[Nitkizi]

While reading through all of that, some of your ideas reminded me of games like Shenmue, and a game in the works for X-Box called Fable, which sounds truly amazing. And I'm a very avid "old-school" gamer myself, but I disagree, you can find very many intriquete (sp?) plots and intriguing characters nowadays in games. It isn't all about the graphics like most people think, that's just a small part of games today to give them "realism". Anywho, games like Metal Gear Solid (not to mention 2) has the best plot I have ever seen in a game (IMO), and not to mention the wonder known as FF7. Those are just two gems out of the many others out there, though.

Moving on, all of your ideas are very do-able. Although I believe Koni is also doing the whole 'npcs say different things' bit also, however, I don't remember how in-depth he is making it when he explained it a long time ago. Version 3.0 is out now, although buggy..