Nobody wants to eat pizza for every meal. Still, even if you love something, there's an ultimate limit to that love.
Whether you enjoy this style of writing will ultimately boil down to personal taste. (For the record, someone does actually say, "He's right behind me, isn't he?" in Thor: Love and Thunder. The line itself is the essential ethos of The Avengers writer and director Joss Whedon: No matter what just happened, we can make a dumb referential joke at its expense and instantly erase all dramatic tension. "Uhhh, well.THAT just happened!" - one of the Eternals, /ac0we6Cz05 - Jesse Hawken October 26, 2021ĭespite the fact that this phrase doesn't actually seem to appear in any actual Marvel movie, it's become a shorthand for the cliche, shopworn quips that certain people ascribe to the MCU. "Ugh, that is SO unprofessional," one of our loveable losers quips upon learning that the gang they're about to rob shot the arms dealer delivering the goods. "Sleep tight," our intrepid sniper says before blowing holes in five vampires. Despite being very different in genre and overall presentation, the two games strike an eerily similar tone, filled with witty banter, non-sequiturs, visual gags, and-of course-lots and lots of quips. The writing style of big video games has settled on the sarcastic, quip-filled malaise first popularized by Joss Whedon on shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly.įor example, compare the reveal trailers of the upcoming Saints Row and the delayed Arkane exclusive Redfall, each from about a year ago. Or, to put it a less charitable way, there's an acute sense that a lot of games are settling for the generic instead of actually differentiating themselves from the rest of the pack. If you play a lot of video games, you've probably noticed that the tone and character writing of big-budget blockbusters have become remarkably similar in recent years.
I'm referring to the abject " Jossification" that has taken hold of gaming at its root, especially in the triple-A space. But, to me, the regrettable writing in this ad speaks to a greater problem in game production, one that has been bubbling for the past five to 10 years. And since the game is still in the oven, we have no idea if this ad will reflect the final product. After all, the game community will find something new and embarrassing to laugh at in the next few days. E6Xh8Vl7XJ - 🐢 bob 📼 August 10, 2022Īs a whole, it's tempting to laugh at these goofy memes and move on with our lives.
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