New Idea for Final Fantasy
Involuntary
In a future Final Fantasy, or perhaps any other RPG, but preferably
Final Fantasy, it would be cool to start the game with the birth of the
main character, which you name and control throughout his life. In
other words, you always have the main character with you or in your
party. No more of this "losing the main character you've worked so hard
to identify with and equip with all the best equipment, only to have him
kidnapped or somehow lost for two hours" I feel so empty when I lose
the main character to some twist in the story.
Anyway, you get to watch your character grow up. As a baby, you can
duke it out with other babies and toddlers in the town. You can ask
your mom and dad to enroll you in certain classes... like martial arts,
dancing or other activities, all of which build your experience and
strength.
As you get to be about six or seven years old, you get to wander out in
the pastures around the town. But if you stray too far, your parents
come and drag you back, which makes you want to go more, of course.
And you keep venturing further and further out and picking fights with
the little slimes that only have about three or four hit points. You
build your strength and experience. And by the time you're 12 or 13,
you're so defiant of your parents that you hit the trail and leave town
and perhaps by some mishap or natural disaster, you're cut off from your
home town and you can't get back the way you came.
So you walk on and find another town where nobody knows you. Half the
people care, half the people couldn't care less. You start learning to
fend for yourself. No more parents to pull you back to safety when you
get in over your head.
So the story continues. You use your own gold to get other training.
Essentially you can hire trainers to teach you magic, martial arts, ways
of the warrior, mysteries, spirituality and other things, all of which
build your various attributes. If you're lacking in magical abilities,
you need to take another magic course. Of course, you can't learn it
all in one town. In order to learn more, you would have to use the best
of your abilities to traverse the landscape to make it to the next town
to learn more.
All the time, the puzzle of life comes together for you and your
abilities mesh to the point where your experience simply builds without
even getting into battles as you explore the landscape and learn that
everything in nature adds up to beauty. The companions you've had up to
this point slowly drop off as they can't keep up with your dreams and
fantasies, until finally you walk alone, and yet finding that you can
defend yourself more completely alone than you ever could when depending
on others.
And as you continue the game, it becomes more and more of a special
effects / sound effects display as you can stop your enemies attacks
simply by expressing love which results in a display of light and sound
that stops attacks, makes your enemies bow and give way as your
experience points hit the roof until finally you max out and a huge
blackness visually exits from your body, the sight of which makes all
you've been through since birth race before your eyes. You are staring
death in the face... the death that is the perfect negative to what you
have become... perfect love facing perfect death. A final separation.
The battles would have been taking place inside you toward the end of
the game. How much hatred could you feed your enemies with fire and ice
spells, never able to give up the need to carry Phoenix Down. How close
can you allow your character to come to death before you give in and
launch a meteo attack in a frantic attempt to save yourself from eminent
death? What if, the more you attack, the stronger your spells become,
the stronger your enemies become? No matter how long you fight, the
spells get bigger, you need more powerful cure spells, you need more
powerful attack spells to stay alive and life itself becomes a endless
battle that rages on for eternity.
Or what better progress for a game than to absorb attacks, heal yourself
and crawl deeper and deeper into the dungeon, building resistance to
attacks, but rarely fighting back... something that infuriates the
darkness within you.... so by having learned the most powerful spells,
then refraining from using them, you take power from the darkness and
spit it back in their faces with beauty and they run and hide until they
pass away. Or, of course you could fear the darkness and attack it,
which buries it back into your heart.
Does that sound like a fun game? Sounds like life to me. But I think
it would make a great game!
Involuntary
Alvin Wang
of coding that would be required for such a game? To take into account
all of the random variables from each choice of each possible question
would be impossible. The game that comes closest to your idea is Fallout.
You get to customize your character in the beginning, and throughout the
game you get to choose how to develop his stats. Of course, it's played
out on a much smaller scale than what you proposed. Still, if a game like
that ever did come out I'd blow off some cash to buy it.
A-Bomb
Malkere
Involuntary <invol...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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Life is a game. You spending all that time trying to raise your characters
abilities doesn't sound like fun. You have just wasted about 25 mins of game
time from life that you can never get back by writing that message.
Shouldn't you be raising your skills and abilities in this game called
'life' instead of wasting away?
Involuntary
> Life is a game. You spending all that time trying to raise your characters
> abilities doesn't sound like fun. You have just wasted about 25 mins of game
> time from life that you can never get back by writing that message.
I had fun writing the message. I had fun imagining such a game and I
would have fun playing it as long as there were surprises along the way.
Sure, gets dull just wandering aimlessly just to build experience
points, but I've done it on days when I just decided to kick back for a
few hours with the sole purpose of building character strength. I just
laid out a basic underpinning for the story and the details and
possibilities for such a basis can come from your own imagination.
For example, how nice would it be if towns had a training room you could
go to to engage in battles without wandering around? If you win the
battle, you get points. If you don't, at least you don't die, and you
still keep your previously earned experience points.
What's more, you can also pick as many opponents as you want. You would
be able to pick individual characters and train them instead of the
current method of going out into the field and killing off the ones you
don't need trained so all the experience points can go to one person.
BTW, is it my imagination or does this not work in FF7? I tried it and
you appear to get the same amount of experience points whether you
defeat an enemy part single-handedly or with others. Earlier versions
split up 800 experience points to 200 points for each member of a
four-person party. But I engaged in battle, killed off all but one
character and finished off the enemy party alone. I seemed to get the
same amount of experience points. Anybody know?
> Shouldn't you be raising your skills and abilities in this game called
> 'life' instead of wasting away?
Is that what you think I should be doing? Raising my skills in life?
Or is that what you do because you think everyone expects it of you? Or
are they in some way manipulating you into it?
Involuntary
Eddy, the Happy Christmas Elf
>
> Okay, well maybe it's not entirely new... but here's an idea...
>
> In a future Final Fantasy, or perhaps any other RPG, but preferably
> Final Fantasy, it would be cool to start the game with the birth of the
> main character, which you name and control throughout his life. In
> other words, you always have the main character with you or in your
> party. No more of this "losing the main character you've worked so hard
> to identify with and equip with all the best equipment, only to have him
> kidnapped or somehow lost for two hours" I feel so empty when I lose
> the main character to some twist in the story.
<snip>
So..... What you're saying is you want a combination of a western
style/PC RPG with "The Little Computer People"? Sounds intriguing,
but it'll probably never work for Final Fantasy. For one thing,
it requires an "off the rails" story approach that Square isn't
exactly famous for, nor one which I look forward to from a company
that makes such wonderful "interactive anime"-style games.
-Edwyn
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ToneNYC
what you are doing is called brainstorming
people like you make up the games we play
that if put in the right direction can turn into a career
ideas that come to reality spawn more ideas and that is what is happening.
so i say keep dreaming but direct it
thats what i am doing now!
nothing like a good thinker! the rest just follow us!
"Involuntary" <invol...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> "Malkere" <mal...@worldnet.att.net> posted:
>
> > Life is a game. You spending all that time trying to raise your
characters
> > abilities doesn't sound like fun. You have just wasted about 25 mins of
game
> > time from life that you can never get back by writing that message.
>
> I had fun writing the message. I had fun imagining such a game and I
> would have fun playing it as long as there were surprises along the way.
> Sure, gets dull just wandering aimlessly just to build experience
> points, but I've done it on days when I just decided to kick back for a
> few hours with the sole purpose of building character strength. I just
> laid out a basic underpinning for the story and the details and
> possibilities for such a basis can come from your own imagination.
>
> For example, how nice would it be if towns had a training room you could
> go to to engage in battles without wandering around? If you win the
> battle, you get points. If you don't, at least you don't die, and you
> still keep your previously earned experience points.
>
> What's more, you can also pick as many opponents as you want. You would
> be able to pick individual characters and train them instead of the
> current method of going out into the field and killing off the ones you
> don't need trained so all the experience points can go to one person.
>
> BTW, is it my imagination or does this not work in FF7? I tried it and
> you appear to get the same amount of experience points whether you
> defeat an enemy part single-handedly or with others. Earlier versions
> split up 800 experience points to 200 points for each member of a
> four-person party. But I engaged in battle, killed off all but one
> character and finished off the enemy party alone. I seemed to get the
> same amount of experience points. Anybody know?
>
> > Shouldn't you be raising your skills and abilities in this game called
> > 'life' instead of wasting away?
>
Involuntary
> actually you ARE sharpening your skills for life
> what you are doing is called brainstorming
> people like you make up the games we play
> that if put in the right direction can turn into a career
> ideas that come to reality spawn more ideas and that is what is happening.
>
> so i say keep dreaming but direct it
> thats what i am doing now!
>
> nothing like a good thinker! the rest just follow us!
LOL!!! What's sad about this whole thing is that I wanted to suggest
that someone write a game that follows that general direction so I could
play it! haha. I would love to write a game like that, but I also want
to play one. I actually feel sorry for people who write such great
games like the FF series. How horrible it must be to know where
everything is in a game... to have no real challenge since you know
every character's weak points after programming them over a two year
period.
Of course, an artist who paints the background pictures used in the game
might get some enjoyment finding the objects placed in polygonal chests,
visiting the stores he's painted to see what characters are doing
inside... So sure, I guess it's possible that people who specialize in
certain areas of a game might get some enjoyment out of it.
But good god... I don't even know where to start... Since I have no
credentials, all I can do is send my ideas to software companies. Sure,
they may find a good story in my ideas, but what's to keep them from
just taking the idea, making a game and leaving me out of it altogether?
I would love to be paid for using my imagination rather than my hands,
but so far I haven't even directed my imagination toward realizing
something like that. Gives me something else to imagine.
I thought I wanted to work for Nintendo when I moved to Washington, but
I have not learned to program. I assume that Nintendo and Sony give or
license special systems which make creating games for their systems as
easy as possible so more titles can come out faster. I mean, if Square
has to reverse-engineer a system just to make games, it's not going to
be easy to write software.
Yeah.... I would be so happy to have a part in story development,
character attributes, weapon and armor development, etc... But I'd have
to have some creative control. I mean, simply pawning myself to program
the creation of someone else would not be very satisfying for long.
I assume that the directors of software titles probably give the
programmers some creative control. Since they probably all play RPG's
themselves, they are familiar with what is realistic for damage.
One thing I love in games is plenty of treasure chests and hidden items,
as well as hidden gold or gil. I have rarely found treasure chests that
open in FF7 that exclaim, "Found 700 gil!" I also love hidden
pathways.. like knocking on a wall or pulling a torch opens a secret
passage. For me, that adds a lot of excitement and intrigue to the
game.
Thanks for sparking my interest in this.
Involuntary
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:Okay, well maybe it's not entirely new... but here's an idea...
:
:In a future Final Fantasy, or perhaps any other RPG, but preferably
:Final Fantasy, it would be cool to start the game with the birth of the
:main character, which you name and control throughout his life. In
:other words, you always have the main character with you or in your
:party. No more of this "losing the main character you've worked so hard
:to identify with and equip with all the best equipment, only to have him
:kidnapped or somehow lost for two hours" I feel so empty when I lose
:the main character to some twist in the story.
:Anyway, you get to watch your character grow up. As a baby, you can
:Involuntary
:
I played a board game like this once. It was called "The Game of Life".
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there are more traditional RPG variants out there. Go here and
search around:
Note that most of the games are Japanese only. Even more reason to
learn the language.
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>In a future Final Fantasy, or perhaps any other RPG, but preferably
>Final Fantasy, it would be cool to start the game with the birth of the
>main character, which you name and control throughout his life. In
>other words, you always have the main character with you or in your
>party. No more of this "losing the main character you've worked so hard
>to identify with and equip with all the best equipment, only to have him
>kidnapped or somehow lost for two hours" I feel so empty when I lose
>the main character to some twist in the story.
>
>Anyway, you get to watch your character grow up. As a baby, you can
>duke it out with other babies and toddlers in the town. You can ask
>your mom and dad to enroll you in certain classes... like martial arts,
>dancing or other activities, all of which build your experience and
>strength.
>
>As you get to be about six or seven years old, you get to wander out in
>the pastures around the town. But if you stray too far, your parents
>come and drag you back, which makes you want to go more, of course.
>
That reminds me of PM2
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>So the story continues. You use your own gold to get other training.
>Essentially you can hire trainers to teach you magic, martial arts, ways
>of the warrior, mysteries, spirituality and other things, all of which
>build your various attributes. If you're lacking in magical abilities,
>you need to take another magic course. Of course, you can't learn it
>all in one town. In order to learn more, you would have to use the best
>of your abilities to traverse the landscape to make it to the next town
>to learn more.
>
>All the time, the puzzle of life comes together for you and your
>abilities mesh to the point where your experience simply builds without
>even getting into battles as you explore the landscape and learn that
>everything in nature adds up to beauty. The companions you've had up to
>this point slowly drop off as they can't keep up with your dreams and
>fantasies, until finally you walk alone, and yet finding that you can
>defend yourself more completely alone than you ever could when depending
>on others.
Hmm... sounds basically like that old Ultima Online game. I mean, if you
could pull that sort of thing of properly (which ultima online DIDN'T do),
it would be great. But for me, the directionlessness of the game would be
too boring. I mean, when you watch a movie, you don't want to be watching
it in realtime, we don't want to see them go to the toilet, pick their nose
or sit watching TV for 2 hours. There just needs to be an actual plot.
But, if it's the generic D&D experience that you might want, than that idea
sounds fine.
Malkere
program everything randomly. You need a game that keeps changing constantly.
Where monsters and players build up their stats in an unpredictable way.
Total control to the player as well as the AI. Kinda like, 'real life'.
Only problem with this is that companies will NEVER make such a game. ONE it
will cost a lot of money. and TWO, once you buy it, you probably won't ever
finish it, or discover all its secrets. It would be like the game that never
ends...which kinda kills the sequels....
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Arturus Magi
On 10-Dec-1999, alber...@hotmail.com (Albert) wrote:
> Blah, sounds like a life-sim game. Pioneered by Princess Maker, but
> there are more traditional RPG variants out there. Go here and
> search around:
>
> www.densetsu.com
>
> Note that most of the games are Japanese only. Even more reason to
> learn the language.
Wonder Project J also comes to mind....
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THE ANSWER IS 42"
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> Hmm... sounds basically like that old Ultima Online game. I mean, if you
> could pull that sort of thing of properly (which ultima online DIDN'T do),
> it would be great. But for me, the directionlessness of the game would be
> too boring. I mean, when you watch a movie, you don't want to be watching
> it in realtime, we don't want to see them go to the toilet, pick their nose
> or sit watching TV for 2 hours. There just needs to be an actual plot.
> But, if it's the generic D&D experience that you might want, than that idea
> sounds fine.
yeah... there would be a definite guiding force... decisions to be
made... lessons in honesty. In fact, if you use the game and answer
honestly, you might even find something out about yourself by the
reactions of the characters to your honest reactions via the game pad.
Of course, I don't think today's nor the next-generation game consoles
have the kind of power that would be necessary for such a game. It
would need an incredibly powerful AI engine, along with a complete
dictionary of words, slang and definitions as well as grammar. It would
have to be able to interpret the assembly of words and generate
responses on the fly. The game console and the game would have to be
capable of thinking... of countering your every move or complementing
your actions.
Certainly, it could be an endless game. Treasure chests might pop up in
places where they did not exist before. The game itself would create
new spells, new armor, etc.. on the fly instead of picking from a
database.
Think of games like SimCity... it can be an endless game. There's no
winning, just experimenting. In fact, on a game I envision, you can
even decide that nothing in the world pleases you and you can try to
find a way to get off the planet. You could start by simply asking a
character in the game, "How can I leave this planet?" and the game
generates a response. If you don't like what she says, you can say,
"Fuck you, you stupid bitch!" and she may refuse to talk to you ever
again... but then you can also come back on your knees and beg her
forgiveness... or even make out with her.
See my point? While Final Fantasy is a fun game to play, still, there
are some things you have no choice about or you only have a certain
number of choices to pick from. You can decide where you walk to and
that's about all. The outcome and the basic story is the same no matter
how many times you play. The game I envision would be more like
SimLife, I suppose... but it would/could be played like an RPG, and a
keyboard would allow you to tell anybody anything and you know you could
always expect a perfect response. Hell... you could even tell the game
characters your problems and since each character is a different
individual, their reactions to your story would be different, too.
Babies born in the game might be combinations of attributes from their
parents.
I think in the future games like this will be commonplace.... games of
all types and while some might have definite goals, others might be
created to simply roam a universe created by a video game, and since no
two people play alike, no two worlds created by the game will be alike.
The game system would be creating a heaven in your TV screen...
perfectly suited to what you like. :)
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Involuntary
> I want a character with a dark past that needs to be found out, not a damn
> pokèmon.
How you develop is your own choice. If you want to use your character
to bully little kids when you're still confined to the town by your
over-protective parents, then your trust level will drop and townspeople
will treat you accordingly. They might not give you items you want
because you're a little brat. As a result, you're more appealing to
darker characters, which scars your reputation more. Sure, you can
change directions at any time and do something nice, but your trust
level would be so low that people would suspect deception.... just like
real life!
Heck... they could even have a character generator that would create a
past for you randomly and you discover the secrets of your past as you
play the game... perhaps starting from 17 years old.... then you have
flashbacks of earlier days that you can't recall...somewhat like FF7.
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Involuntary
> The only way that a programmer can enjoy a game as much as a player, is to
> program everything randomly. You need a game that keeps changing constantly.
> Where monsters and players build up their stats in an unpredictable way.
> Total control to the player as well as the AI. Kinda like, 'real life'.
> Only problem with this is that companies will NEVER make such a game. ONE it
> will cost a lot of money. and TWO, once you buy it, you probably won't ever
> finish it, or discover all its secrets. It would be like the game that never
> ends...which kinda kills the sequels....
Yeah, that's true. One thing I have done in past games is just get
really strong so no monsters could stop me, then I'd just explore to
make sure I had been in every nook and cranny of every cave and every
city to make sure I found every treasure. Usually I had found
everything already or I'd find a treasure chest with a Potion in it...
nothign too amazing. What's even worse is when I find armor that would
have been excellent for my progress... but I don't find it until way
late in the game and when I don that armor, I'm virtually invincible. :)
It reminds me of the first Final Fantasy. On that game you could
assemble your party with all of one character if you wanted. I picked
four warriors. While there was little magic for attacking and buying
armor was expensive, but my party was unstoppable. Using swords and
armor and a few cure spells, I knocked out the antagonist easily. :)
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