Bethesda’s Pete Hines Fallout 4 interview

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But what about characters that don't know your character?

Is every conversation going to start with "My name is (NAME)"

"Hey (NAME), I'm (OTHER NAME)"

Or are there only going to be like three conversations where your name actually pops up?

It's a seriously strange thing to promote when it's not going to actually affect anything in the long run.
 
There will be no names. Only Codsworth has this base of 2000 names, no other NPCs will ever refer to you by name. This is one of the reasons why this idea is absolutely idiotic.
 
Yeah, but I would not be surprised if that was a decision that came from the marketing department or what ever. Because it sells I guess. Look! We did it like Mass Effect, just better! You don't have to live with Sherpard, they can call you fuckface now!

I am curious how many more resources they wasted on such meaningless stuff instead of actually ... you konw getting a second writer or no clue maybe even just a second voice actor.
 
Yeah, more likely than not it's just gonna be Codsworth, and maybe your wife in the intro. I think that kind of "feature" can only work with a robot, because by nature it's something that is gonna sound robotic and unnatural.

Hello Mr. (Recording of name made on a completely different day) It's a good day isn't it (same recording, same intonation).

That kind of thing just doesn't really work in a consistent manner.
 
generalissimofurioso said:
But what about characters that don't know your character?

Is every conversation going to start with "My name is (NAME)"

"Hey (NAME), I'm (OTHER NAME)"

Or are there only going to be like three conversations where your name actually pops up?

It's a seriously strange thing to promote when it's not going to actually affect anything in the long run.
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I remember them saying that 'some' characters would refer to you by your name.
So chances are that a raider faction wouldn't be all too interested in referring to you by your name, except for maybe the leader.
If there are 20 named NPC's there then only 1 of them will refer to you by your name.

I figure that's how it's going to work.
Some 20 NPC's throughout the game will refer to you by your name.

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Remember that program that computers used to have where you'd type in text and the computers voice program would read it back to you? Maybe Bethesda should go for that. That way any name can be read. Even Myrsgrowlie.

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Offtopic rant about Bethesda Forums:
A bit offtopic but I felt like sharing, so on the Bethesda forums I'm quite a negative little prick (gabriel77dan) and I've had a bunch of people who have politely asked me to pretty much just leave because I'm being so negative. Then when Leydenne, a former moderator and currently whateverthefuck(s)heis asked me pretty much the same thing. I decide to explain the reason why I still hung around the forums, explained why I'm being so negative and explained that if I'm within the forum rules then what does it matter if I'm being negative? I also gave people a guide on how to ignore --through a feature on that site-- my posts if they felt like my posts are bringing their mood down. I told them that so long as I was within the forum rules then I will continue to be negative because I loathe what Fallout has become and I will remain until I'm ready to finally move on from Fallout. And finally, I said that I agreed that sometimes I go on a rant that is unnecessary and said I'd tone down the amount of times I go off on a rant to criticize the shit out of Bethesda.

I didn't flame, I didn't flamebait, I didn't attack anyone, I didn't spam, I didn't do anything what so ever that was against the forum rules. The most I did was to go offtopic to give my little explanation and considering Leydenne's post was just as offtopic I don't see what harm there was in mine. That got me suspended from the forums until August 31. No strike or infracture(?) or anything, just a temporary suspension.

I might very well be wrong about this next part but seems to me like if someone on the Bethesda forums goes against the hype and is negative then people pretty much 'want' you to just piss off and leave them alone in their little hype echo chamber. This time I went against a former moderator and went into great length explaining myself and even offering people a way to hide my posts through their Ignore function if they didn't want to see them. And I got a suspension.

I dunno. It's just this attitude I've seen from people on there for a long time ever since Fallout 4 was announced. They (and when I say 'they' I mean the users, not the moderators. This was the first time a (former?) moderator gave me this kind of attitude) pretty much want anyone who's a negative nancy gone. I guess I finally gave the moderators enough of a reason to suspend me when they could've just removed the post and explained to me what I did wrong. (They never did PM me what I did wrong)

It's just this annoying little idea that is poking around in the back of my head. That because they are on the hype-train and want to choo-choo forward they don't really want us Dinosaurs (or others) around really. "Stop brining our buzz down, man!" basically.
 
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Recording 2000 names for a single NPC to say is more important than Skills, dude.
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It really seems like "Everybody can say the name you choose" was a wishlist item in an early design document and as the realities of development became apparent, it got reduced to "okay, this sounds terrible, maybe just the robot."

I'm not saying it's not an interesting idea, but it's probably one of those things that we're a ways out in terms of the technology and it's probably not worth the time and effort.
 
It makes me wonder if those 2,000 recorded names are a part of those 175,000 so called "unique" recorded lines they were going on about.
Funny that skills were gutted but this useless shit was put in the game, as if a robot saying a name you may or may not pick was "cool" to add in.
 
Well I guess the robot voice lines thing is part of the whole "I want to be 'me' in a different universe" kind of "immerszhionzsz!1one!22!" That's the only thing I can think of really. It's for people who don't want to roleplay, they want to play as 'themselves' in Fallout. It's something I've seen from a lot of Bethesda fans. They want to play as themselves or a fictional version of themselves as they want to imagine themselves as being.

I guess it'd help with teh immörshiönz if the robot call you "Josh" or "Lucy" or whatever. Though it kinda fucks over anyone who wants this kind of experience but who's name is not on the list of recorded names.
 
LOL, I guess since they had people recording all those fucking names, there probably won't be many voice actors. I'd rather have more diversity than hearing my name told by the same guy in 50 different npc's who all sound the same.:facepalm: Hopefully they recorded "Ray", or I'll be sending Bethesda some colorful emails.
 
I feel bad for the people who have names that are popular but spelled by parents who weren't brave enough to actually give them an unusual name.

All the Jonns and Apryls and Dayvs of the world.
 
Good thing one of my many names is actually "John", despite being as german as it gets.
Not that I would not call my character "Fuckface", because that's how all my characters in Beth games roll.
 
Lets see if they have "Mohamed". Hey, it's the most popular and used name in the world.

..though I do find a former U.S. warhero to be called Mohamed is odd, I don't think it's as odd as having a warhero called Fuckface. Or Shitcunt. Though I think that fuckface can be valid if someone hacked the robot to say it. But not if the guy's name is fuckface.
 
Hassknecht said:
Good thing one of my many names is actually "John", despite being as german as it gets.
Not that I would not call my character "Fuckface", because that's how all my characters in Beth games roll.
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You're actually planning on playing this rubbish!? I won't even do the fuckers the justice of pirating it and subjecting my eyes/ears to the abject misery that would entail. I am NOT spending any amount of time in whatever vapid, soulless incoherent mess they spill out of the udders of contempt at the money whoring cash cow that is Bethesda Game Studios.
 
SikTh said:
Hassknecht said:
Good thing one of my many names is actually "John", despite being as german as it gets.
Not that I would not call my character "Fuckface", because that's how all my characters in Beth games roll.
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You're actually planning on playing this rubbish!? I won't even do the fuckers the justice of pirating it and subjecting my eyes/ears to the abject misery that would entail. I am NOT spending any amount of time in whatever vapid, soulless incoherent mess they spill out of the udders of contempt at the money whoring cash cow that is Bethesda Game Studios.
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Haven't you played POS? It's our duty as Fallout fans to play it even if we do steal or buy it used. :mrgreen:
 
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That is the videogame equivelant of watching the Simpsons, week in, week out though, knowing you should have stopped at some point in the late 90s (maybe earlier actually)... wouldn't you just rather keep the experience sacred? 5 minutes with Fallout 3 definitely scarred the way I viewed the series. I had my fingers burnt once, I don't see the fruits of flogging that horse...or horseshit, as this game will 99% likely prove to be.

Also --Do the Evolution is one of the most beautiful 4 minutes of animation, music video or otherwise! :grin:
 
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