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Old 08-07-2013, 07:34 PM   #7
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I must say that personally I prefer the "old school style" graphics of the original series to the isometric newer ones, although those are nice too.

As for typing keywords, this is actually the standard practice for early CPRGs, and it is in several ways better than just giving the player a choice to cycle through all dialogue options because an attentive player who tries some extra keywords is rewarded with some extra background information.

In fact, I believe that any role-playing game would benefit from a freeform type of dialogue where the player could type in meaningful texts in a natural language and get varied responses (similar to chatterbots) as opposed to simply selecting pre-defined choices.
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