HI Dark, I hear you there. That's precisely why I was throwing the Star Wars RPG game idea out there for people to ponder. There aren't that many RPG games for a blind gamer to play and what games there are are lax on story, focussed on pvp play, and grind, grind, grind. Thus far the only two roll playing games i am willing to pay for is Sryth which I've always liked, and of course now Entombed. Both games are good in that the focus isn't on pvp play, and you have to unlock certain adventures or tasks based on your skill level and what you have completed. This makes the game far more balanced.
For example, let's assume I am creating a Star Wars game and you decide to become a human Jedi apprentice. Ok, you are a brand new character so you are going to have to have some easy tasks to help build up your skills and experience. Obviously, the first thing to do is select your starting skills and apply your experience points accordingly. Then, you need to visit the Jedi Academy to get some further training from the Jedi masters. From there once you have reached a certain level as an apprentice you can take on some more difficult tasks for the Jedi order such as fighting smugglers, capturing an escaped criminal, or some other task that doesn't require a fully trained Jedi master to handle. You might be patroling the walkways of Coriscant when you hear someone cry out in pain. You Investigate to find two aliens atacking someone dressed in a Republic S.I.S. uniform. You quickly activate your light saber and cut down the attacking aliens. Before the S.I.S. agent dies he hands you a data disc containing Republic Intelligence of an illegal spice shipment at the nearby spaceport. After reading the discs contents on your data comp you realise you are the only one near enough to intercept and stop the shipment. You slip out of your Jedi robes, and put on some sort of uniform and slip into the spaceport. You successfully intercept the smugglers, destroy the spice, and hand the smugglers over to Republic security. You get experience points you can train up your skills and powers for the next missions etc. That kind of mission is fantastic for a new gamer as it might not require heavy force skills and perfect saber training to accomplish. Its definitely not like walking out of the academy on day one and facing an elite member of the Sith Council or something that would be a challenge for a Jedi Master let alone a new apprentice. Plus this definitely is a decent storyline without a complex plot to break you into the game. Cheers! On 5/13/11, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi tom. > > Your experience in that starwars game sound distressingly familiar. I've > been searching for a decent text rp game for a long while precisely for this > reason, and most things I've found have either been so fully of other > players bent on pvp you can't engage in the story, or, have so litle story > you have to engage in pvp just to keep things interesting. > > For instance last year I reviewed unification wars. This interested me sinse > it was a stratogy game where you ruled a galactic empire, and yet had single > player missions to complete making up a story, for instance one involved > putting enough government resources by to create a university so that you > could send an archaeological team to explore alien ruins on other planets. > > The problem? The amount of times I was attacked and my planets pinched by > other players made completing these missions almost impossible. > > i'd been through the standard tutorial which fitted me with a reasonable > starting force, but several powerful players just turned up and destroyed > everything I had. > > This for me is an absolute turn off, but unfrotuantely sinse most muds and > rpg games online are! multiplayer, people want to interact with eachother > and that usually means pvp, in fact a lot of games I've seen like the Dark > grimoire and time hunter are pretty dull unless! you do pvp, sinse they > really have litle else to offer but grind grind grind! > > This is why I'd love to see developers working on games with actual story > and exploration elements. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. > > > --- > 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].
