Since the release of Final Fantasy VII and Diablo, the RPG genre has ramped up the glitz and glamour and ignored those of us that preferred a straightforward RPG experience.
I enjoyed Bard's Tale and Wizardry, and hope that the simplistic style of the earlier Final Fantasies can be revisited at some point as well (although hopefully with deeper plot; Final Fantasy X was entirely over my head.)
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will occur when they hybridize the genres of spaceship combat and planetary combat in the same game.
The first such game will involve levels like a star base and planetside bases that must be conquered, with offensive capabilities being divided between troops, spaceships that can assault troops/other spaceships or transport them to bases, and base weaponry that can attack spaceships or troops just outside the door.
As bandwidth becomes cheaper and more available, eventually games similar to Master of Orion will be played out in this manner, with a few people performing 'governor' functions, others 'commander', and the rest being pilots or troops. And that's just going to rock.
This is a story because the work is being done for American companies. Americans, in this case, would be reclaiming their jobs at much lower pay and standards, rather than claiming jobs from somebody else's job pool.
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I enjoyed Bard's Tale and Wizardry, and hope that the simplistic style of the earlier Final Fantasies can be revisited at some point as well (although hopefully with deeper plot; Final Fantasy X was entirely over my head.)
It's pretty rare that an e-mail that we send out does not eventually get to its recipient, and in most cases the e-mail is in response to something so the recipient will let us know if they aren't getting a message from us, so this system has been working out well so far.
The first such game will involve levels like a star base and planetside bases that must be conquered, with offensive capabilities being divided between troops, spaceships that can assault troops/other spaceships or transport them to bases, and base weaponry that can attack spaceships or troops just outside the door.
As bandwidth becomes cheaper and more available, eventually games similar to Master of Orion will be played out in this manner, with a few people performing 'governor' functions, others 'commander', and the rest being pilots or troops. And that's just going to rock.
I think it merits discussion.