Jeff wrote:The current view on inventory is similar to yours - it's going to be realistic. If you want to carry Diablo-esque amounts of stuff you're going to have to hire a dude to carry it for you. There's no magic backpacks or anything. You will be able to carry around a large backpack or sack with which you can store things in using the 3d interface, but you probably will want to drop it before battle. If you need more throwing knives, you can run back to your bag and load up.
Man, that's just so awesome when you think about it. First of all, moving away from an Item list based on wieght, sick! Moving away from a 2-d grid and going 3-d? Sick! That's like... drop stuff in your backpack and watch it roll around, amazing!
Oh, and Packrats? Sick, that's going to be like well I can only compare it to games like Dungeon Siege's donkeys but, it could be like this awesome 'pal' system (pal as in Monty Python's Holy Grail, those horses they got were hella tight, complete with coconuts and stuff). You know how you always use your buddies in Fallout to carry all your crap, but then they just end up getting killed in fights or basically getting in your way and making combat hella annoying? (mainly because it's turn based) Lugaru's style would work hecka awesome with buddies, not only that, but the different movement types could give them dynamic personalites too.
Lethargic pack rabbits would definitely be the crowd pleasers.
The only problem as with most buddies would be the pathfinding, I'm betting it's going to be damn near impossible to get a buddy to follow you around some tricky situations, specially since you can easily jump for miles onto high platforms that computers can't seem to get to. They either get stuck behing walls if you move to fast, or they just can't figure out how to jump to where you are. It would be sorta awkward, but it's going to be hard to make complex pathfinding without going FF8 style (where your buddies follow your
exact foot movements, down to the tail chasing), that would be cool and neccesary to do during some places, but might look a bit funny when you're just running around plains and stuff. How are you guys going to manage that? (oh, well I see there's nothing wrong with giving them a wait here option. Less you want them to be with you cuz you ain't coming back
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And that dropping off your stuff before fights? It's nothing groundbreaking however (though games never consider prepping for fights so... I guess it would be a brand new style for games! One that doesn't involve you hitting a number '4' before a fight. For me, hitting number '4' gave my dwarf hunter a better ranged attack on WoW), that would be an awesome thing to do! I always imagine that scene from Saving Private Ryan where they leave their stuff before attacking the MG42 nest and Upom stays even though their medic is the one that gets hit in the spine anywa- Nevermind but yeah, dropping your stuff down is going to feel so badass.
It'd be equivalent to taking off your jacket before a fist fight, cept in Lugaru it would have an actual meaning other than your fear of getting your outfit a little ripped.
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