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Mar. 29th, 2010 01:20 pmI've mentioned before that I seem to have a high susceptibility to picking up habits from things if I'm around them too long, but about a month after finishing Metal Gear Solid 4 I've begun to realize I've picked up the most irritating one yet from it.
It's a hallmark of Hideo Kojima's writing style - and something that's completely excruciating whenever it comes up after you've noticed it once - that he breaks up lines that go on for a long time (which is most of them) by making one character repeat the last line with a question mark on the end (demonstrative video). He says he does this because the player can't rewind cutscenes and needs important points hammered into their heads, but why he doesn't solve this by the more obvious mechanism of making cutscenes rewindable is beyond everyone.
And I've heard myself starting to do this in just about any interjection or to prompt someone to continue speaking - but I notice it every time just after I've said it. I've started to have to pause for a couple of seconds to mentally rephrase what I'm going to say so that it doesn't take the form of a parroted question - I hope I get out of it before too long.
It's a hallmark of Hideo Kojima's writing style - and something that's completely excruciating whenever it comes up after you've noticed it once - that he breaks up lines that go on for a long time (which is most of them) by making one character repeat the last line with a question mark on the end (demonstrative video). He says he does this because the player can't rewind cutscenes and needs important points hammered into their heads, but why he doesn't solve this by the more obvious mechanism of making cutscenes rewindable is beyond everyone.
And I've heard myself starting to do this in just about any interjection or to prompt someone to continue speaking - but I notice it every time just after I've said it. I've started to have to pause for a couple of seconds to mentally rephrase what I'm going to say so that it doesn't take the form of a parroted question - I hope I get out of it before too long.
