TheSHEEEP
Keeper of the Watch
- Joined
- December 13, 2010
- Messages
- 620
Why is it unnecessary?"To summarise, I honestly think there isn’t a single competent writer left at Obsidian anymore, which, considering the company’s history, is about as funny as it is tragic. Meanwhile those that remain are not just bad, which wouldn’t even be that aggravating, but also very obviously unaware of their incompetence, which results in them overreaching and producing tripe that they should have never attempted doing in the first place. How sad."
What a wonderful crowd! I stopped reading after this line. It's one thing to say stuff like that on a forum, if you believe it and accept your loss of credibility, but to put that in an official review is unnecessary.
Because we have by now arrived in a culture where you are only allowed to speak some uncomfortable truths (and sorry, but the lack of competence in a lot of the PoE2 writing is very obvious for anyone with standards above sea level) behind closed doors and be super nice to each other no matter your actual thoughts when talking "publicly"? THAT is unnecessary.
There is good and bad writing, just like there are good and bad game mechanics, things that just objectively work or don't.
Everyone can see the challenge of the game completely drops after some point, no matter the difficulty setting, for example. Or the utter overabundance of swords vs other types of weapons.
Nobody in their right minds would argue that any of that is good.
The same can be applied to writing, and PoE2 writing, exactly as good ol' Roxor put it, drops the ball repeatedly with messing up own lore, completey forgoing any logic, making every character sexually interested in you as if all was just one big fan fiction, detaching the main story entirely from the rest of the game, having factions not interact, etc, etc.
All of this can and should be objectively rated.
The fact that some people liked it has nothing to do with it other than showing what low standards some people have.
Last edited:
- Joined
- Dec 13, 2010
- Messages
- 620