My main grip in most gaming is level design its small under utilized and just weak, while not directly a game play issue its a major part of how game play can be fun.
Game mechanics to revive?
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Hmm that is interesting - a short term vs. long term gain thing. How was that communicated to the player? If at all...Cheeze_Pavilion said:
That reminds me of X-Com's research system. You researched faster the more specimens you got. So if you wanted that alien plasma tech...you best go shoot down more UFOs and get plasma pistol specimens.
In turn based mode haste gives a character the right to make more moves or make first move,nothing is wasted in TB but real life time,this can be assisted with a general RT mode or AI mode like in Lunar, really FF12 would have the best RPG battle system if it had a better queuing active pause command system.runtheplacered said:
Mix FF4/6 with FF12 or FO1-2 with FF12 a solid TB and RT mix would be awesome.
I heard Battlefield: Bad Company would have destructible environments much like Red Faction. Maybe not quite ground tunnels, but it's a start.
I want to see Sonic go back to the side-scrolling days where he didn't have annoying voice actors and catch phrases. I'm not talking about the Game Boy "Sonic Team" pieces of filth, I mean the Sonic 3 & Knuckles days, where the soundtrack [http://s3k.ocremix.org/] was awesome, interesting environs, and before the trend of "every 5th zone needs to be carnival/amusement park themed" started to set in. Someone with some brains needs to go over to Nintendo, rip the Sonic contracts out of their hands, and hand it over to people not intent on raping the franchise face-down into the mud (or at least hire some people who can write intersting stories and clever characters).
One great type of mechanic used would be the ones used in "Shenmue." To this day, I still loved that game. Sadly, I sold my XBOX to get an Xbox 360 and of course the XBOX 360 doesn't have backwards compatibility(I believe they said it did have it) so I can never play that game again. And for the people that played Shenmue on the dreamcast, I meant Shenmue 2. I have also played the 1st one which I was able to finish.
If you double starting stats it becoems a bit faster to play through.stevesan said:
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look at Jericho and know the horror of out of place button time events, there is a time and place for them...just not in my FPS's
I'm going to wish for old game genres altogether...
1) Classic Space Quest/Monkey Island-style adventure gaming, complete with black humour, bizzare inventory usage and all. No more simon-says/platform-jumping puzzle gaming please, for the love of god.
2) Open-ended travel/space/trading games! I'm thinking of Wing Commander, but also of Uncharted Waters. Travelling the world/galaxy with your own hard-earned ship, trading spices/minerals at exotic ports of call, engaging with skirmishes with pirates etc. Freelancer was the last of this type I've played, though it was a little disappointing.
3) This is a common gripe, but I miss ROLE PLAYING games. Fallout, Arcanum, Baldurs Gate, et all. All this recent Action/FPS/RPG malarky is making me cry. I had high hopes for the Neverwinter series, but Bioware's somehow managed to ruin the last bastion of cRPGing.
1) Classic Space Quest/Monkey Island-style adventure gaming, complete with black humour, bizzare inventory usage and all. No more simon-says/platform-jumping puzzle gaming please, for the love of god.
2) Open-ended travel/space/trading games! I'm thinking of Wing Commander, but also of Uncharted Waters. Travelling the world/galaxy with your own hard-earned ship, trading spices/minerals at exotic ports of call, engaging with skirmishes with pirates etc. Freelancer was the last of this type I've played, though it was a little disappointing.
3) This is a common gripe, but I miss ROLE PLAYING games. Fallout, Arcanum, Baldurs Gate, et all. All this recent Action/FPS/RPG malarky is making me cry. I had high hopes for the Neverwinter series, but Bioware's somehow managed to ruin the last bastion of cRPGing.
Oh Lord. This is reminding me of Star Control/StarFlight all over again.shinbo said:
I loved those games back in the early eras of computer and console gaming. I remember spending hours on these games at a time.
Too bad Battlecruiser 3000 probably made the entire genre die
Ah, yes, I sure miss the days when game plots were told in the manual, not the game. Oh, and you'd get the perfunctory victory screen with some expositional text. Seriously though, I'm giving you a hard time, but I honestly think that game plots have immensely improved in general. Maybe not down to the last example, but overall.shadow skill said:
I second the return of old point-and-click adventure games. Not so much the mechanics, but the charm and creativity of the old LucasArts games. To some extent they have - look at the new Sam and Max Episodes, which are damn good. Also, Psychonauts. But those are diamonds in the rough. I miss dialogue like "That's the second biggest monkey head I've ever seen."
It's a different kind of humour, but the Phoenix Wright series is keeping the flame alive for pointy-clickers, and I hear Zack & Wiki on the Wii is entirely ace. (Seriously, the Wii seems born for pointy-clickers.
Level music.
I just don't understand FPS developers these days. Most of the new FPS'es on the market, even though most are quite good, have those epic soundtracks, that kick in when the action starts, or when something tragic happens.
In the good old days, in the golden age of FPS, doom, duke nukem 3d, etc. These all had a constant soundtrack throughout the level, and i loved this, because it just immerse me into the game more, then todays music.
Games like F.E.A.R., weren't scary to me, because you knew when something was going to happen, while doom still makes me jump, no mather how many times i play it, even though i know were all the monsters are on all the levels, and difficulties.
Even sequels to those briliant games, like quake 4, and prey, while being decent games, just doesn't live up to their preceders (prey more as a spiritual preceder). I downloaded a music mod for quake 4, that changed the trumpet/classic soundtrack, with some good oldfashioned industrial music, and even though it still only kicked in during the high action points, it helped alot.
So in short, please bring back the episodes with levels structure, and levelbasedc music, that made the FPS genre so popular to start with, all you developers, especialy you iD.
I just don't understand FPS developers these days. Most of the new FPS'es on the market, even though most are quite good, have those epic soundtracks, that kick in when the action starts, or when something tragic happens.
In the good old days, in the golden age of FPS, doom, duke nukem 3d, etc. These all had a constant soundtrack throughout the level, and i loved this, because it just immerse me into the game more, then todays music.
Games like F.E.A.R., weren't scary to me, because you knew when something was going to happen, while doom still makes me jump, no mather how many times i play it, even though i know were all the monsters are on all the levels, and difficulties.
Even sequels to those briliant games, like quake 4, and prey, while being decent games, just doesn't live up to their preceders (prey more as a spiritual preceder). I downloaded a music mod for quake 4, that changed the trumpet/classic soundtrack, with some good oldfashioned industrial music, and even though it still only kicked in during the high action points, it helped alot.
So in short, please bring back the episodes with levels structure, and levelbasedc music, that made the FPS genre so popular to start with, all you developers, especialy you iD.