Actually Tom,
Saving has been around for years!
Even original Metroid and the Mega man series on the Nes had password
systems which allowed saving of the games.
Later, as battery backup was developed, actual saving occurred on the Snes,
features prominantly in games like the later marrio or kirby offerings and
Super Metroid.
Similarly with random monsters and items.
Mega man x6 featured fully random generating levels, and even ice climber on
the nes (a classic side scroller if ever there was one), featured randomly
appearing monsters who's frequency and speed varied according to level.
Items were frequently randomized in series like Turrican as well so as to
offer the player different weapons etc to deal with.
Beware the grue!
dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] MOTA Side-Scroller vs FPS
Hi Peter and all,
I understand your problem/frustration with FPS style games. There are a
lot of blind gamers that have no sense of direction when it comes to
accessible FPS games. Though, there aren't that many truly accessible FPS
games other than Sarah, Monkey Business, Shades of Doom, and a couple of
others.
However, most of the features you and others like about Mysteries of the
Ancients like random monsters, random items, the ability to save games,
etc aren't side-scroller features. Those kinds of features were introduced
when the FPS games like Doom, Quake, Jedi Knight, Tomb Raider, etc started
coming out for the sighted market. Before that most games were simple
arcade games.
So what I am asking you and is others is not for Mysteries of the
Ancients as it is now, but to be written as it was intended to be. That is
designed like a 1980's style side-scroller without all of the modern
influences, or to design it like a modern FPS game similar to Tomb Raider
and other more modern games. I am not sure if you were one of the people
who preordered the game or not, but it might be helpful to see things from
my perspective for a moment.
When James North and I took preorders for Montezuma's Revenge it was with
the understanding we would create and sell a classic side-scroller. Now, I
have many people who want to hold me to that plan. However, there is this
other group who demand modern features like the ability to save the game,
randomize everything, include a targeting beep, whatever. As a result
Mysteries of the Ancients is becoming more and more like an FPS game, and
less and less like the game I actually sold to my original customers. So
neither side is really getting what they wanted, and many of the customers
feel they aren't getting what they paid for. So as a developer do i take
out all the modern features, make it like the game I was going to sell, or
do I just make something totally modern and different?
As you can see it is a very big problem. The stress from this game is
beginning to drive me crazy, because I don't really know which side to
listen to. It is not a simple decision for me.
peter Mahach wrote:
hi thomas,
here is my point of view.
I have enough of fps games. with little to no navigation skill I mostly
bump into walls, walk in circles... and get frustrated. I'm a big fan of
side scrollers as that's something I can play... and I enjoyed mota how
it is now. I'd not want to see another stupid game that I'll suck at...
please, no! no wall bumping, no compass... please leave it as it is!
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