It has more mechanics, more features (disarming mines, dragging bodies etc.), traits, perks that are actually interesting and affect gameplay as well as appear as dialogue options (a few of them but still), highly moddable. Tow pales in comparison.
It's not first person though.
Dragon Age Origins let you play a dwarf and it caused a lot of additional work. Dragon Age II only let you play a human to reduce the workload because they absolutely did not have the time or the people available to get it working right. With Inquisition they had TOR money coming in so they could bring them back. Obsidian is having enough problems as it is making Avowed. Adding dwarves and orlans wouldn't make it a better game, in fact it would result in the exact opposite.
This makes no sense. Dragon Age II has a playable dwarf character, Varric. They didn't let you pick a race for the protagonist because you were playing as the pre-defined character of Hawke and BioWare was under the delusion that they were crafting some deep personal drama.
Sure, but I don't see why it would be so hard to make a few changes to convey a character's height in first-person, like changing the FOV.
Varric is not a PC. They have to alter pretty much every cinematic for the player character if the PC is a dwarf. Story decisions are downstream of resource-availability. The writers don't define the parameters of the game.
Again, this makes no sense. You can control Varric directly in combat and he participates in cutscenes. So if they wanted to allow the player to play as a dwarf, they could just reuse his character model and animations. With a few exceptions, that's how all these games work, with the playable characters sharing the same character models and animations as the NPCs.
From the PC's perspective it wouldn't work.
We're talking about existing games, not mods. This just shows how nonsensical your whole argument is.
What about the Kotor games? Wookies were bigger than human characters. T3-M4 and G0-T0 were smaller than even dwarves. There were lots of other droids and alien races of differing heights, all of which participated in cutscenes.
Its the same for armor, in theory. In practice, the armor is just a tattoo on the character's chest, taking their shape and stretching as they do.
But they didn't participate in hugging, or punching, or other specific animations. They just existed in the cutscenes, as furniture, and not as actors. I can't even recall if a wookie ever gets a hug, or grappled, or punched in that game.
Seems kinda hopeless to try to explain this to you since you just can't comprehend it. It takes extra work to make it look right. They have finite resources. They have to make choices early on figuring out what they can have and what they can't. This isn't Pillars of Eternity 3, it's Avowed, a spin-off. Similar to how Redguard was an Elder Scrolls spin-off that only allowed you play as a very specific Redguard character. It's an easy decision to make to avoid this particular workload so they can focus on things that are far more important when it comes to making a full-scale RPG from scratch.
This is not true. There are multiple sections in Kotor 2 where you only play as T3-M4. In fact, T3-M4 is the first character you play as when the game starts.
That game was not an RPG, it was an action-adventure game. You almost always play as a pre-defined character in those games.
But you don't sword fight, or hug, or press buttons, or whatever height relevant animations there are in the game.
Those sections were specifically made for that kind of character.
Even though Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax both preferred humanocentric campaign settings and parties, the popularity that Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy had assumed by the early '70s meant that, in both the Blackmoor and Greyhawk campaigns, some players wanted to create non-human PCs, as a consequence of which original Dungeons & Dragons already had options for elf, dwarf, and
And now, brace for the originality of "colonial chartered companies bad". Can't wait to laugh my head off when they actually reveal that.
You could make the case that Skyrim is a third person game too.It's not first person though.
It's not just that. Some enemies can fly and will pick you up much more easily if you're small and light. There's more physical interactions like these with different creatures.
And in this game, there are areas where only manlets can get into.
Hell, Gothic 1 had scrolls of polymorph to allow access to specific areas, becoming a small animal was required for some quests.
They said the same thing for TOW, if there is no soul reduced scope only helps with bugs apparently.
