Word Choice – How to Handle Exposition in Games – Extra Credits

01:50 No, don’t hug GLaDOS… ah, too late.

"With great power comes great responsibility"

I think that no game, movie or other kind of franchise has misused repetition so badly as the Spiderman movies. Yuck!

"Touching the floor will result in an unsatisfactory mark on your final score…

…followed by death."
Oof

Ok

Honestly, this one is super useful outside of game development, even for me as a writer of webnovels its super useful, and I use a lot of it

War changes constantly, inevitably, inescapably, as generals try to fight the previous war, and soon enough we'll have robots destroying each other. And wars HAVE changed. Early man couldn't have felt less except satisfaction of victory of exterminating a rival tribe, the we had wars that are polite formal affairs where soldiers meet at a agreed upon place, and you tally up the dead on both side to decide the winner, you might as well say "food never changes."

Prime example:
"Forgive me Father, for I have sinned."
"Sorry Daddy, I've been naughty."

Undying praise

1:43 w0O!

Aye Yo Dawg, I was thinking about whether I should off myself

man glados was my first gay crush ngl

Batman: Let her go.
Joker: Hah, poor choice of word.

If you watch the video at x0.5 speed he sounds super hammered.

I could listen to that WOOO all day

I need to disagree about the part about characters. They always need good and extensive back stories. You don't and should not tell all of a back story, but it forms the choices a character makes and the things they say and how they say it.

1:42 WO! Lol

Itty bitty living space

lol, the butt in frame made it seem like that was the thing the person in frame was talking to!

Glory to Mankind

"hey yo dawg i was thinking about offing myself"

"rippling walls" Oh you mean Shifting Sand Land?

I'm using the red-shirt guy in Portal S for sure

ok well kinda off topic but quandrum contrum (spelled wrongly) really feels weird when u play it…

[SARCASM]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! John De Lancie is awesome!

Oh, man… I really want to make a good comment here, but I'm not sure how to word it. Can anyone give me some tips?

domonints xD

And having john de lancie of "Q" fame tells you that iti sn't the fault of the actor. He can actually makes bad lines sound better than they are.

I can barely understand GLaDOS.

Does anyone know how to pull an image file from a single YouTube frame? Because I'd really like 6:30 as my new wallpaper.

Good writing advice I'll keep that in mind when I edite my book

Why did I get a PBS Kids commercial before this?

What is James doing in my house?!
/3:20

3:38 – random hiccup.

1:15 is it just me or does he sound like Discord?

"No need for bombs, when hate will do. It's been said that war, war never changes, men do through the roads they walk" -Ulysses

Someone needs to take an amazing Larp and turn it into a video game.
The character depth is already defined over and over through the years of playing. You can easily just go on in a video game with what the actors and players were doing by themselves.

Discord, is that you?

"…Bastion has a number of good word choice…"
Like Salt Powered Robot?

"When you lean on a display and ride a load, please very stop it because it is danger."

Interesting how BASICALLY EVERYONE relates the phrase "to be or not to be" with the shot of Hamlet holding the skull of the jester he knew as a kid, even though that is from a completely different scene…

The difference between two words meaning the same thing is connotation. The proud owner of a car, or the smug owner of a car.

Holy crap, was that John De Lancie? HOLY CRAP THAT WAS JOHN DE LANCIE

bastion? word choice…bee boop…please

Well… What can change a nature of a man? wink wonk

4:37 XD

Thanks this has been helpful. I would like to maybe write for games. But still thanks so much for all this knowledge on video games.