Lionheart: Quotes of the day

Vault Dweller · Aug 19, 2003

Chris Parker said:
The SPECIAL system is an extremely flexible and dynamic rules system. So rather than develop a new system from scratch, we opted to use a system that had worked, and worked well, in a number of games for us. Since we understood how everything worked, adjusting it to work in real-time and with magic wasn't that much of a leap.

Chris Parker said:
Each of these companion characters is controlled by their own AI, but you can give them some instructions during the course of play.

Chris Parker said:
So there are literally thousands of different items

Chris Parker said:
I would estimate the gameplay time to be somewhere in the 40-60 hour range for an average player who does a fair number of sidequests

Chris Parker said:
I think that Lionheart is going to feature the same aspects that have made other Black Isle role-playing games great.

Ion Hardie said:
The system is also very open-ended, allowing for almost infinite expandability. And now that we've added real time combat and magic, we think the system is even better than before!

Ion Hardie said:
Some of the neat advantages, for me, revolve around melee combat, which under a real-time basis, really helps to draw the player into the world and make it feel more like a fight for your life. I personally like the real time feel quite a bit.

Feargus Urguhart said:
I think they will be surprised with how the action aspects of the game and how the RPG system used in Fallout works well in the game. I really feel that fans of our previous games will be surprised to find that they enjoy Lionheart just as much even though it is faster paced.

http://www.rpgcodex.com/content.php?id=36
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Voss · Aug 19, 2003

Chris Parker said:
Each of these companion characters is controlled by their own AI, but you can give them some instructions during the course of play.

Hah!

Chris Parker said:
So there are literally thousands of different items

Even if you consider a ring of protection that gives +3 to AC different from a ring of protection that gives +4 to AC (and otherwise has the same graphic, text, etc), I don't think this is true.

Chris Parker said:
I would estimate the gameplay time to be somewhere in the 40-60 hour range for an average player who does a fair number of sidequests

:shock:

Chris Parker said:
I think that Lionheart is going to feature the same aspects that have made other Black Isle role-playing games great.

Combat, combat, combat? I'll admit that is the same aspect as IWD2. As is killing hundreds of monsters on the straight line march to the end of game. Hmm. One city. initial side quests. a small town later that gets attacked ... goblins and snake-people....
randomly generately blah loot... uncertain motivations...
Great Galloping Ghosts of Gygax! Its the same game!

Ion Hardie said:
The system is also very open-ended, allowing for almost infinite expandability. And now that we've added real time combat and magic, we think the system is even better than before!

Too bad no one took advantage of the almost infinite expandability

Ion Hardie said:
Some of the neat advantages, for me, revolve around melee combat, which under a real-time basis, really helps to draw the player into the world and make it feel more like a fight for your life. I personally like the real time feel quite a bit.

drawn into combat... but sadly away from the world.

Feargus Urguhart said:
I think they will be surprised with how the action aspects of the game and how the RPG system used in Fallout works well in the game. I really feel that fans of our previous games will be surprised to find that they enjoy Lionheart just as much even though it is faster paced.

Yes, people will be very surprised if they enjoy this game.

Lovely quotes.

Saint_Proverbius · Aug 19, 2003

Chris Parker said:
The SPECIAL system is an extremely flexible and dynamic rules system. So rather than develop a new system from scratch, we opted to use a system that had worked, and worked well, in a number of games for us. Since we understood how everything worked, adjusting it to work in real-time and with magic wasn't that much of a leap.

Isn't this guy currently working for Feargus' new company?

If they understood how everything in SPECIAL works, then why the bloody hell did they have three types of physical damage when you could tweak the damage mods and damage resistances of the items for physical damage like Fallout's ammo did so they could mimmick hollow point, normal, and armor piercing rounds? I still want to know why they fucked that one up.

Chris Parker said:
I would estimate the gameplay time to be somewhere in the 40-60 hour range for an average player who does a fair number of sidequests

Whoops, side quests not implimented. Sorry! Here, have some dungeons.

Chris Parker said:
I think that Lionheart is going to feature the same aspects that have made other Black Isle role-playing games great.

Load screen, minimap, and goblins are just three examples of these features!

Ion Hardie said:
The system is also very open-ended, allowing for almost infinite expandability. And now that we've added real time combat and magic, we think the system is even better than before!

I remember smacking this boy around with this statement on the news here at RPG Codex.

Ion Hardie said:
Some of the neat advantages, for me, revolve around melee combat, which under a real-time basis, really helps to draw the player into the world and make it feel more like a fight for your life. I personally like the real time feel quite a bit.

Now you know why Reflexive has never made a good game.

Feargus Urguhart said:
I think they will be surprised with how the action aspects of the game and how the RPG system used in Fallout works well in the game. I really feel that fans of our previous games will be surprised to find that they enjoy Lionheart just as much even though it is faster paced.

I wonder if this is one of the quotes Vivendi/Interplay PR guys came up with and slapped Feargus' name on. Then again, Feargus actually was the one that called IWD2 a SLAM DUNK.

Killzig · Aug 19, 2003

Man, feargus will never hear the end of that one.

Major_Blackhart · Aug 20, 2003

Fuck Feargus, he is an asshole. I got no sympathy for him on this one. He deserves all he gets. Also, if they lied about this, what makes you think they're actually producing FO3 the way it should be done? BIS are nothing more than puppets for the french Im afraid, and we cant have that now can we? All im saying is that Im not gonna be to eager and rush the store when I hear FO3 hit the stands

Psilon · Aug 20, 2003

I find it rather amusing that your current rank is "Literate." Feargus has made some rather bad decisions, but I doubt Interplay's current mess is entirely his fault.

Killzig, I agree. We'll never stop referring to those types of titles as "slam dunks." Feargus should be proud, though, for entering a new term into our lexicon. Much like "continuous turn based."

Saint_Proverbius · Aug 20, 2003

Killzig said:
Man, feargus will never hear the end of that one.

That's because it's more general than TORN is what Fallout fans have been waiting for since Fallout 2, and you can use it in just about anything Feargus does. :D

Araanor · Aug 20, 2003

M1N1GUNN EFFEX0RZ!

I humbly await more quotables from the side of FU.

Sol Invictus · Aug 20, 2003

How about the one where he talks about using a bigger turbo plasma rifle, and Tim Cain paraphrases him?

Seven · Aug 20, 2003

How about the one where he talks about using a bigger turbo plasma rifle, and Tim Cain paraphrases him?

I couldn't help but notice that you have a broken lionheart link in your sig, starting to rethink that?

Seven · Aug 20, 2003

OOPs, double post.

Psilon · Aug 20, 2003

Plus, the link works, nor has it changed recently.

Seven · Aug 21, 2003

Exitium said:
How about the one where he talks about using a bigger turbo plasma rifle, and Tim Cain paraphrases him?

I believe Feargus said something about real time, 3D graphics and cool minigun affects relating to what he'd like to see in FO3. :twisted: TC said he's like to explore the ethics of such a world.

Saint_Proverbius · Aug 21, 2003

That was taken from a signature I had on the BIS forums. I quoted Feargus about the kewl minigun partikul effex followed by Tim Cain's quote about ethics. They weren't related at all, but I had them both in my sig to illustrate a difference between the two guys.

Major_Blackhart · Aug 21, 2003

And what a good illustration it was

Saint_Proverbius · Aug 21, 2003

It apparently made a few of the BIS people unhappy. VERY unhappy. Chris Avellone took major exception to it.

Seven · Aug 21, 2003

I remember you changed the sig after your interview with FU. Was that his price? :D

Saint_Proverbius · Aug 22, 2003

Actually, I changed it after MCA asked me to change it. So, it was about two weeks or so before the interview.

POOPERSCOOPER · Aug 22, 2003

hey

Saint_Proverbius said:
Actually, I changed it after MCA asked me to change it. So, it was about two weeks or so before the interview.

Yet many others used the same quotes in their sigs, afterwards.

triCritical · Aug 22, 2003

I am quoting Feargus' quote from this thread over there right now. With any luck Obsidian will open a message board and I will post over there with his great quotes. I doubt, Feargus' bitch... err MCA will tell me to take them down. After all the will be too busy making Bioware's latest crappy ph4t l00t foozle laden action romp.

Seven · Aug 25, 2003

I understand MCA leaving BIS, but I don't understand him going over to Obsidian to make expansions/rehashed games for BIO?

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