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Nekkoru
Title: Polish Pickle Wench
Joined: Jan 25 2008
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Think about it. We have first-person shooters, which put you in the body of the protagonist and give you a, well, first-person perspective. We also have third-person shooters, which involve a "cameraman", so to speak - and the whole game is presented from his perspective.
Logically, this derives from the persons in the English language: 1st - Me, 2nd - You, 3rd - He/She/It. So, a second person shooter should be from the perspective of the victim you kill.
Anyone want to code this?
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While you're at it, go check out my band, Her Majesty's Heroines.
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Nekkoru
Title: Polish Pickle Wench
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Now come on, stop retroactively stealing my completely original ideas.
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You should totally check out the IRC channel.
While you're at it, go check out my band, Her Majesty's Heroines.
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DarkMaze
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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Speaking of this, I had an idea back in 1996 called "Kill The Doom Guy". The basic idea was that you were the Spider Mastermind, sending hordes of hapless baddies to confront the unstoppable Doom Guy. In each level, you'd start with a shot of the map and a list of available monsters. You'd place monsters on the map, then when you were done, you'd press start and watch them attempt to kill him. To advance to the next level, you'd have to deal a target amount of damage to Doom Guy.
The number of monsters you could place on a board would be based on a point system, and you could earn more points by placing various power-ups and weapons in the level. It was a fairly interesting idea... I'm surprised no one's done it.
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DarkMaze
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Hey, that's a fun idea! The tricky bit is, what keeps the player from placing every possible baddie at the entrance to the level? I'm sure there's a way around that, though.
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GPFontaine
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There are a few baseball games where you are in the eyes of the catcher while pitching and while batting.
Would that count?
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Nekkoru
Title: Polish Pickle Wench
Joined: Jan 25 2008
Location: Warsaw, Poland
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No, because you don't kill anybody.
Duh.
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Syd Lexia
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Rooms would have capacity limits. Rooms towards the entrance would be allowed fewer enemies than rooms towards the exit, which happens to be how they usually designed the levels.
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DarkMaze
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Avian
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
Speaking of this, I had an idea back in 1996 called "Kill The Doom Guy". The basic idea was that you were the Spider Mastermind, sending hordes of hapless baddies to confront the unstoppable Doom Guy. In each level, you'd start with a shot of the map and a list of available monsters. You'd place monsters on the map, then when you were done, you'd press start and watch them attempt to kill him. To advance to the next level, you'd have to deal a target amount of damage to Doom Guy.
The number of monsters you could place on a board would be based on a point system, and you could earn more points by placing various power-ups and weapons in the level. It was a fairly interesting idea... I'm surprised no one's done it. |
That sounds sort of like Warcraft II (I use that example because it's the only Warcraft game I've played)
The "point system" you described is analagus to WC's resource system, and the "power-ups" you described would be similar to WC's upgrades (from a Town Hall to a Keep, for example.)
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Tyop
Title: Grammar Nazi
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| There are a few baseball games where you are in the eyes of the catcher while pitching and while batting. |
First thing I thought of was the Level 1 boss in Battletoads. That had a novelty value for me, but a whole game of that? I don't know.
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scamrock
Title: Space Bastard
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The few times I've played an FPS online, it felt like a 2nd person shooter.
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Knyte
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Title: Curator Of The VGM
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
Speaking of this, I had an idea back in 1996 called "Kill The Doom Guy". The basic idea was that you were the Spider Mastermind, sending hordes of hapless baddies to confront the unstoppable Doom Guy. In each level, you'd start with a shot of the map and a list of available monsters. You'd place monsters on the map, then when you were done, you'd press start and watch them attempt to kill him. To advance to the next level, you'd have to deal a target amount of damage to Doom Guy.
The number of monsters you could place on a board would be based on a point system, and you could earn more points by placing various power-ups and weapons in the level. It was a fairly interesting idea... I'm surprised no one's done it. |
Sounds kinda like Evil Genius and Dungeon Keeper.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_Keeper
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Genius_(video_game)
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APLETHORAOFPINATAS
Joined: Jun 10 2008
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wait, so if you are in the view of the victim here would that mean you were still either in 1st or 3rd person depending on the view, thats unless your are still controlling the guy doing the killing right?
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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You mean like in the fight against Krayk in The Legend Of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass?
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Syd Lexia
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| APLETHORAOFPINATAS wrote: |
| wait, so if you are in the view of the victim here would that mean you were still either in 1st or 3rd person depending on the view, thats unless your are still controlling the guy doing the killing right? |
You control the guy doing the killing, but you do so from a victimseye view.
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Char Aznable
Title: Char Classic™
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Sounds like something Suda51 would make.
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Valdronius
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There was also a 2nd person battle with Shredder in Turtles in Time.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Actually, the POV was from behind Shredder, so that would make it fourth-person. If it were second-person, we wouldn't have seen Shredder at all. The Tall Walker fight from Battletoads, on the other hand, that was second-person.
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Cameron
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Didn't they kinda do something second-person-ish in Siren? You could jack into the enemies' thoughts and see what they were seeing.
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Tyop
Title: Grammar Nazi
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| jprime wrote: |
| Actually, the POV was from behind Shredder, so that would make it fourth-person. |
I believe that would make it third person again.
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Syd Lexia
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Fourth person doesn't exist, I don't think.
What would that even be? From the perspective of someone watching someone else watch it from a third person view?
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Yeah, that sounds about right.
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detective jon kimble
Title: IM DETECTIVE JON KIMBLE
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| Tyop wrote: |
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| There are a few baseball games where you are in the eyes of the catcher while pitching and while batting. |
First thing I thought of was the Level 1 boss in Battletoads. That had a novelty value for me, but a whole game of that? I don't know. |
dammit i was gonna mention that till i seen you already did, but battletoads is really the only game i can think of that even remotely had a seccond person perspecctive
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