Will the Writing Team make a conscious effort to include a little humor in Star Citizen? It would be awesome to see a few NPCs with comedic personalities - some humor could be subtle, some witty one-liners, and some could make a tense situation lighter with some well-timed comedy.asked by Nostromo1977
TL;DRThe writers say they definitely want humor, ideally from lively characters in serious situations and arising from within the story rather than characters mocking the world, to balance out darkness.
Uh, definitely, yeah! I mean, I think that-Will Weissbaum: I was gonna say "maybe" ... [chuckles]
Yeah, I mean the thing is, it's important to remember, as long as it's not-... there's a weird thing with humor - I've always looked at it as, it's great to have funny people in it because you can have funny people in a serious environment. Hudson from Aliens is always my classic go-to example - like, he's a funny character who's in a very serious situation and he takes the seriousness of the situation seriously, but he reacts to it in a funny way because he has a dynamic personality. But yeah, I think you need that, you know. I was actually talking with Chris about this last week. He was like, "if you have too much-... if it's too monotone and too dark, and angry, and violent the entire time, it gets overwhelming and it feels flat. You need this levity to kind of punctuate the darkness." And you know, that's one of the great things about Firefly too - that's a show that can get very dark and get really violent, and part of it is because you have that warmth of the comedy to counterbalance it, so when it gets dark it feels really dark and really bleak, 'cause you have these big personalities who are scared.
Yeah. And I think I try not to - when I'm writing a lighter, funnier moment - not to have the characters poke holes in the world, or make fun of the world, but rather have the humor come from a place with inside the story, and evolve out of that. 'Cause you know, it can be an easy joke sometimes - one of the more obvious ones would be, "isn't it stupid that we're doing this," "isn't it stupid that I have to go get this box," but then you're just kind of shooting yourself in the foot rather than trying to build up to something.But yeah, one of your wingmen will just have a horn that he honks as you're flying around!
Heheh, yeah... he's got really big shoes...
Actually I kinda really like that... like a Harpo as a wingman...
Like, "cover my six! meep meep meep!" ... "I got your back! meep!"
"Oh no! One long, two short!"[both chuckling]