LPPrince wrote...
Revan312 wrote...
Again, a poor excuse imo.. your sibling just got murdered 5 minutes ago I said it again because the people making assumptionary justifications must not understand how 99% of people would react to their very close loved one dieing suddenly. Here's a good example oh what I would have been happy with..
Overall the scene failed to do it's job, you can't deny that. When you have to start making justifications for why the scene fell flat and didn't involve the needed emotion, it's a sure sign the whole point was lost and/or rushed.
I CAN deny that. They had darkspawn all around them, a big friggen dragon lady, and the fate of their lives hanging in the balance.
I sure as hell wouldn't be mourning someone who just died no matter who it was. At least not with tears streaming down my face.
They didn't fail anything there. At least not to me. And please don't start whipping out imaginary percentages to drive your point. I get your opinion. Doesn't mean I agree with it.
I feel it was handled fine. I'd be grieving later, and if they DO grieve later, then awesome. If they don't, I'll just roleplay it that they did it off camera.
I don't need to see it happen to know it did. That's one of the essences of a role playing game.
I wasn't expecting you to take the percentage as fact, of course it's pulled out of thin air simply to demonstrate a point..
But if your fine with how the scene was handled, a question. Does the scene I linked from 300 have more impact and meaning/emotional connection than the one displayed in this footage of the game? If yes I will say your a strange one indeed, if not, then to what degree is the 300 scene better portrayed?
I would argue that that scene in 300 (a movie I actually didn't like) was about 1000X more understandable and realistic than either of Wesley or Carver/Bethanys deaths. I really can't believe that you thought that scene had enough emotion. It feels like your defending it simply because your a Bioware hopeful and want to plug your ears and impart an explenation for the flat attitude of it all. If I'm wrong then I apologize but I just can't see as that scene was approprietly dramatic by even passing viewers.
Lastly, if the situation was so dramatic and dire, why did none of them act accordingly? They all seemed fairly calm and collected. If there's darkspawn everywhere, a shapeshifting old woman just appeared out of dragon form and your brother/sister just died, why does it feel like they all took an ambien or three? If they were all frazzled, nervous and stressed I could understand the lack emotion as an explenation for the careless attitude towards the deaths, barely, but none of them are so it falls flat to me... extremely flat.
And with that I'm done discussing the deaths as there's nothing else to be said.. I'll just have to play the game to see if the character dynamics get any better than the collective "meh" shown from them so far.
Modifié par Revan312, 19 février 2011 - 02:24 .
I also wonder if you choose the "it's up to you" option when Aveline's kneeling by Wesley if their final moments together play out any differently? Maybe a little more tenderly? Aveline's expression WAS good, but I agree it could've used a last caress or kiss or something.
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