Zelda

Game Design and Theory Game Design

Started by clrscr December 27, 2001 05:40 PM

24 comments, last by clrscr 22 years, 3 months ago

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December 30, 2001 04:04 AM

Hmmm... Well, if Diablo is a RolePlayingGame, so is the very first Zelda. You had Experience points. And, when you were about to level, you could choose to increase your lowest stat (weapon-life-magic), or continue amassing Experience to increase a stat that is allready higher

I''ve played a character with only points in weapon (kick-ass sword), or pure magic (well... that''s lame, ''cause you kinda need a sword), or pure life (jippie! I won''t die, but neither will they

)... Yeah, that was the life...

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Hyatus

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December 30, 2001 04:20 AM

quote:Original post by clrscr
What do you consider Zelda (Any of them), I dont think there RPG''s because there missing some key elements, like exp points and such.

Zelda II had exp points :p

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Landsknecht

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December 30, 2001 04:27 AM

I think the best way to tell an RPG from an adventure game is to look at the main character at the end of the game. Take Metroid as an example... Great game. But the main character for me and my friend and everyone else on the planet was identical at the end...

The zelda games are in the same vein... The only difference in character at the end of the game are slight variations based on finding or not finding an item. Nothing about player-character interaction.

The first Diablo is almost the same. My rogue and EVERY other rogue in the world end up looking and being identical. Diablo 2 changed that with the skill system. My lvl 40 Necromancer will be unique to me...

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MSW

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December 30, 2001 09:44 AM

Hase - By all meens you are fully entitled to your opinon, just as I am...We arn''t going to change each others minds....I just get agitated when I read these threads argueing that RPGs must have "X,Y, and Z" in the form of "A,B, and C"...when two treads down someone asks if changeing the form of "A,B, and/or C" would make for a ''better RPG'' and everyone posts in agreement

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runemaster

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December 30, 2001 10:08 AM

Zelda : action-adventure.
Diablo : rogue-like RPG.

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Hase

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January 02, 2002 08:53 AM

allright MSW, but me thinks that if people get agitated it´s not a constructive discussion anymore ..