Callaxes
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Callaxes said:A CRPG based on slavic myths would be amazing.
The Ninth Circle said:<awesome>
Annie Carlson said:The Ninth Circle said:<awesome>
Back in the day, when I was but a pup in the game industry, I proposed a game where you played as a fallen deity. Well, not "fallen" like as the devil, but "fallen" as in your name had faded. Hundreds of years before, another pantheon of deities had led in an invading force, and used an artifact to "seal" you and the other gods in stones. With your people busy with trying to fight off an invading force, their usual devotions were interrupted, sapping your strength to break out and fight back; and as you were unable to grant their requests for aid, soon their culture fell and was conquered.
Ages later, a group of rather foolish but greedy adventurers (I think it was a priest, a male rogue-type guy, and a burly female fighter) came along and inadvertently freed you - and you, being an angry god, immediately subverted them to your will. By yourself you can't fight the other pantheon... but with the priest being the herald of your new religion (and going from town to town secretly converting people into new believers to give you power), and "possessing" the fighter and rogue to do your dirty work, the goal was to conquer territory, get followers, free the other members of your pantheon, and defeat/drive out the gods of the invaders.
I wish I had that concept back. Yeah, I found out later it was a lot like Actraiser (which I'd never played, sadly), but man, I liked the idea a LOT.
...also anything based on the Ramayana would be seriously sweet.
Annie Carlson said:Working on it, trust me. Again, Seattle job market is total poops. But I am a persistent Annie, and I wants to make the games. This shall come to pass.
Annie Carlson said:Working on it, trust me. Again, Seattle job market is total poops. But I am a persistent Annie, and I wants to make the games. This shall come to pass.
Sounds like an RTS of sorts, where instead of gaining the usual resources (gold, lumber, etc) you're conquering the minds of citizens. How would it have played out exactly? I can't exactly picture how it'd all come together.Annie Carlson said:The Ninth Circle said:<awesome>
Back in the day, when I was but a pup in the game industry, I proposed a game where you played as a fallen deity. Well, not "fallen" like as the devil, but "fallen" as in your name had faded. Hundreds of years before, another pantheon of deities had led in an invading force, and used an artifact to "seal" you and the other gods in stones. With your people busy with trying to fight off an invading force, their usual devotions were interrupted, sapping your strength to break out and fight back; and as you were unable to grant their requests for aid, soon their culture fell and was conquered.
Ages later, a group of rather foolish but greedy adventurers (I think it was a priest, a male rogue-type guy, and a burly female fighter) came along and inadvertently freed you - and you, being an angry god, immediately subverted them to your will. By yourself you can't fight the other pantheon... but with the priest being the herald of your new religion (and going from town to town secretly converting people into new believers to give you power), and "possessing" the fighter and rogue to do your dirty work, the goal was to conquer territory, get followers, free the other members of your pantheon, and defeat/drive out the gods of the invaders.
I wish I had that concept back. Yeah, I found out later it was a lot like Actraiser (which I'd never played, sadly), but man, I liked the idea a LOT.
...also anything based on the Ramayana would be seriously sweet.
Annie Carlson said:Back in the day, years before, stones.
Ages later, a priest came to the new religion to dodirty work.
Gragt said:Overlord?
The Ninth Circle said:Sounds like an RTS of sorts, where instead of gaining the usual resources (gold, lumber, etc) you're conquering the minds of citizens. How would it have played out exactly? I can't exactly picture how it'd all come together.
Fuck you. Age of Mythology is awesome.circ said:Slavic as in Dracula? No thanks. Fuck all that werewolf crap and cyclops, Hercules, etc. It makes for good reading and sometimes good movies but goddamn if Titan Quest and other straight mythology games aren't dumb and weak as shit.