GAMES: GameSpot GameFAQs MOVIES: Metacritic Movietome Comic-Con
Monday, Jun 2, 2008

This is a post that contains a bunch of stuff that doesn't really deserve a post by themselves, but together they manage to round one out quite nicely.

Back to the premature hype thing I post a few days back, I have been thinking about some things. Every now and then I start to think of how I would do things if I were involved in the video game industry, if I was a programmer or a developer, etc. Well, I came up with the idea that, while my game was still under developement, I would release lots of information. However, that information would be a sort of red herring. All of it would be centered around a character that would be made to seem like the hero of the story, but he isn't. About 30 minutes into the game I would kill him deader than a stone and either a) have the sidekick become the next protagonist, b) having the killer of the hero be the main subject, or c) a combination of the first two. So if you see any games like this in the future, someone probably ripped me off some kind of bad.

Moving on. I played the World of Warcraft free 10 day trial during these past few days. It was a fantastic game, and a complete winner, but I still want to play FFXI more. I just can't get it out of my system. And what's worse, WoW played perfectly fine on my computer and connection, so FFXI should play just fine also.

Changing gears a bit, I just managed to finish God of War II on titan difficulty. This was my second attempt at doing so. The first time I tried I got majorly stuck at the descent down to Clotho, and I finally quit. This time I did get stuck for a while, but all of a sudden I beat it. I'm not even really sure how it happened. So yeah. The next time I play God of War II I can do it was Athena. The bad part is that it's still Kratos's voice that comes out of her mouth. Weird.

Posted by GreatMno, 6:28am
2 Comments | Post a Comment

Comments

Page 1 
« prev  |  next »
I had pretty much the exact same idea with the character killing. Me and my friend are starting a manga and last Friday i proposed the idea of killing the main character roughly half way through the manga (maybe less than half way) and make one of the support characters / sidekicks the main character. It would indeed be very different but very sensitive to do. You can easily lose readers that way. Thats going to be the challenge: making a support character in depth enough to take the place as the main character while still having the main character be likable and in depth so as no one sees it coming and so that you get an emotional reaction when the character dies.

FFXI is to expenisve D:

And you shouldn't kill him 30 minutes in. At least an hour.
Posted Jun 3, 2008 6:05 pm PT
Timing isn't the important factor. Heck, the first ten minutes might be the funniest. Just gabbing away and then BAM! gone. That would be funny to me.

You have a point with losing fans. In one of the Batman comic series, Robin was killed. It wasn't the original Robin, this one sucked major, the readers actually VOTED to kill him, and still everyone in the nation, non-comicbook-readers included, were angry.
Posted Jun 4, 2008 6:21 pm PT
Page 1 
« prev  |  next »
  • GreatMno
  • Level: 1 (0%)
  • Rank: Mogwai
  • Forum Posts: 53
  • Messages Read: 0


advertisement

Friends

My Friends