I'm afraid that's an inevitable consequence of mixing pre-rendered backgrounds with "real-time-rendered" characters. Every game I've seen try that had this unnatural look. This is why perso… (View Post)

Among the titles you mention, only PE and Torment are "2D", and even then only partially; NPCs and creatures will be 3D in both games. Otherwise though I really share the feeling; classical… (View Post)

The problem with PCs is that they are way too complex to use for your average email-checking, powerpoint-forwarding grandma. There's a large amount of PC users who use it to 0.01% of its capacities a… (View Post)

I remember Trent Oster saying multiple times that the new UI system was data-driven, i.e. that everything was controlled by external data files. Anyway, guess once again I set my expectations too hig… (View Post)

This has probably been said before, but are you able to rework how screens link to each other or just skin them? One the bigger issues with the menu screens is their sheer number and redundancy; if y… (View Post)