We all know that there's a lot of things that could be added to this game. I'm not meaning fixing bugs, and I'm not going to argue about what is 'cut content'. Any content that isn't in the game now is 'new content' from the point of view of this thread. Yes, I know a lot of people would like a working NCART system (and so would I).
But suppose you're a CD Projekt dev manager and you've just found a relatively small amount of money – say one hundred thousand euros – to spend on new content, what would you do to make the game better?
Thinking about it, I think I'd get the pairs of V/Judy actresses for each of the game languages, give each pair a couple of sheets of A4 of prompts of things which may happen in the game, and then have each pair just improvise about 20 hours of V and Judy having short conversations - discussing news, lore, flirting with each other, gossipping about other characters, just hanging out. Of course that means that the conversations in Polish wouldn't be the same as those in English, but I don't think that matters.
I don't know how easy it is to animate conversations with JALI. If it's more or less automatic, then that would be great; but if it's a bunch of work then, after completing the romance in Pyramid Song, either:
1. You can phone Judy up at any time and get a short conversation; or
2. When you go to bed in Judy's apparment, you get an animation of V and Judy going to bed together, and then after fade to black you get a short conversation.
The idea being that, ideally, you only ever hear each short conversation once. That would allow you to have a much more satisfying experience of that relationship without having to do a huge amount of new animation.
Anyway, that's my idea. What's yours?
But suppose you're a CD Projekt dev manager and you've just found a relatively small amount of money – say one hundred thousand euros – to spend on new content, what would you do to make the game better?
Thinking about it, I think I'd get the pairs of V/Judy actresses for each of the game languages, give each pair a couple of sheets of A4 of prompts of things which may happen in the game, and then have each pair just improvise about 20 hours of V and Judy having short conversations - discussing news, lore, flirting with each other, gossipping about other characters, just hanging out. Of course that means that the conversations in Polish wouldn't be the same as those in English, but I don't think that matters.
I don't know how easy it is to animate conversations with JALI. If it's more or less automatic, then that would be great; but if it's a bunch of work then, after completing the romance in Pyramid Song, either:
1. You can phone Judy up at any time and get a short conversation; or
2. When you go to bed in Judy's apparment, you get an animation of V and Judy going to bed together, and then after fade to black you get a short conversation.
The idea being that, ideally, you only ever hear each short conversation once. That would allow you to have a much more satisfying experience of that relationship without having to do a huge amount of new animation.
Anyway, that's my idea. What's yours?