(I don't think, act or pretend to be anything near authorative. I actually find that quite offensive. I make assumptions based on precedented conversations, all involving either Dev or yourself, Temporal. Also, if I remember, I used key words such as 'think' 'maybe' 'might' 'could' and the abbrev. 'IMO'.)

This is starting to turn into a topic about voice acting. This was decided a long time ago as was most of the rest of my answers. I think you're starting to forget the project's functions. People can contribute as much as they like, doesn't necessarily mean it gets accepted/finalised.

Alright, amen to those. Especially the cursing...I forgot that one >_< oy I'm smart...thanks Dev. And I agree with the voice acting, though I would've preferred to have maybe voices in the cutscenes (*ahem* I happen to be an actor (just don't ask me to write scripts O_O) ;) )

And those were also the reasons why we shouldn't have changable names...I know they were in my head somewhere, because I wouldn't have had such a doubt about it, since I kinda liked changeable names in other games...but yeah.

Correction:

No FMV b/c in-game cutscenes are easier to do and the small quality loss isn't really significant. (As far as script-writing, though, cutscenes and FMV's are the same thing.)

No voices b/c they'd probably suck (not because they're too big).

Otherwise, yep, you got it.

So you are saying the game will be in 3D?? or are you are talking about 2D cutscenes?? Either way I still think fmv's make a big difference in games. even in the best games today the lowpoly doesnt match up to the high quality fmvs. Have you played Kingdom Hearts? The graphics were awesome, the lowpoly models were almost perfect but it still didnt match up to the fmv's.

I don't know much about rendering but I think thats what makes the difference. while playing the game it doesnt look "movie-like" just like when watching a video from your digital camera. But when you watch a movie(tv show) or fmv, it gives you the movie feel to it. I think with movies they change the fps or something...I've read about it before but I forgot. Anyways,to me the difference between cutscenes and fmv's is the difference of watching a home made video and a movie. It makes a big differnce.

Creating fmv's is not as difficult as it may seem,its not like we are creating the whole game in 3D. We only need to model the stuff that will be in the fmv's. and it doesnt require programing like 3D games do. like I suggested we can have the game in 2D with fmv's like the old ff remakes.
And btw,I'd still like to know if this game is in 2D or 3D...can we put this debate to an end? Dev??? Maybe we can have a vote?

We may also want to get something else straight. We understand that you may apreciate graphics more than anything else, 3der, but the vast majority of the rest of the gaming world things the exact opposite (at least that I'm aware of, and I'm pretty aware if I do say so myself). So we basically won't be looking to make this game ultimately the prettiest game ever created. We're just focusing (for now) on making this game not horribly ugly (like FF7).

we could draw some type of basic curse structure from the culture we are infusing into our characters or settings. For example if the Drythians were based on gaelic/celtic tribes then Enna might say: "clanna na cu" or "Saeth du" or something like that. Its obvious that we have some greek connection with the Titan continent and Pylos in general so maybe a curse specific to that continent would be greek at its heart? Something Syne or Cade would say that they'd pick up from the other workers. Though I doubt Syne would curse that much. I expect Cade would have some colorful words though. Hey we could always go the route of "You spoony bard!" and "Son of a submariner!" (Tellah and Kefka respectively)If we think of the context of a given culture in our world it shouldn't be too hard to come up with some derogatory slang.

EX: if there's a particularly cowardly small animal one might say: "You have the honour of a Driza Rat!" Or something like that. Or to imply the rest simply call some one a Driza.

LOL, spoony bard and son of a submariner. That would be great. Just a little bit of subtle reference to the FF game that this was originally going to be.

I think that we've got everything straight as far as the no cursing that anyone of us would recognize as a curse and I think that we actually all agree on this too with out the abundance of debating that we normally have. Quick desisive and done...we should try this sort of thing more often.