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[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

This was shared just recently on Twitter by Daniel Vávra (KCD2 creative director).

 

[saintjules]

 

[finalflame]

 

[Schmendrick]

me who usually just hammers the skip button the moment NPCs start babbling:

 

[struggler_guts]

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

For comparison, The Witcher 3 is around 450k words (just the base game), while Baldur's Gate 3 is around 1.5 million words.

 

[SJRB]

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

200.000 words = 800 pages, so around 20-ish 400-page novels.

Anyway, it's quality that matters.

 

[cormack12]

Counter script

Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

[joeygreco1985]

Awesome... now prove most of it wasn't written by AI

 

[Draugoth]

Dragon Age Veilguard has 140,000 lines of dialogue and still took longer than this, makes you wonder what the hell was Bioware doing.

 

[HogIsland]

1.9M of those words are gender pronouns. No thanks.

 

[balls of snow]

Quality over quantity right guys.
Right?
Oh that dig was for Dragon Age only.

Anyway, cant wait for the game.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Quality over quantity right guys.
Right?
Oh that dig was for Dragon Age only.

Anyway, cant wait for the game.

If the first game serves as indication, we'll be getting both quantity and quality with this game.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

Their writing was pretty decent from what I played in part 1.

So, not a bad thing at all.

 

[emivita]

How many letters? I want to know the letters in total.

 

[Judge Magister]

Overrated. I prefer

OVER ONE BILLION GUNS

 

[Denton]

Quality over quantity right guys.
Right?
Oh that dig was for Dragon Age only.

Anyway, cant wait for the game.

Both shall be delivered, if the 4 hour hands on previews (and Vávra's previous games) are any indication

 

[MagusMajul]

Overrated. I prefer

OVER ONE BILLION GUNS

with AI tools this will be possible

 

[The Cockatrice]

The words in question: "oy", "hey", "morning to ya", "nice day for fishing aint it?" and so on. Yeah, this is just marketing bs.

 

[Denton]

Dan wrote a bit more:

The hundred scripts actually fit quite well. One of our quests can take almost as long as a regular movie, and there are a lot of quests.
If we were to take pure acting sequences in the game (cutscenes), they are about as long as three movies. But in the game, most of the dialogues are outside of these cutscenes, plus each character has so-called barks, that is, the kind of talking in the open world (greetings, shouts, conversations in the store, reactions to things in the world...). And of course we have plenty of other texts around - the main character's diary, the codex, tutorials, hints...
It is a lot. A person who can read quickly (300 words per minute), if he read for eight hours a day, he would read for 3 working weeks.
How many people wrote that? Almost twenty. What did I write? It is probably clear that only a small part. Most main quests are based on my concept and plot outline, then we brainstorm it together, then one of the designers gets to write it, and then as the "showrunner" of the game, I read everything, edit it and possibly rewrite it if I don't like it. 100% of cutscenes passed through my hands one way or another. For example, last summer I edited almost 100% of all the dialogue of the main characters in the game so that it all fits together, the characters behave consistently across quests and use a consistent manner of speaking.
Despite that, I still come across things in the game that I've never seen, because it's simply not within the power of one person to monitor all of this But mostly they surprise me rather pleasantly

 

[HL3.exe]

We're back in the 2000's marketing.

"More words = better game"

 

[rodrigolfp]

 

[Denton]

We're back in the 2000's marketing.

"More words = better game"

Except nobody is saying that.

 

[HL3.exe]

Except nobody is saying that.

Hope you understand what an 'implication' means.

Guess you forgot the early 2000's 'bigger, better, more badass' era, Skyrim having infinite quests, and Rockstar bragging how many words they've written and recorded.

 

[fart town usa]

Legit curious if that's more than DQ7.

 

[Gaiff]

Era has the same thread and it goes exactly as you would expect.

These people are beyond miserable. How can one's life be so sad that every waking thought you have is about white people and how much they oppress you and how evil they are? Is it a crime to just enjoy a historical RPG that strives for authenticity? I don't even like bringing politics into this, but this shit is utterly insane. This is the kind of behavior that gives catharsis to people when games like Concord and Dustborn fail.

Absolute madness.