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General News - Chris Avellone Interview

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by RPGWatch, May 1, 2018.

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    [​IMG]The RPG Codex has interviewed Chris Avellone about all things RPG.

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    Since you can't comment on PoE's case in particular: is having similar lengths and amount of voiced lines a priority for you in companion design? In Torment and KOTOR2 some companions didn't have nearly as many lines as others, but neither game suffered for it, if you look at how they were received.

    I can confirm some of the elements - there's still people I can ask, so if I can't remember, it's easy to find someone who can jog my memory (I can't check the details on my own). I also managed to get some clarification on some of the points, which was welcome, so...

    Of those three reasons, the first was the only one I ever recall communicated to me (I had to get confirmation on it and these other points, since it's been a long time). The other two reasons weren't, and I actually got multiple other reasons from multiple people - and some of those people admitted they were just the messenger. This confused things, since they couldn't articulate what the critiques were since they either didn't understand them or hadn't read the material (both our CEO and Parker among them - ironically, after a long speech ending with his admission he hadn't even read what he was arguing against, Parker did go back and read the companions and found nothing to object to, which cost even more time - to his credit, he did admit his error, but things like that happened a lot).

    There were other people who apparently didn't like Durance's swearing (easy fix), and the original tie in the GM and Durance backstories were they had violated each other physically and mentally and that's what broke both of them, which I then cut - although I don't know if the GM one got removed completely - the intention was the Watcher could fix it mentally by repairing their souls by walking through their minds in stages. I think some of this is still mentioned in the strat guide.

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