Wait, we have the ability to create new NPC's from scratch? Why aren't we funding this? (Seriously, I am misunderstanding that?) On the other hand, you can build a new NPC into a level (sans dialogue, lol) in just a couple hours and know it will work 100% correctly. You can dump an enormous load of time into it and decide the quality isn't good enough. It is, imo, by far the most frustrating content to work with modding-wise, precisely b/c the results are not guaranteed. If it does work, then the lipsync can easily take another couple days (or more). Or a week to find out what you have won't work and you need to return to the drawing board. It can take a week of research and editing to piece together audio for a single line. The other half is the lipsync, and that's equally - if not more - frustrating and time-consuming.
It is a huge, huge frustrating time sink. Audio editing - especially with the current workflow in the toolset - sucks, enormously. But also for Kelly and Samara, since BO adds new content to them, as well.Īs someone who has spent a LOT of time audio editing for Thane trying to piece together lines that never existed (and will be again soon), I don't begrudge Kinko's perspective on this, at all.
Especially for Jacob, considering BO really overhauls his story. And, especially with those, it would be hard to retain compatibility with BackOff, story-wise.
