Thomas, I'm no stranger to RPG's, and I fully realize that there is a difference between Final Fantasy (you'll never sell me on Zelda being an RPG) and a rogue-like such as Entombed. I do think, however, that Entombed is being sold short long before the full game is even brought to fruition.
There is no doubt in my mind that Jason's release is going to bring about a whole new style of gaming that the blind community has never seen before. Just the demo he has released contains perhaps 100 hours of possible play. When the dungeon more than quadruples in size, he adds in new classes, new races, and more dungeon branches, that figure is going to increase exponentially. Just because Entombed isn't a story-driven game doesn't diminish its complexity. I think what people will find when they really explore the game is that Entombed fills the long-vacant RPG genre in the blind community and does it quite nicely. Not to mention the fact that Jason has stated that should Entombed do well, he plans to create a huge expansion with an overworld, multiple locations, etc. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 9:48 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] The future of Blastbay Studios Hi Ryan, As a roguelike RPG game Entombed is fine as far as it goes. However, what I was refering to is a full blown RPG like Sryth complete with character interactions, several towns/villages, several different kinds of adventures, several different monster classes, etc. It is a lot of programming and quite a lot of sound effects if you are trying to create a complete game world like Sryth as a live action audio game. Even a rather simple RPG game like Legend of Zelda is a pretty large undertaking. Even in Zelda there are character interactions in some of the overworld areas. Not to mention perhaps a few cutscenes would fill in the storyline better. Cheers! On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 19:14 -0600, Ryan Strunk wrote: > What about Entombed? It seems to me that it already has two such quests, > especially with dungeon branching. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected]. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
