Jack Lovejoy
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Hey, its me. I have thought of a lot of things to change and here they are:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM2kcpCjh04
Theme
The Game is now called Occult instead of Demigod. This is because the Player character is now the God of the Occult, created to take down an entity known as the Eldritch that formed out of Humanity's lustful studies into anomalies and supernatural events that have brought the world into chaos as the anomalies have corrupted life on Eilidh, turning them into beings known as Eldritch Abominations. To also note, the game will be fashioned into a realistic surreal watercolor style similar to this Dark Souls 3 Watercolor mod:
http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/aTYgHvCZSkpmx2WkDMuYQf.jpg
The Third person shooter mechanics have changed also as there is an actual ammo count that you need to watch as you shoot out magic bullets from your gunstaff. Everytime you hold the L1 button, you shoot continuously, and as soon as you let go of the button, you are free to move around again but you are punished with a short cooldown that prevents you from dodging or running. The longer you hold down the shoot button, the longer the cooldown lasts, which keeps the Dark Souls mechanic of "Dont get greedy with your attacks or it will give enough time for the enemy to punish you." But since you can walk while the cooldown occurs, you have a slight chance of escaping enemy gunfire or physical attacks. You can reload your ammo fairly quickly upon the press of the R2 button, but you cannot attack or dodge. But on the positive side, there is no cooldown punishment to reloading, you can reload infinitely, and it only takes up a split second. The L2 button is to allow you to aim better by zooming the camera like what standard third person shooter games do.
Onto dodging, its now called Phasing with the press of the R1 button. Phasing allows you to remove yourself out of the physical realm for a short amount of time, allowing you to go through enemy attacks as a ghost. However, this lasts shortly as your powers are limited and you will turn back to normal in a split second. This allows for some strategic consideration with this mechanic like: If the enemy shoots a beam at you, you have to phase to the left or right. But if you phase forward, you are hit as soon as you return to normal. If the enemy shoots a wave attack at you, you have to phase forward, otherwise you are hit by the wide attack range. Plus, there is absolutely no stamina in this game, so you can dodge as much as you want.
For the spells, they are based around augmenting your shooting attacks like the spell called "Widen", which is used to make your magic bullets stretch into waves to hit more enemies. They are mostly there for support and they have long cooldown times as well as casting times that immobilize you for a second, so be cautious in when you use your spells. Best recommended casting them before encountering enemy hordes or bosses. Spells are augmented based on the weapon you are holding like the Magnum Gunstaff making the Widen spell make the bullets even wider or the Arophus making the widen spell vertical to also deal headshot damage to enemies.
To the story and worldbuilding. Since I am following more on Dark Souls, I will focus on Lore even more and make the areas interconnected to one another so that there is no need for a teleport system like in Dark Souls 1. And similarly to Demon's Souls, there are no checkpoints or bonfires in areas, so when you die, you reset at the beginning of the area and start over all again. But, you can explore and search for shortcuts to given paths to make the travel to the boss less infuriating and much quicker. But even though I focus on lore more, that does not mean I will miss out of the plot as your character will have events where he will actually speak with NPCs and contribute to the recurring story. So, I will have to tell the story via Area summaries and lore instead since the game will not be linear in terms of story progression.
The leveling system is now dependent on you gaining exp from enemies and when you have enough exp, you can level up. Each level offers you 8 ability points you can use to increase your stats as you desire. Your stats range from Health (HP bar), Valor (Determines attack power), Willpower (Determines defense), Agility (Determines your equipment hold toleration and speed), and Vitality (Determines the maximum cooldown toleration you can take before passing out). When you die, you lose 10% of your exp until it is 0%.
Well, how does this sound? Do you like these changes or not? Please comment and like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM2kcpCjh04
Theme
The Game is now called Occult instead of Demigod. This is because the Player character is now the God of the Occult, created to take down an entity known as the Eldritch that formed out of Humanity's lustful studies into anomalies and supernatural events that have brought the world into chaos as the anomalies have corrupted life on Eilidh, turning them into beings known as Eldritch Abominations. To also note, the game will be fashioned into a realistic surreal watercolor style similar to this Dark Souls 3 Watercolor mod:
http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/aTYgHvCZSkpmx2WkDMuYQf.jpg
The Third person shooter mechanics have changed also as there is an actual ammo count that you need to watch as you shoot out magic bullets from your gunstaff. Everytime you hold the L1 button, you shoot continuously, and as soon as you let go of the button, you are free to move around again but you are punished with a short cooldown that prevents you from dodging or running. The longer you hold down the shoot button, the longer the cooldown lasts, which keeps the Dark Souls mechanic of "Dont get greedy with your attacks or it will give enough time for the enemy to punish you." But since you can walk while the cooldown occurs, you have a slight chance of escaping enemy gunfire or physical attacks. You can reload your ammo fairly quickly upon the press of the R2 button, but you cannot attack or dodge. But on the positive side, there is no cooldown punishment to reloading, you can reload infinitely, and it only takes up a split second. The L2 button is to allow you to aim better by zooming the camera like what standard third person shooter games do.
Onto dodging, its now called Phasing with the press of the R1 button. Phasing allows you to remove yourself out of the physical realm for a short amount of time, allowing you to go through enemy attacks as a ghost. However, this lasts shortly as your powers are limited and you will turn back to normal in a split second. This allows for some strategic consideration with this mechanic like: If the enemy shoots a beam at you, you have to phase to the left or right. But if you phase forward, you are hit as soon as you return to normal. If the enemy shoots a wave attack at you, you have to phase forward, otherwise you are hit by the wide attack range. Plus, there is absolutely no stamina in this game, so you can dodge as much as you want.
For the spells, they are based around augmenting your shooting attacks like the spell called "Widen", which is used to make your magic bullets stretch into waves to hit more enemies. They are mostly there for support and they have long cooldown times as well as casting times that immobilize you for a second, so be cautious in when you use your spells. Best recommended casting them before encountering enemy hordes or bosses. Spells are augmented based on the weapon you are holding like the Magnum Gunstaff making the Widen spell make the bullets even wider or the Arophus making the widen spell vertical to also deal headshot damage to enemies.
To the story and worldbuilding. Since I am following more on Dark Souls, I will focus on Lore even more and make the areas interconnected to one another so that there is no need for a teleport system like in Dark Souls 1. And similarly to Demon's Souls, there are no checkpoints or bonfires in areas, so when you die, you reset at the beginning of the area and start over all again. But, you can explore and search for shortcuts to given paths to make the travel to the boss less infuriating and much quicker. But even though I focus on lore more, that does not mean I will miss out of the plot as your character will have events where he will actually speak with NPCs and contribute to the recurring story. So, I will have to tell the story via Area summaries and lore instead since the game will not be linear in terms of story progression.
The leveling system is now dependent on you gaining exp from enemies and when you have enough exp, you can level up. Each level offers you 8 ability points you can use to increase your stats as you desire. Your stats range from Health (HP bar), Valor (Determines attack power), Willpower (Determines defense), Agility (Determines your equipment hold toleration and speed), and Vitality (Determines the maximum cooldown toleration you can take before passing out). When you die, you lose 10% of your exp until it is 0%.
Well, how does this sound? Do you like these changes or not? Please comment and like.
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