SeveralGeese
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You ever notice in the movie "Logan" how most of the baddies hunting them down have prosthetic arms?
Ren'Py The Null Hypothesis [v0.8a] [Ron Chon]
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This works for me, but then the side bar remains hidden during free roam. Is there a different new screen that needs to be enabled instead?
Edit: Never mind I found the "enable UI" option in the menu. That fixed it.
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salscou
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Question basically was - why not give him a predetermined name - "John Doe" or something?
There is a lot of mediums without customizable characters - movies, books, comics. I can't say that characters depicted in them are less relatable by design. Isn't having all possible decision making in your hands as player not enough? And naming your personal instance of character "James" or "Peter" won't change the plot at all.
Choices are actually presenting interesting dilemma from perspective of design and writing. There is 2 approaches that can be applied player chooses something:
1. You have to take all possible outcomes of this choice into consideration. That means keeping number of possible options if not bare minimum than at least reasonably small. Additional option added to list - extra work at the spot and at 10 more spot down the line. More often this approach taken - more complex project becomes and overall workload increases. That is sensitive point even for large fancy AAAA-developers, for small team like Ron's - tenfold so.
2. You can make it purely cosmetical or ignore it altogether. You can name Null "Philippus Hohenheim", "Baron Samedi" or "George Washington" and not a single character will bat an eye after hearing that. This approach allows a lot of "customization" but at the price of significance of choice. Too much of this - and protagonist becomes some strange shoe-in figure in comparison to other character. Luckily, that's not our case. And won't be such a case, I hope.
SeveralGeese
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Am I missing something critical to this question. Cuz like...
And if you don't mean that, and you actually are trying to say something crazy like "letting the player name their character endangers the integrity of the game!"
Like... what are you even on about?
Karmadive
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You bring up examples of media that has no interactive element to it. Games have always had a different level of connection for me to characters in it then any movie/book I have seen because their struggles become my struggles. Being able to name them myself adds even more of a connection.
And I'm confused your complaint about complexities it adds to development. It's a name change. A simple variable so that every time someone talks to your character they say your name. There is no additional development time as instead of typing "John" in the code you just type in MC_Name. A lot of games that have a fixed name will even use a variable just to save time if they decide on a name change at a later time.
I'm not really understanding what the issue is since it doesn't add any complexity to the game or waste development time.. so you just don't want people to be able to rename the main character because you don't want to?
I personally appreciate it for the tiny factor of immersion it provides me, as I enjoy being able to properly - and genuinely - imprint onto what is intended to be a self-insert billboard protag at the end of the day. This is especially true since porn games, and honestly games at large, still tend to not have characters that look like myself. Hell, even asking for a black male protag in and of itself is like pulling teeth in so many instances, god forbid they also be one that isn't a muscle-bound """thug""" type designed purely to enable some red hat's
I will say the current system is rather rudimentary, but it's logically so low on the priority list that I don't really expect much more than we have at present. Would be nice to have pre-1.0, but I still understand that priorities lie elsewhere.
There are people who believe this, actually. Many are developers.
I find them confusing and irritating.
Just for absolute clarity here - you can *change the name here*. You just need to click on the fields and update them. That is easy to miss if you're skipping the text in the intro.
I have a problem. despite having Laura and Rogue hang out 5 times, Laura will not be friends with Rogue and I kind of need this to happen to finish Laura's optionals for her Spring quest. any idea what is wrong or is it going to take 20 times of them hanging out to notice a chance?
Faro_Azul
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It´s maybe a render configuration. you need to run the exe file and keep the "shift" key presed untill the next window apear
press the red option and if that doesn´t work, press the option above. Some pc are not compatible with the ooption that comes select as default.
Not as bad as developers that think names don't need to be more then seven characters long.
Assholes.
shadowtempered
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Is the best way to get exp to grind classroom during the day with the selected perk? Feel like that's all I'm doing to try and earn some perks; feels crazy slow.
That's oversimplification. But yes, that's the general gist.
I personally tend to find naming my character less immersive than having a predetermined MC where the devs have more freedom in their backstory and how they interact with the other characters, and that I get to know as the game progresses (unless it's games like BG3 where they have enough of a budget to make the customization feel meaningful). But I realize I'm in the minority here. Lots of players seem to prefer even a tiny bit of customization, for a better self-insert experience.
Anyway it's not a big deal. I just name every MC of every game Protag Onist and get on with the story.
Anyway it's not a big deal. I just name every MC of every game Protag Onist and get on with the story.
salscou
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