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I liked the Uninstall button, it was awesome.

EDIT: And we still have 17 more pages to go.

I had this idea for a MMO:

You're not a character, you're you. As in, you're some disembodied spirit or soul or whatever, and YOU gain experience the more you play, and you can generate a character with that experience, and if he dies, he dies, maybe even have children that become NPCs that you can possess, and then use your own experience points to raise his skills or whatever. Maybe with a cap (so most players are around the same power level, but sorta unique), but you gain experience in different areas (like in Fable where you spend points in "magic" or "stealth" skills) so your next character can be either more specialized or not. So basically you unlock stuff as you play, like the ability of making more varied characters, or unlock "skill cards" that you can apply to your new characters. And if you're too damn lazy to make a new character every time you die, there are ways around permadeath, but somehow the game encourages you to die and "move on", like creating a powerful bloodline. Then maybe you can inherit some of the items you previously had, IF they're powerful artifacts (not generic equipment). I didn't exactly polish the idea much.

Oh yeah and the world was fractally generated with infinite zoom levels, and there were geography-changing spell effects that could leave a huge crater anywhere (which would be saved on top of the fractal geography), same thing with cities and stuff. And you could influence the evolution of a site (such as a town) but without having to build it brick by brick (but you could build a house in the "procedurally generated" town). It had layers of fractal + custom content.  Like an onion, or an ogre.

Rant rant rant rant...

EDIT: Oh yeah, and your experience points don't dwindle when you use them, but the new "character" has to sort of "powerlevel", which is really fast tho (except the game is point based, not level based), until he reached the actual experience points you used to create him, and then you start gaining more XP for your "soul" again.

And you don't even have to die, you can "abandon" your current character, who will keep living as a NPC and maybe become a major character in the world or something.

Quote from: Snugglebear on June 24, 2009, 12:40:17 pm

Quote from: Cecilff2 on June 24, 2009, 11:37:52 am

I wouldn't recommend Phantasmagoria, but 7th Guest had some really good puzzles in it.  I have 13th Hour(it's sequel) but I dont' remember it...

7th Guest was great, except the microscope puzzle, which was an incalculable pain in the ass.  11th Hour is not nearly as good.

Oh yeah you're right, it's 11th Hour not 13th.  Also, maybe thats why I didn't remember it very well.

I got gifted the original CDs of 11th Hour. It was as entertaining as Excel. And it was about as scary as doing my taxes, which is quite scary (for the same reasons) but not exactly horrorshow scary.

I haven't played it yet (it crashes on my DOSBox I think) but "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" is pretty horrific from what I've read. It's based on a really creepy sci-fi book.

I used to have nightmares as a kid, but as I grow older, it's like all my nightmares are low budget ones. The flying monster that wants to eat me, you can see the strings that hang it from the ceiling, and whenever I find myself naked in the middle of my old classroom nobody seems to want to make fun of me. It's incredibly frustrating.

I don't know if this would help, but the worst part about having nightmares is being scared to go to sleep... trying to stay awake and dreading the moment that you'll lose consciousness. Maybe try to go to sleep with a high level of security, you know... imagine that you're Rambo and that you're doing that setup sequence from the movies where you tie your hair and ready your combat knives, and go to sleep prepared to kick some ass. To survive the nightmare, you must become the nightmare.

On the other hand it could be the most idiotic advice that you'll receive so YMMV.

Well, I'm leaving my regular day job at the end of June, and going to spend more time in personal projects and stuff for money, so I'm guessing I'm going to have an easier time to set aside time for role playing sessions at any time and hour I like.

The best weapon in the world is and always will be the pen.  It overthrows dictators, turns brothers against each other, and brings down castles.  Just fill the casing with a chemical or explosive and stab.

The penis mightier.