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Message: [QUOTE="Sumea, post: 372137, member: 569"] Yeah. To me, this is difference of writing in GTA3 to 4, versus how writing and scenes are in GTA5. GTA up to 4 is very sincere especially in their characters even if the world has heavily satirical elements. Whereas 5 makes even the characters part of the satirical world, and also goes just quite overboard with the "quirky" nature of everything. To me, something like diving equipment company being named "Prolaps" is just that slight push over. Yet, I would not call GTA5 a case of "Millenial Writing" but more of example of new writers not getting the balance and golden ratio of old. Even when I could use "Millenial Writing" as handwavy thing against some games easily, it is bit of a blanketed statement. I am still not sure if it it "Written by millenials" or "Written for millenials" - it is bit of both, I think, and I am sure there is at least two good thing written by and for millenials. To me examples from the "Flood" of "Millenial writing" are Forspoken by square, with a main character that is written to suck brain cells dry and bringing it's concept and world down. The type people tend to hate is where writers intend to make "Strong individual" but end up making them self centered jerks that are hard to root for unless you identify with the character and is a yike for that, or are so forceful with their "subversion" of tropes for the game style, world or concept so hard it comes off as petty hatred for the concept itself. Trying too hard to make a mundane concept grandiose and falling flat, uninteresting, boring and unenjoyable. Generally just writing misfires like that. Generally, if I had to give it one more TL;DR, writing that just is so hard "How do you do, fellow millenials?" with poor quality and not much other merit to wrap the bones with. [automerge]1763807142[/automerge] I found this channel also a while back and it is absolutely fun to listen to her analysis videos. I am not even an hobbyist writer but it helped a little in identifying what can just feel wrong in a story or it's outline, without being able to really put a word or sentence down for it. [/QUOTE]

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