The valve for 2011 Game Developers Conference Online writers roundtable meeting today, writer Erik Wolpaw spent studio, Marc Laidlaw, Ted Kosmatka an hour answering questions from the audience ranging from Half-Life on the upcoming DotA second One of the themes touched on repeatedly was the idea of ??Valve experts as the silent protagonist, thanks to their work with Gordon Freeman in Half-Life and Portal Chell in the franchise.
ATLAS and P-body were not the greatest talkers themselves.
Despite that perception, said Wolpaw, the authors do not always know exactly what they are doing when you write for her dumb mascot. In particular, he pointed to a segment in Portal 2, where the players explore an abandoned Aperture Science facility will help with the antagonistic artificial intelligence GLaDOS.
“Had we imagined than this buddy-cop thing where you want to be together and you would squabble and it would be great. There are honest to God not to us that the buddy-cop, what does not work if one is quiet from you . … It’s funny now, everyone laughs, but it was a real moment of panic incredible for us, when we realized we would be maneuvered into a corner. And then we decided we need to get her some thing external to do have. She has a relationship with Cave … she noted, was another person. And then there are the birds and other things. We are in that many go with the silent protagonist, even at this point. ”
When he later about things that were left on the cutting room asked, seized the opportunity Wolpaw, a rumor that some snippets were unused in the current “JK Simmons will do anything if you pay him.” Repeal – Erik Wolpaw.
Dialogue “will do everything JK Simmons, if you pay him.” Left in the game -. Erik Wolpaw.
“There is a piece of dialogue in there, where Carolyn say” No, no, no, I do not want that. I do not want that, ‘”said Wolpaw.” And there is a kind of history on the Internet that obviously people think, it was confirmed that there is a scene that was in the Cave rape Carolyn Johnson, JK Simmons, and that would not read dialogue, so that’s why we do not have it [the game]. Apparently, these people who are never seen [prison drama] Oz. JK Simmons will do anything if you pay him .. But that is absolutely not true, it was like they played the rest of the game and thought that we wrote a rape scene there and had that there for a while and thought: ‘. Well, maybe we’ll ship’ It’s crazy. “
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