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On Tue, 19 May 1998 05:59:14 GMT, cahyotw@hotmail.com (Cahyo) wrote:

>Hey!... I found a message on Mon, 18 May 1998 18:55:42 +1000 from
>Maria and Simon Ratner <z2152908@student.unsw.edu.au>....cool!:
>
>
>>Hi everyone,
>>
>>I am a computer RPG developer, and i just want some opinions from the guys who
>>play the games ...
>>
>>What are people's thoughts on whether it is better to have a single
>>character (ie Diablo), or a party ?
>
>It doesn't matter... Fallout has single character and it is good
>
Fallout is great.. probably the best roleplaying game on computer that
i have seen. What bothers me about most CRPG's is that there is no
oportunity for role playing, mostly your character(s) are defined in
to simplistic or restrictive terms, and dont allow you to really get a
feel for the character.

I dont know how others feel, but I only really 'care' about the
character when I feel that I have control over what they are good at ,
what skills they have and how they react, for example in the old SSI
games, I had no real way to play a character that used wits and guile
to solve his problems rather than brute force.. and all of the
characters just fit into their molds... oh he is just a fighter, or a
mage, rather than this Kris, she is is good with pistols but would
prefer to talk her way out of most situations.

>>Good and bad points for either ?..
>
>As long as you can control it in TURN-based, they're not a problem.
>
Totally agree here, in not one roleplaying session that I have had
with my group have I needed to decide what my character was doing in
the combat in 3secs everytime there was combat. Also a poor interface
design may cause severe problems if the combat is realtime, for those
of you who have played Fallout, can you imagine that if the combat was
real time, how quickly you would get killed while rooting around in
the slow interface of your inventory to change weapons? So either make
the interface quick and easy or make the combat turn based. Turn based
combat also allows you to make more strategic descions.

>A good RPG ---> Balanced btween COMBAT and STORY. , and has a
>Turn-Based mode for combat (MM6, despite being addictive, has too many
>combat, I think. Fallout has a good balance).
>So... maybe single character might be better than party system because
>then you can focus more on the story than the stats.
>
Story is everything, if the system is great, the interface is great
and the graphics are great and the story just plain sucks then I will
not play the game. One of my all time favourites, which I still play
now is wasteland by EA/Interplay, it has shoddy graphics but great
story and gameplay... so I play it, also you only have to look at the
popularity of games like Moria to realise that graphics are not the
most important thing.
>>Simon Ratner
>>__________________________________________________
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>>  I have seen the truth, and it makes no sense.
>>
>>  Contact us at:
>>  	mailto:simon.ratner@iname.com  and
>>	mailto:maria.ratner@iname.com
>
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