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@Kharkarov You should really stop referring to Persona 5 as an example of full VO. As I already explained, less half of it is voice acted and so it's really an example of partial VO, not full VO.

No, they didn't need to read any interview from anyone. Common sense says people like full VO. Amazon has an audio books section, and it isn't small. This implies there is a large subset of people who actually don't like reading and would rather get their book in the form of narration. Let's look at big RPG releases over the last few years... Last year according to IGN (you can say what you want, they are one of the most visited gaming sites on the internet) the winner of best RPG 2017 was Persona 5. Gee that game is like 90% voiced. What was the runner up? Oh Divinity Original Sin 2.... 100% voiced. Hmm. What about 2016? Dark Souls 3.... yeah fully voiced.... not a ton of dialog though give you that. Runner up? Final Fantasy 15, yeah like 95% voiced. You know what, this must be a fluke, lets check 2015, surely we will get a reasonable result. Winner of RPG of the year? Witcher 3, fully voiced. Runner up? Fallout 4, fully voiced again. Maybe it is just me but I am noticing a pattern. Looks like most major RPG releases have full VO, or really close to it. Having just replayed it, I can say that Persona 5 was less than 50% voiced. The main story had decent amount of voiced content, but almost none of the side content was, and there's a _ton_ of side content. So an RPG doesn't need to be fully voiced to be very good, even in 2017.

It may depend on whether they plan to do VO work for all of the language releases. But Larian Studios managed full VO for D:OS2 and it doesn't appear to have broken them. It may not of broken them but I’m sure it contributed to why DOS2 was such a terrible game.

No worries.

Well the beta seems to have chunky dialogue stuff and that is side content. I don’t see what that has to do with my comment? VO is expensive and having a larger budget for that means there’s less for art, quests, reactivity, etc. Game development is a zero sum game and you can’t add to one part without taking away somewhere else.

Wow, this is really terrible news. Makes me very apprehensive about Obsidians budget handling, if they had the money to do this but not have unique art for all of the abilities. Man, and I was just getting hyped again after they brought back might.

It's weird but I recall seeing this (unmodified) portrait back in the early days of POE1 (maybe in the beta?) but I can't find it now neither in POE1 nor in POE2 beta. I actually used it as an example in a bug thread for the PoE1 beta. https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/68886-301-no-pale-skin-tone-for-pale-elf/ I attached the picture to the post but it's not showing.

Omae wa mō shinde hi

Yeah, I'd prefer Obsidian doesn't take any examples from Larian and the Divinity games. They're pretty boring games, and not a good example of what the genre should strive for.

I agree with everything here. However, I'm not that hopeful as similar issues were brought up for Character Creation in PoE and they were never addressed.

I won't lie, I completely forgot about all this BIB stuff. I even forgot to submit my stuff for the log (Doh!), but reading it all again is getting me quite hyped for release. I can't wait to see what Obsidian has done!

I do not know; neither do I know what reason you could have to debase someone's writing as "masturbatory fantasies". I had something to say to your second point, but that would only take this further off point. If you're actually curious about my opinions, we can discuss it over PMs. As for the OP, I'm actually really curious about the possibility of attacking forts with our ship. I'm wondering if it'll work like standard ship combat, or if it will be a unique scripted interaction.

They talked about it in one of the earlier twitch streams. I can't give you a link, but I can corroborate that this is what was said.

Is that the BiB Flag in game? It looks even better than I hoped.

So what do Andrzej Sapkowski's masturbatory fantasies have to do with PoE or the new features seen in the trailer or article of the OP?

Won't lie, Abydon is my favorite of the PoE gods. Would absolutely love to play as a priest of him at some point.

Ok, I've found our point of disagreement. I would disagree that Josh necessarily has access to more information than the people who have actually played the class combo in question. Actually playing a class or class combo can give you information that isn't apparent from a purely academic standpoint. I would argue that to a third party it's impossible to tell which is actually more or less information. So you're right that we should withhold judgement until all information is available, but at the same time it is not illogical to trust one source or the other more.

I would argue someone who has played the class combo in question is in a better position to know what they're talking about regardless of whether the have seen the full game or not.That person is making assumptions off of partial data. No one know what more than half the levels look like. Both are making assumptions off of partial data. The full data set would include both what all level look like and how it actually functions in play. Given the imperfect nature of both sources, it's perfectly valid to prefer one to the other as neither has total authority. 1) Josh admitted that he hadn’t played it therefore made it clear he was extrapolating.2) I’ll take a educated guess over an uneducated one any day. 1) Not sure what your getting at here. 2) But why do you consider one to be educated and one to not be? Both are missing some pretty fundamental information about the nature of the thing in question. This actually reminds me of an mind experiment about epiphenominal qualia. Given this, I have a feeling we may just disagree about this at a fundamental philosophical level and so further discussion would be useless. Happy to continue if you'd like though.

This is ridiculous. I just recently replayed the BG series and PoE and I think the combat gameplay is practically identical. You use the same control scheme, pausing at intervals to issue orders, casts spells, and drink potions. The biggest changes are engagement and the spell templates showing before you cast, but neither of those fundamentally change how you're playing combat.

I would argue someone who has played the class combo in question is in a better position to know what they're talking about regardless of whether the have seen the full game or not. That person is making assumptions off of partial data. No one know what more than half the levels look like. Both are making assumptions off of partial data. The full data set would include both what all level look like and how it actually functions in play. Given the imperfect nature of both sources, it's perfectly valid to prefer one to the other as neither has total authority.

I would argue someone who has played the class combo in question is in a better position to know what they're talking about regardless of whether the have seen the full game or not.

this but unironically Your mom's a positive depiction of heterosexual relationships! Oh wait...that doesn't work... It works if you tweak it a bit... "Your mom and I are a positive depiction of heterosexual relationships!"

Hallelujah! This was the only thing putting the breaks on my personal hype train. All aboard!

I really hope they don't go with full VO. I always find it distracting and it takes me out of the game.

While I may disagree with your reason for refunding your pledge, your thoughts are just as valid as anyone else's.