What interesting timing. A few weeks ago I talked to Dragon Age’s designer Mike Laidlaw at a press event. It has just gone up on Eurogamer. Of course, this ties in to the uproar around the recent violence trailer. I found myself eye-brow raising a little in the PR-line which Bioware seem to be following with this too, but when pressed Mike defended the mature direction as more than just trailers…
“I’m not sure the level of maturity is the difference – but the depth, the experience itself. Does it all hang together on a single theme? Because I think our greatest failing could be it’s just a standard oh-look-a-unicorn fantasy… also, this guy’s head just popped off. For it to feel tacked on, and not part of the experience.”
More here. Of course, there’s also the sarcastic response inspired by Psychopomp’s comment thread post…
Good work. Though the whining about Marilyn Manson not being real music does make you sound an old English major tutting at children on the village green. I’d have gone for something far harder myself. WE ARE THE ATTTAAAARRRRIII TEEEENAGGGGGEEE RIOTTTTTT!!!! WE HAVE A +4 SWORD VERSUS SCARABBBBBBZZZ!
Yes.
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PENNY ARCADE LINKED TO MY VIDEO
CONGRATULATIONS PSYCHOPOMP AND I
I AM SPEECHLESS WITH EFFERVESCENT DELIGHT
DEFENESTRATE ME, I MUST KNOW ‘TIS NOT A FANTASY
@Fedora Freak: Sooo… You think beeing linked to by Penny Arcade is somehow more prestigious than beeing linked to by Rock Paper Shotgun, do you? They have the better writers there? The nicer community? Interesting….
;)
Yakety Sax version whipped up in a shameful “me-too” moment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqYCkCnCvEg
I regret nothing.
I JUST WENT TO PENNY ARCADE TODAY, I SAW THAT!
FEDORA FREAK WE MUST MAKE LOVE
ALSO, IF SADAUKER ELITE HAD THE SAME IDEA, I SUGGEST YOU PUT HIM IN THE BODY OF THE VIDEO INFO TOO, RATHER THAN DOWN THERE AT THE BOTTOM. SINCE HE IS OBVIOUSLY AN AWESOME PERSON LIKE US.
From the interview:
“It’s kind of like having a blue period.”
That kinda sums it up for me. Seems they think a lot more of their story telling abilities than what is really there. I’ll give it a miss.