Facial Expressions?

[Domarius]

Agreed - your imagination does a lot of the work, since you can't really afford to look at their faces.

 

The only times are the rare moments where YOU are actually talking to an NPC, or when you happen to zoom in on a conversation you are eavesdropping on. Those dont' really justify the amount of work. I still play T2 FMs that have lots of instances where you talk to NPCs, and it seems fine to me.

[oDDity]

Yes, but the more realsitc the characters look, the more strange it looks to see rock solid faces.

[Domarius]

Good point, I'd forgotten about that.

 

Well if you all saw my post about chipmunk language in T3 on TTLG, then its obvious that T3 did some sort of automatic mouth movement based on the volume of the sound file being played or whatever. Maybe in the future we'll do something like that I hope.

[woah]

Yes, but the more realsitc the characters look, the more strange it looks to see rock solid faces.

 

This is exactly my concern.