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Albow0001 · 06-14-2004, 12:16 PM

1: As for vehicles: You will be in some, but not driving. If i started incorporating vehicles it could get ugly. Either i give them the ability to take a car, in which case they're wondering why they can't steal a car any time and drive into the sunset, or i give them dicky weird little vehicles that only work in certain areas, that really will remove the realism of the game because it's simply too weird to be driving. In the case of cars, once you have a car, the whole thing becomes open ended really, and you want to drive off anywhere, when in order to improve character development, the whole thing is a little linear at points. Plus i just can't map the whole world for ya, sorry ;-) In terms of dicky little vehicles, think like a zamboni: Yeah, you'd probably find one at some point, and you could definitely restrict it to just a big hockey rink or something...but once you hop on that zamboni, you're immediately pulled away from any of the horror elements. It's just like "weeee i'm on a zamboni! Fuck this!!!"
So, the solution is largely the bus driver: any cars you do come across will either be just visible on the map but not reachable, or will be busted so bad you obviously couldn't use them. When you meet the bus driver however, they will drive the bus and you can be in it, and then you still script an awesome crash sequence, but you're in a vehicle.

2: For Akimbo: Lemme think about it. That gets into some pretty hard coding at points unless HL-2 already has it. And although it could be done indeed, i'm not sure if i'm sold on the idea of letting a horror character feel like an action movie character. I'm trying to shy away from too many guns altogether. I definitely agree that not enough games let you go akimbo, especially when they push around how realistic they are. But again think in the confines of a horror game, if you're in a creaking groaning hospital listening to moans down the hall with nothing but a flashlight to lead you on, having some dual AK's is going to make you a lot more ballsy than having a broom you found downstairs.

Please, get back to me on your thoughts!

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Albow0001 is Offline Senior Member Posts: 2,416 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Canada! Home of fast beer and bubbly women... Wait, i think i mixed that up	06-14-2004, 12:16 PM 1: As for vehicles: You will be in some, but not driving. If i started incorporating vehicles it could get ugly. Either i give them the ability to take a car, in which case they're wondering why they can't steal a car any time and drive into the sunset, or i give them dicky weird little vehicles that only work in certain areas, that really will remove the realism of the game because it's simply too weird to be driving. In the case of cars, once you have a car, the whole thing becomes open ended really, and you want to drive off anywhere, when in order to improve character development, the whole thing is a little linear at points. Plus i just can't map the whole world for ya, sorry ;-) In terms of dicky little vehicles, think like a zamboni: Yeah, you'd probably find one at some point, and you could definitely restrict it to just a big hockey rink or something...but once you hop on that zamboni, you're immediately pulled away from any of the horror elements. It's just like "weeee i'm on a zamboni! Fuck this!!!" So, the solution is largely the bus driver: any cars you do come across will either be just visible on the map but not reachable, or will be busted so bad you obviously couldn't use them. When you meet the bus driver however, they will drive the bus and you can be in it, and then you still script an awesome crash sequence, but you're in a vehicle. 2: For Akimbo: Lemme think about it. That gets into some pretty hard coding at points unless HL-2 already has it. And although it could be done indeed, i'm not sure if i'm sold on the idea of letting a horror character feel like an action movie character. I'm trying to shy away from too many guns altogether. I definitely agree that not enough games let you go akimbo, especially when they push around how realistic they are. But again think in the confines of a horror game, if you're in a creaking groaning hospital listening to moans down the hall with nothing but a flashlight to lead you on, having some dual AK's is going to make you a lot more ballsy than having a broom you found downstairs. Please, get back to me on your thoughts!