Game production: I really have landed

Chapter 254 Playing Experience
Yanxia's parents were killed by a demon named Heishan.

Even after he was an adult, he often recalled that dream.

After completing the brain-computer connection operation that day, he was forcibly connected to the Internet by his parents who had completely turned into walking dead.

Just when he was about to be swallowed by Montenegro, a Taoist priest from Daozun Palace rescued him.

Heishan fled watching the wind, and the Taoist thought he was pitiful, and he had no children, so he simply acted as his guide.

In the blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed.

Yan Xia, who was wearing a Taoist robe, faced the spiritual tablet of her parents in front of her, and bowed three times while holding her hands.

After an action of inserting incense, an illusory blue smoke filled the incense burners in front of the two spiritual seats.

And the spiritual bit with a strong sense of technology, at the moment, seems to be charging on the surface, with a slight halo shining.

The opening animation of the game ended here, Luo Bai leaned back on the recliner, thinking quietly.

Judging from the opening CG, Lao Tang still made some changes to the overall script.

In the first version of the plot, the protagonist Yanxia was involved in an "incident" at the beginning, and there was no narrative about the bloody feud of her parents.

As for the screen, there is actually not much to praise.

It can be regarded as real money, not to mention how brilliant it is, at least it is above the average level in the industry, and it will not make people feel too disobedient.

The image of the protagonist is also acceptable.

Then, there is the content of the entry test.

Accompanied by the information prompt that popped up from the personal terminal, a person named "Master" sent a message to Yanxia.

Let him be careful in everything during the entry test to join Dao Zun Palace.

And just after the player exited his personal terminal, a man named "Song Dingbo" in Taoist robe came to the door.

When the player follows Song Dingbo's guidance, the first battle and teaching level of the game will come into view with two brand new concepts.

"Seize the house" and "keep the house".

The so-called seizure refers to the process in which ghosts use various means to break through personal firewalls, completely defeat and seize brain computers from the Internet, and thus completely transform people into walking corpses for them to control.

Keeping the house, that is, in the process of the ghost breaking through the firewall, link your terminal with the person who has been taken away, use the data you borrowed from the Taoist, build your own data body, and communicate with the ghost in the black domain of the network The process of fighting.

This is also the core work of Taoist priests.

Don't look at the bewilderment, the actual performance in the game is actually fighting the boss.

It can also be understood as a soul-like game with only boss battles.

But what is very special is the art and strike feedback during the boss battle.

When Yanxia's attack landed on the Fire Bull, the wound would be torn apart, and the player could clearly see the various functions and codes constantly rotating inside.

These things all tell you that everything in front of you is not real, but just an illusory world.

You are just helping people drive away demons and ghosts.

All kinds of ghosts have various manifestations in the virtual world, as well as various attack methods and blood bars of different lengths.

The act of fighting a boss is actually a form of game expression that breaks through the ghost's firewall and finds bugs and loopholes.

If you successfully defeat the BOSS and defeat the ghost's data body from the data level, you will be able to successfully lock the ghost's position in the computing power terminal in the real world.

As long as this location is submitted to an organization called "Underworld", the Taoist priests don't need to worry about the rest.

Naturally, relevant departments will deal with it.

In the novice tutorial, the first boss Luo Bai faced was a fire bull.

Although the AI ​​of this boss is pretty smart, but in front of a high-level game player like him, it is natural to go through it all at once.

"The AI ​​can be further optimized. This fire bull is a bit difficult for the sake of difficulty. The rhythm of the battle must be good."

Luo Bai silently wrote down his suggestions for improvement, and then saw that after successfully defeating Fire Bull, the data flow of 1s and 0s flowed wildly in the sky.

Finally, a coordinate appeared on the interface of the game.

Luo Bai manipulated Yanxia to successfully find a network terminal in a corner of this room and submit it to the underworld.

The game's first mission, the entry test, was successfully passed.

Yan Xia also officially became a Taoist priest in Dao Zun Palace.

When the first task of guarding the house is received through the task wall of Dao Zun Palace, the main task of the game officially begins.

The next game will completely enter the free mode.

When the player manipulates Yanxia to wander in the Dao Zun Palace, whether it is the highly technological pill furnace, or the neon colors and virtual projection screens that can be seen everywhere.

The overall design of Dao Zun Palace combines cyber elements and traditional elements of Yan Kingdom very well, which is refreshing.

In addition to the NPCs who are fixed in the elder brother's department, there will also be some disciples who are from the same school as you wandering in the Dao Zun Palace.

When you choose to communicate with them, in addition to being able to learn about some basic settings and story backgrounds in the game, you can also invite them to go out with you on missions after reaching a certain level of favorability.

It took about ten minutes to explore the picture of Dao Zun Palace as a whole, and Luo Bai was quite satisfied.

Then, let's go see the outside world.

There is no need to go into details about art anymore. What Luo Bai mainly wants to explore is the idea of ​​plot-driven games that Lao Tang tried for the first time.

……

dawn.

Luo Bai with red eyes yawned.

The last time I played a game for so long seems to be the last time. Although I haven't cleared the level, I can already understand some things after a few hours of game experience.

Although there are some very obvious shortcomings in "Cyber: Liaozhai", in general, it is still very fun.

The main content of the game is to become a Taoist priest in the Dao Zun Palace, and to accept and complete the task of guarding the house.

But among these voluminous tasks, when the familiar name of Montenegro comes into view, the main line of the game can be regarded as unveiling its own mysterious veil.

revenge.

And every time you complete a task, you can get corresponding contribution points, and you can light up the skill tree and buy props in front of the Taoist statue.

In fact, it is equivalent to how much Dao Zun supports your computing power. If you support more computing power, you will naturally be able to use more powerful computing power.

In the game, there are all kinds of powerful five elements spells.

But to be honest, Old Tang designed the monster boss's desire to attack too strongly in this game.

Some powerful spells that require a casting time are completely useless.

The best thing to use is actually a buff spell to give yourself the buff spell of martial defense and quick luck. In the end, the Taoist didn't see it, and Luo Bai abruptly completed it as a swordsman.

Moreover, whether it is the fluency of the character's movements or the impact feedback, more fine polishing is required.

It's not even good enough in this regard.

In addition to the main plot of the game, when the first mission of guarding the house is completed, the player needs to go to the next city to complete the second mission of guarding the house.

Met a gang of people.

It is also through this group of gangsters that a very important concept in cyber elements-prosthetic body was introduced.

At the same time, it also leads to the second combat mode in the game-real combat.

The special personnel of Dao Zun Palace are somewhat similar to hackers, fighting in a virtual network, but their actual combat effectiveness in reality is very low.

Aside from other things, how can you, an ordinary person, fight against opponents who fly over walls and jump three feet high?

This robbery can be regarded as plot killing.

Yanxia, ​​who didn't have any prosthetic body, was ransacked from top to bottom, she was almost pouted.

Just when the group was about to leave, a little girl with white hair and red eyes, two ponytails and two submachine guns immediately overthrew the group.

Save the Heroes is pretty corny.

But Luo Bai has reason to suspect that this was done on purpose by Old Tang, and the plot is not the key, but everyone's XP in this episode is the key.

After the plot ended, when Yan Xia returned to Dao Zun Palace, after the cutscene, Dao Zun Palace directly unlocked the purchase option of "prosthetic body".

The real battle is a bit similar to Assassin's Creed, and it's quite cool to kill.

I don't know if it's because of all kinds of modern weapons and guns, but the smoothness of movement and the sense of impact in this aspect have obviously risen to a higher level.

Much stronger than the previous virtual world.

It was also from this moment that Luo Bai abandoned the original idea that the AI ​​of Huoxing in the opening chapter needed to be optimized.

He felt that the difficulty of all virtual bosses in this game should be lowered.

Without him, the content of the game is too complicated.

The two completely different combat modes of virtual and reality mean double the gaming experience?

No, it's double the liver.

It is true that both combat modes are very interesting, and the growth system is extremely attractive.

The skill tree can make you cultivate to the sky in the virtual world as if you can really become a Taoist priest who moves mountains and reclaims seas.

Different combinations of prosthetics can make you completely addicted to cyber.

But if under such a situation, the battle mode of the virtual world is still treated as a soul-like, the player can only be exhausted.

It’s fine if it’s a little bit challenging. Everyone comes here mainly to experience, not to suffer.

Lower the attack power of the BOSS to give players a little more fault tolerance; increase the blood volume of the BOSS so that the player can cast a few more cool spells; differentiate the BOSS so that the player can freely build the corresponding BUILD to go deep develop.

Why don't you suffer and play Black Soul?
As for this kind of virtual reality, whether two completely different combat modes appear in one game can be liked by everyone is a matter of opinion, but this idea is a bit interesting, and it has made its own differences.

The genre aspect of the game.

At the very beginning of the project "Cyber·Liao Zhai", Luo Bai had a very heated discussion with Old Tang.

After Lao Zou's original soul-like game was rejected by Luo Bai, Lao Tang thought about whether he could make an action-type RPG.

Because action games really require technology accumulation, if this is the main selling point, the game will definitely be difficult to produce in the end.

It is obviously impossible for Ma Bin to accept a game for ten years.

Then, the game The Witcher III came into Luo Bai's mind.

I believe that everyone who has experienced The Witcher III has had this experience:

"I'll finish the side missions before doing the main mission."

"Why is he doing more and more side quests!"

It takes place in the wizarding world, with a huge fantasy world view, fascinating characters and plots, and rich content.

These things are an excellent experience brought to players by side missions one after another.

Liaozhai will be a good carrier.

On this point, Old Tang has done quite well.

In the game experience of "Cyber·Liao Zhai", even if the player becomes a Taoist priest in the Yimin Dao Zun Palace, he can choose not to do any tasks, and just have nothing to do every day to explore the whole world like a fool .

Breaking into a private house, finding someone to take on the task at will, being happy and enmity, being a cyber-survival.

The degree of freedom of the game is quite good, and there are enough characters in the branch line.

The prosthetic body rewards given by some branches are handsome and strong.

Some are related to demons and ghosts, while others are the joys, sorrows, joys, loves and hatreds of ordinary people in the cyber world.

Of course, there are also some more secret information related to this cyber world.

However, due to limited funds, in terms of the current map size of "Cyber: Liaozhai", it is completely incomparable with The Witcher III.

Old Tang is also very self-aware. The current open map of "Cyber·Liaozhai" is only the size of a city.

But what he did was detailed enough, or in other words, with countless people gathered on a land with an average of less than two square meters, such chaos can better experience the cyber spirit?
but……

Looking at Lao Tang's computer with the highest configuration, the graphics card fan was about to smoke, and Luo Bai just pinched his temple feeling helpless.

If the game optimization is not done well, no one will buy it no matter how good the game is.

Foo's toy, right?
Then there's the most important story aspect of the game.

The guarding part of the main storyline is basically the shadow of the stories in Liaozhai or some classical ghost novels.

At present, Luo Bai's progress has just finished the Yingning chapter, and Montenegro has exposed enough information so far. I believe the final main line of the game is about to start.

Judging from the current information obtained by the protagonist Yanxia, ​​behind the Black Mountain, there is a fairy handwriting.

Whether Black Mountain can be killed in the end, whether this fairy will make a move, and how the game will end in the end are all very topical.

I hope Old Tang can finish well in the end, and don't feed the players shit.

As for the branch line, an organization called the Mutual Aid Association also poked its head out.

The former white-haired little loli is one of them.

Where there is oppression, there is resistance, and the life of the lower class is miserable, but under the oppression of technology that has been completely beyond imagination, even resistance can only become a game for the gods to have fun.

Come on, Old Tang.

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