RPG on the go! Run and fight at the same time?

Dark Elf · 2005-06-04T20:42:59

This is a game idea that I have been wondering about for awhile now and would greatly appreciate some feedback on this subject. Please note that there may be a game out there that does something like this and I haven't heard about it yet. Most RPGS either have tactics like approach (move your guys around in battle and do lots of tactical stuff), others have the hack and slash (run up to a guy and beat the crap out of him until hes dead and gives you experience[pardon my expression]), or the old you have a party and your enemy has a party; Now take turns attacking each other until somebody dies. To me all of this has seemed a little fake, for if you were fighting someone would you wait for them to walk up behind and strike a devastating blow to you? No, nor if you were in a fight would you keep attacking the same way over and over again, hack, hack, hack, hack, hack, etc. So now to get to the point, what would it be like if you could run around like in an action game and perform combos and summon awesome magic spells with free movement? To better clear up how I invision this, it would be like a 3rd person shooter except instead of guns you where armed with medieval weapons and powerful magic. I have seen some games go to achieve stuff like this (i.e. Tales of Symphonia). But would it be possible to have this idea converted into a 2D game where the camera is positioned directly over the character? Would gameplay lack due to it being 2D? Would it be harder to move and avoid attacks as well as perform combos? I know that you have already done alot by reading all of this but please just take a minute or two to respond to this, thank you.

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Started by Dark Elf June 03, 2005 08:54 PM

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June 04, 2005 08:42 PM

I am glad that all of you have been able to help answer my questions that I posed. The only thing that still worries me is the over-the-top view witch might make combat look dry and not very exciting. Is there any way that I could do this type of 2D game isometricly without having to put in as much work as a 3D game?

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