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Humanoid

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  1. That dumb wheel never gave a good indication of what your char says. That was a problem from the get got when they came up with it and my biggest reason why i don´t like it. It´s even worse in the Mass Effect series but Bioware seems to love it. Though, i guess i´m lucky that the translation team did a good job on that and it´s not that missleading as in english (which i also played...for like...2 hours..) The dialogue wheel is the logical consequence of fully voiced player characters. How interesting would it be to have your character just repeat the very same sentence you just picked out of the available dialogue options? I thought DX:HR handled it pretty well. For those who haven't played it, it's effectively a dialogue wheel but when you highlight an option, it pops up a full sentence of what you'll actually say, verbatim. Sometimes Jensen says more than that, but the part you're shown is plenty good enough to convey both the intent and tone of what the option actually is, and I don't recall any instances of the game where I didn't get what I expected out of my selection. The other explanation though, is that the Bioware dialogue wheel, as opposed to the Eidos one, was implemented as a cost-cutting development measure, in that the dialogue may not have been written yet at the point they're scripting the game. In that case it's just an issue with BioWare's workflow, having their writers retrofit some dialogue into a predetermined decision tree.
  2. Lord knows they desperately need someone who can actually write a character. Didn't FO3 get awards for the writing ? And Shadow of Mordor got an award for best video game protagonist.
  3. Maybe now that The Witcher 3 is out, CDPR are looking for someone to really kick-start the writing for Cyberpunk 2077? :D If he's looking for a studio that is both effectively independent but which has both the wherewithal and desire to go with the truly ambitious projects... The Witcher 3 in many ways I feel shares a lot with Alpha Protocol of all things, without the constraints that effectively hobbled it.
  4. Don't think you can get away from us that easily! Sometime soon, some other forums are going to see a sizable spike in new user registrations.
  5. Actually that makes me want a Jackie Chan Police Story type RPG more.... kinda like Sleeping Dogs but less grim and oppressive.
  6. It's just four decisions when you simulate save, not sure if importing might record more decisions than that.
  7. Have they announced a Hardcpre mode, like NV? Also, shame on them for sourcing the supposed spinoff to another company and not this one. They'll probably leave it for the guy who made the Frostfall mod for Skyrim.
  8. Yeah, seen from above (Titan X --> 980 Ti) and using its MSRP, the 980 Ti seems like a good deal Seen from below (780 Ti / 290 --> 980 Ti) and with real world prices around here - not so much. Still, it's somehow reassuring to see Bokishi back in High End territory CF / SLi may make a lot more sense with DX12 and Vulkan, if the developers of the widespread engines (thinking of Epic, Crytek, Unity but also upcoming ones like Oxide) get thrown enough money at to implement really good MGPU support. 16th of June may be underwhelming, considering that the really big architectural leaps will be made in the next, smaller node - I'm thinking of both GPUs and RAM (HBM) here. Also, imho, the GPU makers are not really under that much pressure until VR gets serious market share. [edit] Reminded myself that this is an American forum - removed swear words Self censorship hoorray In a delightfully agricultural sort of way, perhaps the most interesting indication of Fiji - ahem, "Radeon Fury X's" performance isn't any technical data, but the simple fact that's it's a big chip. Bigger than anything previous. So in that pre-schooler maths sort of logic, it's going to be fast.
  9. There may be mountains of it, but I don't think it'd survive close scrutiny much better than the rest of their writing. But to be fair, it doesn't need to, that's why it's backstory. One could say that Bethesda's writing holds up until the point where it comes into contact with the player.
  10. It's 35% cheaper and 3.5% slower than the Titan X. So yeah, in one fell swoop, both the regular 980 and the Titan X are obsolete. Would go so far as to say it also obsoletes all current 'sensible' SLI and CF configurations, you'd take a 980Ti over 970 SLI or 290/X CF. 16th of June can't come fast enough, at which point we'll see how the GPU landscape looks like for the rest of the year.
  11. I was expecting a Raul "romance" mod.
  12. Not tinted puke green, already 100% better.
  13. Also it discounts peoples mid-life crises. :D
  14. Well the other thing is to use namelist generator so you can send us Obsidian forum members to our deaths glory.
  15. Ideally robits would obsolete every single human profession at the same time.
  16. As nice as the option to talk your way through is, I hope they don't roll diplomacy together with stealth, because well, diplomacy is not stealth. Ghosting a level and having the guy at the end grab your camera and force a conversation, no matter how peaceful the outcome, is no better than having an arbitrary boss fight at the end.
  17. Well with Skyrim, Bethesda finally was able to make a game I could have fun with despite the fundamental shortcomings of their approach. So perversely, I think if they try to do Skyrim with guns, they'd probably succeed, and I'd probably have some fun just messing around with it, even if I ignore what passes as the plot. Conversely, if they try to make it a "proper" Fallout game, they'll probably fail in the same way Fallout 3 failed for me, and I'll skip it altogether.
  18. I'm wondering why they're going with UE4 instead of Unity like the previous kickstarted games. Not sure if I'll be backing this as I have no experience with any of the Bard's Tale games. Back during the previous Kickstarters, Unity was realistically the only option due to its licencing costs being far, far lower than any of the alternatives. However in the last year, cuts in the pricing for both Unreal Engine and CryEngine means costs are now broadly equivalent regardless of which option you take, and so the choice can be made on the basis of technology and not on which happens to be cheapest. Anyway, backed at minimum for now, not sure if I'll up it before the campaign is done as it's not my style of RPG (indeed it's pretty much the complete opposite), no matter how physically enticing the boxed copies are.
  19. Or that it's being ported to the Atari Jaguar by Penguin Books.
  20. Figures that two days after I give up on getting a locally sourced CE and order one from the UK, they come back in stock here. But no matter, got the Xbone version with the extra bling (cloth map and Gwent decks) which is still out of stock, happy enough to pay the small price difference, despite neither owning or ever planning to own an Xbone. I might be a gullible fool now, but happy to support I guess. Plus I can give away the actual game if I ever find someone who owns an Xbone.
  21. Y'know to be honest ....I would. But the point is whether or not I do shouldn't matter because I don't think one product's existence is necessarily linked to the absence of another. There were two XCOM games from different studios. Two Shadowrun games too. Cancelling the CDPR game wouldn't lead to the creation of a new 'traditionalist' Cyberpunk game, so I don't see a reason for it not to be made.
  22. Fair enough that the fans of the PnP setting want something close to what their experience with the product is. Someone like me, on the other hand, who has never even heard of the setting, just want CDPR to make a new game, because they make good games and we want more of them. The ideal outcome is that the licence isn't exclusive and we can both have our cake.
  23. It's interesting to me how so many are happy to accept "sure, FIFA are totally corrupt" but aren't willing to see that just about every top level pro is also doped to the gills. Frankly, they'd have to be idiots not to do it given the rewards for doing so, and the complete absence of consequences. For those who have reached a high enough level of celebrity, there's not even the slightest fear of being caught, having complete immunity due to commercial and political interests. It's no surprise that every major scandal originates from an investigation from the outside which have no investment in sports, be it the police, the FBI, etc.
  24. Thats how I felt about a lot of the Walking Dead. I would have thought the opposite with the Walking Dead, with people feeling they've made choices only to discover that after talking about the game with other people (or just replaying the game), it turns out they didn't do anything to change anything.
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