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  1. Elerond
    There should be Cheetaurs, if there is any bestial races .
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    You're not related to ancient Rome, its people, or its culture. You're not Latin. Most Americans might describe you as "Latino", but we all know how ignorant they are in foreign culture/history. Some people from Spain may call themselves as Latins, because most cities from the Community of Catalonia and Valencia (Plus several others from the Kingdom of Castile and Lion), were founded by the Roman Empire. Should we not call the Finns Uralic, just because Finland is nowhere near the Ural mountains and the Finnish culture has more in common with other (Indo-)European cultures than it does with... the Samoyedic culture, for instance? That's not how it works. Yeah, we should use Finno-Ugric term as it emphases more Finnish than Uralic, there is so few speakers of Samoyedic languages, that we should change descriptive term to more appropriate one .
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    This topic brings to my mind SPANC and but sad thing is that I don't if it is good or bad thing
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    Speaking of chain mail dresses here is full length one, with design that would offer some protection if made of some magical metal like mithril, but probably one should not wear it in fight even then as it limits so much leg movement.
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    That sound very much like Fable series.
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    Nice interview but one thing still bothers me, what is your favorite whiskey irish or scotch or woo woo (everything that aren't irish or scotch)
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    Amount of gore should be fit with game's aesthetic style. Lots of gore don't probably fit fairytale styled game, but overtoped game like Fallout it fits like good glove.
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    Tolkien's elves are best that I know in fantasy literacy, but I like also elves in Halfblood Chronicles.
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    Agree about manuals today. I used to like the thick paper manuals for RTS/builder games, where they'd give you all kinds of info on unit stats, requirements, and the like. Number crunching kinds of stuff that I could refer to. They don't do that much anymore. I miss those manuals very much
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    I don't see equipment matter so much as every class have different way to access to power that his or her soul offer. So monk in full plate and sword will work differently from fighter with same equipment as they boost themselves differently. As it is somewhat confirmed that every character can use any equipment and PE's rule system tries to it best to make all equipment builds as viable choice, so I think the question with monks (and other classes) is that will their soul power and game mechanics support viable unarmed build. Concepts about Forton somewhat hint that there will be viable unarmed build, but one can't be sure if drug using masochist is good example about subject.
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    How about this as look for human female mage (without armour or in light cloth armour)?
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    Full Metal Jousting introduce us modern version of tournament full plate, which has very sci-fi look on it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh5tsGQ9KLQ
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    Femine looking women in replica full plate armours with mixed style Nice looking replica full plate using late 15th century style And additionally original full plate with very nice pointy shoes And in PE version of this armours I added magical rune that nullifies all spells that wizards and ciphers can cast as magic is always two way street
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    16th century bullet proofed infantry half-plate from Majorca, which has nice conquistador feel on it
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    Russian lamellar armour
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    I wouldn't say combat was an afterthought, just not necessary to progress through the game (it was basically BG's combat, which was great in and of itself). But I'd be alright with that as long as each companion had a very unique look to them. Also maces and fist weapons are way more bad ass than swords. Avellone has himself said that combat was somewhat after though why it was so painful and if he would make torment now he would put more efort on it. So you dont want actually see another Carsomyr in the game and you would be satisfied for realistic maces and fist weapons. <- it is so nice to put word on others mouths
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    If we take PST as design base there should be no armours and swords that player character can wield and generally combat should be only after though. Or you are saying that torment was bad game.
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    Ooh I want armour inspired by that in the game, that is cool
  20. Elerond
    So when I say that I want armours/cloths to have same/similar design on male and female characters, and not without any explanation transfer to another design when gender of character who wears it changes, I am actually saying that female characters should wear burqas?
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    How did I misrepresent you, pray tell? For example you gave impression that I have said that blizzard, dc, bioware and etc. companies that have oversexualised female character have average artist when I argued agaist your point that female characters look butch if they aren't oversexualised, using claim that if artist knows what s/he does s/he can make female characters look femine and male characters to look masculine even if they have same outfit and only average artist must relay on oversexualisation to do same. Of course artist don't decide how games will look, but they only try to follow instructions from producers and publishers that try to make product to sell as much as possible. And when I pledged to this project I hoped that we can avoid such compromises that marketing department wants.
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    Dream it is not very nice to attack character of other conversationalists and mispresent what they have said to make your own point look better and make claims in their name what they have not made.
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    Highlighting characters gender using oversexualisation. Like making platemail be boobplate on female characters, and actually functional looking on male character or wizard ropes look like good traveling ropes for male characters, but on female characters they look like coctail dresses from 20/21th centry. Is just something that average artists must relay to make female and male characters look differently especially today when you have lots of more pixel to use than 64. And oversexualising male characters is not any better idea or show anymore artistic talent. Real arits can make women look femine and male look masculine in same functional looking outfit. Oversexualisation work in same settings where it work in our world, partys, ball dances, advertaisment, bordels, miss/mister competitions, etc. Where you actually want to highlights your gender and those assests/attributes that our culture sees desireable and sexual. And what is desireable in person has changed lot during ages even in western culture, for example during Renaissance period (where PE will be setting) plump women where seen more desireable and sexy than thin women. Rule of cool, works fine until it starts to destroy basic funtionality of equipment. Of course setting can have overcooled equipment but they should have negative attributes gameplaywise compared to their more functionaly designed counterparts.
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    Bunch of colorful pixels on 640*480 screen is very abstract, that's why it does't stand out as much as 3D models today. Compared to nowadays, these are pretty mundane. Normal-sized weapons and fully-covered body with armor for warriors. So what's your point? That you'd be fine if P:E looked like BG? Me, too. Or that it really don't mater how things look if people can't see difference with two characters . And of course BG had quite used pretty much functional design in all armours in the game. http://mikesrpgcente...gate/armor.html And same goes pretty much for the weapons, with some exceptions like war hammer that look nothing like what they claim to be, strange looking clubs and and throwing axes http://mikesrpgcente...gate/melee.html http://mikesrpgcente...ate/ranged.html Some character models, mostly female ones where quite badly designed in BG and one can see that memory and computing power limited their option quite much. So I must say that I would be greatly disappointed if PE looks like BG, because we have now better technology to use that gives us much more tools to make world look more living and make better character and equipment models. But original equipment design follows those lines that I would like to see PE to follow and keep away of BG2's equipment design.
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    In my opinion functional designing don't kill imagination and fantastic looking stuff, but in right hands it adds it and can make stuff much more interesting than plain design by look only here some samples from one renascence master
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