Hi, Brandon. You are right a triditional game way of leading in to major battles is a cut seen like the one that begins Ambush at Altyr 5. You have a discussion between mara Jade and our Jedi Knight. Our Jedi Knight decides to leave Mara at the base, and handle the problem. As soon as the cutseen ends our player is in some base, explosions all around, and storm troopers storming the complex. You must whipe them out as quickly as possible. As soon as you finish that level you go into another cutseen which redirects the player. Star Wars: Rebel Assault II also has such cut seens. In that game you start out with a couple of X-Wing pilots exploring a Mysterious disappearance of some X-Wing fighters in the region. Suddenly, they are jumped, your fellow pilots are blown out of the sky, and you are left to stop the Tie Fighters. If we are going to do this game right probably cutseens will be required, butUSA Games is out of it's league with such ventures right now. We will probably have to look in to that once we have a solid story.
Brandon Cole wrote: > That wouldn't be a feasible idea in my opinion. If you take the time to work > out a good story, full of non-action scenes and things of that nature, then > chances are the action will work itself right into the non-action. Before a > major battle, for instance, you might have a long cutscene during which the > hero tries to talk to their opponent. To make a transition into a battle > that big with no cutscene or dialogue at all just doesn't feel right to me. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "shaun everiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 6:37 PM > Subject: Re: audyssey: Star Wars story line. > > > >> We could add long periods of non action to the game as well as action. >> However I suspect that to do that someone would have to do one part, eg >> the non action scenes, as its just audio, sfx I could previde not voice >> though. >> And you do the battle programming and whatever. >> You would still have to call the audio files for the na scenes, however at >> least you wouldn't need to do 2 jobs at once. >> Also Its probabbly ok to add the non action stuff in at the end of the dev >> process. >> Should be easy to do. >> If not, having the non action stuff beta tested at the game end of >> development should be ok. >> All you need to do is check if the files play fine and things like that. >> However to all. >> Said thing would make the game quite large, therefore I propose the long >> inaction scenes to be a seperate download. >> ie the game is 200mb in size, the inaction is 600mb in size. >> a full download is 800mb, meaning a cd, so you would have to buy the game >> on cd. >> If all you want is the action, then its 200mb. >> I don't know how well this would work though. >> Even though I have a broadband, 800mb will take a bit to get. >> At 12:27 p.m. 25/12/2005, you wrote: >> >> >>> Hmmmm... I guess there goes that idea. Looks like I am not to good at >>> coming up with a Star Wars story line on my own. >>> Here is the problem I am facing. In movies they have long periods of low >>> action. Like discussing plans, eating out, flying a starfighter to place >>> to place etc. >>> In vidio games you want more action. that means more enemies to target. >>> In the SW games I have played Dark Forces, Ambush at Altyr 5, etc you >>> are usually battling dark troopers, storm troopers, etc on mass on the >>> levels. >>> Even in the newer titles like Obi-Wan and Revenge of the Sith you do get >>> to fight hords of separitist battle droids. >>> In this game we are missing an army of something to fight. The Empire >>> for my opinion has been way over used though fair for the universe. >>> Clones are good and easy to use, but you yourself suggested that idea >>> has been over used. >>> Armies of battle droids really doesn't apply much outside of the Clone >>> Wars. Unless we take up the suggestion that someone has found a way to >>> revive the droids, and used it against the republic. >>> If we go back to the Old Republic I don't know there is allot of >>> documentation on it. Although, I do know we could fight armies of Sith. >>> Of course, we could make up a grand sith army in the future many years >>> after the fall of the Empire. >>> If we went with the suggestion to use the Yuuzhan Vong we would >>> certainly have the grand army, leaders, etc but loose our saber battles >>> with sith lords. The sith would be in the same boat as you. >>> This is the reason I finally gave up, and put out the question. I want >>> the story to fit well in to the SW universe, be as SW friendly as usual, >>> but not impossible to make. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Brandon Cole wrote: >>> >>>> The Mandeloreans would never sink so low. They hunger for battle. The >>>> Sith >>>> only hunger for darkness and killing. 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