>you niggers say that Borderlands writing is gay and tumblr and reddit and cringeBut let me guess it's okay when Valve does it?
Yes, it is
>>749042625>uhh shit is le good actually
You should know by now steamies don't have principles
>>749042194Valve's writing is generally actually funny and not whatever the fuck Borderlands was doing 70% of the time, so yes
>>749044436>Valve's writing is generally actually funnyZombine
>>749044436>valve writing is not dogshit>source? uhh I said se lolThere's a good reason the cancerous retard redditoids latched so hard to LE CAKE IS LIE LE XD!Valve was always shit.
>>749044823hating the zombine bit is one of the clearest signs of autism
>>749044903>punsYes, we know you're autistic, you defend Valve
>>749042194I never said any of that
>>749044854>There's a good reason the cancerous retard redditoids latched so hard to LE CAKE IS LIE LE XD!you mean the thing that was just a oneoff unspoken piece of graffiti in the original game and was deliberately avoided in the sequel to prevent the game from being too meme-y? if portal 2 were written by fucking gearbox the dialog would have been 50-60% "cake is a lie" """"jokes"""" by volume
>>749044976...but you did THOUGH
>>749044823>captured female humor perfectly.Bravo, Valve.
>>749044962the joke is that her joke sucked and was an awkward interjection, dumbass, she realizes it was terrible as she's saying it and you cna see it on her face, it's an in-character bad joke
>>749042194You know what the difference is? Deadlock's dialogue happens in the background, Borderlands constantly makes you fucking wait for its dialogue. Even if you hate both of them, one of these is objectively better.
>>749044980>would have been 50-60% "cake is a lie" """"jokes"""" by volumeIt was.>when life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! This is gearbox writing
>>749045017Nuh uh. I never did.
>Here at Aperture Science we fire the whole bullet. That’s 65% more bullet per bullet.Reddit could never
>>749045265>It was.It literally was not.>>when life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! >this is gearbox writingLiterally how? It's the angry rant of a borderline insane businessman dying of cancer and the game doesn't treat it as anything particularly jokey. All of the memes associated with that line were natural community jokes that sprung from it after the release of the game.You're conflating community response with the actual subject matter presented. Those two subjects are not the same.
>>749045205>the joke is that her joke sucked and was an awkward interjectionYeah thats the average gearbox cringe writing, they know the joke is just awkward cringe joke that isnt funny
>>749045205the "joke" is a marvel-tier reddit quip>>749044980Yes I mean the thing that showcases the "level" of their humor, exactly. The fact that they put it in the first place is what's cringe, not like fucking whatever bullshit you just wrote and I didn't bother to fucking read because you're gay AND retardedstop coping and shilling for Gabe, he's not going to see this bro
>>749045205>le quirkchungus waifu is so heckin awkward!>funny!and this is not reddit how?
>>749045297agree to disagree on that one
>>749045417No, if it was gearbox writing, they would have had her stretch it out for another three fucking minutes of trying to make it work, and then during serious firefights and major story events she'd be interrupting with radio comms like>Okay, so I'n still workshopping the "Zombine" thing. I think, maybe, if I play this little— ohoh oh, here lemme just— watch this, watch this. Ahem.>Oh man, it's a ZOMBIN— Now, wait, hold on, let me start again.>Ahem.>Okay, okay.>Oh man, what's that, it's some sort of Zombie Combine, must be some sort of...>(click)>(tape-recorded dramatic stinger) ...ZOMBINE.>...See? I think that makes it work, right? Totally. Totally works. Anyways, I'll leave you to it; kick that strider's ass, freeman!Instead of it being a brief thing she does once as an attempt at levity, realizes it sucks, and then doesn't do again.
>>749045761You are literally describing all of Whatley's dialogue here, by the way
>>749045761This is the type of writing you are defending, this shit reads like that Minecraft joke book but it wasn't written by an autistic 8 year old.
>>749042194By the /v/ermin definition Portal 2 is the definition of muh reddit tumblr writing. But here's the thing. When that game came out, /v/ posters were actual human beings, rather than worthless shitstain subhumans like you.
ITT
>>749044962I'm thinking the people who shit on valve have severe mental illnesses
>>749046349Oh and also that /v/ also liked Borderlands 1 and 2, so yeah. The problem here has nothing to do with video games. It's that this board was taken over by the worst people imaginable around gamergate. And it will never get better.
>>749046138I have to question whether you're a paid shill, or just bored. It really could be either and I'm not certain if getting paid peanuts is more or less cringe than doing this for free
>>749046349Actually most old users were reddit tumblr userst. Oldfag reddit 4chan userOnly newfags genuinely hate reddit cause they took the banter way too seriously
Anti valve autist will find anything wrong in any game cause even if there is nothing wrong and it's universally loved they have to cherry pick something. Autism, not even once
>>749046587I've been here since 2007 I was a facepunch refugee and that place was 10x worse than Reddit. At least you can have some discourse on Reddit, not that I use it besides trouble shooting threads and that
>actual redditors claiming to be le oldfags>t. I made my hecking le 4chin account in 2022, btwthe fucking nerve to say that, God forbidkys you retarded nigger, fuck off back to your hugbox you soi slurping faggot
>>749046456Borderlands 1 was goofy but it did not yet have Borderlands writing. 2 didn't either, it was really 3 that started down the path of what everyone now complains about, but even then, what they did with 3 was still tolerable compared to modern Gearbox writing. Still, Tales from the Borderlands and Smiling Jack are where the series peaked writing wise and if they had ended there Borderlands 1 and 2 would still be fondly remembered today. The problem is Gearbox ran that series into the fucking dirt.BL1 and 2 have the double whammy of both being iterated on better by what came after, and having their humor raped to death in retrospect by people that can't help themselves. Portal 1 and 2 by contrast, don't have that problem. Valve stopped, so the humor of 1 and 2 remains un-Flanderized.
>>749046587DOWNVOTED
>>749046587Shut up retard
>>749046439>I'm thinking the people who eat shit shat out by valve have severe mental illnesseshard agreeUPVOTE!
If valve is bad then, which company is good?
>>749046138Anon, those are one off kill taunts that have a CHANCE of playing after killing a specific character while playing a specific characterThose are not even remotely comparable
>>749047047You're responding to someone arguing in the epitome of bad faith. So you're either in on it or delusionally think these threads are meant to endear actual discussion.
Valve does well with environmental story telling but they aren't the shakespeare of game writing. They've always been kinda cringe in their writing.
>>749047047ok and? that's the excuse to let a lobotomite write them?>>749047119>bad faiththat's le heckin strawman my gentlesir r/shortking, you get le no updoots :(
>>749042625what does gabes dick taste like?
>>749047332>>749046138can you actually explain what's wrong with that dialog
>>749047494are you actually autistic?
>>749046920nice argument
>>749047494He can't lmao
>>749047586are you? use your big boy words and explain what's wrong with those kill lines
>>749042194TF2 and Dota 2 are full of funny, quotable lines. /v/ makes threads all the time that are just people posting their favorite ones.Deadlock...not so much. Modern Valve is a bunch of semi-retired old men, Campo Santo and diversity hires. Old Valve's gone.
>>749047775surethey are simplistic, they lack finesse, they are uninspired, unengaging, obvious, amateurish, trite and an absolute insult to the listener's intelligence>LE RAT>HATES LE CAT!A literal four year old wrote these and you gayben fanboys slurp it up, better yet - you defend this shit again and again and againgot a RETORT to that, in your SOPHISTICATED VOCABULARY you piece of shit nigger fuck doing it for free tranny steam janny hall monitor?
>>749044854>>749042194>>749043548seething faggot
>>749048134sneed
>>749048092Literally what are expecting from a kill line? It's a single line of dialog that plays in response to nabbing a kill. Are you expecting the rat to launch into a full 10 minute soliloquy about death?
>>749048538No I'm expecting to either hear fucking nothing at all or something good, not get earfucked by a midwit westcoast libtard """writer"""holy shit how are these niggers getting paid for it
>>749048776Can you give us examples of good kill lines?
>>749042194How would you rewrite that? Keep in mind it's a cartoonishly large rat thing that's sort of stupid
>>749046858>2 didn't eitherButt Stallion.
>>749042194whoever wrote alyx and now writes for deadlock and dota2 has to be fired immediately. without fail, it's all insufferable, smarmy, millenial writing tripe
>>749048883I'm not a writed, and even if I was I wouldn't do it >for free (like you!)\oh almost forgot I'm also not employed by the Valve Corporation so you faggots wouldn't automatically bounce on my dick (for free!)
This stupid argument is way funnier than I had expected. >>749048538>Are you expecting the rat to launch into a full 10 minute soliloquy about death?Fucking kek
>>749044823i chuckled irl
>>749049173Holy latinx, calm down.
>>749048538>Are you expecting the rat to launch into a full 10 minute soliloquy about death?So what if I do, huh?
>>749048883"I'm the head cheese now!"
>>749048883>CHEESED to meet you!
