Not quite, it's more of a gross concept of during that part of the game how hard you can expect the enemy to be. For instance when fighting OJ Simpson you're assumed to have no higher then level 5 spells. (Not taking to account you prepared ahead of time for this encounter..) so bassicaly you're fighting gods in the midsts of just progressing normaly..Originally Posted by Behold the Void
You posted, you must suffer the consequinces now!!
Behold The Void.
The much needed and always demanded for blue mage. (Or psychic thief as we'll be calling it..) uses the power of the mind to manipulate the energies of the universe to his will which can allow him to emulate spells and abilities. The drawback? He has to be exposed to the said power firsthand, more often then not hit by it! Making it a useful and very cool ability, but otherwised probably unused and ignored for the matienance involved.. Pretty much another jack of trades, Behold The Void is well-rounded and average on everything. And the percentage chance is as follows.
5% chance of learning special attacks and spells simply by encountering the enemy.
15% chance of learning it by being subjected to it.
later on you gain "psi!' which is an upgrade from your already previous blue magick learning skills and the percentage ration increases to 10 and 20%.. Unlike most other heroes too you don't have to do nothing special to gain you. You simply want to smack the hella out of Michal Moore for putting so much money into donatable issues. "Welfare, social security, BAHH! It's all just a scheme to do what they want with the money "I" worked my ass off for!"
Wow, this certainly is an indepth game, and a very informative one at that as well, full of politics, fantasy and mythology among others.
Best of luck to you, as this certainly does seem an epic undertaking, though I'm certain you're more than up to the task.
Take care all.
It all sounds too good to be true.
A lot of game development falls apart in this stage of concept design, but I'm maintaining a level of optimism. Keep up the good work.
Could I be a wicked awesome hidden charecter?
You can't say crap without the rap.
This looks awesome.
Well, I would like to be a summon that you need to beat to get. If this game doesn't have any summons, then I would like to just be an optional boss. Ofcourse I'll have to use the spell "Ultima" and an attack named "Shadow Wave" that causes the blind status to all party members while doing a small amount of dammage etc. Just a suggestion... it's all up to you, ofcourse, but I think it would suit me.
I would really, REALLY like to be a super boss, like Ruby Weapon etc.
If I can be a super boss, then I would like to be a bit like Dullahan from Golden Sun II. My moves could be a bit like this:
Ultima Shadow
1) Normal Attack (Average Dammage)
2) Shadow Wave (minor dammage + blind on party)
3) Ultima (Major dammage on party)
4) Blasting Star (Extreme dammage on 1 party member)
5) Bad Breath (You know what a Malboro Flower is, right?)
6) Chaos (berserk and confusion on 1 party member)
7) Breaker (Drops the stats of 1 party member and may pertify him/her)
8) Ultimate Darkness (25% chanse to instant KO party members while doing 75% gravity dammage on party)
I would also have 2 Shadow Orbs that helps me in the battle.
Shadow Orbs
1) Curaga (Major HP recovery)
2) Shell (Magic Sheild)
3) Protect (Phsycical Sheild)
4) Osmose (absorbs MP)
5) Drain (absorbs HP)
6) Quake (Powerfull earth dammage on party)
Like I said, it's all up to you though. But I think it would be pretty cool if I could be an optional super boss and that you get me as a summon if you manage to beat me etc. But the only thing that really matters is that you'll have to fight me.
Boochakalaka!
Joshkabob.
[i]Joshkabob is a tottaly loyal knight to Michal Moore's special task force. When you reach a ceartain point in the game and only if at that time you have more liberal points will Joshkabob pay you any mind and offer to join your crew. Though you may be dissapointed that for being a fighter he doesn't have uber stats, can't run good, and only average HP at best. Joshkabob has alot going for him. Besides being able to equip pretty much anything..
Wrlwnd! Whirlwind is one of his specials, a physichal burst of energy where he swings his mighty sword around all the opponents causing damage to all opponent's at the same time!
Grd! Gaurd! Is a somewhat thinking ahead ability, when an opponent targets one of your other party members, Joshkabob can set off gaurd! and take the blow for'em. Proving his honor code is true..
The Captain.
[i]The Captain is a spoony bard! About to be hung by PETA, you can either save his life (A conservative point.) or not get involved as it is not your place to play world police. (Liberal.) (Let's not take into account you're playing world police ANYWAYS..) save the lad and you have the chance to add a new comrade to the gang. Unlike regular spellcasters The Captain can learn "songs" and can play them each a ceartain amount of times. If you ever played pokemon games it's like that..
Bardic knowledge! This is the only non-song ability The Captain gets. It's like Scan!
Countersong! This song is by far the most powerful and works like a wall spell. But ONLY works on spells, not psionics. (Note: late in the game you will discover that psionics and magick are but extensions of liberal and conservatist energies. That idelougism is not just a state of mind, but a noun all in itself..)
Inspire Courage! You may be wondering what the point to learning inspire courage is, i mean afterall, how many times is a fear spell going to break you? Well here's a hint.. Mephestopheses'es unholy aura applies to that fear generalization!
Inspire Comepetence! This song increases the stats of one of your characters of your choosing. Pretty good to have..
Song of Freedom! Makes your next run succesful garanteed, unless you are unable to run from said character. so don't think you can cheat your way out of a boss battle.
Inspire Heroics! A buff for the whole gang. Yaybems..
Suggestion! Suggestion is a tricky song, it has a random effect. It will either make the target be under the impression of a sleep, confusion, or fear spell. A mage at low-level could do what suggestion does..
With no armor equipable, a poor selection of weapons, and crappy attack/HP and defence you'd think he wasn't worth taking. But his evade and run checks are pretty good, guess they'd have to be lol.
Heh, ultima shadow you just gave me a swell idea. xD
Ultima Shadow.
[i]Being a druid, when confonted with the ACLU Ultima Shadow told them to "bite his furry ass" and has been an outlaw amongst the blue states ever sense. On the run, and nowhere to turn. You can choose to add this scared yet powerful moogle to your party. If you can deal with lack of good stats and weapons/armor options. So what can this guy do exactly?
Wild-shape! Ultima Shadow can transform into differant animals each with strengths and weaknesses.
As a gator your simply lean and mean. Though your attack isn't wonderful, your chances of critical hits go up dramaticaly!
Again, not a great attack increase, but with such high evade and run percentage checks as a wolf you won't notice.
Ocho.
Nothing about your stats really gets better, (Sept your defence..) but as a bad smelling plant you warn that you posess a deadly toxin. If still any be foolish enough to anger you every physichal attack you peform has a 10% chance of poisening them.
Before you go dino happy be prepared to take the good with the bad. Yes as a dinosaur you get increddible strength and defence, but it's also the shortest lasting wild-shape and makes your evade go down to practicaly nothing!
Venom immunity! You become immune to poisen.
Transform! An updated version of wild-shape which allows you to take on the form of an elemental force in itself!
Earth-Increddible strength and defence.
Fire-Good attack and a fire special ability.
Air-Nice evade and a wind attack.
Water-An evade second to air's and an ice attack to match.
Ultima! The "ultimate" transformation! You transform into whatever you are up against (If more then one opponent choose which.) but are drained down to 25% of your HP or if you have less then that already it remains the same.
Shadow! You become "one with the darkness" and it's bassicaly like hide! Where you can't attack enemies and enemies can't attack you..
Obviously if you have the patience, Ultima Shadow can be quite worth it..
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NecronomicoN. N.
Not that it matters, since you'll never make a game. It still pains me to see that continue.
I can live with that.
But the mogle is way too gentle... I would never sacrifice myself for someone else.
What about making the "Ultima" thing something that transforms me into a copy of a selected monster, except that my stats remains the same as before. I get the moves and weakness/Immunities of a selected monster?
Another thing... can 1 of my transformations be a Malboro Flower? Or atleast SOMETHING that "smells bad".
what about the homicidal maniac the psychopath killer the guy who just kills for the sake of it on either side? you cant forget the psychos noooo you need someone who will shoot everyone on the wrong side untill they are horse crap thats what any good game needs
LET THE HAMMER FALL
Heheh.. you're a "hero" too Shonen.. >: D
Shonen.
You mean Shonen relativly early in the game. "Sucky sucky! Only ten gil!" When confronted by this cross-dressing lunatic you ask why a healre would be selling thier body. "Hey, a girl's gotta eat." Now this time around you have FOUR options..
"Here's twenty gil, love me long time.." An obvious liberal point. And you get fully healed how bout that!
"This is both illegal and immoral! I'm calling the town gaurd!" A defenitie conservative point and the healer is arrested for indecent exposure.
"I hold myself to higher standards then this, but good luck to your proffession err.. I guess.." Liberal point.
"You don't have to sell your services any longer! Once I rid the world of it's prime evil this capitalist charade shall end and everyone will be equal huzah!" Conservative point+you now have the token whitemage join your party.
A couple more of my friends i'm obligated to make characters out of..
Lilacsoup.
Lilacsoup is a psychic-warrior. Much like Sepho, very limited in powers known. In some ways she's better as she has better stats, more equipment options, and a few more powers known. She's worse in the sense that her evasion and run checks are lower, and she posses no special abilities.. She was a former knight now offering her services to the highest bidder as a cold blooded mercenary. Her newest mission? Kill Bill.. Clinton.. little does she know he's already dead.. When you meet her you can convince her to join your party by wanting to extract revenge on bush for killing clinton and denying her her bounty, or you can get on your high horse about how she's just some souless assassin who deserve what she got and walk away. Ofcourse the latter will earn you a liberal point.
Sanitysbane.
[i]Sanitysbane is a well trained monk who's sister has been kidnapped by the illthid! Either way you're going to come across the evil cult, so you may as well let SB help you. His stats are second only to the barbarian's. Besides a handful of "oriental" weapons and "claws" he can't equip anything, but he doesn't need to. His fists are enough. He also has some neat abilities..
Break! He can litteraly focus his chi to break a weapon/peice of armor on your opponent or even break chests/doors open! However you may want to rely on lock picking from a theif to do that as it's less likely to set off a random encounter.
Strike! You're so adept at ki you can make a crippeling blow. It takes one turn to "charge up" then dealing double damage and GARANTEED success rate of hitting! Making those annoying high evade bosses shake in thier boots!
Hadrian-Emrys.
[i]You'll only meet Hadys if you chose Harvest Moon from the beggening.. Hadrian tells you of a story about how you two got drunk and made out and how you never called again once you went to that erudite to cast amnesia on you. You proclaim "Well obviously I wanted to forget if i got an erudite to cast amnesia on me." Let the girly man join your team if you want or if you don't. It doesn't even effect your political status.. Though the ranger archer's stats have alot to be desired.. (Even his best stats being accuracy, evade, and run arn't that great..) he has some really cool abilities to give him some thought..
Queer eye! Your next attack has 100% accuracy.
Straight as an arrow! This attack does anywhere from x1 1/2 to x3 damage.
Blank shots! You attack anywhere from 2-6 times but the attacks only do 1/2 damage.
Level 1-3 magick of the healing variety.
Valen Emrys.
Wal-Mart doesn't learn!! In this area Valen a magick shop owner is being threatend by a Super Wal-Mart that they can sell just as good of spells at a much lower price! Which they can ofcourse.. Valen possess one spell that you will not find anywhere else in the world, you can choose to either buy it through him or the Super Wal-Mart. Again: Choose carefuly as denying the Wal-Mart means encountering SAMs club members in this area as well! Not to meation Super Wal-Mart sells OTHER rare spells! Some that you'd otherwise have to find in a dungeon and even one other spell you couldn't get anywhere else! However choose the massive coporation and unlike last time Valen won't be so slow to react hostily. "Oh! You exsude such a holy aura disallowing a family franchise to countinue in favor of cheaper products that have those prices do to overseas labor! I simply cannot allow you to waste your precious time when there is so many small buisnesses to screw over! GO GO!! FOR THE GOOD OF THE CITY!" "Wiseass.."
thats more like it but did Shonen have to be a white mage hooker and not someone who repeatly hits people or steals stuff or food you left out alot of the psycho stuff but still pretty mad
LET THE HAMMER FALL
I'd be honored to do the music...or something...!^_^
Yo ho ho ho...!!
lol, suresure. Check out the editoral.I can live with that.
But the mogle is way too gentle... I would never sacrifice myself for someone else.
What about making the "Ultima" thing something that transforms me into a copy of a selected monster, except that my stats remains the same as before. I get the moves and weakness/Immunities of a selected monster?
Another thing... can 1 of my transformations be a Malboro Flower? Or atleast SOMETHING that "smells bad".
Here's some notable characters:
Chibi Tesu.
Harvest Moon's hotty ex. If and when you find Chibi Tesu, depending on if you are liberal or conservative she will bare you a differant gift. Liberals get a permanent stat increase, conservatives get an "orb of summoning". be careful, you can only use it once so save it for if you really really need it. What conjuration does it contain?! Only...
That's right! The prince of darkness Ozzy Osbourne! And he'll bite the head off a boss if you so command it!
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