NPCs dialogues

[NightmareGats]

Why the NPCs only speak the first phrase not the other ones?
It's so odd, i want to hear everything they're gonna say.

[Kargor]

I guess with the quality of the voice acting in general, it might be a good thing they didn't voice most of the stuff...

[Savrola-Games]

It's likely due to cost cutting measures. They'll pay voice actors by the number of words spoken. You'll see it a lot in mmo's translated over from eastern markets (also note that what the VA actually says, doesn't always match with the scripted dialogue, which bugs me more than it should).

As Kargor so eloquently stated, it's probably for the best.

[Kargor]

Originally posted by Savrola-H8:

also note that what the VA actually says, doesn't always match with the scripted dialogue, which bugs me more than it should).

I'm not concerned about this.

What worries me more is the fact that items might have slightly different names depending on where they are referenced. For example, some of the Tome items are named differently on the item itself, and in the tome.

This should be technically impossible -- an item has an ID, and that ID has a name (I'm ignoring localizations here -- the item has multiple names, but once you've committed to a language you're down to one). Thus, the name should be the same everywhere... but it's not, which suggests a sloppy design.

[G4M5T3R]

Yep, to save money. They know 90% of the playerbase is just going to mash G anyway so...

[MidnightPhoenix]

lol just learn to read

[NightmareGats]

Ahh I see, I thought there was some sort of glitch with the audios.

[Dex]

it would have been better if they had just stuck to no voices, the VA is just..so bland. It felt like they got budget English anime voice actors and told them "we're only paying you for a single day, so lets get through these lines in one take okay?"

[Savrola-Games]

Originally posted by Kargor:

Originally posted by Savrola-H8:

also snipped since it's me And I can!

I'm not concerned about this.

What worries me more is the fact that items might have slightly different names depending on where they are referenced. For example, some of the Tome items are named differently on the item itself, and in the tome.

This should be technically impossible -- an item has an ID, and that ID has a name (I'm ignoring localizations here -- the item has multiple names, but once you've committed to a language you're down to one). Thus, the name should be the same everywhere... but it's not, which suggests a sloppy design.

I've also noticed that some of the text in menus, but mostly the timer bar when doing an action can be cut off, like the text was too long for the box to show and it wasn't stretched out to fit the new translated dialogue).

Wasn't this game delayed due to translation issues? Looks to me like they were rushed badly and couldn't do a full QC prior to release.

[Kargor]

Originally posted by Savrola-H8:

I've also noticed that some of the text in menus, but mostly the timer bar when doing an action can be cut off, like the text was too long for the box to show

Yeah, that too. I can kind of accept that people don't want to make a fully-featured layout engine, but they should be aware that not having an automated system means having to manually check every text...

Or maybe it's just laziness again. If they are doing their own text rendering, they can probably raise an error if they are clipping a text string...

[D3vast8r]

Originally posted by NightmareGats:

Why the NPCs only speak the first phrase not the other ones?
It's so odd, i want to hear everything they're gonna say.

Because of Size

[Leroy]

I can live with all this but when my character is riffing on the guitar and he quits playing before the bar fills… come on man!!!!