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Stuff the Jade Empire license. Do a proper Ancient China.
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I do want an Urban Fantasy game they talked about wanting to make.
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Dec 13, 2013 13:13
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Sensuki posted:Stuff the Jade Empire license. Do a proper Ancient China. I have wanted a kung fu RPG set in china every the Legend of Wulin Heroes lp. There's so much crazy poo poo you could do in that setting.
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Dec 13, 2013 13:19
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I think a WWII RPG set in the Pacific theatre where you play a Chinese soldier would be incredible. But that is NEVER going to happen. Ever.
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Dec 13, 2013 13:30
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Mordaedil posted:For custom weapons, sure, but some weapons were "special" with attributes that were very specific situations, like Holy Avenger and Assassin's dagger (which added death attack modifiers). Maybe I was looking in the wrong section, I'll need to recheck my manuals. I'm positive theres stuff like the Holy Avenger in the game and a huge list of special weapons somewhere. I want to say maybe it just wasn't in the base PHB though. For the 'Obsidian make a game with IP x' topic I kinda always wanted a 40k rpg, running around as a part of the Inquisition in that kind of absence of morality universe sounds like something they would pull off.
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Dec 13, 2013 13:31
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DrManiac posted:I have wanted a kung fu RPG set in china every the Legend of Wulin Heroes lp. There's so much crazy poo poo you could do in that setting. A little off topic, but the game Prince of Qin is a really good wuxia rpg. Its an alt history rpg set in ancient China with a open world and Baldur's Gate type combat. Not the most polished game, but I really enjoyed playing it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhPIyu0N7gA
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Dec 13, 2013 13:47
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kingcom posted:I'm positive theres stuff like the Holy Avenger in the game and a huge list of special weapons somewhere. I want to say maybe it just wasn't in the base PHB though. Moral choices would consist of killing the heretic or killing the heretic painfully.
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Dec 13, 2013 13:49
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CottonWolf posted:I think a WWII RPG set in the Pacific theatre where you play a Chinese soldier would be incredible. But that is NEVER going to happen. Ever.
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Dec 13, 2013 14:10
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Yeah, Alpha Protocol would probably work better as sci-fi, where you can just have a cloaking device instead of inexplicably being able to turn invisible sometimes. To be fair I really can't think of a way to have skills and abilities like that in a real world setting without getting unreality involved.
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Dec 13, 2013 14:18
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Alpha Protocol was more James Bond with magic gadgets. It's not like it was ever supposed to be 100% realistic.
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Dec 13, 2013 14:21
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I can honestly say I'm more interested in Pillars of Eternity than any other suggestion I've read in this thread so far. Generic fantasy done right with its own brand new identity and good storytelling is the most enticing part of this game.
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Dec 13, 2013 14:31
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Currently salivating over an Obsidian Mass Effect game. Imagine if they'd had that universe from the start.
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Dec 13, 2013 14:41
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1stGear posted:Moral choices would consist of killing the heretic or killing the heretic painfully. No, you'd have a choice to Interrogate or Execute heretics, and the Execute option's the Paragon one. Also, every 'paragon' option you take only makes the world worse 
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Dec 13, 2013 14:56
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Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:Before the discussion toootally moves on I gotta slide in here and say I've been hoping for an open-world-y character-create-y choice-and-consequences-y wuxia game forever, and if Obsidian can't do one then I hope y'all can bug someone who can. I would like to see Rope Kid go insane doing this though. 
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Dec 13, 2013 15:16
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Just adding my voice to the echo chamber her but seriously, an Obsidian-made wuxia RPG would pretty much be my Perfect Game. I'm still super excited for whatever it's going to be but man, that's going to be running through my head now.
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Dec 13, 2013 15:45
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So it looks like no Feargus interview is forthcoming. I wonder if the article was written before they realised the website was gonna be delayed several weeks, and now it's too close to Christmas for them to launch a KS?
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Dec 13, 2013 16:30
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kingcom posted:I'm positive theres stuff like the Holy Avenger in the game and a huge list of special weapons somewhere. I want to say maybe it just wasn't in the base PHB though. No, it's in the PHB1. It has like four special properties besides the bonuses to attack, damage, and crits that all magic weapons get, so I'm not sure what Mord's complaining about.
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Dec 13, 2013 16:40
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coffeetable posted:So it looks like no Feargus interview is forthcoming. I wonder if the article was written before they realised the website was gonna be delayed several weeks, and now it's too close to Christmas for them to launch a KS? I would have thought that even if it had have been written two weeks ago, it still would be been too close to Christmas to make a KS wise. Everyone will have already spent all their money on presents. Or at least be planning to.
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Dec 13, 2013 16:43
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CottonWolf posted:I would have thought that even if it had have been written two weeks ago, it still would be been too close to Christmas to make a KS wise. Everyone will have already spent all their money on presents. Or at least be planning to. The backer website was supposed to be ready more quite a while ago - check the "Dates and Deadlines" box on the right hand side of the right hand screen. Backers were supposed to be finalizing their orders by November 31st.
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Dec 13, 2013 16:49
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Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:Before the discussion toootally moves on I gotta slide in here and say I've been hoping for an open-world-y character-create-y choice-and-consequences-y wuxia game forever, and if Obsidian can't do one then I hope y'all can bug someone who can. FRINGE posted:It would be hard to both do right and make presentable in the west. Theres a lot of implicit knowledge for the player in fantasy-Europe that would have to be carefully explicit (without being obnoxious) for a western audience to play an RPG set in fantasy China. (Excepting taoist-nerds and kungfu nerds, which are a rarity.) DrManiac posted:I have wanted a kung fu RPG set in china every the Legend of Wulin Heroes lp. There's so much crazy poo poo you could do in that setting. Sensuki posted:Stuff the Jade Empire license. Do a proper Ancient China. Well if you guys are into MMO's there is a wuxia one out there, Age of Wushu http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3562960 It's got servers all over the world and it's free to play and completely insane. If you choose to progress along the eunuch route your posture and facial features change and your chat is altered too where you say add things like "you little minx" or "darling lover" and other weird campy insults.
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Dec 13, 2013 16:59
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Darkhold posted:Alpha Protocol was more James Bond with magic gadgets. It's not like it was ever supposed to be 100% realistic. I think you missed an important aspect of James Bond.
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Dec 13, 2013 17:46
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Quantumfate posted:That palatinate comes from rome's palatine. In all places where Aedyrans use Romance-based words, I've tried to specify in the design docs that they took the idea from Vailians. rope kid fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Dec 13, 2013 |
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Dec 13, 2013 18:12
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While we are on the subject of different settings for a game, here is mine: You are a detective who gets woken up in the middle of the interstellar journey because there was a murder on the spaceship you are on. Was it a faulty ai? Did aliens infiltrate the ship? Is it one of the crew members? Stay tuned to find out!
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Dec 13, 2013 18:46
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PCGamer interview with Josh also, rope kid, are you guys planning on having narrated Chapter screens like Baldur's Gate did? I'm playing that now and they are pretty cool.
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Dec 13, 2013 18:46
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rope kid posted:The specific place "Palatium" became a Latin common noun with derived adjectives that were used to refer to palaces and imperial power. A palatinate is not necessarily the Holy Roman Palatinate or Roman Palatine Hill even on our world. Counties palatine existed in England going back to William the Conquerer. It's the Norman-English use of the term that I was trying to evoke: a territory where the vassal ruler was given close-to-sovereign powers. There isn't an Anglo-Saxon-rooted equivalent to that term because the concept was introduced to England via Normans. I think it's really cool that you guys go to this level of details when designing but does it happen within Obsidian that you hand out a document and explain the why's and how's to, say, a programmer, and they go "yeah, whatever, nerd. Just give me the ground rules for combat"?
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Dec 13, 2013 18:55
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I don't see why a programmer would have to know that, though. Artists and designers, maybe, but even then they won't want a novel on the Godswar, maybe just a short blurb like 'make this armour look pseudo-Roman' or some such.
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Dec 13, 2013 18:58
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tima posted:While we are on the subject of different settings for a game, here is mine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrail_Series e: should specify these are novels. It's basically film noir in space. StashAugustine fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Dec 13, 2013 |
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Dec 13, 2013 19:01
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Gyshall posted:PCGamer interview with Josh Points for getting the phrase "buck wild" into every interview.
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tima posted:While we are on the subject of different settings for a game, here is mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM3co3e7GwU
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Dec 13, 2013 19:35
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tima posted:While we are on the subject of different settings for a game, here is mine: If you haven't seen it already, this might interest you: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bischoff/stasis-2d-isometric-scifi-horror-adventure-game
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Dec 13, 2013 19:52
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Male Man posted:No, it's in the PHB1. It has like four special properties besides the bonuses to attack, damage, and crits that all magic weapons get, so I'm not sure what Mord's complaining about. Yeah, it was the worst example I could give, since it was the main example given, but... Ugh, just reading it, seems so extremely clinical, I dunno. I think that's my main problem with the books, the presentation is very categorized and locked. It just doesn't read like there's anything unique with it. It's just the Holy Avenger and there's a +5 and a +6 variant, pick one.
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Dec 13, 2013 20:11
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Fuschia tude posted:I think you missed an important aspect of James Bond.
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Mordaedil posted:Yeah, it was the worst example I could give, since it was the main example given, but... Ugh, just reading it, seems so extremely clinical, I dunno. I think that's my main problem with the books, the presentation is very categorized and locked. When writing the 4E rule book they took the definition of "rule" "book" to heart. Contrast that to a game like any of the 40k games where you have flavor text and mechanical text all intermingled I can see how it might read as cold and clinical, but in practice it made the rules very easy to read.
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Dec 13, 2013 20:39
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2E & 3E PHB etc were pretty fun to read. 4E books were dryyyyyyy
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Dec 13, 2013 20:46
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The general theory with the 4E books is that you're not going to be memorizing the lore anyway, (unless you're one of those) so why not just admit you'll be making it up at tabletime?
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Dec 13, 2013 20:54
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Male Man posted:The general theory with the 4E books is that you're not going to be memorizing the lore anyway, (unless you're one of those) so why not just admit you'll be making it up at tabletime? THIS IS A COMPLETE MISCHARACTERIZATION OF THE ECONOMIC SITUATION OF WESTGATE NYAAAGGHHH  /lorenerd
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Dec 13, 2013 20:56
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Captain Oblivious posted:THIS IS A COMPLETE MISCHARACTERIZATION OF THE ECONOMIC SITUATION OF WESTGATE NYAAAGGHHH We need a support group or something. I....I once wrote out an entirely new currency regime for Exalted because the presented one didn't make sense. 
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Dec 13, 2013 21:13
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Gyrotica posted:We need a support group or something. I....I once wrote out an entirely new currency regime for Exalted because the presented one didn't make sense. Trap sprung. You have been outed 
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Dec 13, 2013 21:14
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Captain Oblivious posted:Trap sprung. You have been outed Oh god don't put me back in the box.
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I feel awful for asking this but are there going to be romances and banter in PoE? This has probably been asked before. It's not like I get my jollies on game romances but I did like telling Aerie to eat rocks in BG2 and Viconia making fun of her getting her wings chopped off.
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