Jast

All three options look pretty much the same.

If anyone feels like it, about a good half of Battle Royale is up on youtube.

Yeah, it is pretty bare bones, and thinking more about it, it probaly would be more of a FPS along Deus Ex lines. There can be a main story in the backround but with people dying left and right there might not be a main quest line.

Anyone seen the movie battle royale? The premise is that a class of students are kidnapped and taken to an abandoned island, where they must play a game. They are each given weapons and must kill each other until one remains, or no one lives. It gave me an idea for a rpg. Same premise for the game. You start off with about 100 other people, npcs, and must play this game. At the beginning you choose what clique or group of friends you belonged to, setting starting relations. You also choose your basic skills, like weapons, close combat, survival, etc. Do the same for attributes. At the beginning, you're given random equipment, for example, you might get a gun one play through, or like in the movie, just some binoculars. Then the game starts. You're released into the wilds in groups, or one by one, and from there on the game is open ended. You have three days to eliminate at least 90 of the other competitors, or to turn on the game masters as I call them and find a way off the island. It all takes place in real time, no accellerated junk, so you have 72 real time hours. Since there are only main 100 npcs, not counting the bad guys running the game, each npc is unique. They each react differently. So might be scared, and try to hide out, others might form groups with others in their clique, some might go solo etc. Basically, each one has a unique personality. Factions are basically group of friends who band together. Some factions will be small, like about 3 or 4 people, others large, with about 10. Each faction has goals, be it eliminating another faction, finding someone, turning on their captors, etc. You can choose to help the factions or start your own, gathering up a few npcs who are loyal to you. The other npcs will give out dynamic sidequests as the game goes on that you can complete. They may ask you to eliminate someone or gather something. There won't really be quests rewards, but helping the factions or npcs on the island will make them friendlier to you, and if you get friendly enough, they'll eventually help you out and follow you around. Of course, some npcs and factions will be hostile from the start, but there may be ways to lower their hostility. Also, if the player decides not to take the missions, another npc might complete it, raising their faction or npc standing. There would be a way to manage npcs who follow you, like giving them formation commands or sending them out on missions. Whether they fail those missions or not is based on their skill. Other factions will be doing the same thing. Basically, the game world will move without your input. If you sit there for hours staring at a wall some other factions might gather enough people and push against the game masters, thus ending the game, or they might wipe out everyone else on the island. The player is just another joe trying to survive, not the chosen one or anything like that. That's about all I can type for now. I'd like to know what others think about this idea.

I was really hoping everyone would stay away from Watchmen.

American soldiers never lose.... in America!

Get Chaos Theory if you're thinking about getting a splinter cell game. It's much more refined and much more fun then the first two. No more crappy 3 alarm and you fail element, and also the ability to quicksave anytime you want. The characters and level designs are pretty good too.

I remember one time on a mission, I had hid all the people I knoced out uber good. Then all of a sudden while I'm sneaking, "You set of the alarm!" What the heck? Then I found all that AI guards don't really check areas you've been through, just that at a certain mission point the computer kind of scans the area.

Only guy who I think has to go is that dude at the missle base. I heard if you throw a grenade at Navarre she'll run through the door and open it, and you won't have to kill her. I don't know if that's true or not, but I know the dude at the missle base DEFINITELY has to go.

Halo I and II, two "Ok" games in my opinion, not the super duper best FPS games ever that some people try to make them out to be. I rented them, took them back, and never thought about them again. I just don't see what's so great about them.

Every new high tech FPS game I ever play where my guy is some kind of handless, footless, blob, I think to my self. "Why? WHY?!" I'm all for OMGSUPERWATERPHYZICS, but, honestly, where's my dude's hands at? The little details matter just as much as the big in your face ones. Now, I'm not saying I'm going to hate a game just because my guy doesn't have hands, it's just one of those things that in the 21st century of gaming and super reflective water, should be there.

Prey, Far Cry Instincts, and I think Deus Ex Invisible War, I can't remember.

Haha, a whole team of people working on the water yet there's no visible hands touching any of the consoles, they just magically turn on. But what really got me was how the developer was talking about how you can go anywhere you want and all that jazz, then when he was talking about the crazy musician guy, he said how you were trapped on that level. My guess is that the game, instead of being a true free roamer, is instead going to be broken down by the different levels. Those levels may have many different paths within them, but to advance to the next one you're going to have to find the super important disk or hack the super important console. Until then, you're most likely stuck.

This game would of been PERFECT for co-op over Xbox Live, but....it's not live enabled. Playing by your self really stinks because your AI buddies do absoutely ZERO damage to enemies, making them useless.

Yes, Moby Games, the DEFINITIVE resource of online games, does need a remake. I mean the graphics are so outdated, it's not even possible to take a screenshot.

I'll have to see more of this dialogue system before I make any final judgements. More of this dialogue I must see before I judge. To judge this dialogue system I must see more! I need to see more of this system before I judge. :D

The key word is current. Blu-ray can get better in the future, so saying it's not the better format remains to be seen. Either way, I don't care too much for Microsoft or Sony. Microsoft screwed up bigtime with it's lack of 360 titles and crap BC, and sony is overhyping the PS3 WAY too much.

Ubisoft's going to port the game to so many consoles it's going to be playable on the Sega Saturn! :D The game does look very very nice, and I can't wait to see some more footage.

You know, this makes me think of Kingdom Hearts and Jade Empire, where during an uber intense battle the characters will say something like, "This will be your downfall!!!" about ten times. What's even funnier is that boss characters in those games will say something before their super attack to tip the player off that it's coming. You would think that Sephiroth of all people would know not to say, "Sin Harvest!" after about the fifth time when the hero dodges it. :D

You're the man!

The Nexus thread is locked, gone, kaput, hit at the weak point for massive damage. Unless someone started another thread.

Hehe, I wasted all my action points advancing to a hospital that was two squares below me. Next time I'll just use the map from the wiki. At least my medic character healed two guys. Oh and Narthawk, about the Wang Collecters, is it a Penny Arcade only guild, or can anyone join if want to? I know you have to get invited.

I signed up as Jast. If you come across me, lend a hand to an old Obsidian forum buddy eh? :D

It looks interesting, but it looks like one of those games where you should join a faction or you'll get blown away. Not that I'm against that but I don't want to jump in and be by my self for a long time getting killed over and over again.

I'm glad they fixed the Miscarcand bug, for us poor Xboxers it was a game killer. Too bad I took the game back to Blockbuster though, or maybe it isn't bad at all...