Regardless, I like my M&M clone to have a defined crafted world. Generated shit ends up being BSB 90% of the time and is a waste of effort. Who really went to every town in Daggerfall in order to sup from the cup of repetition? You'd visit one random area, three, ten but after a while you know there's nothing worthwhile to see except more creeps to fight and more merchants to sell rat hides to. Not to mention completely illogical placement of things, towns and dungeons in the middle of nowhere, that kind of thing.
The point of a procedural world is
not to provide more content for the player. No one expects the player to explore infinite towns and talk to infinite NPCs. Walking through a city in Daggerfall should not compel the player to enter every building and talk to every sprite they come across. It's background noise, and with a decent implementation it can also play into the game's mechanics. Asking any randomly created character for directions to a particular location, for example, makes the act of asking for directions a
player decision instead of one coughed up by dialogue options attached to particular developer crafted NPCs. Procedural generation allows the player to react to an environment in a realistic way. Instead of walking around every single hand crafted town to talk to every single hand crafted NPC to pick up and complete every single hand crafted quest, the player explores and makes use of the environment in a way that actually makes sense. They visit a shop when they need to visit a shop, they visit a town when they need to visit a town, they talk to characters when they need to talk to characters. It's this natural gameplay that makes procedural content a good idea. It promotes player choice and not developer choice, and is the closest we'll ever get to pen and paper RPGs.
Having said that, this game looks confused. It seems to me that they think Eye of the Beholder is a turn-based RPG.
