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outlawauron said:
I consider something that is unable to convey its plot points in a succinct manner to be overly verbose and thus poor. I also intrepret the tempo of dialogue to mean that there is a lot of filler or unimportant things distracting from the main plot. |
Depends on the game, really. Xenogears and Xenosaga both had pacing issues, I won't deny that. In fact I've written about it, before. But I wouldn't say their pacing issues were because they had poor writing. A story can be paced poorly yet still have good writing. I mean the worst part of Xenogears/Xenosaga's writing was that the overuse of specialized language confused the player, but that is something pulled off quite well in many novels, and not so badly in Xenogears (they use it to their advantage in certain areas.)
