What would you do if the game begins like this? :D

[JFSOCC]

The ground shakes beneath you, You see a large chunk of the world torn from the ground into the sky, the part right next to the part you're standing on, it's frightening as hell. after the shaking stops you notice that you are standing in front of a floating mountain. To those familiar with the kickstarter endless paths image, they will instantly recognise it as such.

 

After the shaking ends the player finds himself surrounded and needing to flee the barrage of falling debris.

 

When you arrive at the nearest safe harbour, people ask you about what the hell happened, that's when the game starts.

[okkoko]

the intro could be like this...

 

You a young farm boy shepherding sheep's at night to protect them from wolfs or other kind of beast you look at the night sky at the stars while playing a lute

 

Suddenly you see a falling star in the shadowy night right after followed by others of it kind one of the star fall ne'er you behind a hill you walk up to it the star

 

is glowing in pulses and an explosion  bright white light a sudden darkness is embracing your mind you fall down listening to the unsettling sounds of crying

 

i wish i would not die is you last thought just before darkness takes to mind

[BruceVC]

Seriously? What is this childish drivel?

 

He is just posting some suggestions, no need to be so critical

 

okay okay i get the idea undead intro to uset now a day but hmmmmmm...

 

then what about your eyes open and close and your ear listen to the joy full laughter of females a beautifully lighthearted  music is player your eyes opens

you see lightly dressed weary nice looking females from all races others mostly male though also casual dressed womens are around you have no recollection how you came to be in this place but you know its the local brothel in the harbor

 

suddenly a lot of screaming  about and in to the brothel comes around 100 UNDEADS starting to eat brains..

 

I like the concept of waking up in brothel as then the chance of PE including some sort Romance implementation is more likely

 

But for me Planescape has done the whole " who are you and what is your purpose on this earth" to a level it would be difficult to surpass

I would prefer to know who I am but I have this nuanced epic quest that forces you to make hard choices with consequences

Edited August 6, 2013 by BruceVC

[okkoko]

 

Seriously? What is this childish drivel?

 

He is just posting some suggestions, no need to be so critical

 

okay okay i get the idea undead intro to uset now a day but hmmmmmm...

 

then what about your eyes open and close and your ear listen to the joy full laughter of females a beautifully lighthearted  music is player your eyes opens

you see lightly dressed weary nice looking females from all races others mostly male though also casual dressed womens are around you have no recollection how you came to be in this place but you know its the local brothel in the harbor

 

suddenly a lot of screaming  about and in to the brothel comes around 100 UNDEADS starting to eat brains..

 

I like the concept of waking up in brothel as then the chance of PE including some sort Romance implementation is more likely

 

But for me Planescape has done the whole " who are you and what is your purpose on this earth" to a level it would be difficult to surpass

I would prefer to know who I am but I have this nuanced epic quest that forces you to make hard choices with consequences

 

yes my hope are that EP will be an epic tale to . it was like Dev from many corps had an experimenting faze  first it was wery old style course programming was rather new back then .

then came something new like the classic 3d games BG 1 and 2 the first rts Fallout 1 and 2 even the adventure games had a good run then they just stop making them kind of games isomatrix course the ones who had the money  wanted new stuff .serious look at nwn 2 nice game but 3d was not good enough to make stylish art like in EP the best they even forgot to put in a tail on thief-lings had to come later in like course of the hole 3D was new on market .. but it look like the DEV want back to the good old times and now with better grafix this just a gift for humanity

[Tuckey]

I suppose any introduction must encompass the genre, in this case heroic adventure.

 

Your character on his way back home from some distant war gets waylaid by brigands and sold into slavery. You are then taken by ship into a far off and distant land and must learn the customs and languages of strange and alien people; all the while planning to make your escape.

[Maria Caliban]

Okay, here is the intro:

 

You wake up and you're a giant ****roach.

 

Edit: That word isn't allowed, I guess. You wake up and you're a giant penisroach?

Edited August 6, 2013 by Maria Caliban

[mkreku]

 You wake up and you're a giant penisroach

 

Welcome to my world.

[BruceVC]

Okay, here is the intro:

 

You wake up and you're a giant ****roach.

 

Edit: That word isn't allowed, I guess. You wake up and you're a giant penisroach?

 

 

 

 You wake up and you're a giant penisroach

 

Welcome to my world.

 

 

Mmmm, I can't see how starting the game as some sort of insect would be exciting or how it would make sense in the context of an RPG

 

Sorry guys but that's a really bad idea

[Doppelschwert]

 

Okay, here is the intro:

 

You wake up and you're a giant ****roach.

 

Edit: That word isn't allowed, I guess. You wake up and you're a giant penisroach?

 

Mmmm, I can't see how starting the game as some sort of insect would be exciting or how it would make sense in the context of an RPG

 

Sorry guys but that's a really bad idea

 

 

I guess it's a reference to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis

Which implies that you propably don't like Kafka. Which is good in my book.

Edited August 6, 2013 by Doppelschwert

[lobotomy42]

"[Playername]!"

 

"[Playername], wake up!"

 

Then you spend your first day accompanying your best friend (ideally a spunky rogue type) to the fair.  By the end of the fair, some evil force attacks, and the village is on fire.

[moridin84]

"[Playername]!"

 

"[Playername], wake up!"

 

Then you spend your first day accompanying your best friend (ideally a spunky rogue type) to the fair.  By the end of the fair, some evil force attacks, and the village is on fire.

Two best friends, a fighter and a mage surely?

[Doppelschwert]

 

"[Playername]!"

 

"[Playername], wake up!"

 

Then you spend your first day accompanying your best friend (ideally a spunky rogue type) to the fair.  By the end of the fair, some evil force attacks, and the village is on fire.

Two best friends, a fighter and a mage surely?

 

 

You could make things even more interesting by living with a woodland elf foster parent.

[tajerio]

 

 

"[Playername]!"

 

"[Playername], wake up!"

 

Then you spend your first day accompanying your best friend (ideally a spunky rogue type) to the fair.  By the end of the fair, some evil force attacks, and the village is on fire.

Two best friends, a fighter and a mage surely?

 

 

You could make things even more interesting by living with a woodland elf foster parent.

 

 

Who has withheld affection from you throughout your entire childhood, no doubt.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

You wake up on toilet with your trousers down, while a Dwarf stares at you.

[JFSOCC]

After witnessing a ruler commit terrible sin, you are exiled to the colonies, before you reach port a supernatural event shipwrecks you, floating into Defiance bay, where you get picked up. The event stirred something in you, if you choose to pursue it.

[Tuckey]

@JFSOCC I like that your introduction lends itself to an unfolding mystery which you can explore as the game goes on.

[Silent Winter]

Instead of 'you awake in ...',

how about 'You fall asleep (possibly after eating some suspicious looking cheese) and have a nightmare about an old man who insists on teaching you how to control a party and other such useful tidbits...'?

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

Instead of 'you awake in ...',

how about 'You fall asleep (possibly after eating some suspicious looking cheese) and have a nightmare about an old man who insists on teaching you how to control a party and other such useful tidbits...'?

It would definitely be a good take on tutorials.

[HansKrSG]

 

 

That intro always gives me shivers down my spine. Strange that the first comment was not a comment on the similarities between the OP's vision and Planscape: Torment. That said, no, I would not like that intro for Project Eternity.

[SophosTheWise]

No no no, the game obviously starts with the PC's village being attacked by black riders. Duh!

*Idyllic village, peace, love, happiness. One day, PC was out to hunt when he could spot smoke coming from where the village was. It was plundered and razed by Orcs. They killed all the PC's loved ones, probably his dog and stole a long-forgotten magical artifact. Thus, PC decides to start being an adventurer and kill rats for farmers.

[Silent Winter]

 

Instead of 'you awake in ...',

how about 'You fall asleep (possibly after eating some suspicious looking cheese) and have a nightmare about an old man who insists on teaching you how to control a party and other such useful tidbits...'?

It would definitely be a good take on tutorials.

 

I guess it would stop them from having to destroy / otherwise make inaccessible the training area.

[Lephys]

A dream would make for a good tutorial, if you really wanted a tutorial that remained within the game world/narrative. It could be a vision of some scenario, with a full party, and you control them, and no one's really getting hurt. Makes sense in a dream. Disconnects are pretty abundant in dreams.