Anybody read Drew's blog post?
Originally posted by Korto VosQFT
Screw TOR. Play Baldur's Gate 2, DS. That'll blow your mind.
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Originally posted by ares834
Anybody read Drew's blog post?
Win! As in, I agree with what he's saying to the level I'm not going to judge either (The book/game) till i have played/read both.
Haha looks like I wasn't the only one who complained about Revan. Also, while I understand his point about taking things out of context, he makes the excuse of calling "following continuity" a "messy business". This isn't necessarily true if you're messing up major continuity plotlines. All you have to do is open a book or two..
Originally posted by Nephthys
We'll see if hes bullshitting with that post. Alot of the things mentioned in the spoilers sound a lot bigger than freakin' goat legs (And I laughed at his explanation for that. What a load.).
The thing I found funny was he didn't address the actual continuity changes he made... Namely that Darth Bane was originally not responsible for the thought bomb and that he didn't want to kill the Brotherhood.
Neph
But because Gideon'll nag me if I don't, I'm not formally judging him until the book comes out.
Allow me to elucidate somewhat: I'm not saying that one must wait to read the book to form a preliminary opinion.
After reading the photographed excerpt of the novel, I have reason to strongly believe that Karpyshyn has made a couple of very bad decisions when constructing the meat-and-potatoes of the book, the prose, the assemblage of words and sentences.
If Meerta is in fact the Exile, her death was depicted with absurd nonchalance. It reads as though it is mere screenplay; we're given the physical details {Scourge stabs, she screams, she falls, Revan's like wut and the Emperor's like yes and electrocutes his enemy, etc.} but the emotional, intellectual, and psychological ramifications are completely null and void. I've never been a reader who believes that important characters deserve epic deaths. That is simply not realistic and toes the line of pure cheese if every protagonist gets to go out in a blaze of glory.
Sometimes it suits the tone and plot of the story for a major character to simply, suddenly die. Among popular authors, J.K. Rowling is very good with this.
Now with that said, the death of major characters does need one thing: Reaction. Knowing that the audience has formed a strong relationship with these individuals, the reader must see and feel their deaths and the impact it has on the other characters.
That was a path deliberately chosen by Karpyshyn and I simply don't agree with it. I think it's the sign of a very weak novelist.
A wise and most appropriate response, my disciple. uhuh
But then I've always found Karpyshyn to be a weak novelist. The Bane novels were a demonstration of fanboy fanfic writing-- he simply gets paid for it. It's a tragedy that such things are published whereas my friends blank101, Publius, and Lucius are left to languish in the cold and merciless realm of unpaid leisure writing.
I liked the first Bane novel. It was sufficiently epic imo. Zannah was a huge let down in the sequals though. Shes supposed to eventually grow into Banes superior and yet we're never given the impression shes even close to him. And I hated his 'Zannahs too weak to fight properly with a lightsaber cuz shes a girl.' Ick.
Path of Destruction had its moments, largely relegated to whenever Kas'im appeared on the page. Otherwise I found the characters to be boring, one-dimensional, and prone to displays of the problems that plague amateur writers. Revan's appearance was largely gratuitous and was simply another reminder that Bane wasn't a visionary at all, but the guy executing the great Revan's original idea.