Gaming Cliches

[Apocalypse]

Originally posted by DarkCloud
*Walking into a room, getting hurt, running out, healing, running in and repeating the process (Baldur's Gate/ Icewind Dale games) ... the enemies don't follow through doors! And they don't hear people less than one screen away!

They fixed this in latter versions of the engine.

[DarkCloud]

Not in Icewind Dale II.

In Chapter 1 I healed myself during the goblin raid.

and in Chapter 3 when I was fighting hte Chimera underground in the hellhole- after being repeatedly slaughtered... I decided to cheat and lured the enemies out room by room and won with little damage taken.

[Apocalypse]

Well, that's the only IE game I haven't played. Fixed in BG2 though. I'm talking about the Not following through doors thing.

[Jamski]

How the HELL is CG a cut-scene? It should be a CS, surely

-Jam

[Kuciwalker]

computer graphics

[Apocalypse]

Or computer generated.

[DarkCloud]

short for CGI?

it was defined earlier...

[Apocalypse]

CGI doesn't have anything to do with graphics.

[Dis]

Originally posted by DarkCloud
Unable to skip cutscenes.

Especially in anime consoles... one lasted 15 minutes. I left the room ate dinner, came back and it was still on!

*Shooters where you can shoot the guy next to a monster and the other monster still doesn't notice.

*Walking into a room, getting hurt, running out, healing, running in and repeating the process (Baldur's Gate/ Icewind Dale games) ... the enemies don't follow through doors! And they don't hear people less than one screen away!

are you sure you were playing an actual computer game and not watching a DVD?

[Barinthus]

Originally posted by Zero
thats my point. single player games have become an interactive movie. and just that.

*retching* That's why I stopped playing Final Fantasy.

[Barinthus]

Originally posted by Arnelos


Funny you should mention that issue. Have you ever played Homeworld? Awesome game... let's you do just that - carry your forces from one encounter to the next throughout the game.

Nope haven't played the game. It looked really good although. I didn't get my own computer until last October so it was kinda pointless to buy games before then.

What about sequels to Homeworld?

[Barinthus]

Originally posted by Zero


There are a few RTS campaigns that allows you to win/lose/complete different objectives. But none were like as non-linear as wing commander.

OgreBattle was nice - at least your actions counted for something. Chrono Trigger was different too.

It seems that if I wanted something truly non-linear I would have to go into a MMORPG and if I wanted a real RP, it's either that or a MUD. The problem it's so time consuming and cost money (except for MUDs).

[Adagio]

And RoN has a non-linear campaign also... But there's basicly no story in it, except that you want to control the world

[Kuciwalker]

RoN has a non-linear campaign that same way that Risk has a non-linear campaign

[Adagio]

Yep
What's wrong with Risk's campaign? I have played (or at least I've started) campaigns in most rts games I've played, but the only one I enjoyed is the campaign in RoN (which is also the only one I've actually finished... several times)

I haven't played any rts games with a non-linear campaign yet