Killing off a character you just meet is not good writing.

#1
Vahe

Posté 23 février 2011 - 06:04

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I don't think I am alone in saying that I felt no emotional impact whatsoever when Bethany/Carver died. None. I felt the same when Wesley died. It's a rookie mistake that a lot of writers make, but I didn't expect Gaider and his lackeys to fall victim to it. Don't do anything major to characters you just meet, and don't go into their backstories either- it's not interesting unless we've had event-based experiences with these characters.

Interestingly enough, a new trailer was released which shows Hawke falling to the ground, overcome with grief at the sight of his sibling's death.

http://www.facebook....v=1866912958361

So either the demo is misleading, or this new trailer is.

Modifié par Vahe, 24 février 2011 - 06:03 .

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#2
Mike Laidlaw

Posté 23 février 2011 - 06:15

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Vahe wrote...

I don't think I am alone in saying that I felt no emotional impact whatsoever when Bethany/Carver died. None. I felt the same when Wesley died.

Perhaps the point is not to bring you to wailing tears over the deaths of those characters, but to set up certain things for later, hmm?

If we'd run around here saying "YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO WET YOURSELVES OVER THIS THING WE DO IN THE BEGINNING!" you could happily hoist us on our petard, but we didn't. So our petard remains unhoisted.