3rd November 2008, 4:06 PM
Closer to Oblivion than Morrowind. I didn't really like Morrowind. Mercifully, annoyances like the "talk pie" mini-game that was not only not fun, but not very satisfying from a role playing perspective, have been sacked proper.
In the future, I hope that speech "points" will be out and out done away with in favor of much more involved conversation options. At the very most, all "speech" (and other things like science and intellect) should provide are extra options IN conversations, not a determiner of how convincing your argument is. It just gives the impression that all arguments are equal or something and it's just a matter of how much glitter you spray around while talking that convinces everyone.
In the future, I hope that speech "points" will be out and out done away with in favor of much more involved conversation options. At the very most, all "speech" (and other things like science and intellect) should provide are extra options IN conversations, not a determiner of how convincing your argument is. It just gives the impression that all arguments are equal or something and it's just a matter of how much glitter you spray around while talking that convinces everyone.
"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)