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Re: Confessions from a Text Game Junkie by Quentin Beck 04/05/2007, 6:00pm PDT
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

In the last game I made I tried to implement a rudimentary karma system where the game kept track of each NPC's opinion of the player. I didn't anticipate the player trying to role-play a deaf guy, however, as our first option in the above screenshot indicates. I would instantly buy this Bioware game if they made is so that the audio cut out and you really did need to ask the locals "What?" in order to figure out what is going on with the plot.


The problem is that Bioware are doing the same thing you tried to do, but they're making it the core of the fucking gameplay. Those dialog choices may look basically identical, but if you respond with the callously indifferent "what the hell" your character will start glowing red and the hot prissy female character won't be making retarded innuendos at him any more. Also, while Bioware maintains that you can play their games however you like, finishing the good versions of quests tends to net you less money, but more experience, the real currency of digital rpgs.
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I think BioWare is trolling me. by Jerry Whorebach 04/04/2007, 8:12am PDT NEW
    Re: I think BioWare is trolling me. by Quentin Beck 04/04/2007, 6:04pm PDT NEW
    Confessions from a Text Game Junkie by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/04/2007, 9:25pm PDT NEW
        Re: Confessions from a Text Game Junkie by Quentin Beck 04/05/2007, 6:00pm PDT NEW
            oops, that was me. NT by motherfuckerfoodeater 04/05/2007, 7:59pm PDT NEW
        I call making redundant choices funny The Monkey Island Picard Maneuver. NT by Jerry Whorebach 04/08/2007, 10:15am PDT NEW
    The dialogue thing is photoshopped on there. by Jhoh Cable o_O 04/04/2007, 9:39pm PDT NEW
        Re: The dialogue thing is photoshopped on there. by hilario 04/04/2007, 9:57pm PDT NEW
            Yes. Also shooping a few woops. NT by Jhoh Cable o_O 04/04/2007, 10:29pm PDT NEW
        Re: The dialogue thing is photoshopped on there. by Tony 04/05/2007, 8:55am PDT NEW
            Or maybe, you won't have to replay it at all. by Jerry Whorebach 12/25/2007, 4:27am PST NEW
                How many ways can you really say "Tell me more about (X)"? NT by Fortinbras 12/25/2007, 12:49pm PST NEW
    Proof positive BDR doesn't read these boards anymore. by Jerry Whorebach 04/08/2007, 10:05am PDT NEW
        Too bad the co-founders aren't BDRs. by Worm 04/08/2007, 10:11pm PDT NEW
 
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