"Player stories will always be more powerful than scripted stories that we try to tell the players."

[aida_kun]

It's late as hell, so I didn't watch all of it, but this should be Will Wright's talk in which he introduced Spore at GDC 2005. I certainly recognize some of the volunteers caught on camera. :-D

Comments

[grahzny]

One thing I enjoyed about my tiny sample of the Age of Conan tech test was that NPCs would have large, branching conversations with you, with voice overs. Nothing crazy and new, but certainly on the level with most of the better single-player RPGs I've played. I hope this helps nudge some of the characters into something a bit more "living" -- as you suggest, Thrall is cool and all, but he pretty much just sits there and says "quest plz"

[tabaquis]

LOL I'd pay to hear that as a voiceover, Kolja.