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Is This Possible For DA3?

Débuté par Guest_Trista Faux Hawke_* , avril 26 2012 04:01

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Posté 27 avril 2012 - 04:00

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Pasquale1234 wrote...

Trista Faux Hawke wrote...

I mean, come on guys. James Cameron is preparing to mine asteroids in space. (Space!)  And some of you think this verbal-name feature in the world of gaming is unlikely? Oh gamers... so afraid of change. Yet so ready fork over money when change comes. You just leave it to the developers. Just wait and see.

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I don't think anyone is saying it won't ever happen, and your accusation that gamers are "afraid of change" does not help your case.


From where I'm sitting, it's called a joke. (Also, I'm a gamer, myself.)


Pasquale1234 wrote...
The technical implications of implementing your suggestions are not so easily dismissed by those who actually understand their meaning.  Game developers are constantly dealing with the hard limitations of the platforms on which their games run.  Each console platform has a very specific OS and hardware limitations that they cannot go beyond, and the same is true of the myriad of PC rig configurations they are expected to support.

That "Smart Greeting" app undoubtedly runs on a set of servers that was configured specifically for the operating needs of that app.  It has all of the system resources and network traffic handling capacity it needs to provide the service it was engineered to provide.  It was built for that very purpose.

When you are building a "Smart Greeting" application, the ability to pronounce a caller's name would be viewed as a very desirable feature and worth the resources to implement.  Whether such a feature would be especially desirable in a game is debatable at best.

All of the resources needed to develop and deploy a game to millions of individual machines are finite, and tradeoffs are necessary.  When the resource cost of deploying a trivial feature becomes trivial, that is when you are more likely to see it become a reality.  Until then, I would expect most game developers are going to invest their finite resources where they will provide a greater return.


Well it's a butterfly effect. The technolgy has to improve first. And technology, as we've seen, doesn't stagnate. So yeah, once it becomes technologically available - and I don't doubt that it will - we will see this kind of feature be utilitized. And most gamers will eat it up. 

^_^

Modifié par Trista Faux Hawke, 27 avril 2012 - 04:02 .

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Posté 27 avril 2012 - 05:34

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Trista Faux Hawke wrote...

So yeah, once it becomes technologically available - and I don't doubt that it will - we will see this kind of feature be utilitized. And most gamers will eat it up. 

^_^


I'm not nearly so sure of its desirability as you seem to be - but I'd prefer my protag be referred to by title or last name by most NPCs.  The only NPCs I might want to call my protag by first name would be really close friends, family, LI - and even then, some nickname (like Bryce Cousland's "pup") or endearment would suit me just fine.

Different strokes.

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Posté 27 avril 2012 - 07:35

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Pasquale1234 wrote...

Trista Faux Hawke wrote...

So yeah, once it becomes technologically available - and I don't doubt that it will - we will see this kind of feature be utilitized. And most gamers will eat it up. 

^_^


I'm not nearly so sure of its desirability as you seem to be - but I'd prefer my protag be referred to by title or last name by most NPCs.  The only NPCs I might want to call my protag by first name would be really close friends, family, LI - and even then, some nickname (like Bryce Cousland's "pup") or endearment would suit me just fine.

Different strokes.


Yep.

#29
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Posté 27 avril 2012 - 11:08

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Trista Faux Hawke wrote...

No no. It's not voice command.

For a cell phone, the system recognizes the name you registered your phone under. For example, my name is Trista, so my cell phone is registered under my full name Trista (then last name). So when I call my friend who has that Smart Greeting app, and it goes to voicemail, the automated voice mail says, "Hello Trista, Erik can't come to the phone...etc."


Siri is alright but it still sounds very robotic. And there can be problems with it as there are with my friend, Nathan. His iPhone can't understand his voice properly so it calls him 'Leathers'...

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Posté 28 avril 2012 - 07:57

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Vovea wrote...

Trista Faux Hawke wrote...

No no. It's not voice command.

For a cell phone, the system recognizes the name you registered your phone under. For example, my name is Trista, so my cell phone is registered under my full name Trista (then last name). So when I call my friend who has that Smart Greeting app, and it goes to voicemail, the automated voice mail says, "Hello Trista, Erik can't come to the phone...etc."


Siri is alright but it still sounds very robotic. And there can be problems with it as there are with my friend, Nathan. His iPhone can't understand his voice properly so it calls him 'Leathers'...


It's 3am. Currently inebriated at the moment. Leathers = my favorite story of the night. Thank you. 

And yes, I understand what you are saying about the Siri program. (Which thanks - I was trying to figure out what it was called. I couldn't remember.) I've heard both good and bad things. So yeah, you're right. It can be fickle.

p.s. Leathers. haha

Modifié par Trista Faux Hawke, 28 avril 2012 - 07:58 .

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Posté 28 avril 2012 - 08:39

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