I am not trying to be overly critical here, but I wonder how the rest of you feel about some of the "silly" touches in many Stardock games? By silly, I am mostly talking about some of the text associated with techs and units in the GalCiv games and the hints of a similar tone in Elemental. Example: https://forums.elementalgame.com/376728 Here on the card for the character Lorina, the text reads "And I'm all out of gum...".
Now I do understand that not everything has to be serious and that a lot of people appreciate silly humor, but to me that kind of thing just kind of takes me out of the immersion of the game universe somehow? I don't know how many times in the 2 GalCiv games I would read thhrough the text of a technology breakthrough and see a couple little quips like that, and while it was never a huge deal or anything, I always kind of wished they used something a little more in character with the feel of the game world? Occasionally I did crack a smile or something when reading them, but mostly I usually wished for something more atmospheric instead.
Please don't feel the need to flame me for a simple opinion, but I am curious how the rest of you feel about this kind of thing? Do you prefer a lot of silly humor in strategy games, or would you prefer more atmosphere and immersion?
Thanks for your time.
I uterly and totally disagree with you. I still smile when I see the galciv2 perk : +70% pop "Don't ask".
No, seriously, never change that. It's not like the whole game would a be a big joke. It's just little easter eggs.
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Love the silliness of the games. Its one of the things that keeps them being, ya know, GAMES.
I wouldn't want it to be pervasive, but a joke here and there is what keeps it from becoming an interactive spreadsheet with graphics.
I like it but I think if they toned it down a bit that would keep the atmosphere and have the silly easter eggs be more special... Like I fell off my chair laughing when I had the Pokemon event occus in GalCiv2...
That's the custom unit quote...Brad wrote that, it wasn't pre-canned
Exactly, you can write whatever you desire in those spaces, so if you want a more serious tone on your SOvs info card, you can write one.
I thought it waqs quite witty actually.
GalCiv never had an immersive story layer for me, so the silliness there was fun. It was also highly repetitive after enough games, so it became pretty easy to ignore if I was in a mood to get all RPGy with a given game.
For Elemental, I'd prefer to see silliness kept out of hard-coded text text for pretty much the same reasons Soulfire777 gives. Silliness belongs in the Book of Silly Mods: Part 1-Slightly Silly Mods, Part 2-Silly Mods, and Part 3-Very Silly (Independent) Mods.
I've a tendency to agree with the hand here: the whole epic battle of life and death we're seeing here in EWOM would probably not be all that conducive to humorous quips. I also doubt that they will be added into the default game.
I don't mind humor. Even the darkest settings should have a little humor, because that's something that's pervasive in human nature. Pop culture references, however, do break immersion.
In Elemental, the pre-canned text will NOT be silly (except some in the beta).
There will be an official announcement about this in fact at GDC.
I think everybody is taking this a bit seriously.
I can easily see a dragon burping and looking at me through the screen and smiling after it kicked my butt in battle.
I could easily read a few jokes her eand there in teh game to make me laugh. The atmosphere will still be there. I can't see a joke ruining it.
In my opinion this is suppose to be fun. To me this would add to it
be careful not to make the game too serius. it is about wizards making armies of peasants riding bears
There is good silly and there is bad silly.
I dont mind some ingame joke in the mood of the setting, but I do mind any jokes referring to a celebrity or such. That will ruin the roleplay part.
I'm a certified silly. Therefore: silly powah!!!
Real world is full of silly things in the most serious ones. So as long as it's not unrelated, I welcome it.
I'm still a wee bit undecided on in-world-context jokes.... depends on the setting, I think: it's one thing for the thugs sitting around a campfire to start a humorous drinking song or two, and quite another for the two soverigns slinging (non-electric) lightening at one another to start cracking puns. Anything that actually breaks the world of the game, though, is definately not on my "include" list.
I love games that try to evoke the whole gamut of human emotion, from sadness to laughter. Too much of any of them isn't a good thing, and you'd expect some races to be sillier than others.
I really liked the humor in previous Stardock games.
I'd say "Snap," but I worry about ending up with a bunch of webbing all over me...
aw thats a bit sad...i love the funny stuff, it was nice and subtle in gc2, more of an offer than a direction...I mean, it was necessary to engage with it. Anyways, whatever inspires the team is good.
I once ran out of a house naked covered in baby spiders (combination of the need for speed and the desire not to hurt as many spiders as possible) and my housemate has brought one of his work buddies home to check out the property we were renting (serious business type - we were all a little more crazy). So I'm flailing my limbs and yelling 'spiders spiders!' and then I look up and see them, with their jaws dropped and my housemate facepalms...sensational stuff...no one else ever visited from the office
Not to go all second-generation hippie on you, but were you concerned about avoiding the critter harm in general or did you know that the baby spiders covering you were a good ally against a serious pest like roaches? (I admit I'm thinking a little bit about Elemental quests and the Giant Spiders we've seen in the betas so far.)
Awww
Well it would be appropiate if you could work some witty dark humor inot some of the events. Nothing like the bubble gum quote. You could do humor pertaining to the races or creatures in them. Would add depth if it was kept in context.
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