I'm curious because I just found out that he's going to be at NYCC, so I'd honestly like to know. Also, how big was his involvement with KOTOR?
How much did Drew K. write in ME 1 and 2?
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Posté 28 septembre 2011 - 09:43
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Er, he basically wrote all of KOTOR, which is why he later went on to write all those Bane novels.
As for Mass Effect, he wrote most (If not all) of of the main script (After Muzyka and Hudson ironed out the premise.) which included things like, the protheans, the reapers, saren, how they were all connected, their history, their reasons for being in the story, etc. Then of course you have the novels which he wrote. So aside from some character dialogue, and probably side-quest dialogue, he was responsible for pretty everything you liked in the first game.
Mass Effect 2 however, is a different story. With Drew being exiled to Texas to "Work on SWTOR," his involvement was substantially lowered. They say he was still a driving force behind the story, but I fail to see it really, unless he really felt that contradicting himself over and over was a good idea, which I highly doubt. Mac Walters is responsible for ME2, and it shows, not that he's a bad writer (His take on directing, flow, and character are fairly well done.) but his grasp of the original story Drew developed is either pathetically weak, or just plain nonexistent.
Like Drew didn't leave one sticky note to explain things. Things like, why Saren hated humans, what really happened to the protheans, what the reapers actual goals were, etc.
"But we know all those now!" Right, and that's my problem; they seem like the end result of someone tampering with, or just inventing on the fly, a story they didn't write.
As for Mass Effect, he wrote most (If not all) of of the main script (After Muzyka and Hudson ironed out the premise.) which included things like, the protheans, the reapers, saren, how they were all connected, their history, their reasons for being in the story, etc. Then of course you have the novels which he wrote. So aside from some character dialogue, and probably side-quest dialogue, he was responsible for pretty everything you liked in the first game.
Mass Effect 2 however, is a different story. With Drew being exiled to Texas to "Work on SWTOR," his involvement was substantially lowered. They say he was still a driving force behind the story, but I fail to see it really, unless he really felt that contradicting himself over and over was a good idea, which I highly doubt. Mac Walters is responsible for ME2, and it shows, not that he's a bad writer (His take on directing, flow, and character are fairly well done.) but his grasp of the original story Drew developed is either pathetically weak, or just plain nonexistent.
Like Drew didn't leave one sticky note to explain things. Things like, why Saren hated humans, what really happened to the protheans, what the reapers actual goals were, etc.
"But we know all those now!" Right, and that's my problem; they seem like the end result of someone tampering with, or just inventing on the fly, a story they didn't write.
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Posté 28 septembre 2011 - 11:57
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Drew Karpyshyn himself has claimed he was a driving force behind ME2's story. Drew and Mac also got the whole trilogy's main events flowing before the first game was ever even released.
If you don't something about ME2 don't just magically exclude Karpyshyn's involvement altogether. I mean, unless you're really adamant he lied about it.
If you don't something about ME2 don't just magically exclude Karpyshyn's involvement altogether. I mean, unless you're really adamant he lied about it.
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Posté 29 septembre 2011 - 12:46
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There is no primary author for the games. It's a collaborative effort, with different writers assigned to write different parts. And the Lead Writer doesn't get to decide what the game is all about on their own. The Project Director and Lead Designer are involved in that too, and they both outrank the Lead Writer (which is more a management position than anything else. The "Lead" there refers to being a team lead, not "person who writes the most stuff"). Google "Drew Karpyshyn interview" and "Mac Walters interview" if you want some more detail.
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Posté 29 septembre 2011 - 12:58
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didymos1120 wrote...
There is no primary author for the games. It's a collaborative effort, with different writers assigned to write different parts. And the Lead Writer doesn't get to decide what the game is all about on their own. The Project Director and Lead Designer are involved in that too, and they both outrank the Lead Writer (which is more a management position than anything else. The "Lead" there refers to being a team lead, not "person who writes the most stuff"). Google "Drew Karpyshyn interview" and "Mac Walters interview" if you want some more detail.
Exactly and this is important to remember since it's easy to bash Mac Walters for being a terrible writer etc whenever we hear that Drew left ME for TOR and someone mentions the so-called plotholes in ME2.
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Posté 29 septembre 2011 - 03:01
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didymos1120 wrote...
There is no primary author for the games. It's a collaborative effort, with different writers assigned to write different parts. And the Lead Writer doesn't get to decide what the game is all about on their own. The Project Director and Lead Designer are involved in that too, and they both outrank the Lead Writer (which is more a management position than anything else. The "Lead" there refers to being a team lead, not "person who writes the most stuff"). Google "Drew Karpyshyn interview" and "Mac Walters interview" if you want some more detail.
Indeed.
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Posté 29 septembre 2011 - 04:41
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Well, Mac Walters will be at NYCC also, so, I'm bringing my copies to possibly get signed.
