Chris Avellone famous quotes

I don't think I could ever stop being a game designer, that's just where my brain is going to be at until I'm in the coffin.
-- Chris Avellone

#Thinking #Games #Brain

When the injustice is great enough, justice will lend me the strength needed to correct it. None may stand against it. It will shatter every barrier, sunder any shield, tear through any enchantment, and lend its servant the power to pass sentence. Know this: There is nothing on all the Planes that can stay the hand of justice when it is brought against them. It may unmake armies. It may sunder the thrones of gods. Know that for all who betray justice, I am their fate. And fate carries an executioner's axe.
-- Chris Avellone

#Fate #Army #Hands

Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back.
-- Chris Avellone

#Monk #Reason

Time is not your enemy, forever is.
-- Chris Avellone

#Forever #Enemy

I am never going to do an Empire Strikes Back ending again in a game, even if they put branding irons to my feet.
-- Chris Avellone

#Games #Iron #Feet

The moment you start dictating content/themes/story vs. allowing the player to be a participant in the story and carve their own path, you're doing the player a disservice.
-- Chris Avellone

#Player #Path #Stories

I've got to be honest, I absolutely don't like designing romances. I think that you get a lot more drama and impact from failed romances, or unrequited relationships that occur in games. I think that creates more player tension.
-- Chris Avellone

#Drama #Player #Thinking

I think actually any morality system that rewards only the extremes is a flawed system. Players don't approach life that way, they don't approach games that way, and they shouldn't be trained to approach games that way. They shouldn't be in the mode where, "I've got to choose every good option." They should just play the game. And they should get equal consequences or rewards for that, that are different from the extremes.
-- Chris Avellone

#Player #Thinking #Different

Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

Think it over, think it under.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.

The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.

Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped

We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.

All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.