2nd February 2005, 12:08 AM
Yeah, I understand and agree with the notion of players being mute so you have to imagine what they said on your own. I believe I mentioned that before. Now, as to conversations becoming disjointed unless you go down the options in order... Yeah I've been there, and honestly it's usually not too bad but when it is, I wouldn't really want to blame the player. Allowing you to pick options is fine and all, but if they didn't program it so that it would allow for whatever plot holes or disjointedness one might make when picking options in the order they want, basically forcing you to go in order if you want it to be seamless, then the player really doesn't have a real choice... at least I'd say that... I would say it is the programmer's fault when such things arise.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)