Important instruments:

A real-looking (or real-world) assault rifle or machine gun.

A ditto pistol.

Grenades. I want grenades to have a significant role, as in KOTOR, Deus Ex or Half-Life 1. Kotor did them well for a CRPG.

basic melee weapons like knives, lead pipes, crowbars, wrenches

advanced melee weapons such as energy swords

weapons from the environment, such as in Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics:

wooden stakes, sharpened poles, molotov ****tails

Nail guns are always a bonus

Definitely a flamethrower...

A lightning gun is cool too.

Rocket launcher.

Unarmed weapons, such as power fists, basic gauntlets, spiked knuckles, katars

Half-Life 1's crossbow worked OK in a non-mediaeval game, too.

 

Also I would like secondary fire modes, like in FPS's or Fallout.

And screw spears. I want pitchforks. So much more menacing.

Well, naturally, if you have a pulserifle, you'd have a grenade attachment for "power attacks" or whatever you call it in this RPG.

 

I'd like to see artillery support, air support and orbital bombardment.

 

In fact, at the beginning of the game you should have a choice to just nuke the whole planet; The End.

I like the 'kill the specimen' beginning option. That would be funny.

 

However, when I was talking about non-standard weapons I meant as in 'weapons'. Aliens are hard to kill. I think as you get better you don't necesssarily get bigger guns, but you can come up with more ways to stack things in your favour. Barricades, traps, and also - dpeending on career path - you can call in orbital strikes/mortars etc.

But what if an alien attacks you, armed with a banana?

... You mean if you don't have an apricot to hand?

Then you, naturally, go for the sharpened eggplant.

In fact, at the beginning of the game you should have a choice to just nuke the whole planet; The End.

 

I like this idea. It's kind of planescape-esque. In planescape you had plenty of opportunities to end the game early for a variety of reasons. It was interesting because while it didn't add any non-linearity to the game, it give the illusion that it did.

That's how Van Buren was supposed to work as well.

There's an alternate ending for Suikoden II where you just run away. You leave the castle instead of going out for some fight or another and it ends up telling you that you live out the rest of your days in a shack or something.

I loved how Cave Story did that as well. Granted, that game has to be played through all of it's endings.

There's an alternate ending for Suikoden II where you just run away. You leave the castle instead of going out for some fight or another and it ends up telling you that you live out the rest of your days in a shack or something.

 

Yeah, that was pretty funny.

We always thought it would be great to have "Bevil endings" for NWN2, where you get to one of several plot critical points in the game and have the protagonist say, "Screw this. Let Bevil do it." Then the game brings up a storyboard sequence in which Bevil rises to the occasion and manages to banish the King of Shadows while you chill out in the swamp near West Harbor.

 

Just thinking about the potential for puns... between good and Bevil... are you chaotic Bevil?... umm, yes. Nevermind. Just ignore.

We always thought it would be great to have "Bevil endings" for NWN2, where you get to one of several plot critical points in the game and have the protagonist say, "Screw this. Let Bevil do it." Then the game brings up a storyboard sequence in which Bevil rises to the occasion and manages to banish the King of Shadows while you chill out in the swamp near West Harbor.

you should have.

 

there should always be the option to drop everything and run like a frightened squirrel.

Harsh language.

This game needs a ridiculously large chaingun.

Swordchucks.

 

Also sniper rifle goddamnit.

Hahaha swordchucks. Gotta love Fighter. Gotta love more that fact that they worked.

It needs the the staff of Chuck summoning

I think glue would be amusing.

Then you, naturally, go for the sharpened eggplant.

 

But then, you will be thwarted if the alien is also carrying a bunch of loganberries.

Do Aliens have pockets?

 

It needs the the staff of Chuck summoning

I read that as Staff of LeChuck summoning, which would be cooler.

Do Aliens have pockets?

Some Australian animals are born with pockets. Not inconceivable that aliens could choose the same evolutionary path

We always thought it would be great to have "Bevil endings" for NWN2, where you get to one of several plot critical points in the game and have the protagonist say, "Screw this. Let Bevil do it." Then the game brings up a storyboard sequence in which Bevil rises to the occasion and manages to banish the King of Shadows while you chill out in the swamp near West Harbor.

you should have.

 

there should always be the option to drop everything and run like a frightened squirrel.

I agree that it is a great technique. It also provides an opportunity for humour, too.

 

 

Didn't System Shock 2 have the option to exit at the beginning of the game, too?

Didn't System Shock 2 have the option to exit at the beginning of the game, too?

 

Not really, no.