Which game backdrop/setting are you tired of
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I'm getting a little sick of Bioware's setting.
When I say "setting," I mean "there's this big evil threat looming over the horizon but everyone's too busy with their own stuff to help the legendary Protagonist McGee save the world and not have everyone die."
When I say "setting," I mean "there's this big evil threat looming over the horizon but everyone's too busy with their own stuff to help the legendary Protagonist McGee save the world and not have everyone die."
I can get behind that but I would still love to see a modern military style FPS that goes from standard in level 1 to having you fight technicolor anthropomorphs from space into level 2 and beyond.FourCartridge said:
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Standard Fantasy Setting. I like elves, dwarves, zombies, skeletons, Lich Kings, Brood Mothers, Beholders, Dragons, Animal people, Golems (I love Golems actually), Clockwork Knights (a variation on Golems, I know...but then Skeletons are variations on zombies)...Anyway, I like all of those things but I hate how they all tend to exist (in video games anyway) in some pre-industrial Europe. Always. Sure, there are variations on some of these things in sci-fi but nobody on The Citidel would claim to be a Night-Elf Druid and nobody from Coruscant would claim to be a Dwarven Paladin. As much as I'd love to see a futuristic game that shatters the line seperating Sci-Fi and Fantasy (organic vs synthetic vs magic would be awesome) I would love to see more fantasy games set now. Or better yet: set between now and as far back as World War one.
Eh... That's kinda true of all fiction though. Fiction in general seems to have the hero be the only one able and/or willing to do anything about the looming threat. Those few that do care to do something about it either join up with the heroes or drop like flies trying, even if the hero is just some guy/gal and isn't some Chosen One with special powers, and thus there being little to no reason why the hero should be any better at dealing with the threat than anyone else. It's the way writers make the player character relevant. I agree though that making it so blatantly obvious that hero is the only one that can do anything about anything is terrible, but that's how fiction as a whole tends to work.Not Gabe Newell said:
OT: This is more of a gameplay mechanic than a setting, but one thing I'm tired of seeing is games that CLAIM that the player's choices matter, only to not only be railroaded down a plot and into areas that are basically the same every time but to end up fighting the same enemies and ending up in basically the same situation at the end regardless of the choices made. Despite everybody panning it, this is the reason I like Shadow The Hedgehog so much, the plot, path, and actual ending are different depending on the choices made, even if the last story invalidates that in the end it's still better than the alternative.
Despite the praise it gets, a good example is
The Walking Dead. No matter WHAT the player chooses to do, most everybody except Clem including the protagonist Lee dies and there's absolutely NOTHING the player can do about it.
Wow! Sounds like you're choices really matter doesn't it?[/sarcasm]
Like most of the thread: Zombies. Zombies in any realistic setting, I don't care. DayZ, The Walking Dead, The Last of Us, Left 4 Dead, Dead Space, the list goes on and on, and I'm so tired of them. Hell, I might not even be able to play Half Life 3 (if) it comes out, that's how tired I am of these zombies. I don't really mind the necromancer kind of zombies, I feel like those have really gone missing, but fuck disease-based zombies.
Modern and Future Military shooters like Call of Duty and Halo, seen it about 1000 times now.
Slightly off topic for a game idea, but why not some kind of Robin Hood game? Steal from the rich, give to the poor. Have elements of stealth in it and such. Probably wind up being like Assassin's Creed in the end however.
Slightly off topic for a game idea, but why not some kind of Robin Hood game? Steal from the rich, give to the poor. Have elements of stealth in it and such. Probably wind up being like Assassin's Creed in the end however.
YES!!! That would be AWESOME!Kanova said:
Their cosmic magic fart-bolts (magart bolts? fargic bolts?) could be mega-powerful but they would have to take their time to turn around and pull their pants down to fire them at their opponents, which would in turn leave them susceptible to physical attacks (thus they would still be glass cannons, but the glass cannon this time would be quite literally, their ass).
Also they could have to ingest all this weird shit (ingredients) to digest/combine them in their stomachs to enable them to have this mystic fargic-bolt ability.
Different ingredients; different magic effects. All coming out their mystic asses.
It'll make Wizard's robes both stylish and functional.
Someone call Blizzard; we have a new class for WoW.
OT: I'm sick enough of Zombies as well. And Chest high walls. Well sick of those bastards too.