Oh boi, so many points of view, so many things to consider... I will take my little time off to deeply study this thread over the next week and I may or may not come up with a good opinion or argument.
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FBohler said:
BIGGER Kentucky James XXL said:
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I'm hoping that horrible idea never resurfaces.
I might be the only one who thinks that influence 'currency' was a good video gamey addition to the game.
I too sort of like (or simply accept) the influence system, but oh boi, was it great seeing they're not relying entirely on it. Even if it is a gamey concept of filling a bar to persuade someone, and they could change it to show in facial expressions, which could be funny, and maybe hard to see on particularly ugly characters, I still think the bar is not at all bad. Maybe the traditional ON/OFF setting: add the facial expressions according to the persuaded level, and add a setting in options to turn the graphical bar on/off and we're all set! Or maybe not. Still it would feel like a pity adding the whole facial animations and only use them in battle and to show that some npcs don't like you. It feels a bit like oblivion, yes, because of the progress bar, but it still feels that it's sort of right. Adding the options according to skills and other social tools is awesome, can't think of a better system, really, and the "progress level(bar)" is a good visual feedback so we don't feel like we're merely dealing with robots while the game calculates RNG for each choice.
Unscripted roleplaying presents a lot of difficulty in adding a "natural" system that provides enough feedback and stimulates enough immersion. I'd rather have the access to means that show my progress, since I've always felt it was too much like guesswork in fallout games, and it either worked or it didn't, but never gave me any real advice on how to improve on that.
hiul said:
some dainty maiden with nothing to recommend her but vast tracts of land
Too bad someone had already pointed that out before I did, but
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