Duck and Cover

I really hope there aren't a million NPCs. Then it's just the love-fest that was Arcanum.

Heh. Yeah. But at least Arcanum wasn't as bad as Chrono Cross. :P

Arcanum was a good game, you shits.

I don't know anything about Chrono Cross as I didn't play it, but Chrono Trigger roxored my soxors. Also, I've yet to play Arcanum. What's wrong with having lots of NPCs to choose from? Seems like making a diverse fighting force would be a good thing.

LlamaGod wrote:Arcanum was a good game.

I agree. We were talking about the diluted NPC pool, not the gameplay.

At least a few people understand what I was saying.


And Ryno, that's just it. They aren't diverse. There are like three major ones, the melee, the tech, and the magic. The rest are bullshit.

BG2 had quite good NPCs. Plus you get to choose from multiple hotties.

and it stopped with that.
no faceslapping, throat logging, boob fondling, wee willy wankin' or snatch fondling.
Stupid anti pimping laws.

I'd rather have PS:T style "only enough NPCs that you can fill your party" and maybe have a couple extra ones. 30 NPCs of which maybe 6 are really useful sucks ass, because you're having an ass time trying to figure out which one to grab with you.

It's not like there would be tons of volunteers willing to risk their neck for your piece of shit quest.

I didn’t mind there being a lot of NPC's in Arcanum, it made me feel like I didn’t have to load the game again if one of them died. They were all useful if you got them to level up, learning some tech skills so I didn’t have to was always nice. It was the magic ones that pissed me off, mostly because they never used the spells in a helpful way. Still, that necromancer was fun to talk to.

Lukan the witless remains quite possibly my favorite character I’ve ever encountered in a game.

Kashluk wrote:I'd rather have PS:T style "only enough NPCs that you can fill your party" and maybe have a couple extra ones. 30 NPCs of which maybe 6 are really useful sucks ass, because you're having an ass time trying to figure out which one to grab with you.

It's not like there would be tons of volunteers willing to risk their neck for your piece of shit quest.

Yup, I agree on tis one. Besides if you have less CNPCs then the developers would have more time to add more depth to them. When I play the game and one of them gets wasted I want actaully care that it happens not jsut think "oh well plennty more where he came from"

I've played some games when there might be a set encounter where one of your CNPCs gets knocked off, and you feel gutted that you couldnt save him (though I think there should not be set enncounters like this). My point is that if you have a few less CNPCs you can make them more believable and all this helps to let the player imerse in the game.

Oh, and throw in a few CNPCs for bad guy players, maybe a reformed Raider or a Merc

The Gaijin wrote:Like a giant vat of sentient insanity trying to turn everyone in sterile freaks. That's interesting.

GameFAQs?

I dunno Lukan, but I'm sure Morte is better.

S4ur0n, perhaps you should experience the wonder of Lukan the Witless before making such a lamentable comment ? Though Morte is exceptional, Lukan is, quite possibly, one of the best characters present in an RPG in the last ten years. His way with words is quite simply puldrituchinous*.

*Ha, ha, ha.

Role-Player wrote:GameFAQs?

Are you implying that I got that sentence from gamefaqs or that I'm from gamefaqs (subtext: because I'm an idiot)? The answer to both is no.

I want FO3 to have a truly immersive atmosphere... meaning great PA textures, a great PA environment (like desert towns, such as Redding, Junktown, Modoc, etc.), and just as importantly, another soundtrack by Mark Morgan.

Also, I would prefer fewer cities, but much bigger and more involved than FO1/2. So like 7 screens, and lots of interaction in each town.

Also, I want there to be a better combat-initiation system. I didn't like how accidentally trying to open a locked door somewhere turns the whole town against you.

Also, I want tons of side-quests, but ones that seem meaningful, not just fetch/kill like Morrowind.

And I want there to be colorful party-NPC's, but you shouldn't have to rely on them to win combat. For that matter, I don't think combat should be a major factor in the main plot.

As far as graphics, I want the same 3rd person isometric view of the originals, and I wouldn't mind it being a low-res game, with PA-style dusty, rusty textures (there's no excuse for crappy textures... if they don't spend enough time on the art, the immersion is compromised)

Would you like Fries with that?

They were modest requests.

Thats true, it's modest by our standards, but if it were so simple, how come it's so rare in almost ANY rpg, not just PA?

Because company executives have turned the developers into the marketing department's bitch?