Chris Avellone Quotes

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 'Star Wars' mode where, 'I've got to choose every good option.'

I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

In 'Alpha Protocol,' right from the outset, the parameters of the game explain to you that the mission needs to get done. How you approach that is your decision. The rewards and penalties for either path, those are going to balance out into different consequences.

You can't really be passionately moderate. It's like wearing an 'Extra Medium' - it doesn't exist.

Any policy that is extreme we must avoid.

The solution, as always, is a union of the half truths drawn from the extremes

I know a moderate, more centered candidate like myself doesn't get as much attention as people who tend to say more extreme things.

You can only truly wow a player the first time he sees [a cutscene]. I felt if players saw the cutscenes outside of the game, they would no longer serve as rewards for playing the game, so I've decided against having them.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a middle-of-the-road moderate and the rest of you are crazy.

The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.

I've done a lot of video games and stuff, and I'm getting better and better at it. I don't have a prejudice about it being a different medium.

I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative. It's the one between zealotry and understanding, between absolute conviction and compromise, between preachers and politicians.

In any organization there ought to be the possibility of discussion... fence sitting is an art, and it's difficult, and it's important to do, rather than to go headlong in one direction or the other. It's just better to have action, isn't it than to sit on the fence? Not if you're not sure which way to go, it isn't.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

Players' attention spans get less and less as they progress.

Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.

If I believe in something, I will fight for it with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing. Professional liberals want the fiery debate. They glory in defeat. The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position.

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to prevent their realization.

I don't think we've got a discipline problem. It's the players who are thick who are causing the problems

I think it's a slippery slope to fabricate a different life.

No game designer ever went wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players.

I'm telling you, [ real people] are not mad at Al-Qaeda. They are not mad at ISIS. They are not mad at [Omar] Mateen. Mateen is a victim just like they are. They are a victim of this country. These angry, irrational Looney Tunes on social media - be it people who are commenting or originally posting - these people think they're victims of this country, too. They have been taught that!