Speech patterns

Roof Top Pew Wee · 2002-10-09T19:22:37

I'm in the process of writing the script and story for a very involved RPG that I plan on programming sometime in the future. The setting to the story is very complete, and in my opinion, a pretty good and original one. The characters are dynamic and have their own backgrounds and personalities shaped from the culture of where they grew up, as well as the experiences in their lives. However, as I read the script to the game, I notice one problem. All of my characters seem to talk the same. If I didn't have their names by their quotes, such as Mendel says "hi"; Spargio says "hello there.", I wouldn't know who was saying what. I think that the finishing touch to make my characters seem like real people is a speech pattern. However, this is something I've found very difficult to reproduce realistically. I don't want to add in simple repetitive words or mis-spellings like the old Final Fantasy games used to. I would like to genuinely create speech patterns to complement each character's personality. Does anyone have any ideas/pointers how to do something like this? Or is it simply being able to create someone in your mind, and have the vocabulary and knowledge to create dialogue as they would? One idea I've had is to find someone in real life that speaks like you'd like a character to talk in the game, and have him or her act out the story, telling her what the character thinks, but not what he or she says. Any comments? --Vic-- [edited by - Roof Top Pew Wee on September 24, 2002 11:17:41 PM]

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Started by Roof Top Pew Wee September 24, 2002 10:16 PM

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October 09, 2002 07:22 PM

If you have friends that wouldn''t mind, come up with three questions with obvious answers that require a sentence or two to answer, then ask each friend to answer, and take note of characteristics that you notice are different from the other people''s responses.

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