EvaUnit02 on 15/11/2008 at 07:59
Quote Posted by Aja
Ok, when Carmine says "there must be a shitload of locust down there!"
and Marcus goes....
wait for it
MORE LIKE TEN SHITLOADS
How could you like dialogue like that? I've seen Arnold Schwarzenegger films with better one-liners than those.
Didn't Carmine die in the first game? He was one of those "red shirts".
Jackablade on 15/11/2008 at 08:01
Dethtoll, you make yourself sound like a man with a perennial scowl and no sense of humour. Can you find no joy in a well delivered, and well written (yes. It is.) one-liner? On paper, "more like ten shitloads" may not set the room on fire, but when it is coupled with John Dimaggio's great voice and Marcus Fenix's truly hyperbolistically absurd looks it becomes a source of giddy reverie. When you listen to the dialogue you have to take the visuals, sound, and writing into account because when they were writing the dialogue they most certainly thought about all three of those.
I'm not saying Gears is Hemingway. All I am saying is that Epic put some thought into what these characters are saying. It is high quality simple writing, but it is not low-brow.
Aja on 15/11/2008 at 08:08
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
Didn't Carmine die in the first game? He was one of those "red shirts".
He DID die but now it's his brother (the rookie, whom you have to train). AND HILARIOUS REFERENCES ENSUE!
As for the dialogue, I will explain the humour: it is funny because a shitload is an already self-implied "large quantity", making any attempts at pluralization so very unnecessary, hence, unexpected, hence, humourous. And Jack's right, it needs the proper voice acting to really pull it off. No different from when Sean Connery fires his harpoon gun into some guy's chest and then, after the perfect pause, goes "I think he got the point". It's all awesome to me.
EvaUnit02 on 15/11/2008 at 08:57
I see no real point in buying this game solely for single player, the series was ALWAYS designed with co-op in mind.
Quote Posted by Aja
As for the dialogue, I will explain the humour: it is funny because a shitload is an already self-implied "large quantity", making any attempts at pluralization so very unnecessary, hence, unexpected, hence, humourous.
Well duh, not even you average XBL-playing 13-yo dullard would miss that. My point is that it's a frigging lame attempt at buddy action movie banter, but I suppose that it isn't effective without an actual verbal delivery. On the other hand I recently replayed through Gears 1 on PC (the mouse aiming shitted all over dual analogue, FYI), the one-liners sucked there too.
Aja on 15/11/2008 at 09:12
oh come on, what about when you chainsaw something and he says "aarrr what're these guys, made'a shit?!"
EvaUnit02 on 15/11/2008 at 09:14
Quote Posted by Aja
oh come on, what about when you chainsaw something and he says "aarrr what're these guys, made'a shit?!"
That line is made'a shit.
Aja on 15/11/2008 at 09:33
and you, sir, are made of STONE
Scots Taffer on 15/11/2008 at 10:43
You guys are fucking horrible and deserve to be banned.
