Holly Green also vouches for this GDC 2023 talk from CD Projekt Red’s Pawe Sasko, on creating memorable quests for players. She recapped the talk here, highlighting Sasko’s notes on emotional resonance: “Sasko says the team made the goal of impacting the player emotionally a key pillar in their approach to narrative. "You need to control what the players are thinking and feeling". This means not holding back when writing an impactful scene or story. While there is temptation to form the narrative around "cool" sequences, the "real bangers", as he calls them, it is important to stay in the player's memories and make the action secondary to emotion and impact. Cool scenes without them have "no soul".
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