Critique Post

[getsciencedone]

Am I making GLaDOS act out of character. Anything you want to tell me about my playing.

Leave a comment if you do. Anon/screened and all that fun stuff.

Comments

[y_u_dothis]

First of all, I'd recommend enabling anonymous commenting. People who don't know you personally have no reason to trust that you won't do an acrobatic pirouette off the handle if they give you crit, so they'll either not comment at all to avoid wank or make sock journals like this to comment with...which either defeats the purpose of an HMD in the first place, or defeats the purpose of disabling anon comments. Just saying.

Anyway, on to the crit: your GLaDOS is painfully bland for a quirky, murderous AI program. I love the game and the character, but you are really playing it safe with her to the point where she's lifeless and uninteresting as a character. You've been missing opportunities to really make her shine, to really emphasize the personality she has, since her very first post; an insane computer program had just turned human, had just found herself exposed to emotions and hormones and fleshiness and appendages and even gender for the first time. She could have flipped out; she could have gotten hyper-emotional, or had a

[getsciencedone]

Okay first of all. Crap. Totally thought I had anon enabled. I'll be sure to fix that.

Second. Thank you. No I'm not going to jump of the handle. You have a problem with the way I play GLaDOS, I want to know so I can fix it. Totally serious here.

I need to play her around more. I need to add more quirkyness to her character and more sarcasm. Also more unhinged behaviour. Much more of that.

Right now I have her being nice to some people because she's trying to get more test subjects. However I may have taken this too far. If this is what you mean by blandness. Then yes, I think I understand what you are getting at.

I'll refresh myself on the canon tomorrow and try to work a way into making her better and more realistic. GLaDOS is one of my favorite characters and I'd like to do her justice.

[y_u_dothis]

Fair enough. If you've been having her deliberately blunt her reactions to appear nice and normal to people, I'd recommend making note of that in [small] tags with some inner monologue so people get insight on what she's really thinking/feeling. Otherwise, it just looks like she's being bafflingly reasonable without explanation.

Also, I applaud you for taking crit well, I really do. ♥ I hope to play with GLaDOS in the future sometime, and everyone benefits the more awesome she gets.

[getsciencedone]

[Had to unscreen to reply

[anonymous]

Your posts on the punch thread spoilered me for Portal 2 :(

I really wish you had put a warning in your subject header, because you haven't canon updated yet so I didn't know it was already time for me to avoid you until I finished playing

I mean, okay, I was wondering what you could possibly have done with her on a de-aging thread, so it was partially my fault, but that was something I really didn't see coming.

I guess I'm just saying, try to be more careful? Thank you.

[getsciencedone]

/face palm. Crap I knew there was something I meant to do.

Ugh, so sorry. I totally meant to to put up a spoiler warning when I was writing it.

[luxuriality]

SUP I HAVE NO OTHER IDEA WHERE TO CONTACT YOU SO

[getsciencedone]

........Oh my god that is the greatest idea ever. SIGN ME UP!

[luxuriality]

OKAY OKAY GOOD. I'll be sure to keep in touch with you about this and thanks for being so open! If there are more ...flour sack demon children from the 7th layer of hell you'd like add please let me know! /o/ I'll be sure to gain some CR with GLaDOS over the summer. They're both unempathetic and do horrible horrible things. They'll be sure to get along awesomely |D;

[getsciencedone]

Totally.

Though....GLaDOS does have a bit of a conscience at the moment.

However. That conscience does have a weakness for science so if it's presented as an experiment. GLaDOS will probably be able to shut Caroline up about it.

And GLaDOS would suggest a bear with deadly neurotoxin but that probably isn't feasible.