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Might also mean more performance capture... 

That would be nice. BioWare tend to reuse the same animations, so it would be nice if we had more performance capture.

That's a lot of words saying basically nothing. Can't wait.

Some years back there was a game called Arcanum that I really enjoyed. It didn't get high ratings because the graphics weren't that good, definitely when compared with games being issued by Bioware like Baldurs Gate and Planescape Torment, but the story, setting and characters were interesting. It had an interesting premise in that instead of being a medieval type setting they opted for a later industrial revolution period, with air ships and locomotives for travel over long distance but you could not use these if you had too much magic because you would cause them to malfunction and crash. The same was true of weapons; the guns might explode in your face so magic users had to stick to older type weapons. I really enjoyed that game and because it was a stand alone they were able to have considerable variation of outcomes at the end. There were also some very interesting characters we could encounter and have as companions, plus an antagonist who had depth to him and was not simply a cackling villain.

I've often wondered why someone hasn't picked up on the copyright for that game and remade it with modern graphics because I'm sure it would be popular.