>wacky quip-delivering meme character
>is mostly liked
How the frick did Valve do it?
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>wacky quip-delivering meme character. >is mostly liked
>wacky quip-delivering meme character
>is mostly liked
How the frick did Valve do it?
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They made him British
if u like funny quips try zombie panic, co-op horror, free on steam
The same reason why they have like three very well loved black characters.
I'm guessing Rochelle is excluded since she's pretty bland and it's Demo, Coach, and Lewis.
>Lewis
vance
who the hell strongly likes Vance?
you're forgetting about Sarge in Half-Life.
that was gearbox
Rochelle is based.
>"Where's the love, where's the love?!"
I never understood why people liked him. I found him (and Portal's humor in general) to be annoying.
because quips werent forced into every single media project at the time so people werent tired of it.
Now that I think about, everyone in Half-Life 2 seems way too chipper considering the situation they're in. I mean I'll take it over the melodrama in modern game writing, but the rebel forces in HL2 seem a bit more confident than they should be considering the absolutely impossible odds they're up against.
That fixed this in ep2 where they had characters who were grouchy buttholes but still somewhat likable
That's kind of the tonal appeal of Half-Life, the humanist optimism against the grimdark apocalypse background. It never goes quite so far as to get annoying, either.
I can't say I dislike it at all either. It just seems odd compared to how games are written now. I feel like if you gave a current day team of video game writers the Half-Life script they'd completely gut most of it and probably for the worse.
The beta script was great, shipped HL2 seemed over refined and too rehearsed
They wrote actual jokes instead of
>WOAH IS THAT A FREAKING HOLE THINGY TO ANOTHER HOLE THINGY!? YEAH I GUESS THAT'S A THING NOW!
I like that they had one voiced by Nate Bargatze in this shitty Steam Deck game.
good writing. he's also not present for half the game
How did Valve get better writers than everyone else in the western video game industry? Even their recent stuff like Alyx isn't as awful as the rest of it
they scout for talented people in the industry. people who love what they do and will work hard to create something others will love. that's how portal came to be in the first place. I believe 'grassroots' is what that would be called.
Because they make games, not products
Both of these. I just replayed the game a few weeks ago and the writing holds up for the most part.
I also just realized, Alyx is pretty much the same thing as: "Uuhh, did just like, bend reality? Woah..." but isn't annoying.
It was a different time, back then characters like him were pretty rare. If the game came out today it'd be called reddit: the game.
Would you consider Wheatly to be a quip delivering character? I wouldn't. I don't really remember him delivering many, if any, quips.
He isn't even smart enough for that.
What made him a good character was that he told funny stories and did funny things. You're mostly laughing at his expense, at how incompetent he is. Either that or his compete lack of awareness.
Been a while since I played (actually not really since i played the co-op mode just a few months ago) but thats how I remember him.
Yikes this limey robot that won't shut up with its unfunny reddit quips were the lowest parts of Portal 2.
Russel was really treading the line.
He was funny, but a little too much in some situations
Personally I didnt find this guy funny at all, and I hated the way Alyx interacted with him
He's the butt of the joke.
>liked
Like hell, this homosexual was the worst part of the game.
being the worst part of that game is still better than most games. yes, he was technically the worst part and I liked him a lot
He's great in Portal 2, but as the Ap-Sap in TF2...
The amount of times I've been found as a Spy because he won't shut the frick up, I swear.
Stephen Merchant is a professional comedian and TV writer. That's how. If you hire good people and they are allowed to do what they want and agree to be team players, whatever you're making will be good.
they did it first
It was done when it wasn't the norm.
It was a different time. Also good writing.
Because he's clever but also portrayed in game as annoying. So wether you like him or not he's a useful character to root for/against.
Every shitty trope starts off as one genuinely entertaining thing. Then the cash grabbers see it and run it into the ground
Zoomers are souless bugs.
I liked Portal's writing/humor in 1&2 but did not really like Wheatley at all. My thoughts were that he was just a worse, less interesting GLaDOS, which is a comparison that ultimately everyone was going to make since the plot of the second one is AGAIN the evil AI is going to kill you, and this time you know it immediately from the start. As other anons have said, I'm not sure if he was really "liked" as much as he just omnipresent and could be mostly ignored and forgotten with all of the kino Cave Johnson dialog.