Hello there guys,
Why working on yet another dialogue lines I started to wonder about one little detail...
Of course RPG Maker MV gives us the opportunity to see quite nicely made faces for standard characters, but still with a number of NPCs exceeding 100 the faces must become repeatable and with time might get a bit dull. Especially if one have already seen these randomly generated faces in other titles...
I decided to take a short pause and reconsider it. Do we actually need faces for NPCs? With that in mind I decided to take a look at few other titles and I have confirmed that some of my colleagues actually gave up on the face sets for random people, leaving themselves with only few custom made faces for the main cast...
With all of that I decided to ask how do you feel about such a solution, because I am getting more and more convinced that NPCs are not really worth the trouble as their faces don't add anything at all (unless each one of them would receive a full faceset with many mimics, but that would greatly exceed the time needed for such trivial matter), they don;t show any emotion or anything...
There are three options to choose from:
1. Leaving only important characters with faces. Of course the faces will be custom made, as there is no other option I am considering for the main cast...
2. Giving every single NPC a rather emotionless face, just to make them have one. It's the solution which I have been implementing so far, but I am getting more and more convinced that it's not worth the fuss...
3. This option is a bit extreme, and it suggests that NPCs are so important to you that you think I should spend a lot of time and resources to try to give all NPCs an actual face and try to add some emotion to it... I honestly hope that's not the case but I want to know your opinion guys, so here is the chance if you really wish to prove me wrong...
I know that I can count on you guys when it comes to polls so please, vote and choose whatever suits you best ;)
Stay tuned for more news and take care ;)
I would personally go with 2. The main characters can have custom sprites & portrait pictures but leave the generic NPCs (such as merchants, guards, thieves, etc) with the generic sprites and portraits.
OdpowiedzUsuńAs a long-time (in internet years) player of RPGMaker VX games, I have learned to ignore the fact many NPCS look alike. And I believe most players will understand that creating custom sprites and portraits are very resource heavy and will slow down game development.