Triple race RPG
by Bryan Knouse · in Game Design and Creative Issues · 12/13/2004 (4:32 pm) · 33 replies
By all means this is not coming out soon, but me and a bud (currently in business with eachohter) are planning out some games, and im looking for ideas. Currently we have a Triple race RPG. Basically there are three different characters of a different race, and they all start separately, you do the missions as each one and they meet up to fight one big bad guy. Someone suggested to me that I should make them mutant and the ultimate boss be like some crazy nuclear scientist who made them into mutants, but this would be our first game, which is pushing our limits ;).
The other idea was like a coleseum game, sortof like Dead or alive, Or monster rancher, except of course you would be a gladiater, and you can pick up weapons around town, gain fame, and eventually rule rome or something.
Any suggestions or ideas feel free to unload in this thread!
The other idea was like a coleseum game, sortof like Dead or alive, Or monster rancher, except of course you would be a gladiater, and you can pick up weapons around town, gain fame, and eventually rule rome or something.
Any suggestions or ideas feel free to unload in this thread!
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#22
12/16/2004 (5:27 am)
I just realized you meant Cid the person, not Cid the game character.
#23
12/16/2004 (1:36 pm)
OK...I'm still confused but by what you just said i think that i won't flame you... 
#25
Not that it would matter much if you flamed me anyway. I've been online for far too long and have become entirely too callous. Ten years ago it would have been a little easier to get a rise out of me, but even then I had entirely too much scar tissue from 80's BBS's to notice much. I usually don't act my age, though.
12/17/2004 (6:51 am)
For people who started or renewed their RPG career with the console release of Final Fantasy VII, Cid was an airship captain. He has appeared in some form in every FF since (as have Biggs and Wedge). It has been increasingly popular for fanfic authors to add Cid (and often Biggs and Wedge, who actually started in VI). Sometimes they are the central characters...which is rarely interesting since they're extremely undeveloped bit players in the FF's anyway and most fanfics don't add much to them.Not that it would matter much if you flamed me anyway. I've been online for far too long and have become entirely too callous. Ten years ago it would have been a little easier to get a rise out of me, but even then I had entirely too much scar tissue from 80's BBS's to notice much. I usually don't act my age, though.
#26
12/17/2004 (4:23 pm)
OK...yea...my name is Cid..your name is Frank...your name is David...So I'm sorry that my name is also the name of a character that appears in about ten popular games...I'm sure your's shows up somewhere in the gaming world...and yes, Frank, people have called me "Highwind" before...So no more please...
#27
I'll nerd out for a minute and note that a Cid character has been in or referred to in FF games even before that. Every Final Fantasy game since #2.
12/17/2004 (4:33 pm)
Quote:or people who started or renewed their RPG career with the console release of Final Fantasy VII, Cid was an airship captain. He has appeared in some form in every FF since (as have Biggs and Wedge).
I'll nerd out for a minute and note that a Cid character has been in or referred to in FF games even before that. Every Final Fantasy game since #2.
#28
12/17/2004 (5:13 pm)
Ok for the pac man game, how do I make the whole terrain, a flat, pac man map. I got the picture to appear, but ive been looking all over to find out how to make the terrain "not infinite" and how to make it COMPLETELY flat, any help?
#29
I didn't remember Cid in anything before VII, though now that you mention it, is seems like he was an inkeeper or mayor or something in VI during one of Shadow's cut-scenes. I don't remember him from V, though. I may have just been distracted by the job classes. I didn't remember him from IV easy or hardtype, either. The first place I could trace him back to was VII. I do know that Biggs and Wedge were two soldiers killed in VI (III, US).
12/17/2004 (8:54 pm)
@MarkI didn't remember Cid in anything before VII, though now that you mention it, is seems like he was an inkeeper or mayor or something in VI during one of Shadow's cut-scenes. I don't remember him from V, though. I may have just been distracted by the job classes. I didn't remember him from IV easy or hardtype, either. The first place I could trace him back to was VII. I do know that Biggs and Wedge were two soldiers killed in VI (III, US).
#30
12/19/2004 (2:25 pm)
O no, he was in ones before that. He was also a mechanic in Final Fantasy 2, there have only been 2 or 3 that he hasn't appeared in.
#31
12/19/2004 (7:00 pm)
I just finished I and II again on the GBA and didn't remember him being in them. I didn't remember him from the Wonderswan remakes (basically the exact same games as the GBA remakes) or the PS One remakes either. I'm not surprised I didn't remember him from the first time I played it since that is now years and years ago. I do think you're right about II (IV), though. Wasn't he the airship engineer at the beginning? I could get out Origins or Chronicles or whatever one had IV and see, but I'm more interested in finishing the final stages of Katamari Damacy and Mr. Driller Spirits DS while waiting for information on Torque 2D and avoiding production meetings.
#32
#1 "The eyes, go for the eyes Boo!"---Comes from Balder's Gate (pc), from a fighter who used a hamster as his special attack.
#2 Isn't Cid the Engineer who builds the Airships in FF IV, and doesn't he also build a tank.
#3 Story isn't bad, but needs a lot of work. Are you still in High School? My writing wasn't much better at that time either. I have a big box of all the old stories I've writen, sometimes I'll go through them and laugh at how young they sound, but they do help inspire me today.
I like the idea of 3 stories but using different perspectives of one mans personality. I once wrote a story of a man who lost his family. When he became depressed; his personality would change him into the man who wanted revenge and knew how to do it. Once he killed part of the crew that killed his family he would re-awake not remembering anything about what he had done. The same could work for your story. The souls of 3 people are trapped in one body, each trying to say their good byes to their loved ones. In the end they learn to work together as one, and become strong enough to get their revenge.
01/09/2005 (7:02 pm)
I'm kinda late into this, but heres my 1, 2, or 6 cents.#1 "The eyes, go for the eyes Boo!"---Comes from Balder's Gate (pc), from a fighter who used a hamster as his special attack.
#2 Isn't Cid the Engineer who builds the Airships in FF IV, and doesn't he also build a tank.
#3 Story isn't bad, but needs a lot of work. Are you still in High School? My writing wasn't much better at that time either. I have a big box of all the old stories I've writen, sometimes I'll go through them and laugh at how young they sound, but they do help inspire me today.
I like the idea of 3 stories but using different perspectives of one mans personality. I once wrote a story of a man who lost his family. When he became depressed; his personality would change him into the man who wanted revenge and knew how to do it. Once he killed part of the crew that killed his family he would re-awake not remembering anything about what he had done. The same could work for your story. The souls of 3 people are trapped in one body, each trying to say their good byes to their loved ones. In the end they learn to work together as one, and become strong enough to get their revenge.
#33
Yeah I was going through a bunch of stuff I wrote in HS and it all sounds so silly and kidish even though I was trying to be serious. The general ideas they try to convey are great ones, just not written well enough for a project. I'll need to rewrite them so they sound a bit more developed, but I'm sure in another 5-7 years I'll read them (the rewrites) and think they sound childish.
@Bryan
Even if you are still in HS, go ahead and start planning/programming your game. Some of the best ideas I had came to me during my times of boredom in english or other classes. Just keep pressing on to the goal of a completed game and it will happen. Even if it takes years, keep at it and never give up on your ideas. You may not be able to implement the exact ideas you come up with but you will probably be able to use a form of them in another project, whether it be yours or someone else's.
One last thought. I remember writing a story in 8th grade, and it was horrible when I read it two years later. So horrible and stupid I burned it. Basically it was a cross between Aliens and Terminator, it was almost as if an alien and terminator had bred somehow and produced an offspring which was my story. Come to think of it, there was an Alien movie where they crossbred two species and ended up with a ridiculous storyline as the "offspring"....maybe my story wasnt so bad afterall.
01/09/2005 (7:11 pm)
@JoshYeah I was going through a bunch of stuff I wrote in HS and it all sounds so silly and kidish even though I was trying to be serious. The general ideas they try to convey are great ones, just not written well enough for a project. I'll need to rewrite them so they sound a bit more developed, but I'm sure in another 5-7 years I'll read them (the rewrites) and think they sound childish.
@Bryan
Even if you are still in HS, go ahead and start planning/programming your game. Some of the best ideas I had came to me during my times of boredom in english or other classes. Just keep pressing on to the goal of a completed game and it will happen. Even if it takes years, keep at it and never give up on your ideas. You may not be able to implement the exact ideas you come up with but you will probably be able to use a form of them in another project, whether it be yours or someone else's.
One last thought. I remember writing a story in 8th grade, and it was horrible when I read it two years later. So horrible and stupid I burned it. Basically it was a cross between Aliens and Terminator, it was almost as if an alien and terminator had bred somehow and produced an offspring which was my story. Come to think of it, there was an Alien movie where they crossbred two species and ended up with a ridiculous storyline as the "offspring"....maybe my story wasnt so bad afterall.
Bryan Knouse