Personally I feel we shouldn't be aiming towards any one specific genre.
They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!
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From: "Richard Claridge" <richard.claridg...@googlemail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Mysteries of the Ancients News
This is exactly the point I have been trying to make.
It is true that we haven't got full 2-D side scrollers yet but also we
definitely do not have full 3D first person shooters like mainstream.
These are the games that are developed today and therefore these are the
games we should be aiming towards.
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On 31 Dec 2011, at 14:46, Thomas Ward <thomasward1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Dark,
Actually, I disagree. Monkey Business, Sarah, and Shades of Doom are
good games, but they don't even begin to tap the full potential of
what a true 3d game is like. I should know since Tomb Raider fan that
I am I've seen some really interesting stuff never attempted in an
audio game before. Here is a very simple example.
Let's say you are looking for Queen Nefertiti's golden diadem. Now, it
happens to be in a wooden box in a niche in the wall high above the
floor. To get up there you might have to climb Nefertiti's statue,
jump from the statues head onto the ledge, reach into the niche, and
pull out the wooden box, open the box, and stash the diadem in your
bag of treasure. This is pretty common stuff for the Indiana Jones and
Lara Croft treasure hunting games and takes advantage of the 3d
environment to hide items where you wouldn't necessarily find them by
accident.
Another key advantage of 3d FPS not explored is the ability to shoot
from any angle or position. Using the Nefertiti statue Angela could
climb up there and fire down at mummies, snakes, crocodiles, and other
baddies from a snipers position. It gives the player an entirely new
level of play and strategy not fully realized in any VI accessible FPS
game to date.
I guess what I'm saying here is while you are making a valid point
that there are no accessible side-scrollers truly up to mainstream
quality its also true that there are no accessible FPS games that fit
that description either. Shades of Doom, Monkey Business, etc are
good games, but lack features that were available in many FPS games
from the 90's let alone fully represent that style of game now.
Cheers!
On 12/31/11, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote:
As I said william, we actually don't! have side scrollers yet.
this really I think shows the problem with discussion of this issue.
while we have some successful fps games that give an idea of what a true
3D
game would be like, we have nothing that gives an idea of what a propper
side scroller should be.
As I've said before, Q9 and superliam and the like are in no way
representative of the side scroller genre, just as galaxy ranger is not
representative of the stratogy genre.
If back before sound rts was developed, Jeanluc turned up and proposed a
stratogy game on a grid, there may well have been people who were less
keen
and believed all stratogy games required only control of one unit at a
time
and real time arcade style combat like galaxy ranger, which as we know
is
not the case.
As I said, i'm not in any way aversed to a 3D game if that's the way
things
go, but in considdering the issue, remember it isn't a case of shades of
doom vs superliam here.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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