Quotes by Matthew Mercer - Page 1

I consider myself a better storyteller than a Dungeon Master.
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Storyteller
Dungeon
Master
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Role-playing games are just an organic improvised space for storytelling.
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Space
Games
Storytelling
Improvised
Organic
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I've worked on a lot of fighting games, so I was very used to the idea of combat sounds.
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Combat
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For me, the very first video game I ever played would have been 'Return of the Jedi' on the Atari 2600.
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Jedi
Video Game
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Society, in general, has taught for many generations that when you reach a certain age, you have to learn to stop playing.
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Society
Certain
Taught
General
Certain Age
Learn
Reach
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Whenever I'm driving through an area of a town, and it gets really foggy, my brain immediately starts having anxiety because of 'Silent Hill.'
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Silent
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I played the first 'Resident Evil' on a PlayStation in high school. I remember, those were the beginning of the survival-horror genre; I've been following it for a very long time.
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Following
Playstation
Time Long Remember
Resident
Very Long Time
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A lot of games and voiceover projects, they're not giving the actor a lot of context. The actor, no matter how good they are, might not be able to deliver a performance that fits the action.
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Context
Deliver
Fits
Voiceover
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There's an old-school gatekeeper mentality to some of the RPG community: 'It's unfair that somebody out there can make money on something that I worked so hard to make for free for my friends.'
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Mentality
Unfair
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'Resident Evil: Damnation' was physically mo-capped and recorded with the mo-cap actors first, so there wasn't a whole lot of flexibility with timing, so it was more stringent. We had to go in individually.
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Timing
Physically
Individually
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Resident
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It's always hard when you're working on a project, and you're seeing it in bits and pieces, whether that be film, television, video games, animation - you only really have perspective of what you're interacting with.
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Animation
Bits
Bits And Pieces
Interacting
Video Games
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Role-playing games have been a huge part of my life and a huge part of my training as a performer - learning social skills, meeting friends, and being a generally competent person - so I owe a lot to role-playing games.
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Friends
Competent
Games
Huge
Skills
Social
Social Skills
Training
Life Learning My Life
Generally
Huge Part
Owe
Meeting
My Life
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Thanks to Twitter, Reddit, web media, and social media, we have the opportunity now to kind of blur that line between the people who produce the content, the people that watch it, and instead make it a conversation, make it a real community.
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Blur
Reddit
Thanks
Web
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The rules - I think that's one big thing that people seem to get caught up in is that I have to know all the rules... But, one thing you have to consider as a new Dungeon Master is you do not have to know the rules like the back of your hand.
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Caught
Rules
Your People New
Big Thing
Consider
Dungeon
Master
Hand
People New Your
Seem
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There aren't a lot of entertainment-based mediums, the visual or recorded mediums, that empower the audience to go off the next day and create it themselves. You can't watch a movie or a show and the next day say, 'I want to make that.' You have to go to school.
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Mediums
Visual
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Recorded
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The difference between 'Resident Evil: Damnation' and 'Resident Evil 6' is in 'Resident Evil 6' we did facial mo-cap, along with the voice over. We had these little reflectors glued to our faces and these head pieces in this room filled with light with about 40 cameras.
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Cameras
Faces
Filled
Glued
Resident
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Time and time again, the players constantly surprise you and often not do at all what you expect and completely muck up your preparation, and that's kind of the beauty of the game. It wouldn't be as fun to the DM if everything worked out exactly how you thought it would.
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Beauty
Fun
Preparation
Surprise
Time Your Game
Beauty Time Your
Again
Game
Constantly
Exactly
Expect
Time And Time
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I prefer ensemble casts, but with games like 'Resident Evil 6,' where there's just so much dialogue and recording mo-cap, or with 'Resident Evil: Damnation,' where the story pace is already set by a previous set of mo-cap actors, it makes more sense to do it individually.
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Dialogue
Ensemble
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Individually
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Resident
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A lot of gaming and a lot of interaction is no longer physical; it's all digital and at a distance. There's this innate, tribal need of the people to have face time with other people and play together in person. I think there's been this rediscovery of the joy of playing with people around the table.
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Digital
Distance
Gaming
Innate
Interaction
Joy
Together
Time Together Face
Face
Longer
Physical
Table
Tribal
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I try desperately to try and figure out how they'd react to different scenarios. That's part of what the DM's job is: to try and know their players well enough to where they can build encounters, challenges, and be like, 'I think they would do this in this scenario, so I will go ahead and prepare a few options based on this.'
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Encounters
Options
Prepare
React
Scenario
Well Enough
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For a lot of people, 'Dungeons & Dragons' has been a hard thing to describe. I can't tell you how many social environments I've been in where I say, 'I play 'D&D,'' and a bunch of normies will be like, 'How does the game even work? What's that like?' I didn't have anything to really describe it that didn't make me sound like a crazy person.
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Bunch
Crazy Person
Dragons
Dungeons
Hard
Social
Sound
Work Me Game
Work Me Crazy
Does
Game
Work Game Me
Describe
Environments
Hard Thing
Tell
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'Dungeons and Dragons' has evolved over the years, and so has the community that played the game. It had a lot of lingering stigma from the anti-'D&D' movement of the '70s and '80s - this kind of idea that 'Dungeons and Dragons' is only played by the lowest of the low basement dwellers - that has kept people from being comfortable talking about it.
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Dragons
Dungeons
Lingering
Lowest
Stigma
Basement
Evolved
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