Ok this topic has been done numerous times, but I just wanted to share this gem.
"Have you heard of the black garden?"
"We've heard the legends"
NO WE HAVEN'T, NO WE HAVEN'T!!!
We literally heard a passing mention of it, but the player is no position to know any legends, hell even the character you play as is in no position to know any legends!
Gasp* sorry I had to get that off my chest.
But it's the kind of line that shows how little cohesive narrative the game has. It can't even establish whose perspective the player is supposed to be in. Are we the silent protagonist, like Gordon freeman and link, or are we an established character with a personal history and motivation like booker from bioshock infinite?
In short, one of the writer's biggest jobs is to anticipate what the spectator knows or doesn't know, and what perspective the spectator is supposed to take.
Sorry about the rant
Edit: I'm not gonna lie, I do like the line "couldn't we just stay with the murderous robots instead?" It makes me chuckle every time.
Well thank you writers, I'll have bad quotes I'll always love to hate and quote on my everyday life.
Edit2: me thinks the line "I don't even have time to explain..." Is responsible for most guardian fatalities thus far. I envy it's K/D
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"YOURE FALLING BEHIND GUARDIAN!" Dislike hearing that when I'm in the Crucible zone
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We must be close. I'm detecting a MASSIVE Surge from the dig site below us....ooooo ghostie.
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"I sortof had to mess with the vex's transfer gates, you're probably going to have your hands full"... Like why would you do that to me ghost?
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Edited by Cap1talG13: 11/4/2014 1:12:45 PMOn Venus (Eye of a Gate Lord), while decrypting one of those confluxes, Dinkledouche says "And I thought you had the hard job". I do, you floating little tin sh!t bucket! Every time you access anything a horde of enemies appears and tries to kill me. Next time, you hold the gun and I'll do the hacking, ok? DOH! Makes me chuckle every time :-D Oh and on the Moon he says "These tunnels go on for miles. We'll never explore them all".... He clearly left off a bit at the end that goes "...without paying for more DLC over 10 years" :-D
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I've started shouting "We've woken the hive" if I poke my girlfriend in the morning and she flails. But "Evil so evil it hates other evil" is one of the hammiest lines in gaming history.
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"I have beaten fleets of thousands, consumed a galaxy of flesh, mind and bone" - The Speaker.
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[quote]Dos is more complicated.[/quote] And yet he still triggers the alarm...
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-"Think you can kill a god?" -"Don't think I have a choice"
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"No, little light." "Don't do that."
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The best line in the game is clearly: "Purchase refused, purchase refused, purchase refused, purchase accepted!" - The crucible bot frame guy ....who is also my favorite character in the whole game.
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[quote]"Hey, uh... [i]take me with you."[/i][/quote] -Cayde 6
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"It is alive. And it still has It's ball." Cracks me up every time.
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“They’re as crazy as we are!” I swear it sounds like a line delivered in a grade school play.
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Think they'd mind if we take their pikes. I swear it makes me want to smash something every time I hear it.
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"Ok, let me get to work on this door" Damnit Dinklebot, what were you doing while the waves of Cabal were after me?
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I don't even have time to explain what line kills me. And I need to ask.Why does the Queen's gay brother hate you? Is there some kind of reason out there? Also,the Speaker and your own Ghost really enjoy hidding information in your face. It REALLY insulting. :/
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WE'VE WOKEN THE HIVE!!!!!
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Vanguard bounty line. "Fingers on triggers Guardian..."
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The line when Dinklebot is describing the Cabal to you. Something about them blowing up planets and moons for getting in their way. Always makes me cringe.
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"The lair is through that door, just past ALL those walkers" Literally there is only one walker
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Edited by JuanPablo: 11/4/2014 3:36:17 PMI'm starting to sense a pattern! - After the umpteenth horde defense wave Also, what does that b*tch mean by 'not entirely interesting'?!!
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Edited by Dov: 11/4/2014 3:20:10 PM"I don't have time to explain why I don't have time to explain." - Stranger
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the line rifle that hobgoblins/vandals use
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The Nav robots around the Tower. "Prepped and ready for access!" O bby
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Well at least it's chained up
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"Guardian you've been dead for a long time and a lot of this won't make any sense" Then please atleast give me little bits of details... "I don't have time to explain that I don't have time to explain" So saying a simple "no" is to hard? "This is very rare guardian we don't have many of these left not even in our vault" THATS BECAUSE YOUVE GIVEN THEM TO TO 60000 TIMES! "The fallen are getting smarter" You mean the enemies that run out in the open knowing I have a rifle aimed at them? Genius... "I could tell you..." DO YOU EVEN CARE?! "So....think you can kill a god?" "Looks like I don't have a choice" Really? Aren't you the one who willingly walked in here? "Hang on I need to hack this (insert hackable item)" So another fight against waves of the same enemy? Gee....I wonder what will come out THIS time... "This game will be epic...you see that mountain? You can go there!" *goes to mountain gets a timer that says turn back* well gee there goes exploration... "Let's patrol this area" Oh you mean like the other hundreds of times I've come to this EXACT spot and patrol the EXACT area? The entire games dialogue frustrates me in general....it's like they weren't even caring...