted she didn't write all the dialogue, everything within the game was poorly written regardless. You don't seem to get it, she still has to test run these games with her dialogue to see if it works to her liking. With no experience with gaming and story telling within games, she wouldn't be able to tell if something comes across as laughably incoherent and poorly written in the context of a WRPG. You don't need to look beyond DA:O to see that DA2 had terrible dialogue, but if you wish to see an even greater disparity between the quality of writing, pick up and play some Planescape Torment, it was made back in a day when dialogue and storytelling in RPGs actually meant something. Perhaps you don't need to care about videogames to write for videogames, but you at the least need a good writing portfolio if you are to work on RPGs, and she does not sport one as far as I know.
The fact she went so far to defend her poor writing, as to bring up her vagina as the source of the hatred from RPG fans, not only goes to show she has the mentality of a teeny bopper that just unearthed feminism for the first time, but also if you saw the twitter replies, you'd see that EA's PR was supporting this woman's pathetic response, and continuously told everyone saying anything negative towards her, 'get fucked'. I can't wait to see how this whole fiasco will unravel.
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Just to point out, I've never cared to play the DA series :P.
First bold: I see where you're going with this, but you technically don't need experience in RPGs to tell whether or not your dialouge works well after you've heard the VAs. Film, TV, or Plays can give the same amount of experience.
Second bold: Essentially read most of what I needed to see and was impressed. I'm not sure how it ties in with the discussion though. I'm only trying to tackle the idea of having to "play rpgs in order to write them".
Third bold: At least we can concede to that point then :P. I'm not trying to defend her writing since I don't even know which storyline she's involved in writing for TOR. Since I've heard many other respectable posters criticize her work, I wouldn't be surprised if I found her writing to be sub par.
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