Re: Awsome Mass Effect Video - Character creation revealed.
Walker;125633 said:
Okay, so let him bit a God among game-scriptwriters... but don't let him near novels... PLEASE! Hire a novel writer for it... He and James Luceno (or whatever that guy's name was. Wrote Rise of Darth Vader or Rise of the Dark Lord or whatever) are among the worst Star Wars writers I can think of, though not the worst writers outside of Star Wars.
But yes, KOTOR was good enough to raise my estimation of him.
James Luceno has nothing to do with Mass Effect or Drew Karpyshyn...
and Star Wars has nothing to do with Mass Effect... how a person works within someone else's creative bounds does not compare to how they work with their own IPs... if you don't like his Star Wars novels, don't read them :hmm:
his work is very good, but again, he is writing as a gaming writer first and foremost, which should be a good thing since this is a universe based around a game...
as far as hiring a novel writer, I don't see the need and it usually ends horribly when they do that...
why on earth would you want another person trying to interpret the game and retool it to serve their own ends which may or may not suit the original story, when they have the original writer who knows the story inside and out to do it for them...
not to mention the fact that the first novel came out before the game was released ...how are you proposing that another author could have miraculously dreamed up a novel for Mass Effect that would just so happen to fit into the Mass Effect Story? wouldn't they have to be working side by side with the writing team? why not just use the team itself then?, and the fact that the second novel is due out well before the second one is even written... Drew can make sure that in the second game he writes to follow what he wrote in the novel, but how would that work with an outside author? Some random author is going to be handed the ability to go ahead and write a novel which could alter the way in which the entire franchise will continue? I don't think so... come on now :hmm: