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[wsandista]

There seems to be some doubt if a voiced PC can work for a player-generated PC, so I wanted to get an idea what everyone thought about having a fixed PC since DA3 will absolutely feature a voiced PC.

Personally, I think that a voiced PC only works with a fixed PC.

[Allan Schumacher]

No, Morrigan's reaction suprised you, not the PC.

Isn't the player the only person that can determine whether or not the PC is surprised by an action? If the player can be surprised, but not the PC, isn't that an example of the player not having full control over the player?

Books, yes; Conversations, no. You are having a conversation, not reading a book.

You're still just reading text. Unless you wish to imagine that the people all speak in a flat, monotone voice, you're going to read inflection and whatnot into the conversation. If there's no indication of inflection and other non verbal cues, the player will put in their own. If the response to a line ends up behaving completely inappropriately to what the player put in, it's a failure

In a real life conversation, my body language and how I say lines makes it pretty unequivocally clear my intent. If I say to a life long friend "You're stupid" he's not going to take offense. He knows I'm a sarcastic person. It's very dangerous for me to assume that a game will allow me to make such a comment because more often than not it's taken quite literally.

Most of the absurd comments in Fallout are ones that I would actually say but they almost always get taken seriously. In full line text I find it's safest to assume that sarcasm isn't a valid tone.


To further illustrate my point, no one is "reading a book" when posting on the forums. They are having conversations. Yet it's become a common internet convention to make sure you post emoticons to make it clear that you're being playful and sassy when a line could be taken seriously. This is because people routinely misinterpret what is truly being said when just reading lines.