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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 10:24 am

To be honest I'm kinda nervous about this radiant story thing now :cryvaultboy:


From what it sounds like (in the article) is just that they made Radiant Story early on, said "Hey, let's use it for EVERYTHING" and then realized if you are a level one w/e, all your quests, from NPCs, the fighter's guild, and the mage's guild, will send you to the closest possible unexplored cave and populate it with the same enemy.

Once they realized this, they scaled it back, and now it only simplifies and streamlines a couple quests.

Btw, you'd REALLY expect them to have avoided the term "Radiant" when naming any feature. It has kind of a bad connotation after Oblivion's Radiant AI.
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 2:20 pm

From what it sounds like (in the article) is just that they made Radiant Story early on, said "Hey, let's use it for EVERYTHING" and then realized if you are a level one w/e, all your quests, from NPCs, the fighter's guild, and the mage's guild, will send you to the closest possible unexplored cave and populate it with the same enemy.

Once they realized this, they scaled it back, and now it only simplifies and streamlines a couple quests.

Btw, you'd REALLY expect them to have avoided the term "Radiant" when naming any feature. It has kind of a bad connotation after Oblivion's Radiant AI.

I like your optimism and i hope it's right . :)
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 11:27 pm

aghghghhgg i think 8:47 counts as tonight release it already :sadvaultboy:
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 12:13 pm

I'm just curious as to what these "mistakes" are. I could care less about eyecandy if they're about to unload a dump worse than Oblivion's Radiant AI on us.

Radiant AI may not have been what it was intended to be, BUT was hell of alot better than anything else out at the time.
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 1:27 pm

Well its out for me. About to watch. Must be people from the Uk who get it first...

I'll let you know if its good. :hubbahubba:
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 6:18 pm

Well its out for me. About to watch. Must be people from the Uk who get it first...

I'll let you know if its good. :hubbahubba:

you bastard im chekcing right now again >:l
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:34 am

Is the footage "tasty" like they hyped it to be?
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 11:45 am

someone tape it and put it on youtube!!! I can't get Xbox live in the dorms Im living in... poop... at least they are admitting to their mistakes and have a LONG TIME to get them all fixed and what not.
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Post » Tue Nov 02, 2010 12:19 am

Guys, people who aren't in the UK won't get the video. Same with last Skyrim-related video from OXM.

Yes they do.

In Oblivion, a cave was a cave. When you visted it, it had the same bad guys, the same challanges, and you recognised it as being "the cave thats good for sneaky characters" or whatever. with radiant story, it's contents is tailored to your skills and it becomes "that cave that, like others, will contain the things that my character would like to fight no matter what the case". That is one feature of Radiant story. Also, radiant story would mean no more distinct NPC characters, and more generic npc's filling the boots of eachother.

IFFFFF bethesda were idiots, that would be the case.

But they're not. They are trying things, fixing their mistakes and improving- I've no doubt that radiant story will serve as a sutble quest tweaker, a brilliant side quest generator, and a good plot hole filler, and by the sounds of it create some pretty funny scenes. (guys fighting over sword). Just so long as they fix their mistakes.


No, Radiant Story does not change the content of caves nor characters. A cave is still a cave, handbuilt to the dot by the dungeon designers. Radiant Story would simply randomly select an appropriate cave from the pre-designed options for a quest. Most often one that you've never visited before. It's not a random generation tool. The quest is already made, it simply changes who you would get the quest from, whether the content of the quest is more based on stealth, magic, or combat, and where the quest is located, but all other main aspects of the quest are hand-built.
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:44 pm

juicy
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 8:10 pm

well thats just [censored] [censored] :banghead:
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 10:46 am

Well their was no new images or video and barely anything new said. Was this hyped up or something? Cos thats all it was hype.
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:39 am

Well their was no new images or video and barely anything new said. Was this hyped up or something? Cos thats all it was hype.

so what was new?
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 8:00 am

Was this hyped up or something? Cos thats all it was hype.

Aside from the article in the first post with a slightly misleading title, most of the hype was produced by the forum as usual. :P
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:55 pm

Well their was no new images or video

So what was the "tasty footage"?
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:15 am

There was no footage that was new, sorry to be the bringer of bad news. But Im not going to lie it was just an average interview. The only new thing said was about stuff from SI like people juggling and animations like that will be alot better with more variety and many people doing different things based on animations. Erm yeah...
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 7:29 pm

EDIT: Never mind
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 10:24 am

So what was the "tasty footage"?


"There's no such thing as news any more, just advertising", Faith - Mirrors Edge.

Edit: probably a very poor paraphrase
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 2:49 pm

E3 is where it's at.
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 11:54 pm

I had a feeling this was going to be disappointing.
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 8:27 pm

I'll put it up, I did it with this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Xn0GbweAE


I was hoping you would :)
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 12:16 pm

Also he talked about the areas of the game will be like scandinavian countries tundra. Swamps, forests and the snowy area will be like crossing over to the artic circle. Thats all folks...
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 3:32 pm

I had a feeling this was going to be disappointing.

To be fair this is a 360 exclusive.
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:21 pm

AH!!!!!!!!! I wish my mac was working, cuz then I could upload the vid to Youtube :banghead: sorry
What time will it upload- cuz I just checked and noda
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 12:34 pm

Wow just read that comment from the OXM article,

"The full OXM Report with Nesmith will be available this evening on Xbox Live - there's some tasty footage in store."


Thats slanderous. Well they do want your money bad...
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