Would you buy my RPG?

[Excommunicator]

Lost me at "first person exploration that zooms out to third person in combat"

Actually DavidBVal is doing this with his game and it is looking intriguing but yet to see how it goes (and critically it's not single character)

 

[conan_edw]

There's a reason why so many indie developers still use isometric perspective. Please don't throw your friends' money down the drain.

 

[DalekFlay]

Guys you wanna buy my game? It'll be the best one ever!! I just need to find talented people to make it for me first.

Worked for George Lucas.

 

[purpleblob]

If I were to make a Morrowind-inspired RPG, with RTWP combat, first person exploration that zooms out to third person in combat, with elements of newer RPGs too, like emergent gameplay of Kenshi with survival elements of Outward, would you buy it?

First person mode tend to give me a lot of motion sickness so I'm not sure. Also, I know you are big on survival elements, I'm not too keen with it

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Wouldn't even pirate.

 

[Bl@de]

with RTWP combat

 

[just]

i'll make a logo

 

[DJOGamer PT]

with RTWP combat

 

[PrettyDeadman]

Do you even know what an rpg is?

 

[Jamma]

Your design is problematic, because it combines first person and third person.

I understand why, but it doesn't work. So Morrowing plays best as a first person game, because it's exploration oriented. And RTWP plays best for multiple characters so you can manage them all at once.

Problems:
Can you imagine exploring the world in first person with 3-4 characters following you around? Want to get stuck in doors much and never feel alone? No stealth, because you're always a crowd? Any good games that implemented it well? I know of none.

Wizardry 8. First person exploration with a party, where all characters act like a blob that doesn't really exist when it comes to movement and stealth. It works really well.

 

[Rinslin Merwind]

Sorry, but you making a game or salad from all things that you discovered while cleaning your house? If you trying to compile different ideas from different games, at least don't throw names around and try at least bring something original, besides reverse engineered ideas. It's RPG Codex, not all people here will mindlessly buy your game "cuz inspired and shit". If you trying to "check ground" for your idea, at least think it through, ffs.

 

[Harry Easter]

Won't buy anything, I don't see in action. Gameplay footage is always key.

 

[Rinslin Merwind]

with RTWP combat

No. Hell, no. Can we fucking stop with this shit? There was so many RTWP games, market over bloated. Not to mention that RWTP games sells only because it's "just like BG" clones, if you will do a game with RTWP combat and without anything that will interest D&D nerds - your game will be doomed.

 

[DavidBVal]

If you have never built a piece of software before, your chances of success in coordinating a small team to create a complex RPG are exactly zero. Can you tell a good programmer from a bad one? Can you say if they work quickly or slowly? If their code is modular and reusable enough? What kind of management decisions can you make if you don't know these things?

I am not trying to discourage you, I advise you to begin learning the skills required to be able to start making such a game in maybe 10 years.

Teaching yourself to be a decent programmer is something that millions of people on this planet have achieved. Becoming a pure "ideas man" is something that, to my knowledge, hasn't happened yet. Learn to code, make something small by yourself, then decide about your next step.

The perspective-change is indeed awesome, it's what I am doing in my game, but it is a very big challenge and not just in coding, be warned. I am doing it being aware of the risk it brings to a project, and the extra work, but if you don't fully grasp what it entails, you're basically following the recipe of disaster.

 

[Prime Junta]

Sounds like a mishmash of contradictory ideas unlikely to lead anywhere interesting.



I salute you for having the balls to pitch this here, with no experience, no idea of what you're doing, and a completely unrealistic budget. If anything, that is Codexian. Godspeed, you maniac.

 

[JarlFrank]

I love Morrowind-style first person exploration, but RTwP combat is my least favorite combat system, especially if it's round-based (true real-time with pause like in 7.62 High Calibre is ok though). A lot of people will be put off by that combat system being tacked onto a first person RPG.

 

[JarlFrank]

will companions have morrowind pathfinding?

If there would be companions it would be a choice of one mercenary from a pool of several, and you wouldn't control their actions.

So essentially like Neverwinter Nights, literally the worst RPG ever made in the entire history of RPGs?

Yep, no buy.

 

[Butter]

Make a turn-based blobber or make an isometric RTWP. Don't try to make Kenshi. You will feature creep yourself into bankruptcy and a half-finished product.

 

[Loostreaks]

DO IT.
This has all the makings of highly entertaining clusterfuck. Hire that guy that did Grimoire: he only works for 2 cents/hour and it takes him about 20 years to finish the game.

 

[vazha]

I d not even pirate anything you'd ever make, Fluent
I ll tell you what I might pay for though: your written, legally binding consent not to post or do any of those shitty vidya lps of yours again.
If you can set this up as kickstarter campaign, patreon, or petition, I will definitely back it.

 

[moon knight]

Only if there are photorealistic graphics and interactive sex scenes.

 

[HarveyBirdman]

I see you're finally putting that money from your rap career to good use.
Yeah, I'd buy it.

 

[Lord_Potato]

Only if there are photorealistic graphics and interactive sex scenes.

First person or isometric?

 

[laclongquan]

If OP really plan to do RTwP combat...

I would suggest OP take time playing UFO Aftershock and UFO Afterlight. Their combat is a testatement to RTwP tactical.

 

[Mebrilia the Viera Queen]

Mh not a bit interested in a yet another first person RPG. The market will be flooded by them really soon and i would love to have character customization.