Hi Nicol, That is a very interesting idea. Although, I don't think it would work well for SOD. In level 1 there isn't always a need to know what is being picked up in higher levels sometime it is a matter of life and death. For example, say in area 3. There are two rooms on the level heavily filled with monsters. Well, if you run low on ammo you need to hurry up and find another ammo pack so you can kill them before they kill you. So in that way knowing what you are near is good. I don't care about data wafers or anything else at that moment. All I want is armer and ammo, and weapons in a fire fight. I can go back and find the rest after it is over. However, I can certainly see in some games where finding something mysterious would be cool as long as you can do it without being shot at. Grin.
Nicol Oosthuizen wrote: > NB: This email and its contents are subject to our email legal notice > which can be viewed at http://www.sars.gov.za/Email_Disclaimer.pdf > > ---- > Something I picked up in the light cars game which gave me an idea. The > concept of having a surprise packet is very nice. I hear the item car > coming, I don't know at all what that item is until I picked it up. > Let's use sod as an example for the contrary. I'm playing the demo of > sod, only the first level. I'm planning to purchase the full sod. I > don't know if it is working on the rest of the levels but in level 1 to > which the demo is restricted, if I hear the object locator sound my o > key is telling me for example: med kit in 5 feet. It would make the game > ore fun if there's no voice description of the object ahead, only an > object locator sound. Then when I move forward and pick it up and I hear > I picked up a med kit it's a surprise I got by not knowing before I > picked it up what it is. That's what I experience in the first level of > sod: the object locator telling me what the object is before picking it > up. You guys that play the full sod, is the object locator behaving > the same way in the rest of the game? > > It's just a suggestion. It's nice to first pick up an item and then > after picking it up hear what it is. It's like buying a lucky packet. > Although you can by feelling and pressing the packet get a little idea > what might be inside, you actually first get to know what's inside the > packet when you open it. The same with games. I feel the surprise > packet concept makes it a bit more fun. Do you know of any games other > than light car that keeps objects as a surprise until picked up? > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. > > > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
