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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Lord Shaxxx "Do you like these better when Saladin host them?" Kills me every. Single. Time.
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The big yeeeeeeeessssssssss after killing alak-ul in the sunless put strike. Ugh.
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Give us the ...(thing) or we blow the ship! Idk the term he says. Forgot
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“Funny story for you. Remember that Centurion Oryx 'took' right after you landed on the Dreadaught? Then the Centurion and that Taken Ogre tried to stop you from killing the King? Heh. Didn't work...” - Cayde-6
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Cayde's lines in TTK are all gold.
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"Eris, get your rock off my map" Caydes winning.
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Rasputin lives in a big bunker with space wepon I live in hour backpack
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Haha it's not a said quote but I adore the moments when "enraged" is active on raid bosses :') it's so funny!
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"I haven't got time to explain to you, why I haven't got time to explain to you" Nice one. Cheers for that!
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"He just took an ogre!" "Not even Oryx can control an ogre... Unless it's TAKEN!" Really, Eris. Thank you for that.
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Edited by Kovathos: 10/13/2015 3:02:20 PMApparently you were told of the legends, when? I don't know. There's a lot of the story in this game that makes no sense or has little explanation. Like the cabal. 800 hundred pounds, highly militarized, blows up planets. THAT IS STILL ALL WE KNOW ABOUT, based on ingame cutscenes and dialogue at least. Oh that and cabal are kicked out of the empire as soon as they are sent to war. And why does Petra know that those platforms are phasing in and out of our timeline in the last house of wolves story mission? Why does she not even sound surprised? At this point in the game you still have no idea that the vex control time in any way. Some references like gate lords protect realms locked out of time, but they never explain it. Even in vault of glass there's no real explanation on time or if any of the actions you are taking are related to time. There's a hint that vex control time somehow with the pradyth mission but that's it, no real explanations. ttk does go into some of these things a little bit but stil leaves 95% much to speculation Just like your ghost sais, that can't be right, and you learn nothing else after... Unless you read grimoires that aren't in the game itself.
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When Ghost says, "Yes, he just threatened us with orbital death from above." Where else would the orbital death come from? The floor?
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Edited by Talonia_: 10/13/2015 2:29:10 AMI can't repeat it properly but when cayde threatens the people who stop his sparrow.... And he just found it Edit: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rw10yTllK34 There you go
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During shield Bros strike the ghost says the cabal have seven words and none for retreat, yet during the very first mission during the taken king they are evacuating/retreating like crazy.
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Anything Cayde says. Faves: Eris, get your rock off my map. Oh, just shoot it. And, when you get to this funeral.... To whom ever stole my sparrow...
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Cayde- "Hey Zavala, wanna see what a transmat zone on the dreadnaught looks like?" Zavala- "You landed a guardian on the dreadnaught without authorization?!" Cayde- "Oh right. Can I have authorization?" Or "Get your rock off my map."
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Whoever stole my sparrow I will find you.
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When Ghost gets jealous of Rasputin's bunker and says "I live in your backpack."
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scariest line, mission where you using cloaking stuff and you become visible (btw cayde shouldn't be allowed to modify stealth tech anymore) and eris chants "come With me"
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"What rocket should I use for oryx" he was completely serious too
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"I could tell you of the legends of gap the traveller's fought back the darkness in the Great War" Bitch.........teach me
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Whenever eris says "CROTA!" but yet she sounds like she came out of a 1950 Japanese thriller movie.
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There's a couple...when landing on the moon one day the ghost said: "Do you ever wish we hadn't woken the Hive? Oh, but think of all the fun we've had with those guys though!" And 2 from Cayde interactions: "The taken aren't bound by terrestrial constraints." -Eris "Yeah? I bet they'll be constrained using terrestrial bullets" -Cayde And finally this gem: "....I'm going to have a uncomfortable conversation with Eris about her ship.."
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[quote]....who are the Awoken?[/quote] - Your Awoken Character
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"Oryx calls upon the darkness"
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Think they can see us? I think they can see us!