What's up with DbDs writing?
Im not sure if they did it on purpose but most of the writing entries for stuff like character background and tomes really seem like first drafts that got thrown right into the game.
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I think its because most speak French as their first language. Game is in english, most of the devs use french, causes translation issues.
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Then they shouldn't be the ones writing them. It's a big company, they can hire writers and editors.
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It seems like there's 2 writers. One of them really understands the characters and writes incredibly well, making compelling stories that match the characters, and one of them made the tome for Nurse, Bill, and Pig.
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Don’t even get me started on hag’s archive. As if her base lore didn’t leave enough questions
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In the current tome, there are these weird ALL CAPS LINES AT THE BEGINNING OF NEW PARAGRAPHS that are really strange.
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The part that drives me nuts is the tome lore. There's no quotation marks for speech, seemingly random paragraph breaks, the grammar is just a nightmare.
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I can't stomach reading the DbD lore. It's poorly written, and I mean that in every way it can be taken. I took a fiction writing workshop course in college, full of people who did things like write the story of their current romantic relationship (that doesn't count as fiction, btw) or summarize the plot of a Goosebumps book, people who considered character development to be stating their name and hair color, who turned in stories full of spelling and grammar mistakes... and the lore in DbD is about the same quality as that.
I don't expect Lovecraft-level writing here or anything, but when BHVR has had multiple surveys focus so heavily on lore, I feel the quality of the lore should be higher. What gets released is not polished and often reads like a teen's attempt at being edgy. (No hate here, I was that teen, but now that I'm an adult I cringe when reading some of that stuff.)
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Did it start with All-Kill or earlier that characters had lengthy bios?
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Earlier than All-Kill.
But All-Kill did have one of the best writing in DBD history, so I guess not all of their works are bad.
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Like I said, 2 different writers 🏃🏻
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I wouldn't go so far as to say that there are only "two" specific writers... then what about all the mediocre ones like Clown, Wraith, Spirit, Dwight, Meg or Jake?
Is there a third writer who writes meh stories?
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Honestly it's a theory I read about.
There's two different styles of writing. One has horrible grammar, like no speech marks, random paragraphs, badly edited, etc. One is near impeccable in terms of grammar, even if the stories can be a bit naff.
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Hmmm, interesting...
Could be, but that's a huge leap of faith to reach that conclusion. And if that was to be true, that would be funny AF.
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Yes, I did enjoy Meg's tome. It made me appreciate her more as a character than those Megheads who give her a bad rep.
Claudette's was okay-ish. Kind of short and boring, but since she was one of the first to ever receive a tome, it was understandable.
Jake's... was meh. Too many retcons for me to appreciate it. The whole time I was reading it, I was like "Wait what? So did his brother graduate from Yale or not?" lol
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What does everyone think about Dwight´s tome?
All i got from it was "don´t trust strangers on the internet about drugs"
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It started with Hag. A few licenses characters like Demo and Pinhead also have shorter bios.
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TBH, it was good. 6 or 7 out of 10.
It made him look like a gullible ijit.
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I like a lot of things about the game but I admit I don’t play it because of the writing and lore. DbD has a fun mood and aesthetic but the story is kind of nonsense. That said though I like the voice actor who narrates the Rifts. 🙂
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Always been the case , and it's not going to get any better.
It seems they don't understand that the unknown is what makes stuff scary...and not explaining things and retconning stuff for no good reason
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Personally i didn't think it was bad, just not very interesting.
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It fundamentally misunderstands the character of Amanda and John, their dynamic, and basically everything.
Tapp's story is amazing and solves a major plot hole. Amanda's is... not so
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Thanks for sharing this video. SAW was the franchise that got me interested in horror, Pixel Bush's explanation of Amanda's story is far and away the best one I've seen.
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Im less worried about that, and more worried the fact that the writing itself seems like it's from 6th graders. I get it, they're from Quebec or whatever, but they have more than enough cash to hire better writers and time voice actors.
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In it it also goes into the 2 writer theory and why some are really well written and some are... Not
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I like to imagine that it's one guy who has a Jekyll and Hyde-like thing going on, only instead of swapping between a charming and mild-mannered businessman and an angry guy with a cane, they switch between being a great storyteller and someone who has as much knowledge on how to write a good story as a 7th grader.
(Also I'm sorry if I got the details on Jekyll's and Hyde's personalities wrong, I haven't read the book in forever)
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I don't buy pixel's theory one bit, it's too assumptious.
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