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Former Valve writer Chet Faliszek has no interest in writing Half-Life 3: 'I don't want to touch that with a 10-foot pole' (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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Or even a grav gun separating me from that 10-foot pole.

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[–] 8 points 4 months ago (10 children)

When working with existing lore they should hire one of those nerds who can advise them. Pretty simple.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I think the problem then becomes, there's usually another equally big nerd who has been beefing for the past 15 years with the nerd you hired about the interpretation of some minor aspect of the lore that wasn't fully explained, and each of them have a legion of weird followers who will immediately declare war on you and start sending death threats the instant you show preference to one side over the other, even if you do it unwittingly.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Uhh, maybe.

    I do think that the over-emphasis of lore in media as important detracts somewhat from the thematic and narrative content. In some cases, I think it borders on illiteracy.

    I guess whether hiring one is a solution or not just depends on how insufferable he finds listening to these people.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    At the end of the day, art is art and art is usually made with some kind of message in mind. "Lore" doesn't always include that message, so I agree. "Needing" to stick to lore 100% does detract from the overall message or theme of the work.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    If the message isn't compatible with the existing lore IMO pick a different message, make up an original story without the pre-existing lore, or find a different world to make a story about where it does work.

    Though I doubt it's often the case where the existing lore is incompatible with whatever message but lazy or negligent writing where they either didn't know or didn't care about the conflicting lore but it would have been possible to massage the story to work with both.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    TBH this is one of my favourite things about Doctor Who. In an age where sci-fi shows tend to be very intricate about their lore and people go through trailers frame-by-frame to dissect the meaning of everything, Doctor Who is extremely insistent about not giving a flying fuck at all about almost anything to do with lore and canon. It's pretty much: there's the Doctor, and the TARDIS that looks like an old police box and there's usually at least one human tagging along, and that's it. Literally everything else can be thrown out of the window without any regard at all. The moon is an egg. Nobody can even agree on how many Doctors there are. David Tennant is probably at least three Doctors, kind of. We don't even 100% know which actor currently plays the Doctor lol. It's absolute chaos and I kind of love it

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah.

    I don't mean to attack lore as a concept, by the way. Lore is art all the same.

    I just don't like the way that some people hyperfixate on it so much that an artist trying to do something new, risky, or interesting becomes basically impossible.

    People will get stuck on details so much that they end up choking their favorite works to death without even realizing it. As a broad example, I would point to Star Wars.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I was thinking Star Wars even before you mentioned it.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Hahaha, of course.

    You know, I was dragged into seeing episode 9 against my will (I was fine with it), and that movie, like... actually pissed me off. I was legit getting whiplash from all the location changes.

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