Talk:Dunwall/@comment-16533050-20160608172250

Word Barbarians Need Not Apply

If this were a dissertation or blog (which it may wind up being), then the above sentence would be the title of this little bit of prose.

A recent edit was applied and a sentence changed, not for the wrongness of any actual facts, but for the simple reason that the words used 'Seemed too flowery'.

I'm sorry, what?

We aren't to apply elegance or imagery to our sentences? We aren't to be Composers of the Written Word? Nor Artists of the Pen or Keyboard as is our wont? Any Word Barbarian can make a sentence, but it takes soul to bring these Pictures of Prose to life.

Thank goodness Word Barbarians were not responsible for writing our game of Dishonored. Epic dialogue would have been missed, and the excellent capturing of emotion would have been tainted. Look only to Daud for the briefest of examples:

His audiograph here: Thoughts on the Lord Regent's Fall. Listen to that and feel the emotion.

Had Word Barbarians gotten their hands on that it would have been more: "Damn, I wanted to gig ya. But someone else got ya already. Oh well. You lost at least, Hiram. Hah-hah."

Or an even better example when Daud first goes to fight Corvo in the epic battle in The Flooded District mission: "And now we fight the duel, that no two others could fight, against the ticking of the clock."

How does one not just appreciate the tortured soul of Daud in but those two instances?

If Word Barbarians had gotten their way, Corvo would've just stood there as he confronted Daud, paused for a moment, and in his only voiced dialogue in the entire game would've said, "Dafuq, dude, with all the talking? That seemed too flowery. I just came here to gig ya."

Seriously.

Anyway, TL/DR. Just a typical Geist rant. :P