>You can defeat the final boss with a speech check
Why don't more videogames do this?
You can defeat the final boss with a speech check
Brayden Martinez
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Isaac Turner
I don't know, user. Why?
Hudson Williams
deosnt deus ex mankind divided do this? im not entirely sure
Ayden Ortiz
Because it's a shit idea for the most part. Games where you can dump all your XP into speech then walk through the game are boring because every quest has the same resolution. It's even worse when some games give you more XP for solving the quest without violence, compounding the problem. Maybe some people deserve to have their face caved in with a hammer.
Jose Diaz
New Vegas and that one are the only ones I can think of
Justin Nguyen
Is this you?
Brayden Smith
>New Vegas
you now remember speech-checking that AI
Brayden Gonzalez
Planescape Torment has this a lot but I still remember a lot of combat in my high WIS run.
Wyatt Jenkins
mass effect 1 did it.
that rogue nigga shot himself in the head as he understood he was a puppet
Jacob Bailey
In RPGs it's only logical to be able to play your own way dumb dumb
David Flores
Arcanum as well. Fallout 1 too. Not 2 though. Horrigan takes your speech skill and shoves it up your ass.
Nathan Johnson
Cameron Wilson
Disco Elysium
Angel Martinez
Did anybody ever pass the speech check against Hansen?
Joshua Diaz
but that was a good thing because PS:T combat was fuckin awful
Jose Howard
I think one did, but they didn't air it
Easton Rodriguez
You're inventing a scenario that doesn't exist.
Name a single game where you can get out of all battles, let alone most battles, with a speech check. You can't. Even in games like Fallout, a speech gate is still rare. That's why dumping all points into speech is a risk when combat is still the norm.
Ryder Perez
Would be better if that speech check opened up a different challenge instead of an instant win.
Henry Hughes
Ethan Roberts
The episode where he got a pedo to kill himself and they aired it was so incredibly based, that wouldn't be allowed today.
Adam Ortiz
Fallout 1 off the top of my head:
Raiders in shady sands.
Gizmo.
The Master.
Necropolis
That's like half the game you can waltz through.
Anthony Sanders
Is it "waltzing" when they're points you could have placed into combat to make the other half of the game easier?
Isaac Watson
What? in literally every quest in new vegas there are speech checks. Dumping your points into speech is not a risk at all because combat is piss easy in every game, and it's made even worse because it's not even a chance to pass it, you have to have a specific number of points and makes charisma completely useless
Oliver Collins
Generic white CHAD.
Elijah Gonzalez
He's not even white
Adrian Martin
I think the actual schizo dude did
Parker Cruz
David Flores
Yes. You get so much XP from those quests you can dump the remaining points into energy weapons, buy a turbo plasma rifle and moonwalk to the credits
Cooper Jackson
Didn't Chris Hansen get arrested AGAIN and get kicked out of his apartment?
Josiah Wright
>and it's made even worse because it's not even a chance to pass it
Wrong, a set limit is superior. Because any "percent chance" to pass a check is a 100% chance in a game with saving and quicksaving.
And if you don't find the combat challenging, that's really irrelevant, because then it was always going to be easy for you, and is a non-factor. Because more combat focus will always make combat even easier. It's always an incentive to spend those points there.
Gabriel Sanders
I thought you don’t actually get arrested when you’re on the show, or am I thinking of something else?
Oliver Miller
Grayson Cruz
> me, my mummy and my daddy
Owen Hill
>Wrong, a set limit is superior
That's why I love games like Desperados III where your attacks always land and the challenge is choosing when to use them
Charles Nelson
They're not police, it's not like they can detain them. But they probably turn all the evidence over to them. It would be silly to do a show like that and ultimately let the people walk free.
Noah Lopez
The police run a parallel investigation and are waiting outside for the guy.
Brody Ortiz
>NO RUBER
My sides
Liam Long
Because they can't balance for it. The idea behind speech checks should be talking your way out of a few situations or getting a better deal on gear or something. But the trade off is that the player needs to outskill stacking the deck against themselves on a combat or puzzle solving layer. Often times games where you can max speech, you're also dumped xp to put in useful shit like stealth or guns, hence why new vegas and mankind divided fuck it up so bad. You're a one man army killing machine who can now also skip bossfights, buy gear at severely reduced prices and subjugate half of all enemies to be your friends, while simultaneously lining up a triple no scope from 8 miles away.