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[Dakk]

More news.

He slowly describes what the game is supposed to be like, then goes into pseudo-intelectual "liek omg dis is crap" mode over a single character trait?

This reminds me of why people laugh at video game reviewers.

[Tilla]

More news.

He slowly describes what the game is supposed to be like, then goes into pseudo-intelectual "liek omg dis is crap" mode over a single character trait?

This reminds me of why people laugh at video game reviewers.

He didn't really go all that nutty over the inclusion of the Insane trait. To be fair, I kind of agree with what he's saying - most of the other traits are real things, like Schizophrenia, but Insane doesn't seem to fit as well.

[Itnetlolor]

I think (general) insanity would be more like a more/less than average grip on sanity (more doesn't always mean better sometimes; which can enhance vigilantism). No distinct characterization yet, but a random one will form. I guess they missed that point.

It's an illness in-progress, simply put. We have no further details beyond until it fully matures.

At least the review and comments weren't so blind in judgment this time around.

[cowofdoom78963]

Insane in the membrane.

[Servant Corps]

As technically, none of the traits are actually in the game yet, there really shouldn't be anything to complain...but...I do agree with:

Frankly, if you want to make a quasi-realistic serial killer game, do the bloody research.

Eh, you know what? I posted far too much in this thread. That's it, this is the last post in this thread, and any next one I'll do considering this game would be starting the Pacifist run.

[Kagus]

In that vein, I think a little more distinction or clarification could be called for.  Schizophrenia could cover "Voices" and "See dead people", since both are hallucinations.  Having those two traits alongside another generic "Schizophrenia" is a little odd.  Maybe some sort of category system?

Of course, it should be noted that he made it quite clear the video illustrating these features is really just showing off placeholders.  The trait system is going to get revamped anyways, suggesting it be changed is slightly redundant.


EDIT:

I think (general) insanity would be more like a more/less than average grip on sanity. No distinct characterization yet, but a random one will form. I guess they missed that point.

It's an illness in-progress, simply put. We have no further details beyond until it fully matures.

At least the review and comments weren't so blind in judgment this time around.

Yeh, except that "Insanity" really is an outdated catchall term from when people didn't know enough to define the actual diseases.  It's still a cool word though.

[Itnetlolor]

Somehow, I get the feeling that the character creation system is going to evolve into something similar to LCS. You know, make the illnesses that spawn seem more plausible because there's a bit more backstory in the choices made when making your character.

[cowofdoom78963]

I like the character creation myself. I want to make my OWN plausible backstories.

[Redd]

He didn't really go all that nutty over the inclusion of the Insane trait. To be fair, I kind of agree with what he's saying - most of the other traits are real things, like Schizophrenia, but Insane doesn't seem to fit as well.

Sure, schizophrenia is real, but the description of it in this game is simply psychosis which is one of a whole number of symptoms of the illness and is something that can be caused by many, many things completely unrelated to schizophrenia. At least with Toady he will research something before trying to model it. Perhaps he simply has no interest in the psychological/psychiatric side of serial killers. That's fine. A shame, but whatever.

[Little]

I think the topic creator should update the first post with news and such.

[Tilla]

He didn't really go all that nutty over the inclusion of the Insane trait. To be fair, I kind of agree with what he's saying - most of the other traits are real things, like Schizophrenia, but Insane doesn't seem to fit as well.

Sure, schizophrenia is real, but the description of it in this game is simply psychosis which is one of a whole number of symptoms of the illness and is something that can be caused by many, many things completely unrelated to schizophrenia. At least with Toady he will research something before trying to model it. Perhaps he simply has no interest in the psychological/psychiatric side of serial killers. That's fine. A shame, but whatever.

I'm pretty sure he's said he is interested entirely in the psychological side of it in this very thread These are mostly just placeholders of course, to show off character creation.

[cowofdoom78963]

Im not so sure, he showed each one off seperately.

[x2yzh9]

It's not like after 5 months he'll have every mental disease ingame documented and researched.

[Kusgnos]

I think the topic creator should update the first post with news and such.

Blah, that's too much work.

...Be doing it in a bit.

[Tilla]

I think the topic creator should update the first post with news and such.

Blah, that's too much work.

...Be doing it in a bit.

I know the feeling, I started the thread on Something Awful for the same game and my mood is just 'augh updating topic' right now