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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 comes the nessesity to implement NPC's.
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. Feel free to add categories to the submission template. If people get into this I'll add my favorite entries to the OP.
[Edited on 06.17.2012 2:12 PM PDT]