Recent content by Dragomir

Realism and Seriousness are not to be considered factors that game can either benefit or get worse from. It's just another level of depth you can add. Games that try to be "serious" nowadays often are simply stupid and that's why they don't benefit from that. But looking at Telltale's Walking...

Or we could just take it to the melee combat thread :P I'm afraid half swording only really makes sense with well... Half swords (which is - swords that only have their tip tempered). They're surely good for fencing, but most swords are best off being sharp on the whole blade. And there's no...

I don't really like the idea of having to switch styles. Don't get me wrong, there are many different stances and guards one can take, but fighting style should be much more dynamic than choosing from different sets of combos (as it was in Witcher). I'd rather have something more similar to what...

The main problem with AAA rpg's is that they try to appeal to as many people as possible ;) That produces boring, mediocore stories in which you run around, complete generic quests, kill anything that looks at you funny without consequence (now even breaking equipment is not a concern) and...

Have you even read my first post? My point was not to necessarily make it a realistic ecosystem, in which the amount of turds dropped by buffalos can affect the quantity of flowers in the next months. What I would want is some AI algorythms that would make animals respond to the player, to...

I think it would serve well as a safe archery training for example.

Hm, we don't yet know much about Sui Generis' economy, but I'd sure love it if it was dynamic (like the rest of the game's world). And not only for hides etc. but all kinds of stuff - that way we could use it to get rich. I'd love to for once play a wandering merchant in an RPG :D Especially if...

When I said "with time I learned" I meant in real life reenactment fights ;) I also tend to play a lone stealthy character, but that's a major difference. Stealth happens BEFORE the combat, when combat starts you're not sneaking anymore obviously. And the discussion was about combat itself. What...

Thanks for appreciation :D My whole post was supposed to be guidelines to what devs should do if they DO want realism in certain areas of the game. The existence of magic in the realisty of Sui Generis is I think enough to make it not-boring ;) I'm perfectly aware however that realism doesn't...

Huh? And what's wrong with that? It's not us that are working on the game, so we can only wish and drop in some ideas. I don't know of any game that would have a working ecosystem done right. Sui Generis is supposed to be a simulation of a persistent fantasy world and that wouldn't be...

Oh yes, pets and companions is one of the many possibilities of advanced creature AI. Now imagine a situation in which we carry a big leg of lamb or some other delicious animal, and a pack of wolves starts to follow us. Then, if we frop the meat on the ground they'd start eating and leave us...

All of that I wrote assuming that there will be animals. If there won't - surely such system won't be in place either. I really think though, that animals are necessary to bring such world as Sui Generis will present us to life. Creatures are one of the last stages of production, I think the...

Yes, I think it's essential for this game to work out well. We have a persistent world with NPC's going about their buisness, all animals should do the same - including natural monsters. They should hunt and eat each other, sleep and reproduce (we don't have to necessarily see it though). I...

I really liked it in Gothic :D Not only you were killed by predators in forests, after they bite you to death you could just watch your character being eaten by it :D Actually, that's a suggestion I'd like to make, but not in this thread, as it's in no way linked to Lloyd and his points.

Well, I have a different view on that. Some fantasy that leans towards realism can be a simulation of a world that has magic instead of simply being a fairytale in which dragons are best killed by sword&board. Besides - you can go incredibly creative designing a weapon that is specialised for...