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What sort of new innovations or ideas would you like to see implemented in games?
KC_Fox
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They could be marketing, gameplay, physics or anything else related to games.
In the Source engine Some of the first experiments I had involved building barricades out of in level objects, I find this an interesting idea that would be perfect for a zombie type game.
I also think that the option for online players to act out roles normally assigned to NPC's like in The Crossing is a great area to explore.
In the Source engine Some of the first experiments I had involved building barricades out of in level objects, I find this an interesting idea that would be perfect for a zombie type game.
I also think that the option for online players to act out roles normally assigned to NPC's like in The Crossing is a great area to explore.
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All first- and third-person shooters should include the 'mantle' mechanic that both Deus Ex: IW and Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay had. That is, if you are next to a ledge that is too high to jump to, your character can grab the top of the ledge and pull themselves up. The lack of this was one of my few quibbles with Half-Life 2.
The best pieces of multiplayer mode should not be made available only if the player does X in single player. The entire idea is just dumb.
More games should allow for the New Game + mechanic, where after beating the game you can play it again, but with your inventory from the last time you played.
Currently playing: GW2 and TSW
Also, I'd *love* more games where just the basic movement engine is a lot of fun. I mean, outside of Sonic the Hedgehog, N, and Mario 64, there are surprisingly few of 'em.
I'd also like to see more realism in games. I don't mean realism as a visual style, I mean realism as in the gameplay does not contradict the fundamental reality of the game's narrative or the world in which the game takes place. Ideally, this would mean jettisoning all sorts of vestigal conventions left over from the 8-bit days, like "power-ups" and "equipment" in favor of things more organically integrated into the game world.
Also, (this relates to the previous paragraph), no more throngs of mindless, easy-to-kill monsters. Every enemy in a game should be a worthwhile and exciting encounter, but most enemies are tedious excercises in button-tapping.
I would love to see a game that puts you in a Die Hard situation in which the number of enemies is severely limited, but your circumstances and equipment make engaging each one a great risk and challenge.
If I am backed into a corner in the house, when I shoot my rocket launcher at the wall I want a way out. A black ring of smoke does not do it for me anymore. Its a propelled BOMB it should be able to take out some drywall.
Static objects also bother me. I'm weaponless and being attacked... why can't I pick up a chair and break it over their head? Why can I not use the broken shards as a shiv? Let me take my own path not the scripted event in which I must run up the stairs and dive out of window A or B. Let me kick out the back door, please.
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Hate to say this twice today but:
SO LIMED ITS ORANGE!
Nintendos Wii Fit pad could be a huge jump for interaction, but whether it stays a one game pony or gains widespread use remains to be seen.
I'll use a discussion I had with someone about FPS games, for example. He was going on about the cover mechanic/system in Gears, saying it's a great innovation etc etc. Admittedly I don't know how it works, but my point was that something like cover shouldn't need its own system. It should just be a thing that you do. I'm getting shot at, so I'm going to run to this box/burned out car/broken wall and crouch behind it. There shouldn't need to be some sort of system for something that should be completely natural for the player to do.
Basically I'd like interactions to not seem so scripted (probably not the word I'm looking for). It shouldn't be a matter of 'press A to take cover', it should be a matter of 'run up to something that would serve as cover and press the crouch button'. Likewise, not 'press action button to jump out of window', but 'do a dive-roll at the window and your character will break through it'.
...If that makes sense. It makes sense in my head but I'm notorious for being terrible at turning thoughts into words.
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Forget it...
If you're making a game with hundreds, or thousands of NPCs, I'd really like to see more than 12 different people in the world. While important people should obviously be deliberately designed, it'd be nice to see some decent randomization/procedural stuff to generate bodies/faces for otherwise unimportant characters.
I completely agree. I loved Resident Evil 4, but I hate the scripted elements. I dont want to push A to knock over the ladder, then A again to jump out of it. Why can't I just jump out the window? Why cant I just run up and do a jumping kick out, killing two birds (and a few ganados) with one stone?
I want realism. Not MGS I'm-Starving-feed-me-borefest realism, but I feel the ability to do all physical activities I would not normally in the real world would be incredibly fun in a game.
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Twilight Princess got this so right.
Solid Snake infiltrating the Umbrella corporation? Fuck yes please.
Think about it...
..............seriously though.........
I'd like to see more cross platforming with the current state of technology. Kind of like the old school "tango and cash" knockoff arcade game where one person drove and one person fired a gun. Have more games where one character uses a lightgun to fire and hover (maybe a sentry gun or mag), one character moves around and interacts, etc.
There was a really good mod for unreal a while back that was kind of like the matrix, where you had your teams hacker go to a command post in the game, and it basically shot him to a tron looking level where he had to activate nodes. Only the hackers on each team could enter this level and battle to control the nodes, but the hackers bodies remained on the main level as well, and had to be guarded at all times by the other players. I know that's a lot of confusing shit, but hey... the more stuff in games that can appease my ADHD, the better...
Also, realistic flight.... still waiting...
Mirrors Edge may be just what you're looking for. not due till next year, but sounds promising so far.
Thank you
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I think there was one for half life 2 called dystopia.
At least leave us an option of using our ammo to save time. You can still get through the door with the card key but you could also blow it to pieces.
If I blast a dude with a machine gun turret I expect bloody meat.
You are unfamiliar with Soldier of Fortune I take it.
No, I am familiar with it. I played it for years.
But it's over now.
I want the next gen.
It would be kind of cool to have enemies can break their bones.
Basically, I'm tired of having arbitrary hit points. I'd rather have it that my character doesn't have any hitpoints, will, in fact, die the moment a sword splits open his torso and instead, drive the combat mechanic through moves, counter moves and dodges that are less pattern oriented (I don't like fighting games). I'd love to see a JRPG style game where there were no hit points or mana. Combat was all about moves.
Also, abilities that aren't number defined, but skill is shown in the result. Let's say in WoW the better you are at mining the better quality or larger quantity ore can be removed from a vein. Something like that. I'm just tired of having the math based back end being shown to me on the front end.
That would be cool. Beat a guy's legs with a crowbar and suddenly he has to crawl and squirm around on the floor.
I detest having enemys shoot at me with a multitude of guns, yet after I have disposed of them all their fancy weapons and ammo are missing.
I think the rule of thumb should be the rhyme, "Shotgun to the head, sorry, your dead"
Think RE4. First time in the village. First thing you do is put a shotgun in Dr. Salvador's face. You pick up his chainsaw and have a good old time until it runs out of gas. Problem solved. Still fun.
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It would be somewhat comical to sneak up behind an enemy and shove him down some stairs making him break his neck
Or kick a guy in the back of the knee while he is standing so he falls backward and then you grab his neck and twist it.
Like real battle, there should be a system of delegation. Add a new layer of communication between you and the mindless drones that you already have. Actual leaders, with personalities of their own. You want somebody who'll play out the battle for you after you give them an objective? Put a smart soldier in charge. Want to be in complete control of every single troops movement? Pick a brickhead who only issues commands directly by your order. There would be a greater deal of variation of course, but that's the simplest breakdown of the idea. It opens up the possibility for grander strategy while allowing those people who want to train themselves exactly how to click here at the exact right moment the level of control they desire.
Seems like it's a logical step to opening up the genre outside of "Ooh, pretty lasers!" to me.
You guys are a bunch of sick fucks!
The thing is that's not in the spirit of an RTS.
Would you play a game of chess where instead of controlling all the units you had a team of people who each controlled a type of unit and you gave them orders on what you wanted to accomplish?
What about a sort of RTS that let players play the role of the soldier sub commander a la ghost recon? Some players could play the commander in a command an conquer style.
There was a PC game like that, it's still in the works....
I played the demo of it in high school, when I was a junior.
I'm now a junior in college, and still no sign.