2013-04-09, 11:32 AM
^You know what would be a really fun feature?
What if you have to sleep as part of the game. And whenever you do odds are pretty good you will have a dream. But sometimes it isn't obvious that you are dreaming. You might go on your way for 15 minutes and only realize that you are dreaming after something really weird happens.
But since weird things happen in games like these. You really never know for sure if its a dream or not.
But chances are good that it is if you suddenly face an inescapable overwhelming challenge. That can be a mechanism to try to beat really tough challenges. And if you die, no big deal. If you don't you get experience.
Speaking of which. I really think it would be better if you got experience for every action you take. Like if you hit a monster for 10% HP that should immediately give your 10% of the EXP you would get if you killed it. That would be especially useful if we get a system working where the monsters would runaway. I don't think you should be unnaturally compelled to follow them and kill them.
This kind of system also prevents any kind of cheating to gain EXP in multiplayer. And just feels more commonsensical.
Back to dreaming. I think gotta catch'em all players would get more out of it if the dream points were scattered across the maps always in the same place. Giants would facilitate that pretty well in the open range games. It might be less common and done differently in the other games. Like how the cyclops comes to life in KF2 and KF3 also I think. Maybe you could have waking dreams too. And dreams where you come to your senses like sleepwalking.
I don't think it would suck if playable dreams became a staple. Its certainly different.
What if you have to sleep as part of the game. And whenever you do odds are pretty good you will have a dream. But sometimes it isn't obvious that you are dreaming. You might go on your way for 15 minutes and only realize that you are dreaming after something really weird happens.
But since weird things happen in games like these. You really never know for sure if its a dream or not.
But chances are good that it is if you suddenly face an inescapable overwhelming challenge. That can be a mechanism to try to beat really tough challenges. And if you die, no big deal. If you don't you get experience.
Speaking of which. I really think it would be better if you got experience for every action you take. Like if you hit a monster for 10% HP that should immediately give your 10% of the EXP you would get if you killed it. That would be especially useful if we get a system working where the monsters would runaway. I don't think you should be unnaturally compelled to follow them and kill them.
This kind of system also prevents any kind of cheating to gain EXP in multiplayer. And just feels more commonsensical.
Back to dreaming. I think gotta catch'em all players would get more out of it if the dream points were scattered across the maps always in the same place. Giants would facilitate that pretty well in the open range games. It might be less common and done differently in the other games. Like how the cyclops comes to life in KF2 and KF3 also I think. Maybe you could have waking dreams too. And dreams where you come to your senses like sleepwalking.
I don't think it would suck if playable dreams became a staple. Its certainly different.