alright... maybe I was a bit hard about that... but I have a very strong opinion about what I want the fourth character to be, and I will not be moved on that part. The space man character should have a minor part in the game. I don't want to see it degenerate into taking missions.
I do not want a character who is and always was a cat girl. If there is a cat girl there should be a definite explanation as to why, and not just that she's like that, or that they simply exist. I know the cat girl as the main character idea was shot down, after reading a bit more I discovered that... sorry for overstating that a bit. I also know that cat girls are a staple of anime. This is not an Anime. And in terms of storyline, I intend to give it as much continuity as absolutely possible. I hate stories where one thing happens, and then another, and they completely contradict eachother. Especially when there's no explanation behind it. Or when the explanation is a complete cop-out, like how they explained The Legend of Zelda by saying every two games they get another Link.
In further news, yes, geek related characters are fine. Thats actually closer to what I originally planned anyway... In fact, I made a list of characters and weapons that they'd use a while back... not anything specific, but a list of weapon types. I don't know if I can find it, but I'd like to share that with you because I think it would help. They're all named after friends of mine, so I'll just put in first names, I'm sure they wouldn't care that much about that. Maybe I could latinize it...
I should have that ready in a couple hours, maybe tomorrow... we'll see if I can find that page...
Ok, I couldn't find that page, but I found others...
Dylan, Sam, Scott, Ben, Josh, Ilya, Andy, Craig, Joel, Andrew
And the various weapons: Dagger, Sword, Katana, Massive Sword, Pistol Carbine, Rifle, Big Guns, Sniper Rifle, Polearm, Staff, Hammer, Claws, Katars, Hand signs, SubMachine Guns, Dual Daggers.
Dylanius - Katanas, Katars, Swords, Rifles
Samsocutus (Mr. E)- Massive Swords, Swords, Daggers, Pistols
Scotticus - Carbine, Pistol
Benjicus (Mr. C)- Sniper Rifle, Sword, Rifle, Carbine
Joshuacius (Mr. D)- Polearms, Staff, Carbines
Ilyanicus - Claws, Swords, Daggers, Pistols
Andronicus - SubMachine Guns, Carbines, Swords
Craigiticus - Daggers, Dual Daggers
Joeliticus (Mr. B)- Big Guns, Rifles, Carbines
Andruiticus (Mr. A)- Swords, Polearms, Hammers, Daggers, Pistols
And then there would be various abilities like Magic, Technomagic, TechnoBabble, Energy, E-Skills, Knife Figher, Dragoon Skills... I hadn't come up with all of them, but stuff like that.
And the story was that a visitor either from the future, or from another planet talks to Josh, and tells him he needs to help them. Then Josh goes off and finds Andrew at the Convention. Andrew gathers his buddies, and goes off to save the day. First stop being a Space Station. After that, I wasn't too sure, but I knew it would be awesome.
There can be more or less characters, I have always enjoyed large numbers of characters though, Especially in FF6. Even if they are just random guys that had little story, but simply were there to be awesome. Like Gogo. And how many speculations have there been about Gogo's true identity? How many of them are right? All of them are! Because as far as Squaresoft is concerned, I don't think they even care! I doubt they made Any story for the poor sap. And because of that people start to speculate.
I usually don't say this, but I love things like that. When there's an aspect of a game that isn't fully explained, so the fans have to make something up. And they do. This is not to say that nothing can be explained, but not every hidden item needs a backstory, or a completely descriptive name. The Economizor for example... where the heck did it come from? I never actually found it. But I mean, Illumina! Where did it come from? Why does it have to be the best sword in the game? Why not Ragnarok, or Excalibur, or the Masamune? Is Masamune even in that game? I forgot by now.
Yeah... I like that kind of thing. Thats my steam of thought for today, I'll try to work some on that engine.... but its not going well. I unfortunately don't know quite enough about Java to put that together. I don't know enough about C++ either... but I at least have a tutorial using C... so, we'll see how that works. With any luck, I'll get something started by next week.
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