From a pragmatic standpoint, Valve saw what kind of writing was starting to trend (characters quipping retarded lines that make you picture the generic, shit-eating Pixar grin non-stop) and veered in that direction. Fat, ginger soyjak who writes zany articles for Cracked is a perfect fit.
The millenial style of writing and it's consequences has been a disaster for vibeo gayms. It was already a blight on ears at the time borderlands 2 released, and yet everytime I play a new AAA game I expect to see "Lead Writer Anthony Burch" in the credits.
I can't wait until troonery dies out in games. I view video game troons exactly like I viewed the bronies. A cult of mostly autistic men that are hyper-fixated on some weirdly antisocial activity. I give it 3 years tops before something else replaces it.
The people who made the great valve games of yesteryear no longer work at valve.
All-star ex-employees came back to finish HL3, and its release this year will be official death of Old!Valve.
Nice thought, but what do you have to back that up?
The fact that there have been consistent leaks from Valve for the past year, various people confirming they've seen the game at Valve, and Gabe outright confirming that they are working on the fabled sequel in the HL2 documentary. These guys are not getting younger, and they felt a collective wish to give gamers the promised third full Half-Life game.
Fuck, don't remind me about the brony scene. I remember when that shit came around and I was hoping it would all fuck off very quickly. Boy was I wrong.
I was going to say, Pinkerton is GenX. That's not to defend the millennials, but more that I'm curious what made him this way.
See, this is what I mean. Anthony Burch is as core millennial as they get. He was born in 1988, which means his childhood literally ended at the turn of the millennium. What's extra funny is that with some AI, if you ask it what "Millennial Writing" is, they give Borderlands as an example.
But the tragic thing is that they leave, make another studio, raise millions simply by having "the minds of TF2" in their About Us section, only to release dogshit games like Stormgate and go bankrupt.
I take millenial writing as a style/tone, not that it needs to be written by a millenial - see how Randy Pitchford (1971, so even older than Pinkerton) behaves in real life or on social media with his BADASSery or singing "nobody likes a bigot". He has the intessential millenial mindset, even though he was 29 in 2000.
Holy shit. I looked up Chet Faliszek because I know he worked on The Anacrusis after he left Valve, but did you guys know he has a Tiktok?
Yeah I remember laughing at this stuff on /v/ one time. Shame, I think he's a good writer.
I really wonder what his CWCKI forums TF2 map looked like all the way back in 2013
