I know a thread where we share our modding pet peeves will draw out some controversial opinions, and god knows I know this my opening contribution will probably be unpopular, but it's been one of my pet peeves with BG mods for years.
The original game hardly ever used emotes in character text. I think I can remember maybe two or three times in the whole game where it happens, and even then it's sparse. But in mods, I run into it all the time. It's incredibly immersion breaking for me to be playing the game and then suddenly to be reading long-winded emotes in character text, like (Imoen suddenly stops and dances a little jig, a huge smile sweeping across her elegant face as you watch her act like a little child etcetcetc).
To me, it's an example of bad writing. The original BG writers expressed things enough via the character's dialogue that they didn't need to use emotes, so that consistency should be kept when writing mods. Don't emote unless it's absolutely, 100% unavoidable.
Just a real pet peeve of mine.
The original game hardly ever used emotes in character text. I think I can remember maybe two or three times in the whole game where it happens, and even then it's sparse. But in mods, I run into it all the time. It's incredibly immersion breaking for me to be playing the game and then suddenly to be reading long-winded emotes in character text, like (Imoen suddenly stops and dances a little jig, a huge smile sweeping across her elegant face as you watch her act like a little child etcetcetc).
To me, it's an example of bad writing. The original BG writers expressed things enough via the character's dialogue that they didn't need to use emotes, so that consistency should be kept when writing mods. Don't emote unless it's absolutely, 100% unavoidable.
Just a real pet peeve of mine.