Comments on: Dead Space: Some Of It Is Warren Ellis’

By: Bhazor

Bhazor — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:38:17 +0000

They do.

By: Mooey Poo

Mooey Poo — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:34:55 +0000

Ellis’s

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:48:33 +0000

Grant Morrison is a lot weirder than Warren Ellis. Partial reason for me saying so – Morrison is a practicing magician (as in, magic, not as in sleight of hand or performance art) in real life, or at any rate believes himself to be. Warren Ellis draws the vast majority of his bizarre scenarios and depravity from real world news. FELL, for example, is heavily based on real stuff that’s really happened.

By: Rath

Rath — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:42:48 +0000

Grant Morrison is currently too busy dragging material from the late 50s Batman comics into the present and sending Bruce Wayne absolutely bug-fuck crazy on heroin as a result.

By: Esha

Esha — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:12:42 +0000

If only it had been the good Mr. Grant Morrison, then I could’ve been truly excited. Warren Elis has always struck me as the Dog-hating Taiwanese rip-off of Grant Morrison, and therefore I’ve never been all that interested in him.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:58:29 +0000

This is news that makes me somewhat more excited about it, although only somewhat, as unlike Hostile Waters or Cold Winter, he doesn’t seem to have actually written the dialogue or cutscenes so much as storyboarded it in early development. So, y’know, the fertile mind of madness, but not unadulterated. Oh well.

And I think dracko’s being hugely unfair to the man. Yes, he has some definite quirks and stock characterizations, but by no means does he drag them out at every turn. All you have to do is play the aforementioned games for that to become clear. And there are definitely other examples out there.

By: Morningoil

Morningoil — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:01:36 +0000

Yee-ah, well I think they’re both awesome (awesomer: I once knew a girl who went out with someone called Alan Moore, not, obviously, the Alan Moore, but still it was tremendously exciting for both of us, and even more so when they decided to get married. The best bit? Her first name was Moore, so, Moore Moore, and, as far as I know, that is what she is now called … )

I saw Grinderman recently and though Cave was having one of his slapdash days the band were on top form.

As for the game, well, see Yahtzee’s review of Ninja Gaiden this week … these corridor-y things (not that DS is in exactly the same game-space as NG etc, but survival horror and platform games and action-adventure titles are all starting to merge into some kind of broad 3D-gestalt-game-entity, don’t you think?) are starting to get a little old … BUT the obvious response is who cares about old or new or borrowed or blue, the question is, is it good? God of War Chains of Olympus, which I’m playing through at the mo, certainly is.

Dead Space? Not sure. It looks like it could be cool, but then the in-game trailers looked a little meh.

In summary, then: a provisional meh.

By: James T

James T — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:42:51 +0000

Everytime you guys post about Warren Ellis, I jump up and think: “Warren Ellis involved in games? This I gotta read.”
Then it turns out it’s the bad Warren Ellis.
;_;

I can’t say I made the same mistake, but yes, I’d much, much, much rather have a Dirty Three score than a Warren Ellis script.

By: Jae Armstrong

Jae Armstrong — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:09:32 +0000

@Rath:

O_o

…

o_O

…’kay…?

Anyway, this has gone from “looks mildly interesting” to “holy shit there’s something I’m actually looking forward to on PC this year”.

By: Rath

Rath — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:44:29 +0000

Mis-read the article title due to crap eyes, and briefly wondered why Harlan Ellison would ever get back into videogames after ‘I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream’. o_O

By: Willem

Willem — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:02:53 +0000

Everytime you guys post about Warren Ellis, I jump up and think: “Warren Ellis involved in games? This I gotta read.”
Then it turns out it’s the bad Warren Ellis.
;_;

By: The Shed

The Shed — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:01:24 +0000

Ellis is like my main dude. I’m gonna make my APB character look just like Richard Fell.

Byline; the Dead Space plot is actually a fantastic beast. I was even more impressed with the game when I read the backstory.

@Dracko:’ tough-guy/quirky-strong-girl’ was a pretty good call, but I think that’s the skeleton of his characters; theres a lot more to them than that. Jerusalem/ Assistants fits that, but these characters are so twisted by the world they live in that it works/ doesn’t seem “thin” at all. Fell/ uh… The woman from the bar(?) very loosely fits that, and they are strong characters (who only occasionally interact) in their own right. Whoa, also calling it sub-Whedon is exceedinly harsh, Ellis is in a different league altogether (not necessarily a much better league in terms of dialogue, but entirely different league styles).