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Post by CharlesX on Mar 11, 2024 13:56:34 GMT
This is not about previous FF that have become video games. Briefly, some such as Sorcery! and TWOFM have been very successful, some such as Deathtrap Dungeon have been mediocre, and others such as FF Legends and the 8-bit cassette versions are somewhere in between. The TinMan Apps are great making use of music, graphics and alternate modes. Like I say this is about what can be done rather than what has been. I would like to see some of the very big Jon Green gamebooks become apps, perhaps apps of heavily error-ridden FFs that could do away with those errors, maybe a PC version of Deathtrap Dungeon or Creature Of Havoc (that the old one was probably not brilliant doesn't mean a new one can't be). I'd like App versions of gamebooks to be bigger and better than their original like I've heard Sorcery! is.
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Post by scouserob on Mar 11, 2024 17:45:51 GMT
My wish list would be as many gamebooks as possible, converted as faithfully as possible with all the original mechanics. (And obvious errors corrected.)
Yes, include easy, hard, allow those +1 Skill swords to be attack strength bonuses, modes but have a purist mode as default.
Anything on top of that is just icing on the cake, cool music, achievements, animations, cut scenes, new art, etc, but the original core has to be there for me.
The Inkle Sorcery! Apps ARE very good but I would love the chance to play those gamebooks as originally designed on my PC/iPhone.
In fact the Sorcery books would be top of my wish list for a faithful adaptation. I’m happy enough with the Tin Man Games adaptations to move onto anything they haven’t covered as being next on my wish list, such as Shadow of Giants. (Though I wish Tin Man Games would code in multi-way fights and stop giving you over initial value bonuses with every magic Skill +1 item so you end up at something like Skill 15 by the end.)
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Post by Pete Byrdie on Mar 11, 2024 18:19:02 GMT
I was always a fan of open ended gameplay. Perhaps Robot Commando, with a few more locations and details, might at least inspire a game world.
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Post by sylas on Mar 12, 2024 22:28:00 GMT
I'd love to see side-scrolling games based on the FF world. You only need one overarching story with a little plot progression.
Or for open world video games, something like Daggers of Darkness could work well as would Night of the Necromancer and Seas of Blood.
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Post by CharlesX on Mar 13, 2024 13:38:16 GMT
I'd love to see side-scrolling games based on the FF world. You only need one overarching story with a little plot progression. Or for open world video games, something like Daggers of Darkness could work well as would Night of the Necromancer and Seas of Blood. Seas Of Blood would remind me of Sid Meier's Pirates! which I enjoyed in the day (and wasn't bad at). A mix\hybrid of the two could be really good with more options in the town, encounters with rivals and your opponents, sea monsters and fantastic maps as well as those from our middle ages.
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Post by dragonwarrior8 on May 23, 2024 15:31:19 GMT
I'd like to see all the Titan-set books put into one huge open world game. Go to the area of the map where that book took place and start the quest-line for that adventure. That might mean having them all set around the same time, but I don't see too much of a problem with that. (Although you might have to have it so you would need to do the Deathtrap Dungeon quest before Trial of Champions would open up for example). You could even put in quests that do not come from any of the books to make all the areas even more interesting to explore. Mostly I would just love to have a huge virtual creation of Titan to walk around in.
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Post by CharlesX on May 23, 2024 16:36:07 GMT
I'd like to see all the Titan-set books put into one huge open world game. Go to the area of the map where that book took place and start the quest-line for that adventure. That might mean having them all set around the same time, but I don't see too much of a problem with that. (Although you might have to have it so you would need to do the Deathtrap Dungeon quest before Trial of Champions would open up for example). You could even put in quests that do not come from any of the books to make all the areas even more interesting to explore. Mostly I would just love to have a huge virtual creation of Titan to walk around in. I agree, like you I'd say a computer version would be perfect for an open-world that might be difficult and less colourful if done in print form. I see all sorts of randomly-generated quests possible like Diablo.
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