HAY GUYS

guyinrubbersuit · Local time: Sep 9, 2006, 09:54 PM

You're on a space station about to explore an uncharted planet. You have a crew of about 15, pilot and co-pilot, medic, a couple of scientists, a small military unit and other people. However it is bomarded by an attack, destroying the ship and half the crew, leaving a scientist, some military people and a few others alive. The translation unit is damaged and you do not know the language of the planet to communicate, so you much learn the actions through contextual context and searching for clues in speech.

An alternative to that would to set it on Earth, and make it more of an edutainment game for learning languages. Say you're an explorer and you go to China. You don't know the language but you learn it. I don't know the exact specifics of how it would be done at the moment, however research on early exploration would be key. Just a basic premise that I haven't given much thought to at the moment.

How ya doing, buddy?

guyinrubbersuit · Local time: Sep 10, 2006, 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by Dan

I was watching the discovery show future weapons and saw them use the corner shot weapon and thought it would be great in a video game.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornershot
http://www.cornershot.com/

If programmed properly it would really add a new dimension to the game play, in stealth game how cool would it be to shot the bad guy from around a corner and since it has a camera it can be used to check the landscape with out leaving cover. While it whould be awesome for the gamer to use what I really want to see is the enemy AI programmed to use the weapon properly as well, it would add an extra challenge to be fighting enemy that can shot at you while fully behind cover. The old and still fairly reliably lure baddies to the end of hallway and mow them down as they rushing in would no longer work. It appear that one game, Nemesis Strike, will use this weapon but it not due out till march. Hopefully they will make good use of it.

I believe that Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter has that weapon.

There's nowhere I can't reach.