Aurora

You've been dead the whole time.

even the most skilled machines cannot capture my beauty the flash has nothing on me the camera is blinded by my supernatural glow Or, the opposite. But I look forward to the Obsidian board album!

*holds firmly, yet tenderly* Ok thx.

No. But there are time limits on game creation. If they can have both, great. I don't remember if Wookiees receive stat penalties to int (I think they have penalties to dex and cha) - whether they do or not, the point isn't that they're dumb, it's that they're not physically able to speak other languages and that most of the universe is designed for smaller, less Bigfoot-shaped creatures. They're not the heroes because Americans don't like subtitled films. I am familiar with the Star Wars d20 material (sadly enough). I really didn't think Bioware's handling of it was a problem - in fact, I thought they improved it in some areas where the system was moronic - but sure, there's room for improvement. I've also never had a problem with Bioware's writing (excepting NWN-1), but I think Troika's has generally been terrible. So "good dialogue" is partly due to taste, but, great as you may think some of the writers are, brilliant dialogue doesn't just spill from their fingertips. It still takes time. But, whatever, this is all pretty pointless anyway - I do doubt that they're going to have playable non-humans at all. Publisher does do QA in most cases. Lucasarts won't hire me either 'cause I wouldn't play $40 to get into GDC. ;_;

yeah.

I'M DOING JUST FINE HAHAHA THANKS FOR ASKING!

So do you feel that a game with crappy to moderate dialogue but many dialogue *options* is better than a game with slightly less dialogue options but more well-written dialogue? *All* I'm saying here is that I'd prefer a well-written game with *multiple* choices (enough to replay, yes, I *never* said that I don't want choices) over a poorly written game with zillions of choices. If Obsidian can produce a brilliantly-written game with zillions of choices, that's great, but writing good story and dialogue takes time. Providing multiple options and non-linearity takes time. To me, it doesn't matter how replayable a game is if it isn't playable in the first place. I want the game to focus on quality over quantity, if it comes down to that. I'd prefer time to be spent on things like NPCs recognizing the skills and talents and statistics and gender of the PC, rather than popping out with the occasional "you are large and smelly, you Wookiee you." Of course, I'm sure that whatever Obsidian pops out will be terrifically playable and replayable, since they're all cool and awesome even if they won't hire me for QA. I can suspend plenty of disbelief. I'm just wondering if you and others would be able to if the game came out and you didn't have many different options depending on race. I mean, Wookiee-talk is a major part of what makes the Wookiees *different,* what would theoretically make them replayable - but I don't think it's really worth the effort to majorly change the storyline so it fits with a hairy mute giant, or a tentacle-headed sexbomb or a giant unmoving blob, or whatever. But hey.

What? And Wookiees would be way beyond FO's "retarded" since they can't even communicate with *anyone* who doesn't speak Wookiee or Wookeese or whatever. They can basically point and grunt. That's fine. In slow-motion, she blinks, unable to dechiper this strange, strange language. Wait, of course! It's all clear now! Choices, these choices, I despise choices! Everything suddenly makes sense! Or, huh? Choices are great. I like choices. That's what I'm talking about. Making choices. Great. Glad we agree.

Are we talking realistic here, or crazy wishes? Realistic: I would like NO GODDAMN UNDERWATER QUESTS WITH GODDAMN SLOW MOTION AND GODDAMN GIANT FISH. I would also like NO GODDAMN ONE-HIT-KILL LIGHTSABERS. Sure, if you get hit with a lightsaber, you'll probably die instantly. If you get a sword driven through your heart, you'll probably also die instantly. If you get shot, you'll probably also die pretty quickly. Making all weapons kill in one hit is not the path to kewlness unless we're playing SUPER REALISM WITH VERY LITTLE COMBAT game. I would like a hug. Juhani *was* a furry, dude. CAT-PERSON.

Wookiees can't, afaik, even speak non-Wookiee languages. I don't think it's worth the time and effort of the developers to add, for example, a race that *cannot communicate with anyone outside of their own race,* effectively a mute character unless this is a very Wookiee-heavy game. Replayability: *replaces all dialogue options with grunting which only 1% of the population can understand* Other races are less restrictive than the wacky Wookiees, but if you're looking for re-roleplaying ability, wouldn't you expect pretty much *everyone* in the game to respond differently to an Ewok than to a human, or whatever? Eh.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. You couldn't use more than one feat at a time, so it was *worthless* to master them all (guardians and soldiers probably had enough feats to do so, I never did). I didn't like power attack much, but flurry and the critical feats were nice enough.

ahaha, take your time. doing perfectly well over here, lairless and all. yup, yup. doing just great. yeah huh. yeah. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH FROGS GET THEM OFF ME!!!!!!

I have a vague desire to play a non-Jedi character, but I'm fine with Jedi default. No desire at all to play a non-human - don't see the point at all beyond stat differences. Different races are one thing in D&D games where everyone among the base races is humanoid and all the cultures are vaguely similar - Star Wars aliens are pretty different from each other in theory. I'd rather see more focus spent on the character's skills & stats & style and how that all affects the game than on a few different things depending on if your whole body is covered in fur or not.

Oh, yes, I suppose I could. AND IT SHOULD BE!

Oh, well, I couldn't get through anything in 20 minutes. Guess I'm screwed.

Obsessively read all KOTOR2 info last night. Proceeded to dream about playing it. Life v. sad. But who wants to know how it went in my dream? It could be prophetic!!!!

Hello! Since everyone already asked how you were doing, HOW ARE THE CATS?

Do you have a different name at ML or something?

Aw, hell. I think the problem here is *too* much mayo. There is nowhere left to hide. Unless... unless... Nope, I'm tapped. Is that a Buffy quote I see in your sig? Has your girlfriend finally converted you to the side of Light and Right? I knew she'd make an honest androgyne out of you! My sweet fuzzy little three-eared baby sold his soul to post here. 's okay, now we can afford to pay the rent on the road for another month and he's never been happier. <3

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Curses! Our secret plan has been revealed! To the PenguinCave, Jack!

*sibars back. with SPICY MAYONNAISE. because everything's better with SPICY MAYONNAISE!*

*sibars Jack*

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