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DakonBlackblade on 07 December 2015
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HoloDust said:
DakonBlackblade said:
HoloDust said:
Hopefully there won't be heavily defined main character like Geralt, I prefer to see more of a 'create your own hero' approach to give it more choices and replayability.

Why ? So that the character may have no expression, be totaly souless and the story can be super badly written like in Fallout 4 and everybody will say its OK cause they got to "chose theyre own story" ? If its not a defined character go the Shepard/Inquisitor route, where the character was defined but you could change its apearence, otherwise its a recipe to deliver terrible storylines and uninteresing main characters.

You have apparently never played some of the great c/W/RPGs that have 'create your own hero' approach AND great (or at least good) stories on top of it - like Fallout 1/2, Gothic 1/2, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, KOTOR 1/2...even in Planescape: Torment, what is generally considered the best written c/W/RPG (if not RPG, period) of all times it's up to you to shape The Nameless One as you see fit.

Anyway, I see you're a bit younger, so you must've missed some of those games and you're automatically connecting 'create your own hero' with Bethesda level of bad...which is bad, there's no argument there, they are probabaly the worst in industry in last 2 decades when it comes to stories and characters.

But there are other devs that do it right, and that's what I would like to see from 2077 (and it seems, what we'll get), game that gives you more options than what Witcher offered.

Im not "a bit younger", Im 27 so Ive been around ever since videogames were in its infancy, Ive played almost all of those games you listed with the excepetion of Fallout 1/2 and Gothic 2, and on those games, the story is indead great but the weakest part is your silent, expressionless, souless main character, that could be much better and more usefull to the story if he had a pre-set structure like Shepard did on ME. You can make Shepard look and have the skills you want, even change his/hers first name, but hell always have a "skeleton" there that ties him to the story and gives him a soul, on KOTOR this kinda happens as well, there is character development in there for your main character, but itd stil be better if you werent just a nameless Jedi. But them again maybe the fact I just recently finished Fallout 4 and have it fresh in my mind is playing a part here, as that game has one of the worst written storylines ever.