Ax wrote: @Smokes - You might have had some fiction "liked" but when it comes down to it, you're night a writer for a game dev, you don't know what's really involved or the formats needed by other departments of the devs, or timeframes or the important aspects to create a successful story for a game, because you havn't worked in that industry. True knowledge is knowing that we don't know shit. You don't know shit. Nor do I, but I bet working for a company that big is pretty fucking intense, and I don't think she sits at a desk all day and writes what the fuck she wants and passes it on all willy nilly. She'll be given objectives and boundaries, like anyone in work (probably to stop her writing turning into fucking Twilight) and understands them, unlike us.
No, I'm not a writer for a game. However, I am a writer, so I do know something about the process, and I've read stuff from people that have done both game writing and novel writing, like Michael A. Stackpole, or Raymond E. Feist, or R.A. Salvatore, or even the guy that wrote the Darth Bane books that actually wrote stuff for Dragon Age and Mass Effect. When asked about going from writing for one thing or another, to a man they've said that it's two separate disciplines, and that you can't just jump from one to another like writing for both things is the same. That's not my opinion, that's fucking gospel as told by people that have done both.
Ax wrote: Also, she did say she didn't like a certain genre Quote: Q: What is your least favorite thing about working in the industry?
A: Playing the games. This is probably a terrible thing to admit, but it has definitely been the single most difficult thing for me. I came into the job out of a love of writing, not a love of playing games… I’m really terrible at so many things which most games use incessantly — I have awful hand-eye coordination, I don’t like tactics, I don’t like fighting, I don’t like keeping track of inventory, and I can’t read a game map to save my life. So some things she can't do, others she doesn't prefer. Doesn't say anything about dancing games. Or Point and Clicks, or racing games...I could go on. To say she doens't like games is an assumption over a little information. She also said, may I remind you, she was expecting a child and didn't have much time to play games. She still obviously played them (otherwise they wouldn't be her least fave part) because she may well have been good at her job.
I don't understand how you're not grasping this. She is asked "What is your least favorite thing about working in the industry?", and she answers "Playing the games." Not "playing action games" or "playing RPGs" or "playing strategy games". No, she straight up answers "playing the games". Yeah, she explains later why she's no good at games, but it cannot be argued that she fucking said that she doesn't like playing games. It's right there in black and white, plain as day.
Ax wrote: And again, if all of this bs what you're saying about her is ruining their games anyway, why the fuck are their stories hailed as some of the best story telling in games at right now? Think on, sunshine(s).
What Terra said.
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