Unrealistic dialogue...

[DJZen]

I think it's mainly because you had the "snobby intellectual who throws his opinions around as fact" thing going on. Quite common amongst those in College.

Well Mark Twain DID like to make fun of bad writing, that much is a fact. Also, I don't exactly consider FFVI to be a great literary work. I'm sure Twain would have more than just a thing or two to say about that if he saw it. Doubtlessly he'd make fun of Woolsey's attempts at Elizabethan English in Cyan's dialogue.

That said, I still think Woolsey did a better job with FFVI's script than the translators of FFVII did with that game's script.


And tangentally, disliking something just because other people like it is just as stupid as liking something because other people like it. Coming from an iconoclast that means a lot.

[Roto13]

Well Mark Twain DID like to make fun of bad writing, that much is a fact.

Yeah, I wonder what he would have said about the last third of Huckleberry Finn. It's almost like the author was sloshed the whole time. Oh, wait.....

Both games have crappy scripts, really. If you want to debate which one has a crappier story, make another thread for it.

[DJZen]

Don't even get me started on Huck Finn...

I wonder what Twain would say about Square's Tom Sawyer?

[Memoria]

Okay, with Cyan's event!

Cyan's heart is hurt so much. If he even thinks about what makes him ache so, he just might break down and commit sepuku. He laughs and jokes to try to make him not so sad, and not to bring down the others. He's a warrior, he thinks about the well being of his comerades, and that's just how I feel that he would try to keep them upbeat.