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I loved the sing-song West African accent for the Diablo 3 Witch-Doctor. And the Russian male monk accent too. I agree that the Bioware 'Noo Yawk' Dwarves in Dragon Age felt odd, but then again it was meant to be The Sopranos with battle axes and beards. The UK is very odd in that it is a very small country with a plethora of regional accents. Most of the ones you hear in games are posh, but the one that made me cringe was the **** Van Dyke accent of Simeon Havarion (sp?) in BG2.

Seriously? The loudest, most vocal minority are the romance fans. They have been ever since all the Buffy fans infested the Bioware forums.

^ Yes he's right.

I wouldn't know how to mod if my life depended on it, but given the number of Infinity Engine mods I've enjoyed over the years I say a big yes to modding tools.

^ Yes, that's a goodie.

I have already given them $140.00. If they want more they must bend to my will! Bwahahahahahahaaaaa.

I'm left-handed. Berk.

Why? Give them a break with RTwP. It's not D&D shoe-horned into a computer game, it's bespoke.

The option to make your own party and play NPC free should be in there, purely for re-playability.

It's still as much fun as drinking beer with a raw egg in it.

LOL the OP was trolling, right?

Yes, that's true, but Deionnara wasn't a romance, she was a plot hook. I'd like to hear a developer's view on this, but given that the passions run deep on both sides of this debate they might make like Switzerland until after the Kickstarter.

Look at Dark Fantasy in other games: as I've said before, despite the Marilyn Manson "This is the new ****" and blood-spatters, Dragon Age was about as dark as a Ren Fair.

If they decide not to and add it as DLC I'd be cool with that. Both of the big dungeons in the BG saga were add-ons. Having said that, I think a lot of folks would like a mega-dungeon. But they could just as easily put a part of the dungeon in the core game then expand it in DLC (remember the mysterious door in Kuldahar in IWD?).

I think they are going for a BG2 type approach, but city areas aside they were too small for me. I'd prefer BG1 style but that ain't gonna happen.

Our conspiracy is truly international.

^ This

There was a let's-play on the old boards called 'To Dream the Impossible Dream' where this dude solo'd BG2 with a Jester. Which is a pretty gimped character to solo with. He went on to solo IWD / HoW with a sorcerer. It was awesome fun watching his progress, and working out how to squeeze 100% out of every spell, ability and potion.

No I think you make a perfectly valid point there. However, for most of us I think that solo-ing (a noble aspiration) is something we do as a third or forth run, as a replay challenge. And part of the fun is solo-ing a game designed not to be solo'd.

Sordel I love where you are coming from, I really do, and would buy such a dungeon (let us say, sotto voce, Module) in the blink of an eye. But in the game proper I think, to justify the time and assets, it would need to be a part of the game that most would (at least) have a try at.

The idea that the plate-armoured knight was slow isn't completely accurate. You don't have to be a SCA grognard to have seen men in Milanese plate moving deftly and with astonishing speed. Having said that, I think the OP is on the money and his post beautifully written. FWIW.

With respect, yes there is. It's like saying "I love eggs in my beer. I think eggs in beer have been done fine." Or, "I need eggs in my beer more than almost anything else." Because to me a CRPG romance is as useful as cracking an egg into a perfectly good pint of beer: slightly icky, tasteless and surplus to requirement. If old-school role-playing games of yore had been infused with romances then my argument would be void. So I will reiterate: out of the classic, glory-day CRPGs this project is utterly and unambiguously designed to emulate, there was only BG2 that had romances. I'll say it again: there were four only. They were minor additions. They were easily avoided. In short, there was a tiny and unobtrusive corner of the game where the people who like eggs in their beer could do their thing. The astonishing and frankly terrifying success of Bioware's erstatz-emo soap opera romance approach is an unholy taint. It is literally like Ebola for gaming. And the hotzone / infection vectors have reached our shores. The poll is suggesting that my, albeit extreme, view is echoed by many. So a compromise: let this game have a similar level of egg-in-beer activity to BG2. Then could we all be happy? Because as the cliche goes, I think we are united on more than we are divided by. With respect and best regards, MC

MOAR

Then it's a disturbing piece of phallic anxiety, perhaps

Interesting poll, I would have thought options 1 / 1 would win by a country mile.