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Do we have to update this one?
To be fair Star Citizen has atleast some update every week, even if they are trivial most of the time.
The thing is, no matter how many lines they have, if what characters say is not interesting, dont feel different from each other and have some charisma, it can be 60 or 150k, it will be boring as fuck.
Skyrim only became actually interesting in the writting department when you downloaded the Interesting NPCs mod, and that was not done by them, so...
I hope they actually hire good writters for this.
How many ways can a star soldier tell me he was alright until he was shot with a blaster in the knee?
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Never understimate Todd, he's back to deliver a GOTG this time.
25 YEARS IN THE MAKING.
Just show the game already.
Let us wait and see. But we should keep our expectations for Starfield in check. I just hope it's Skyrim in space. That's all I want. It will most likely have all the Bethesda problems as well, but that's okay as long as it isn't completely broken.
Just the sheer amount of dialogue compared to other Bethesda games and it's surface level promises of "Elder Scrolls in space" has me extremely hyped for what could be but I need to keep my expectations in check. Need that gameplay reveal
I just hope it means NPC's will have more than three things they say and that's it. I just don't want to hear the same lines in this game over and over and over. If more lines help with that, I'll happily take it.
i can't imagine how people will react if this game is a solid 85 MC. Because so far people seem to be going into this game very. negative and doubtful.
150k dialogue however makes me wonder how much is audio logs dealing with the past and how much is present day.
150k dialogue however makes me wonder how much is audio logs dealing with the past and how much is present day.
I think even their important characters when they have more lines, they still feel flat. I didnt enjoy their writing on Fallout 3, and much less in Skyrim. Then you play a Fallout game actually written well, like New Vegas, and the difference is night and day.
lol come on people. Todd didn't say this like STARFIELD HAS SO MANY LINES! As much as, across this huge number of lines that Starfield has, we've localized ALL OF IT in Japanese (a language that a relatively small minority of players will choose to play it in, I would imagine). That's a huge investment in time and money. Which is good! Hoping for good language support across the board from Bethesda and XGS games moving forward.
Good to see Xbox getting more serious about being a global brand. Their localization efforts in the past havent been great.
Also Starfield is gonna be massive. Show me the game Todd!
Also Starfield is gonna be massive. Show me the game Todd!
Wonder if Starfield will start it's own dialogue memes (ala Arrow to the Knee).
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I was a cartographer once, but I took a displacer beam to the elbow...
*grabs coat*
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I was a cartographer once, but I took a displacer beam to the elbow...
*grabs coat*
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Play ranged/mage for somewhat decent combat. But yeah, melee is pretty bad. Starfield being sci-fi and (probably) more ranged focused in its combat gives me hope though. Fallout 4 had somewhat solid shooting mechanics. It was a huge step up from Fallou 3+NV and if the can further improve that and add some better enemy AI and behaviour it could be fun.
Skyrim already had a japanese dub (and spanish, french, german...), this is nothing new. Microsoft even helps more in budgets by usually localizing their first party games to multiple languages. Sony is usually the best at this, dubbing everything, and then microsoft usually everythign, though they had a very dark age during halo 2, and then theres Nintendo which just... takes strange decissions in what to dub into multiple languages and what not.
The (bad and unwelcome) surprise would have been if with microsoft they decided to return to not do any dubbing. But maybe is good to actually have reconfirmation of it though.
he changed his twitter bio from lead writer to lead design director a while ago.... so it might be possible hes not gonna be the lead writer this time around, but there is no info on it yet.
Quality > Quantity. Not saying the quality will be bad, but "big numbers" don't mean much.
Dont think you'd hire over 300 voice actors if you were gonna use AI.
I don't agree. You can make a huge world that is very samey by copy pasting or procedurally generating structures or entire cities. But every dialogue line has to actually be written by someone, an then spoken by someone else, with a unique voice.
A big world can be empty or repetitive, but many lines implies a lot of unique man made content, lots of quests and/or dialogue options.
Doesn't mean it will be good quality, but I wouldn't compare it with big open world maps.
