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when has Todd ever listened dude. he's too busy working on a game that takes 1400 hours to fully explore but has 2 voicelines repeated a billion times whenever you walk by an npc.
meanwhile a 25-person studio like supergiant records like 20 different voicelines for when you pause during a certain situation in their early access game.
Oh, he's got access to Miscrosoft's arsenal of AI resources now.
So expect 4000 hours of gameplay (or 2 hours of gameplay repeated 2000 times), and a load of NPCs that all sound like voice assistants.
Bethesda is one of the few studios where that would be an upgrade in writing. I'm so sick of their half-assery.
I enjoyed Skyrim I'll be honest, but that was a long time ago now. In that time we've had The Witcher 3 moving the goalposts and Baldur's Gate 3 putting them on a different planet altogether, and the idea of a sea of badly lip-synced talking heads telling me to try to find their obviously dead relatives who've gone flower picking in Murderfang Cavern just isn't going to cut it in 2027 or whenever Elder Scrolls 6 is supposed to be out.
"What do you have for trade?"
"Now playing bulls on parade on Spotify"
Fuuuuuuck
Quicksave
Voiceline interrupted due to sudden axe-iddent
Don't you mean a stealthily-loosed arrow?
At the point he's talking to me, it's too late for stealth. Besides "Mace to the Face" has a much more personal touch. Alternatively, stab him with a dagger and yell "sic semper arrogantibus!"
For those that don't know: The assassination of Julius Caesar was done with daggers and accompanied by the declaration "Sic semper tyrannis", meaning "Such [will] always [happen to] tyrants". I've just replaced tyrannus with arrogans, which unsurprisingly is the ancestor for the modern "arrogant".
It should be noted that "tyrants" didn't quite share our contemporary definition and simply referred to autocratic rulers that had come to that power through non-constitutional means, and had no inherent valuation. A general staging a coup and usurping control could be a "good" tyrant if they were popular.
The Roman conspirators' concern wasn't necessarily with Caesar being a cruel warmonger, but with him twisting a tool designed for a short, crisis-time intervention to effectively supplant the Senate's and the ruling elites' control. The Republic was a useful system for those wealthy enough to afford entering a political career, so one of them holding all the power was understandably unpalatable.