new baldurs gate..
Argas
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If there were to be another bg game this is how I would imagine it to be.. Fast characters with more smooth moving. Abilities to jump into fights, monsters that get hurt and blood that sprays, agile hunters that can run stand on rocks and things to fire, the animations are very important. I would keep the 3.person wiev but with much better graphics. Mounts should be implemented in the game. Real deserts and underworld dungeouns that goes deeper and deeper..you know things like that
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I'd also of course look to keep the isometric viewpoint, and the controlling the whole party at once with an RTS-like control scheme. And I'd want to keep the ability to move around and switch tactics in the middle of combat.
So my checklist would look something like this:
- Isometric View
- Full party control
- No strong engagement/attack of opportunity mechanic
- Low time-to-kill
- Powerful disablers
- Plentiful immunities, and the ability to remove those immunities if they're granted by spells
And if some of those read like a list of things Jarrakul didn't like about Pillars of Eternity, well, there's a reason for that.2D or 3D game ?
Should design follow skill based classless leveling system or class based? Or something different ?
Character creation. Now this is something I like. I want to form his face eyes everything.. The bigger the stronger. No need to roll. The complicated part would be how a wizard should look like. At the beginning one should be able to choose a main class. So if one wants to play a mage then he shouldn't be able to make a char the size of a behemoth..
Classes. This one is fun. I'm like I want to make a char no one else has. I don't want to read guides while playing a game or at least there should be so many choices it should be extremely difficult write a guide.. So basically I could choose a warrior class. Then at some point a Duelist..someone who can dual into the thief kit. I can if course change weapon specialization. Then a massive talent tree so I can make a char just the way I like. In this case someone who isn't as strong as a ogre lets say but on one and one he should be able to take out an ogre but gets in trouble if kinda tanking.. The options should be almost unlimited. And no mechanical things. I despise it. I don't mind goblins but when I see engineering like that..ughhhr. And apropos goblins. There should be all kind of races and monsters. Fortunately there are so many nowadays it wont we hard get inspired
Then to the game
We start of poor.. Very poor..something happened. Our village got killed
Have you played IWD 2 - it allows for some of what you want a more flexible class system - want to switch or add a class, it allows you to be able to do it; you can be a level of any class almost if your stats fits but you would suffer xp penalties for creating a level one of everything.
One of the things with classic crpg based on ad&d rules is that it had rules - and yes the game engine and developers may have altered some and even bent some out of recognition but it had a basic rule set with lore and history, a magic system with rules and lore and class/characters that had strengths and limits to it.
PoE tries to create rules and lore but it is not based on anything but the game so even reading the rule books it seems to lack that something essential - which is lore and history - that is not to say it is not a great game to play as it is an homage to all the classic crpg in the way it is played.
Chinese mmorpg already exists although I am not sure if they are in English and yes they are quiet amazing in their own ways - you can do all the crazy and unique fighting styles based on schools like Shaolin, Wudang, Emei, etc with their own unique weapons, internal/external chi energy etc you can see styles like drunken style, tiger fist, poison fist (other styles that don't translate well in English) etc and its all incorporated into the game. Imagine creating a PC that does everything you see in those HK/Chinese martial art fantasy movies but translated into a video game and that is what you have for some of the better Chinese mmorpg.
Bigger character "transformation"(evolution). Imagine playing necromancer and at some part of the game you do specific class quest and become lich, the quest itself is not mandatory, but you gain a lot of power, maybe some unique powers, also world to you changes as well. For example, you just cant go to usual city which inhabited by humans anymore without causing any panic. On the other hand, other specific evil places like some drow or undead city becomes friendly and starts offering you vampire agents and such.
Religions. Religion wars and religion related jobs would be very interesting, like a temple district but with a more world impactful quests..Really liked the Talos church quests, tho the end was a bit anticlimactic
See? This is pure gold! Let's start a gaming company together. We'd be an unstoppable creative force. I mean damn, why hasn't Beamdog hired me yet??
Long time ago I became frustrated about marvel stories I decided write my own. I did draw and write most of the storyline. But lost it all.. Here is a drawing of the Nicma one of the four villians. He lives in the darkest cave.
Can't remember the fourth member.. Leader is Nazaar and the muscle is Gulb. They come from another world. Naz lives in a dark stronghold....
Zaho again..
And a orc. The teeths are still too big though but this one is a guard in a city..a human city....
Mage overclockin
I also had a totally rad mage, but that drawing got kind of messed up after I spilled a bunch of mustard and Pepsi on it.
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Then were taken to a scene where there is a hunt ongoing. Were hunting a rare creature who seems like he is rather unwilling to get caught. We do get him.. And take him to a city (for some kind of a circus I suppose....)
Then a thief is on duty..
And a romantic scene..
And again a hunt but this time its a dragon hunting us.
And at last were also in the middle of a duel between two sides. A little fighting here
It all ends with an army charging....