RPG satisfying all gamer types?

tuxx · 2003-07-20T17:04:46

I was reading Swords and Circuitry, and it said that there are six basic types of gamers: the warrior, the critical thinker, the story chaser, the treasure hunter, the navel gazer, and the tourist. The warrior wants to win the game by fighting. The critical thinker wants to 'out-think' the game. The story chaser wants a good story. The treasure hunter wants a lot of stuff. The navel gazer wants their character to be the most powerful, and the tourist wants to explore. So I was wondering about making an RPG that satisfies all these types. For example, if there is a troll guarding a gate, you can either kill the troll with your sword, shoot the chandelier so it drops on the troll's head, persuade the troll, sneak up to the troll and pick-pocket the key, or do a subquest for the troll in which he'll give you the key and extra money and extra stuff. Although I'm sure you can do this in a lot of games (except for shooting the chandelier maybe), the difference is that you would get points for getting past the troll as you would for fighting him. For example, if you fight the troll, you might get +50 XP and +10 combat. If you drop the chandelier on the troll's head, you would get +50 XP and +10 wisdom. If you sneak up to the troll, you would get +50 XP and +10 stealth. If you persuade the troll, you might get +50 XP and +10 charisma. If you do a subquest for the troll, you might get +50 XP and +10 fame. Now I just made up placeholders for the last paragraph because I don't have a battle system thought out or anything. What do you think of my idea? I thought of it because in some other games, if you just stealthily crawl past all the baddies, you don't get anything out of it, whereas if you fight them, you get loads of XP and stuff. So what do you think? edit: I forgot this paragraph: Since your combat score would make you better at combat, your wisdom score would make you better at thinking outside the box, making puzzles more obvious for you (and the puzzles would get progressively harder). Stealth would make you better at sneaking, charisma would make you persuade players better, and fame is a bit like charisma, except for it's harder to get, yet easier to apply. edit: addition: Also, with what Waverider said, maybe the enemies, puzzles, etc. would be harder relative to your certain skill at it. That way, if you spend all your time doing puzzles, but you end up having to fight the big boss, the boss might not be nearly as good at combat as if a level 25370 fighter fought him (but he would still be really hard, and it would be easier to beat him with a puzzle since you are so good at critical thinking). That way, it would be easier for the player to switch aspect of the game. Wait a second, a boss implies that the game is won by fighting. So maybe there should be multiple ways to win the game.

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Started by tuxx July 14, 2003 12:25 PM

20 comments, last by tuxx 21 years, 6 months ago

Pipo DeClown

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July 20, 2003 02:47 PM

Diablo? Red Moon? Any MMORPG?

TechnoGoth

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July 20, 2003 05:04 PM

Don''t forget the completionists who are players who one to find 100% of the secerts in a game. Even if consits of going to bottom of a hidden 99 level dungeon pressing a button. Then going to fight games final boss, but running away instead of killing it. Then head back to the bottom of 99 level dungeon to fight the secert super boss, thats nearly invcible.

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