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Old 01-17-2010, 04:42 PM   #2962 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Junkenstein View Post
Valve are great with characters that arent the player. Just watch Portal. Fair enough, the gameplay is sickeningly addictive, but would have been the same without the genius that is GlaDos? The turrets? They managed to make people fall in love with a cube.

I think that NIko is more interesting than CJ. Fine CJ is the quintessential cool gangsta, but Niko is a complex, tragic, being.

By the way, i speak of compelling characters and i do not mention April Ryan... Shame on me.
They really are great at that, and they use the same techniques to develop their worlds around you - even in Left 4 Dead 1/2.

Yeah, I'd agree, I've never felt bad about my character doing something in a GTA game until 4.

Oh! You just reminded me - Andrew Ryan of Bioshock, especially after that scene.
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