What! Randomly generated quests! This just keeps getting worse...
Yeap. Pete Hines wrote in his twitter: "If you think Radiant Story is "randomly generated quests" then you misunderstand what it is."
I think it is a quests & situations generator which is based on some sets of rules.
And that phrase in the GI article: "We got rid off mysticism, and moved some of that stuff around. The magical school of mysticism Isn't that redundant?"
I won't be surprised to see something like this: "We got rid off heroe's left hand and moved some of that stuff around. The left hand. Isn't that redundant?" :hubbahubba:
Its not that they lied, its they were developing a game for a system that wasn't available yet. They had to remove some things because they didn't know it wouldn't work properly, like AI. But that seems to be improving.
I don't think you're right. They could just make an option enable/disable dynamic shadows and that's it. Oblivion wasn't optimized well enough. You can reverse rendering process in Oblivion. And you'll see that it is just "omg wtf is this stuff?!?!?".