Fair enough tom, as I said, it was really only an illustrative example.
Several of the mega man games have something similar, mega man zero 1 has a
first level and boss along those lines, and X5 even has a full training
stage with commentary including a fight against a toned down versionn of one
of the bosses from X4.
Hmmm, I wonder if the entombed dungeon creator would let you do something
similar for entombed?
Btw, for shear stupidity, a friend and I were playing the original tomb
raider on the playstation (well she was playing I was watching), and trying
to find as many ways as possible to kill lara in her mantion, which was
completely silly, but actually rather fun.
Drowning her in her swimming pool was my personal favouroute!
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Mysteries of the Ancients Beta 12 Released
Hi Dark,
Ahemmm...One problem with your plan beginner and easy are the same
thing. There is no "easy" difficulty level. Only beginner,
intermediate, advanced, and expert. However, I do take your meaning.
However, as far as a training mode goes that need not necessarily
freeze monsters in place like Shades of Doom. Merely add extra verbal
feedback of what is going on so a new gamer can get the hang of
jumping traps, evading monsters, etc. Kind of like the training levels
in say Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness.
In Angel of Darkness Lara can get killed by the guard on the balcony,
get malled by a dog, etc but she also gives helpful comments and
suggestions to the player that this or that would be a good idea or
not be a good idea. For example, if you get to near to the dog in the
alley she might say, "I better not get to close to that dog. Maybe I
should find another way." On the balcony when you get to close to the
gard Lara will sush the player, and explain how to use stealth mode to
sneek upon the gard and knock him out. She explains how to peak around
corners and so on. Basically, it doesn't stop you from screwing up,
but will give you helpful hints and advice how to do it without
getting into much trouble. You see how that works?
On 5/12/10, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote:
Well tom, it depends upon how extensive you want this option to be.
a training mode as in shades where the monsters don't move which finishes
after the first level,. seems a different idea from say having certain
help
features and difficulty level tweaks in the main game, sinse obviously
you
couldn't be allowd to play through the entire game with unmoving monsters
and obviously announced traps.
I do like the idea of beginner or easy having changes in gameplay though
as
I said, sinse mastering the game without those changes provides extra
challenge at higher levels.
so for instance on beginner you could get double amo pick up from packs
(not
unlimited that'd be a cheat, just more plentiful amo so you can work out
weapon range), announcements of all traps and gaps, and infinite burning
torches.
On easy, you go back to normal amounts of amo and normal torch use, but
keep
the trap warnings.
Intermediate you lose the trap warnings accept for firepits.
Expert you get no warnings and need to do everything by sound.
a setup something like that would hopefully have the desired effect, and
insure that there was a range of difficulty levels which players could go
through progressively.
Beware the Grue!
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