molarBear
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Give us a bestiary like in PS:T.
yes! oh, how i liked the PST bestiary.
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Rehashes is a terrible, terrible idea and I just cannot see how that would work. Especially if you want to keep a coherent sense of style across the entire game (which you do, oh god how you want to do that).
But I do agree with the general sentiment. I would definitely prefer proper icons & artwork in my inventory, not just some 3D model. I'd give you a "Like This", but apparently there's a limited quota every day, and I've reached mine. D:
well i just couldnt think smth else but the rehashing to cut down costs but you got the main idea
"what 3D object looks on your hand looks 100% the same in inventory" is also fine but damn, i like the 2d artworks. -
The Lady of Pain is a great example of a God done right. I would like to see gods that people are genuinely afraid of because they take an active interest in and interfere with the affairs of men.
she was a ruthless weird bitch
yes, we want deities towards this direction
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overkill i say
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i like how this was done in PST. NPCs with strong accents had the "translation" in brackets
also see this topic: http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/60343-cant-lingo-jargon/
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i don't know about new cRPGs (except FNV but it only had text for items) but i would like to see items with 2D artwork in my inventory. good examples with artwork that i find "beautiful" is PST and Diablo 2 (not a cRPG
). holding a 3D object in character's hand is something but seeing an artwork of it in the inventory is totally different (better). i actually care a quite a bit about item artwork, maybe it is the remnant of playing countless hours of D2. say, you find this unique item and you're already excited..and you identify it and see the gorgeous artwork! it's a virtual object but feels like you actually possess something of great value maybe obsidian can rehash old ones from PST to save bucks and time. what do you think?
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maybe a bit useful
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that being said just how much do you think unity engine licensing is?
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copenhagen, denmark
That's funny, the large majority of Obsidian's target group (per definition, since Kickstarter) of the game are from Europe, not from the US. Also, what the **** happened to South America?
i guess europeans are more die hard fans of oldschool cRPG. especially russians and poles. at least they have huge communities for post-apocalyptic games (and cRPGs).
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Hmm are there legislation issues involved? I imagine the game would be insta-banned in Germany at least, but I thought a lot of the EU countries had some restrictions on what was/wasn't allowed with regards to harming children in video games?
Might be completely wrong though.
This is actually a big problem in Germany, the largest single market for PC games in Europe. A game that includes explicit child murder *could* very, very (very) likely be banned in Germany if it is not cut out of the game.
Thinking about how Germany thought about cencoring anything after WWII and more after the cold war, I am sad to see how they have become so prone to cencoring stuff again. But you know what? ****-explicit deleted (Self cencor, oh the irony) Germany, let the rest of Europe which don't have silly cencor laws have the full product. In the first fallout game, children were removed from the europan version because of Germany...
does every game has to be rated by USK in germany? can't one have unrated games? also what happens if you buy ESRB rated games online?
also germany has a good ol' game censoring tradition
they even censored river raid back in the days. because apparently it caused military tendencies in german youth. loool -
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The only problem with a really good story in a game is that replayability tends to be inversely proportional. I've probably replayed PS:T less than 10 times. BG2 I've replayed probably something like 50-100 times including TOB and SCS.
sadly, that's why planescape: torment is one of a kind. i also thought from the previous posts of c. avellone that obsidian wanted to do a "planescape: torment spiritual successor" ('cos we fans were begging for it), not a BG or IWD follow up. ps:t is one of a kind for no publisher in their right mind would again invest money into a cRPG that has low replay value and insane "text" (story, dialogues, descriptions etc.) cost (a.k.a dedication, passion, creativity, detail, philosophy in immense depth).
i understand the sales pitch of obsidian in order reach out to more masses but just making a game like ps:t is a herculean task—let alone the other promises. i just hope that obsidian knows its limits (within a limited budget and time project). let's not try to fly high.
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One should also keep in mind the possibility of borrowing elements of various real-world culture and "transforming" them into a pseudo-English mimesis. Of course, you don't necessarily have to limit yourself to a particular nation, but can reach out to an entire "cluster": Slavs, The Byzantine Empire, The Holy Romane Empire, Oriental Arabs, and so forth.
However, I believe that in any game which seeks to be ambitious one element needs to be absolutely avoided: playing on stereotypes. So please, no Polish (or Polish-like) drunks, French faggots, English stiff-as-a-board, arrogant gentlemen, or funny-speaking Russians (In Soviet Russia, experience gains you).
i think obsidian can do better than that
but i would like the thiefling girls to speak a strong scottish accent like annah -
i only like voice acting for PC taunts and at the main points of a story and that's about it (like in ps:t. ah my deionarra! my love!)
another problem with voice acting is that:
-we can read faster
-it needs serious $$$
i'm perfectly okay if there is no voice acting at all (but all PC taunts must be voiced by chris avellone
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i think it is pretty much set in stone that we will have top-down view (isometric). so this thread is a bit on the trolling side.
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i think a linux port is gonna happen 99%. it's aimed at 2,2 mil threshold and i think we will close at 3 mil.
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i have heard something called crowdsourcing while i was lurking in wasteland 2 forums. i am not sure what it is exactly and how it works but could be a "cost effective" way to translate the game.
but personally dear, i couldn't give two chipmunks' buttock swings about localization
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almost exclusively every cRPG has traps and trap detection/disable skill. i have never seen traps implemented in an ingenious way that we actually care to bother at all. do we have to have them?
In modern RPGs, you are correct. But traps used to be lethal in the IE games. Very lethal. Durlag's tower (BG1, tales of the sword coast expansion) had dozens of traps that could instantly decimate your entire party several times over if you accidently stepped over them.
and that was fun?
Yes, yes it was actually. Sure, I was swearing like a sailor when my whole party got decimated, but man, when I got through it, I felt like a boss.
It just makes sense for a dungeon or whatever to have tons of traps. Anybody remember the Labyrinth or Irenicus's room in BG2? There are also instances where traps could be used as part of the plot/world. A la Nameless One's tomb in Planescape Torment. (You can PM if you want to know what I mean. Not posting it here in case some people don't want to spoil themselves.)
BTW, I almost never set traps or used traps myself in ANY game I've played. (Unless a quest required me or something.)
i havent played BG but i know the nameless one's tomb level. that was more of a puzzle than a trapmaniac level. was it fun? meh. did i feel like a boss? not at all
i remember one level full of traps from arcanum. it was in one of the dwarf clan undergrounds. but the level was quite stupid as the devs gave us all kinds of trap illuminating scrolls here and there.
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no DLC or expansion packs...make one legendary game and leave it at that. if not, make project eternity 2.
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almost exclusively every cRPG has traps and trap detection/disable skill. i have never seen traps implemented in an ingenious way that we actually care to bother at all. do we have to have them?
In modern RPGs, you are correct. But traps used to be lethal in the IE games. Very lethal. Durlag's tower (BG1, tales of the sword coast expansion) had dozens of traps that could instantly decimate your entire party several times over if you accidently stepped over them.
and that was fun?
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how about vendors rejecting fenced goods (in pst)? ugh, that hurt :D
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planescape: torment did this right. it had 6 companions only but with immense detail and personalities (i exclude nordom, as it was a "special" companion. regardless, he was also very well written). gimme companions like these and i will sacrifice my firstborn to the ancient evil gods.
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evil pc's should have option to sacrifice children to dark gods
if the circumstance arises...why not?
and yes, all kiddies must be killable. i might not just go on about killing children out of psychopathic reasons but if those brats pickpocket me sorry...you will taste my axe! let this be a lesson to all of youse rats! and what for? for a fistful of gold! was it worth it? huh? was it?! -
just don't follow the footsteps of arcanum ui. it was a mess.
"what 3D object looks on your hand looks 100% the same in inventory" is also fine but damn, i like the 2d artworks.
). holding a 3D object in character's hand is something but seeing an artwork of it in the inventory is totally different (better). i actually care a quite a bit about item artwork, maybe it is the remnant of playing countless hours of D2. say, you find this unique item and you're already excited..and you identify it and see the gorgeous artwork! it's a virtual object but feels like you actually possess something of great value 
Where is everyone from
in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
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puh-lease, kroner not €!