Re: Help me make spellsby Ice Cream Jonsey 02/05/2013, 9:08am PST
Mischief Maker wrote:
At the moment the only idea that comes to mind for me is
Steve Jobs
Gives player complete control over an enemy's actions for X rounds. Enemy believes that fighting for you means fighting for freedom, even though they only have the freedom to do exactly what you say.
Hahaha. You know, I was thinking of putting a program in that would try to initiate a radiation pulse to give the enemy pancreatic cancer. But unfortunately, Steve Jobs wasn't the guy in the world who got that disease and was also somewhat of a prick. Plus, radiation causing cancer is comic book in the 60s shit. I would hate to be the kid who is trying this old school CRPG thing because the state got him a computer when his dad died, and then he saw that shit.
That said, Jobs is going to pay for this ad where he compares the Apple //c to the IBM PCjr. Not only did the PCjr run more programs at the end of their respective lifecycles, I'd be shocked if it didn't run more programs right out of the fucking starting line. What a bunch of horseshit. I love that the company that has always despised video games tried to play the "more software" card against the undisputed King of all game platforms.
A lot of people might be thinking, "Ice Cream, isn't an impotent snide comment... in a CRPG that hardly anyone will play... 25 years after it could possibly matter... regarding two long-dead computer systems (one of which you seem to be white knighting but ACTUALLY WAS a disaster) all to troll a guy who died with billions beneath you?" The answer is no.
I also think that the treasure chests in this game will be old computers. So, say you defeat a group of gun range nuts. You are then presented with a TRS-80 or Coleco Adam, and your party is asked how they would like to defuse the traps to get the bitcoin inside. I like this idea because it provides motive for me to buy a lot of old computer systems. "Research!" Also, it allows me to put in a Choplifter! arcade game as treasure, with the contents being a giant dildo every single time. (link NSFW).
