Well, they are your custom characters, so you made them and perceived them that way.
I don't know, man. Fallout games and VTMB has some real good player character dialogue lines.
I played all of them. Rarely do they present any semblance of proper roleplay. Just one choice for "agree to do X" and one choice for "disagree to do X". They don't give me options how to say it – maybe I want to roleplay someone greedy and want the dialogue to reflect that, maybe I want to play someone with anger issues, maybe I want to play someone else entirely. If you played PnP and said the exact same shit that's presented in the dialogue options of those games, you'd get kicked from the table mighty quick for abhorrent roleplay, since you'd be boring everyone else there to tears. Premade characters give you the exact same options, but at least have a personality of their own – PC in Gothic doesn't go around saying 5 word sentences of generic shit, he goes on to say things his way, with personality and flavour. I wonder whether people who shill for character creation actually ever played a PnP game, because claiming that the shit that's presented to you in dialogue in Fallout games somehow has personality is blatant bullshit.
It's been done in a few games. Daggerfall and Football Manager come to mind.
It's been done in a few games. Daggerfall and Football Manager come to mind.
No need to pay for voice acting for player character.
According to "Josh Sawyer's owners", the key demographics you need to design your game for are 1. streamers, 2. retarded D:OS2 fanboys (which play mainly 3d action games, but also D:OS on the side), as opposed to, maybe, your own audience. The first two groups hate games with no full VO. According to the mentioned owners, as quoted by Josh, your game will flop if it doesn't have full VO. Apparently it can also flop with full VO, but that's life, full of uncertainty.
Why do they, tho? In D:OS2, every single dialogue line is written as it is. They've already read the player characters dialogue line before clicking on it. Why spending time on hearing it for the second time?
Blade Runner (adventure game) also had something like this, where you could pick personality (or have it unrestricted) and have your dialogue options filtered, but the game was fairly reactive with multiple endings.
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It's hard to not AGGRESSIVELY crush their self-confidence after that happens, too.Tone in FM. Somehow I managed to always pick wrong. God forbid you give an enthusiastic speech during half time break if it's going well. The whole team just collapse and gets 5 goals in the ass in the first 20 minutes
Stop spending what's probably the better part of the budget on bribing celebs, holy shit. I'd gladly do without Keanu or Meryl if it meant having a lengthy questchain or a new location or something.
Yes, it's always a mistake for RPG developers to waste scarce resources, that could have been used for fundamental gameplay, on celebrity voice-actors, like Patrick Stewart and Sheena Easton.
