20 Jun 2016, 4:01 am
mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:
I'd like to see a game like Terraria, but with Diablo's loot, magic, and character building systems, as well as some RTS and management aspects.
Basically, when you create a character you choose one of three classes (fighter, ranger, or mage), each of which have their own skill trees, starting stats, and exclusive weapon types. Then, when you get into the game, you'd be able to gain experience from doing certain activities such as killing monsters, completing pseudo-randomly generated quests (quests available would depend on your level), building, mining, and crafting. Naturally, you'd be able to level up, learn new spells and abilities on a skill tree, and increase stats like strength, magic, dexterity, etc. You'd also be able to find, purchase, or craft weapons and armor with pseudo-randomly generated stats and abilities.
Another element I'd implement is a somewhat more comprehensive town building system, expanding on what Terraria already has. Keeping your villagers safe and happy would be an important priority, and if you do an especially good job you'll even get certain bonuses like cheaper gear from vendors. Along with simply building houses and shops, you'd also have to build defensive structures to keep monsters from invading, killing your villagers, or destroying things. You'd be able to build things like bridges, moats, sentry towers, turrets, fences, reinforced walls, and even minefields and traps. Within the vicinity of your town, you'd also be able to issue orders to your guards and other villagers.
Building on the idea of being able to issue orders to NPCs, you'd also be able to hire mercenaries to fight alongside you, a la Diablo II. Just like D2, they'd be able to gain experience, and you'd also be able to outfit them with loot that you've obtained.
Another crazy idea I just had, maybe you'd be able to clear plots of land to grow crops and raise animals, which could be used to produce food and other resources. This might be difficult to implement in a 2D environment though.
The overall design of the game would be such that it is enjoyable in both single player and multiplayer, and while the multiplayer would be geared more towards cooperative play, there would also be a PVP aspect where players could fight each other and build their own towns, even using their town's defensive structures to ward off enemy players.
Other than all that, the gameplay would basically be a clone of Terraria. Heck, I almost wonder if all these things could be implemented in a mod.
One more thing, I'd include a comprehensive in-game guide so that you wouldn't have to alt-tab out and read some wiki in order to learn things like crafting recipes. I'd also aim for lower system requirements than Terraria, since Terraria is stupidly resource intensive for what it is. How low would I aim? Probably early-mid 2000s Intel graphics chipsets.
Basically, when you create a character you choose one of three classes (fighter, ranger, or mage), each of which have their own skill trees, starting stats, and exclusive weapon types. Then, when you get into the game, you'd be able to gain experience from doing certain activities such as killing monsters, completing pseudo-randomly generated quests (quests available would depend on your level), building, mining, and crafting. Naturally, you'd be able to level up, learn new spells and abilities on a skill tree, and increase stats like strength, magic, dexterity, etc. You'd also be able to find, purchase, or craft weapons and armor with pseudo-randomly generated stats and abilities.
Another element I'd implement is a somewhat more comprehensive town building system, expanding on what Terraria already has. Keeping your villagers safe and happy would be an important priority, and if you do an especially good job you'll even get certain bonuses like cheaper gear from vendors. Along with simply building houses and shops, you'd also have to build defensive structures to keep monsters from invading, killing your villagers, or destroying things. You'd be able to build things like bridges, moats, sentry towers, turrets, fences, reinforced walls, and even minefields and traps. Within the vicinity of your town, you'd also be able to issue orders to your guards and other villagers.
Building on the idea of being able to issue orders to NPCs, you'd also be able to hire mercenaries to fight alongside you, a la Diablo II. Just like D2, they'd be able to gain experience, and you'd also be able to outfit them with loot that you've obtained.
Another crazy idea I just had, maybe you'd be able to clear plots of land to grow crops and raise animals, which could be used to produce food and other resources. This might be difficult to implement in a 2D environment though.
The overall design of the game would be such that it is enjoyable in both single player and multiplayer, and while the multiplayer would be geared more towards cooperative play, there would also be a PVP aspect where players could fight each other and build their own towns, even using their town's defensive structures to ward off enemy players.
Other than all that, the gameplay would basically be a clone of Terraria. Heck, I almost wonder if all these things could be implemented in a mod.
One more thing, I'd include a comprehensive in-game guide so that you wouldn't have to alt-tab out and read some wiki in order to learn things like crafting recipes. I'd also aim for lower system requirements than Terraria, since Terraria is stupidly resource intensive for what it is. How low would I aim? Probably early-mid 2000s Intel graphics chipsets.
Alot of these things have been done by other games that are similar to Terraria (and no, I dont mean just Starbound). Heck, the bit with farms and animals, Terraria seems to be the only 2D game of this type that DOESNT do that. The mechanic works surprisingly well in 2D in most cases, really.
There's one game that's in early access right now that's promising quite alot of the things you mention here... including even the building up of NPC towns and such... but I cant for the life of me remember the name of it. It's on Steam. It looks quite promising but actual release is quite awhile off.
There's a whole ton of games like this on Steam though, some are quite worth checking out.
20 Jun 2016, 4:55 am
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20 Jun 2016, 6:54 pm
Misery wrote:
mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:
I'd like to see a game like Terraria, but with Diablo's loot, magic, and character building systems, as well as some RTS and management aspects.
Basically, when you create a character you choose one of three classes (fighter, ranger, or mage), each of which have their own skill trees, starting stats, and exclusive weapon types. Then, when you get into the game, you'd be able to gain experience from doing certain activities such as killing monsters, completing pseudo-randomly generated quests (quests available would depend on your level), building, mining, and crafting. Naturally, you'd be able to level up, learn new spells and abilities on a skill tree, and increase stats like strength, magic, dexterity, etc. You'd also be able to find, purchase, or craft weapons and armor with pseudo-randomly generated stats and abilities.
Another element I'd implement is a somewhat more comprehensive town building system, expanding on what Terraria already has. Keeping your villagers safe and happy would be an important priority, and if you do an especially good job you'll even get certain bonuses like cheaper gear from vendors. Along with simply building houses and shops, you'd also have to build defensive structures to keep monsters from invading, killing your villagers, or destroying things. You'd be able to build things like bridges, moats, sentry towers, turrets, fences, reinforced walls, and even minefields and traps. Within the vicinity of your town, you'd also be able to issue orders to your guards and other villagers.
Building on the idea of being able to issue orders to NPCs, you'd also be able to hire mercenaries to fight alongside you, a la Diablo II. Just like D2, they'd be able to gain experience, and you'd also be able to outfit them with loot that you've obtained.
Another crazy idea I just had, maybe you'd be able to clear plots of land to grow crops and raise animals, which could be used to produce food and other resources. This might be difficult to implement in a 2D environment though.
The overall design of the game would be such that it is enjoyable in both single player and multiplayer, and while the multiplayer would be geared more towards cooperative play, there would also be a PVP aspect where players could fight each other and build their own towns, even using their town's defensive structures to ward off enemy players.
Other than all that, the gameplay would basically be a clone of Terraria. Heck, I almost wonder if all these things could be implemented in a mod.
One more thing, I'd include a comprehensive in-game guide so that you wouldn't have to alt-tab out and read some wiki in order to learn things like crafting recipes. I'd also aim for lower system requirements than Terraria, since Terraria is stupidly resource intensive for what it is. How low would I aim? Probably early-mid 2000s Intel graphics chipsets.
Basically, when you create a character you choose one of three classes (fighter, ranger, or mage), each of which have their own skill trees, starting stats, and exclusive weapon types. Then, when you get into the game, you'd be able to gain experience from doing certain activities such as killing monsters, completing pseudo-randomly generated quests (quests available would depend on your level), building, mining, and crafting. Naturally, you'd be able to level up, learn new spells and abilities on a skill tree, and increase stats like strength, magic, dexterity, etc. You'd also be able to find, purchase, or craft weapons and armor with pseudo-randomly generated stats and abilities.
Another element I'd implement is a somewhat more comprehensive town building system, expanding on what Terraria already has. Keeping your villagers safe and happy would be an important priority, and if you do an especially good job you'll even get certain bonuses like cheaper gear from vendors. Along with simply building houses and shops, you'd also have to build defensive structures to keep monsters from invading, killing your villagers, or destroying things. You'd be able to build things like bridges, moats, sentry towers, turrets, fences, reinforced walls, and even minefields and traps. Within the vicinity of your town, you'd also be able to issue orders to your guards and other villagers.
Building on the idea of being able to issue orders to NPCs, you'd also be able to hire mercenaries to fight alongside you, a la Diablo II. Just like D2, they'd be able to gain experience, and you'd also be able to outfit them with loot that you've obtained.
Another crazy idea I just had, maybe you'd be able to clear plots of land to grow crops and raise animals, which could be used to produce food and other resources. This might be difficult to implement in a 2D environment though.
The overall design of the game would be such that it is enjoyable in both single player and multiplayer, and while the multiplayer would be geared more towards cooperative play, there would also be a PVP aspect where players could fight each other and build their own towns, even using their town's defensive structures to ward off enemy players.
Other than all that, the gameplay would basically be a clone of Terraria. Heck, I almost wonder if all these things could be implemented in a mod.
One more thing, I'd include a comprehensive in-game guide so that you wouldn't have to alt-tab out and read some wiki in order to learn things like crafting recipes. I'd also aim for lower system requirements than Terraria, since Terraria is stupidly resource intensive for what it is. How low would I aim? Probably early-mid 2000s Intel graphics chipsets.
Alot of these things have been done by other games that are similar to Terraria (and no, I dont mean just Starbound). Heck, the bit with farms and animals, Terraria seems to be the only 2D game of this type that DOESNT do that. The mechanic works surprisingly well in 2D in most cases, really.
There's one game that's in early access right now that's promising quite alot of the things you mention here... including even the building up of NPC towns and such... but I cant for the life of me remember the name of it. It's on Steam. It looks quite promising but actual release is quite awhile off.
There's a whole ton of games like this on Steam though, some are quite worth checking out.
As odd as it may sound, I'm actually more interested in the "Diablo" elements of what I proposed than in the city building or RTS elements. I tried to find a game combining Terraria and Diablo once, but I was unsuccessful.
21 Jun 2016, 10:44 am
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26 Jun 2016, 3:07 am
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26 Jun 2016, 8:12 am
beakybird wrote:
I always wished they made a in depth survival simulator. There are many games with a survival element (thinking Fallout 4 survival mode) but I'd want the game to revolve around staying alive for as long as possible. Huge open world, but no towns, just maps in different environments.
Crafting traps and weapons, securing food and water and resources for shelters, defending against animal encounters. Coming across discarded garbage and things to be scavenged. Just like a survival show but in game form, and there is no ending. Just a "high score" element of how long you can live for.
May be slow and have a limited audience, but I'd like it.
Crafting traps and weapons, securing food and water and resources for shelters, defending against animal encounters. Coming across discarded garbage and things to be scavenged. Just like a survival show but in game form, and there is no ending. Just a "high score" element of how long you can live for.
May be slow and have a limited audience, but I'd like it.
Congratulations, it exists and is on sale right now on Steam
There has been many pure survival games during the years, remember one for Windows (around the time of 98/ME/XP) that looked almost like the sims that had you planning what every survivor should do every day, if they got into trouble you could control em directly, think it was called - wait for it - "Survivor"
28 Jun 2016, 1:31 pm
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