The whole "prepared" thing was always a total mystery to me. Maybe there's a layer to it that I don't realize. But I never understood why this is always treated like this "cool", classic quote. Something like "If it bleeds, we can kill it", I can understand that. But "You are not prepared"? It's like saying "looks like rain today" or "I hate mondays".
You no take candle > you are not prepared
Some of Arthas' dialogue was pretty awesome though. "I will freeze you from within... until all that remains is an icy husk!", "Your heart.. Its incessant drumming disgusts me. I will silence it, as I did my own!“
I'd rather them not say anything at all than taunt endlessly like a Saturday morning cartoon villain. Xavius in DHT is particularly cringe worthy. It's like all the villains in D3.
I think that part of it, is how we first heard that line delivered--when Illidan jumps up in the cinamatic and hovers with those huge wings of his, brandishing his Warglaives of Awesomeness--and it was spoken with such authority, like "You level 60 assholes can't keep up with this'.
Cool stuff!
There's always been some gems among the "generic villain threats." You can't make every one memorable.
One of my recent favorites is one of the simplest- when a frustrated Lei Shen simply screams "DIE!!!!"
Every once in awhile they make something amazing, like sindragosa's lines in ICC. But most of the time they make god awful cringey shit like malfurion and xavious in darkheart thicket.
It's almost incomprehensible to me that the voices in English--which are usually terrible--are even worse in Russian. I'd try to search them out but my Russian professor used to say "the summer comes and burns the Russian away..." It's been, well, a LOT of summers.
This is the reason why i love that boss from hyperdimension neptunia that just yells "SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT" when you defeat him. Much more humane and relatable. If bosses just threw a natural fuck-bomb they would seem much more reasonable.
"When next we meet..."
Simple solution: Do not play with sounds on. Listen to your favorite edgy trance/dubstep instead.
"I think I have a crush on you HAEHUHHUHHYUAYYUUHYAHHHU"
Freaking Oakheart.
Have people complaining that Blizz can't write dungeon dialogue forgotten about Koramar and Zoggosh already?
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It's not so much the lines as the depth of characterization. If a boss has a cool concept and somebody's taken the time to express that, even one-liners will be memorable.
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