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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"A tryptic of runes, said to be UNCRACKABLE" Kills 3 waves of enemies. "GOT IT" YEAH YOU -blam!-ING GET IT RIGHT AFTER I FINISH KILLING THE ELITE MOBS. I BET IT'S NOT EVEN HIM!!!! I BET IT IS EVERY TIME WE KILL A PARTICULAR HIVE ENEMY, THE LOCKS GET BROKEN. -blam!-ING DINKLEBOT.
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When the dreg said " it's the darkness"
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*decrypts engram* It's a mote of light "Powerful weapon" says cryptarch
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THAT WIZARD CAME FROM THE MOON
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Every word of the first Venus mission. "We thought this was all lost in the collapse". Five minutes later... "Guardians set up an outpost..." Excuse me? "Machines called the Vex..." Okay.... "I now know everything about the Vex." Wait, what did I miss? "I don't even have time to explain"... You just took a LOT of time to say "no". "We've heard the legends..." Uh.... wut? "We need to see the Awoken." HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT I GIVE UP JUST LET ME SHOOT SOMETHING. When we are later told that these ruins are billions of years old (thus predating the landmass on which they stand and possibly the planet itself) I concluded that my Ghost is an imbecile and that it's actually part of the story that everything he says is at least half gibberish.
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I've always hated that line. At the start of that mission when you scan the first computer you're ghost says, "there's a lot in here about some war machines called the Vex," implying this is the first time he's heard of the vex. At the end of the mission, he asks to analyze a vex because he still know so little about them. Then seconds later says he's heard the legends of the black garden. How could he have heard legends about the black garden and know nothing about the vex? It makes no sense. Nothing in this story makes sense.
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"I don't have time to explain why I don't have time to explain". Pure laziness...
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Edited by I'm A Decoy: 11/4/2014 9:12:37 AM"There's no telling how deep we'll have to go to find the summoning pits." C'mon ghost! We've just done this strike three times in a row! I know exactly how far we'll have to go, and that the Hellmouth is the worst way to get there!
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Cryptarch "I didn't think you'd pick that one" you know damn well I didn't pick a blue pulse rifle Rahool.
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We've woken the hive!!!
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"Guardian down" ugh. No shit.
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Edited by Starseid: 11/4/2014 2:31:38 AMGhost "We've woken the hive!" Dead Orbit "These Dark Creatures..." Cryptarch "A rare treasure"
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The reason the story is so damn ambiguous is so you have to buy the DLC. Apparently the game was supposed to be very different. From what I heard, the Traveler was supposed to be evil. The Queen's brother convinces you to help him and other guardians to defeat the Traveler. And the game was supposed to be longer (which makes sense since Bungie mentioned "when you finish the game, you're not done; you'll explore the center of the universe). I believe the writer left at some point before the game released.
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"Guardian Down"
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Every line kills me.
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1.When the stranger says "I don't even have time to explain why I don't have time to explain" bohahaha cracks me up just writing it. 2. When the ghost says "We may want to step back", " we've woken the hive" This one is just funny
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"No..little light"
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Whatever dinklebot says at the end of the Mars mission in the skyscraper before you scan the ai, he's all OMG let me touch it, i want to touch it, i need to touch it!! Also at the start of the Archon mission when he said "the vex, what are they doing in here?". One, I think he pronounced doing weirdly, and two as usual you never find out what they were doing in there. Assume they were doing the same thing you are, but why?
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every time dinklebot opens his digital hole
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I could tell you...
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"Okay, now what?" - Dinklebot
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""We've woken the hive"" haunt me in my sleep. I now hear it every where. ..but at least I got lots of glimmer
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"I may have alerted them we were here." Or some random shit. A lot of people complain, but I love Dinklage's delievery
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"I could tell you of..."
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Let me tell you more about dead orbit guardian. Well? I'm waiting!
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"Just so you know, I'm tracking the Sword by the light of the Guardians its killed." three seconds later, pick up the sword and start smacking hive with it.