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2house2fly posted:There's no way your companions are dying with that many stimpaks Never said they were giving any of those stimpaks to their companions.
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Stimpacks are actually useful so I feel that tweet would've been a lot better if it was pre-war money or something similarly useless
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Stimpacks are actually useful so I feel that tweet would've been a lot better if it was pre-war money or something similarly useless Food $200 Armor $150 Weapons $800 Dinky the T-Rex souvenirs $3,600 Ammo $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my companions are dying
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Jul 20, 2018 04:47
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Food $200 There we go 
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If the guy just had some snowglobes all his problems would be done.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Food $200 spend less on t-rex souvenirs
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Simsmagic posted:spend less on t-rex souvenirs no
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Correct answer. Simsmagic posted:spend less on t-rex souvenirs Look at this goon, not supporting local businesses.
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They’re large enough to hire decent writers?
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chitoryu12 posted:They’re large enough to hire decent writers? Survey says: .... Not evident!!
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chitoryu12 posted:They’re large enough to hire decent writers? They're confident that the retard mass called "gamers" are more easily placated than ever.
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Jul 22, 2018 00:27
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Todd why would you do this to me personally
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Jul 22, 2018 00:35
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After how bad Fallout 4's writing was, I have no confidence in Bethesda to write remotely interesting characters or plots.
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I'd say I that Fallout 4 had remotely interesting characters and plot, but I don't aim for mediocrity. Fallout New Vegas was like a debate of political philosophy but with mini-nukes and theoretical degrees in physics instead of repulsive college libertarians.
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Fallout's one of Bethesda's in-house flagship games. They have their own vision for the series. If they wanted a game like New Vegas, they'd hire the writers and devs directly, but they don't, so bad luck.
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chitoryu12 posted:They’re large enough to hire decent writers? Writing isn't the whole of Bethesda's problems, they also suck at design and integrating their writing into their design. But they also lack the foresight to realize that both are already bad.
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Cactrot posted:Writing isn't the whole of Bethesda's problems, they also suck at design and integrating their writing into their design. But they also lack the foresight to realize that both are already bad. They have enough knowledge to know that their product will sell like hotcakes without it
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What would be the chance of Obsidion doing a spiritual successor to Fallout NV. Could be interesting considering Fallout was originally a successor to Wasteland which they couldn't get the rights to.
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Marenghi posted:What would be the chance of Obsidion doing a spiritual successor to Fallout NV. Very little I'd think. They're riding the Pillars gravy train at the moment and Chris Avellone left the company a while ago
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Specifically he left over issues with the upper management, aka the guys responsible for the jobs Obsidian picks up and who agree to set deadlines. I get the feeling that while the studio has a reputation as being mercenaries not tied down to a publisher, the actual developers chafe under their production cycle because the strict timeframes they are given via management's contracts prevent them from having the same level of quality assurance as other companies.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Specifically he left over issues with the upper management, aka the guys responsible for the jobs Obsidian picks up and who agree to set deadlines. I get the feeling that while the studio has a reputation as being mercenaries not tied down to a publisher, the actual developers chafe under their production cycle because the strict timeframes they are given via management's contracts prevent them from having the same level of quality assurance as other companies. Also any of Avellone big "revelations" probably should be taken with several pinches of salt. Avellone keeping his mouth mostly shut for over three years, only to open the floodgates the week before Deadfire launched when there Pathfinder: Kingmaker (an cRPG he worked on that's competing for the same market) coming out later this year is surely a pure coďncidence. But the fact that all his big reveals happened over on RPGCodex makes it just suspect as that place worships Avellone (because they don't realize other people have worked on Planescape Tormet) and it carried a hateboner for OEI even before Avellone left because OEI employs "females & SJWs". Additionally Avellone was upper management himself. Yet we are somehow supposed to believe that he was the singular virtuous angel in OEI's management? Basically if there was some core of truth on the stuff Avellone was saying, it was distorted and heavily one-sided. Really all he actually revealed was that he himself is an rear end in a top hat.
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Couldn't they get Obsidian to just write the script? Or at least glance over it before they start programming.
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OldMemes posted:Couldn't they get Obsidian to just write the script? Or at least glance over it before they start programming. Can you imagine FNV with a Bethesda voice cast? On the plus side Stephen Russell would probably have played Boone, Vulpes Inculta and Hanlon. But the rest?
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KOTOR II famously had their timeline drastically shortened mid-development and had to cut a bunch of stuff.
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eating only apples posted:Can you imagine FNV with a Bethesda voice cast? On the plus side Stephen Russell would probably have played Boone, Vulpes Inculta and Hanlon. But the rest? New Vegas did it so well - a mix of actual voice actors and C and D list character actors really works better than a few expensive A-listers. If you want celebrity voice actors, it's better to go a bit more niche, but with people who will give a stand out performance.
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Pope Guilty posted:KOTOR II famously had their timeline drastically shortened mid-development and had to cut a bunch of stuff. According to how both Urquhart and Avellone have always told it: In early 2004 LucasArts agreed to move up the release date from Q4 2004 to early 2005. Whoever from LucasArts Osidian talked to was impressed with all the neat ideas Obsidian had and the progress that was made, so they were cool with moving the date up at the time. However because Urquhart back then was new to the whole managing-thing (this was Obsidian's first game), he didn't make sure the contract was updated to reflect the new release date. Meanwhile the dev team proceeded under the impression that they had a couple of extra months. Some months later LucasArts went back on the agreement (most likely due to financial issues of their own) and held Obsidian to the original contract and demanded that the game be released in Q4 2004. Forcing Obsidian to scramble and make of lot of cuts to ensure the game could ship. And as it turned out, they didn't cut enough. Really if there's consistent problem with Obsidian games, it's that they're too ambitious for their capabilities as a development studio. And you don't point the blaming finger at the management for that, but at the project leads. If you look at all the stuff that was planned for KotORII, I honestly doubt they could have managed that even if they had the extra couple of months.
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OldMemes posted:New Vegas did it so well - a mix of actual voice actors and C and D list character actors really works better than a few expensive A-listers. If you want celebrity voice actors, it's better to go a bit more niche, but with people who will give a stand out performance. Voice directors are a big part of it. Professional voice actors are good at their job (which is, you know, why they do it as a job) but they rely on directors who know what the character is supposed to sound like and can get the best performance out of someone. Bethesda gets good actors outside of their huge celebrity appearances, but they tend to waste them by making them all do the exact same voice for all their different characters.
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Even with the content restore mod I was always so confused by KOTOR2. Like, Kreia would make some veiled threat and fry Bao-Dur. I'd go to the ship, Bao-Dur would be fine. I'd get a cutscene where HK got annoyed with T3 and shot him. T3 would have no ill effects. Never knew if this was the mod putting in lost scenes at random or what.
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Raygereio posted:But the fact that all his big reveals happened over on RPGCodex makes it just suspect as that place worships Avellone (because they don't realize other people have worked on Planescape Tormet) and it carried a hateboner for OEI even before Avellone left because OEI employs "females & SJWs". Could you expand more on this aspect? How deep and widespread is the rot?
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DeathChicken posted:Never knew if this was the mod putting in lost scenes at random or what.
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chitoryu12 posted:Voice directors are a big part of it. Professional voice actors are good at their job (which is, you know, why they do it as a job) but they rely on directors who know what the character is supposed to sound like and can get the best performance out of someone. FNV had great voice direction apart from one particular character. Mean Sonofabitch. The super mutant with a speech impediment. Whoever interpreted the line "I protec my bown, Wesibe" and had the guy say it phonetically should be retroactively fired. "I protect my town, Westside." It's pronounced "my bone, wes-ee-bay". 
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eating only apples posted:FNV had great voice direction apart from one particular character. Mean Sonofabitch also says something like "I'm sure glad Mean Sonofabitch is on our side," just like every other Westside citizen who isn't him.
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eating only apples posted:FNV had great voice direction apart from one particular character. Sunny Smiles 
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DeathChicken posted:Even with the content restore mod I was always so confused by KOTOR2. Like, Kreia would make some veiled threat and fry Bao-Dur. I'd go to the ship, Bao-Dur would be fine. I'd get a cutscene where HK got annoyed with T3 and shot him. T3 would have no ill effects. Never knew if this was the mod putting in lost scenes at random or what. Those are explained if you complete the mod and gain proper influence with everybody. Kreia hates Bao-Dur because he's responsible for the Mass Shadow Generator, but more because she cannot read his thoughts, so she resorts to blinding him to her presence. She does the same thing to the Disciple. HK wants to know why the navicomputer is locked. T3 locked it on Revan's orders to keep people from following him, so he zaps HK for asking questions. They have a back and forth where they harass each other but don't kill one another because they know each other.
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Right I got that part, but these scenes came out of nowhere and then were never acknowledged again. You'd think your party members being electrocuted and shot would have ramification, but as soon as you returned to the ship it was like nothing had happened. It would be like if you were playing New Vegas and suddenly got a cutscene at the Lucky 38 where Veronica beat the gently caress out of Cass. So you fast travel back there and both of them are giving their little quips, everything is fine. DeathChicken fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Aug 1, 2018 |
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steinrokkan posted:Sunny Smiles Her too, and her actor does a bunch of other minor characters, like Elizabeth Kieran and that sketchy doctor in Novac, and none are as bad as Sunny so idk what happened there.
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DeathChicken posted:Right I got that part, but these scenes came out of nowhere and then were never acknowledged again. You'd think your party members being electrocuted and shot would have ramification, but as soon as you returned to the ship it was like nothing had happened. The asides with Kreia and T3 are only there to illustrate what you know but the Exile doesn’t - that Kreia is actively plotting / pulling strings, and that T3 actually knows more than anyone else about what’s happening in the setting writ large, but almost everyone doesn’t think to realize it, and he’ll never tell if they do. Basic Chunnel fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Aug 1, 2018 |
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eating only apples posted:FNV had great voice direction apart from one particular character. "Cheyenne, stay." And this hot on the heels of Matthew Perry's flat-as-gently caress performance for Benny. A few actors hit it out of the loving park in FNV, I'll give you that. Doc Mitchell, Veronica, Tabitha... there are some great bits in FNV. But a lot of the voice acting is pretty sketchy. The NCR troopers, Boone, most of the ghouls. Sunny Smiles just sticks with me as particularly bad since she's one of the first characters you speak to, and she gives one of the least convincing performances of the game.
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