Poll: RPGs: Who reads all that text anyways?

[Wolfwood50]

Okay,
1) what built material do FTL drives use to reduce their mass?

2) What planet are the Hanar from?

1) Eezo, element zero

2) Kahje

/cookies

 

[FirmartheTrilby]

Depends on game really. In Diablo and Dink Smallwood I read all, but in Morrowind I rarely read anything, I mean... There was just so much of it!

 

[Mafoobula]

Oddly enough, when I play WoW I'll skim through the quests, trusting that the important lore stuff will be made obvious in the course of questing, BUT, over the years, I've managed to learn more of the Warcraft universe lore than a lot of people would care to learn.
As for other RPGs, I still read every line I can, if only because if I don't, I might not be getting 100% of the game experience.

 

[Horben]

Dude, if I like a game enough I read all I can find. Then I find a wikipedia for it and I read all I can find about it too. Then I look for derivative texts and fanfiction and any kind of theorycrafting I can find about everything related to the game and how it works. I think I spend more time reading about games than playing them.

 

[Dexiro]

If a game has well written dialogue, like Mass Effect or Dragon Age, then I'll take the time to read as much as I can. I never take the time to read every last nugget of lore though unless I'm getting REALLY into the game.

 

[Hashime]

I do!

 

[JohnnyDelRay]

Okay,
1) what built material do FTL drives use to reduce their mass?

2) What planet are the Hanar from?

1) Eezo, element zero

2) Kahje

/cookies

Heh, well done! =] The only reason I remember kahje is coz I thought to myself that wud be a cool planet, covered 90% in water and co-existing with the scaly drell.kinda like waterworld. Hmm..maybe I read more than I think I do..

 

[Alandoril]

I read them...but apparently the writers don't. I've lost count of the number of text errors I've submitted in bug reports on various games.

Do they actually hire dedicated people for that kind of thing or do they just let the programmers rush it at the last minute?

Seems to be the latter.

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

I read the important text, but I don't bother with the optional stuff.

 

[scw55]

only if it's read out to me.
The codex system in Dragon Age and Mass Effect for example.
Mass Effect reads things to you so... I don't know. It's less boring?

 

[Danzaivar]

I read EVERYTHING. Only series where I didn't read/watch everything was Metal Gear, if only because they like to give you movies in the middle of gameplay.

 

[Zhukov]

All.

Unless the game is bad.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

In terms of the ones that I own, Mass Effect, KoToR, Dragon Age, I read all the text provided in game, and go out of my way to find all the text they provide you in game (all the codex entries in ME1 and 2 for example)

I like to immerse myself in games, and when the game offers you even more chances for immersion I go straight for them. Plus I just like to read. If there was a book that contained all that information as a matter of course I'd read it and I don't see why a game should be any different. I also do things like watching director's commentary and reading production notes for movies I watch.

 

[Jandau]

Depends, really.

Most of the time I read it all. I read all the Codex entries in both Mass Effect games, most of them in Dragon Age, everything in Witcher, everything in KotOR, everything in both Baldur's Gate games, everything in Icewind Dale games, etc.

However, I can't stand the Oblivion books. They are just bad, pointless, overinflated and terribly written. Yeah, there's a lot of them. But I'd rather take a sigle ME Codex than all the Elder Scrolls in-game books combined.

Reading is great. Reading crap is not.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

I read all of it, unless it's spoken, then I just listen.

 

[Nmil-ek]

To this date I have completed planescape torment 20 something times every npc, every item description, every dossier every damned scrap of it. And I still feel like booting it up again sometime.

 

[Dogstile]

I try to read everything

I have read Mass Effect's Codex SEVERAL times.

I've read the entire Mass Effect Codex.

All of it.

As have I.

Twice.

As for me, I generally read 95% or more of the dialogue. I get sucked into most of the games I play, so making sure I catch every bit of dialogue or information is important.

Okay,
1) what built material do FTL drives use to reduce their mass?

2) What planet are the Hanar from?

haha if you can answer those off the top of your head, you deserve a pickup truck of internet cookies...those are only a couple things i remember from it..

All I know there is the Hanar come from a water planet. FTL drives used obscuritanium to reduce mass

 

[Tips_of_Fingers]

I enjoy reading them. It fascinates me how detailed a game's world can actually be. I tend to read them as I find them, which doesn't make things too overwhelming, but i'm not going to get a brain hemmorhage trying to find them all... I like a game that has a living world complete with legends and different cultures; learning about the world i'm playing in gives me satisfaction as well as getting deeper into the Role of my character.

books like the Lord of The Rings and The Wheel Of Time have extensive glossaries and "useless" myths and date information in the back...suppose all the extra text in an RPG is basically the videogame equivalent of that.