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Subject: Destiny Discussion: Break the immersion! (Create an NPC)

"Except we, we're the zebras. All fenced in...and ready for the slaughter!"

||S-fen Knee-cheh
||19th Shock Troops Battalion

Every MMO needs a certain level of immersion for players to come back and play. For most, there needs to be an griping plot with immersive game play wrapped in the fiction. The modes by which you sell immersion to the player are through game play experiences and fidelity in the environments and stories. I, as a player, need to feel connected to the world I'm exploring.

Developers bring the stories and environments to life through the use of NPC characters. What's a believable town/city without people to inhabit them. From the textures to their animations, every NPC in the game is designed to project an individual story or to progress the over arcing story forward. It is the developers goal to create and carefully design everything in their software to create this illusion.

Bungie's next title is described, in their contract with Activision, to be an MMO like sci-fi action shooter. Lets assume that, at least in the campaign, there will be an open world experience. With that assumption, lets have some fun.

I want you to create a NPC that breaks the immersion of a "sci-fantasy action shooter". Describe to me an animation that would stop you in your tracks, just to think "What the -blam!-?". Give me a quest that will question your drive to finish the game.

I'll go first:

Submission template:
Character description: Use any civilian NPC. Approximately 3 feet away from him is a large top hat and beside that a severed dogs head.

Setting: A very dark room with one burnt out light.
(You'll need some kind of flash light)

Character audio:
-"Do you like my hat?"
-"Do you know where the post office is?"
-"I'm telling you, there are ninjas! Ninjas!"
- ect

Character Animation: The character will walk around in circles. If you speak to the character, he/she will tell you that they need to have the light bulb replaced.

Attached quest: Find a light bulb and bring this poor soul light!

Reward:
- 100 coins

Now go create your own! Embellish on others.

[Edited on 06.11.2012 8:47 PM PDT]

  • 06.11.2012 3:05 PM PDT

"Except we, we're the zebras. All fenced in...and ready for the slaughter!"

||S-fen Knee-cheh
||19th Shock Troops Battalion

Heavily edited in an attempt to revive the thread. Lock if necessary.

  • 06.11.2012 8:30 PM PDT

yas334229812

Interesting idea, i think it will take time to make some up.

  • 06.18.2012 10:51 AM PDT
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Posted by: risay_117
Interesting idea, i think it will take time to make some up.
If you do, post them over in the universe forum.

http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=72899042

  • 06.18.2012 10:55 AM PDT

Key

Character: General S. Kensington, Ph.D.

Appearance: He always walks around in full body armor (sans helmet), wears a top hat and monocle, and is always smoking a pipe.

Quest: Requires you to delve deep into an old ruin to find an ancient artifact of the founders of the main city in the game which ends up, eventually, to be completely pointless and not help you at all.

Reward: He gives you a little torch to put on your headgear so your head can constantly be on fire.

  • 06.18.2012 12:55 PM PDT


Posted by: CrazzySnipe55
Character: General S. Kensington, Ph.D.

Appearance: He always walks around in full body armor (sans helmet), wears a top hat and monocle, and is always smoking a pipe.

Quest: Requires you to delve deep into an old ruin to find an ancient artifact of the founders of the main city in the game which ends up, eventually, to be completely pointless and not help you at all.

Reward: He gives you a little torch to put on your headgear so your head can constantly be on fire.
icwutudidthar.

  • 06.18.2012 1:07 PM PDT

When I grow up I want to be bitter and spiteful.

"i liked the reality where everything was on fire better"
-legato on remedial chaos theory

Is Sven also Jacob or can I just start copying this thread to every board too?

  • 06.18.2012 1:18 PM PDT