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    My opinion on the words "dialogue" and "dialog".

    in Way Off-Topic

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    Because we are looking for familiar conventions where there are very little. Our minds try to bridge gaps between what is understandable and what's not and the result aches. Though I don't find Estonian odd or sounding retarded, thanks to known at least a bit how it works.

     

    We tend to use finnish sounding pseudo-language when we want to be in touch with our ancient finno-ugricness. Erm... you know - "dancing with the mammoths", "feeding the spirits" ,"being one with the land", "singing the sea into land", etc. The usual. Sometimes the real need for something primal finno-ugric kicks in. I don't if you guys have it, but we sometimes do. For example, when I might see some really finno-ugric folk art that is so finno-ugric that I just say it out loud, then I often find myself in dire need to sing something really primal, something I imagine my ancestors sang when they danced with the mammoths, and the language I use is often somekinda pseudo-finnish (plus the two southern estonian languages). Well, this is just an exaggerated illustrational situation. To describe something, but I'm not sure anymore what I wanted to say.

     

     

    And I think German is absolutely beautiful with the right speaker, yet many of my friends think it's an ugly ugly thing.

     

    I also like german, especially when I'm speaking it. I just love the way it rolls off from the tongue. But I can't stand german in german tv.

     

    And never mention Old Eng or ME, I hate hate hate remembering all the Werner laws and phonetic conventions and aargh...

    Why? I just said, that compared to other european languages - like slavic languages, where a russian can read somekinda medieval byzantine-slavic manuscript and pretty much understand it - then an english speaking person can't understand stuff dating from 800-1500.

    What kind of future settings is Obsidian planning?

    in Obsidian General

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    What kind? I know about Alpha Protocol and Aliens being in development. But I'm asking about future possible settings. I mean, giving out vague one-word answers like "steampunk" or "mayan/aztec fantasy" or "purple space ninja bunny pirates" is not like really breaking any contract terms, or is it? Just a hint, please.

    What's up with games that don't feature subtitles?

    in Computer and Console

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    Yeah, the "God hates..." part wasn't as funny as I hoped. And I do what german language has accomplished - a lot of german literature is mandatory in our schools. Goethe, Hesse, Mann, Heine, etc. We don't eat babies here in Estonia, we do know of this strange thing called "european civilization."

     

    But, german is a great language to scare people in the dark.

    Good Old Games

    in Computer and Console

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    Ultima 7 duology. From the Moby RPG article:

     

    An element where Ultima 7 is (the article used "was", but that's stupid, so I decided to change "was" into "is") not matched is in the way it brings life to its world. It is the first RPG project to have professional scriptwriter brought on board; Raymond Benson directed the writing process. I figure it is him the honors of this social approach belong to. Every single NPC is written as an individual. No, there is not that much text, it is just written that convincingly. And unlike Ultima 6, NPCs really say different things depending on where to you talk to them. Also, the game uses its world to portray social problems like the class war, social tensions between rich and the poor, a well-fed conservative familiy making the life of a single mom difficult

    Voice Actors list in IMDB

    in Alpha Protocol: General Discussion

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    Just stumbled on the IMDB page for this game. No Jennifer Hale, but Grey Delisle (Jeanette from Bloodlines, Handmaiden), Michael Bell (Raziel from Soul Reaver), Jim Cummings (Minsc, Winnie Pooh/Tigger), Kristoffer Tabori (HK-47) and Adrienne Wilkinson (Eve/Livia from season 5/6 of Xena) more than make up for this. It might be peculiar to get a boner from a voice actor list, but... this just made the game more cooler in my eyes. I haven't have heard Jim Cummings in games since BG2.

     

    Alpha Protocol Voice Actors list

    Alpha Protocol's writing

    in Alpha Protocol: General Discussion

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    I would also like to know that who I must worship for this game. I mean, it is confusing - should I worship Avellone or Mitsoda? Or someone else? I mean, if someone would just say that you need to worship this guy for this game out loud - yeah, you guys should have a "To Whom I Should Look Up In Awe" (Twisluia for short) job title, as it would save all of us from those embarassing situations, when we finally manage to pass the security and break into Obsidian, and then we lay ourselves before the feet of the wrong person. Avellone sure must be getting tired of correcting us all the time.

     

    "Are you The Messiah, Savior of Mankind, Son of God?"

    "No, not really. He was the lead writer on that game."

    Romantic Interest anyone?

    in Alpha Protocol: General Discussion

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    J.E. said he hates romances didn't he?

     

    It's sad because I really want him specifically to write a romance character because then as I'm romancing the character he made and wrote it's like I'm actually romancing J.E. which is frankly a dream come true.

     

    That's the best thing I've read on the internet in a while.

    Adam Sandler...

    in Alpha Protocol: General Discussion

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    I must say, Obsidian has really beautiful people as designers. I mean, just look at Chris there. Torment would have been a hit if Chris would have been on the cover instead of Guido. And I heard that Josh has tattoo's. Tattoo's are pretty badass. So they should use Josh's bad boy persona to market Aliens RPG. If female gamers would be presented with a hot, dark, bad boy lead designer with tattoo's and bike's then Aliens RPG will be an instant success. And Anne has that amazon woman thing going on. A bait for young boys.

    MCA is the lead designer on OEI's unannounced Unreal 3 project

    in Computer and Console

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    I think Brian Mitsoda is lead designer for Georgia or was it lead creative/dialogue designer...?

    Mitosda is the creative lead on Project Georgia. Avellone is the lead designer.

    What's the difference between the creative lead and lead designer. Since Obsidian has no writer credits in their games I've always thought that lead designer also acts as a lead writer in Obsidian (and ever since Kotor 2 I've assumed that lead designer is like the ultimate man behind the creative content of the game in Obsidian). But what does the creative lead do?

    What are you playing now?

    in Computer and Console

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    I'm playing Dreamforge's D&D RPG's. Two Ravenloft ones and Menzoberranzan. Menzo has Drizzt as your party member but it ****ing sucks, so I quit playing it. Too much combat and it has that ugly brown thing going on in it. The Ravenloft ones are interesting, but it may because this is my first experience with the Ravenloft setting. They came out around 1994-1995, have full voice acting and semi-branching dialogue (looks and feels like branching but usually you just get one option). The writing is kinda awkward but they didn't have Obsidian back then.

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