Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

There are indeed many players on the Internet who inexplicably miss the era when traditional RPGs were popular.

In the case of insufficient graphics and technical skills, it is more based on turn-based strategic gameplay, and the focus of the game is on the shaping of the characters and the performance of the story.

It's not that the games that are biased towards ARPG are not fun, it's just to read the old ones, especially for the old players who have come from that period.

However, in recent years, many traditional RPGs have also emerged on the VR platform, which has quenched the thirst of some players, but there are also many players who are quite critical.

Because these traditional RPGs seem to have nothing interesting except for VR to make the picture better and a layer of VR skin approved.

Neither the gameplay system nor the map design has changed much from the traditional RPGs that existed many years ago.

Even many players feel that these new traditional RPGs are not as interesting as those old game classics they remember.

Of course, this is the blessing of a memory filter, but the main reason is that the gameplay of the game has not changed too much.

The main point of change is that many games focus on this part of the screen, as for other places, it is not too prominent.

This also caused a lot of players to complain.

"This traditional RPG is getting better and better!"

"+1, the system is cumbersome but interesting. It turns out that it's the same as a foot-binding cloth. If you are a big-breasted and beautiful sister's foot-binding cloth, it's fine. It's an eighty-year-old grandmother's foot-binding cloth!"

"To be reasonable, the new RPG is more interesting. Although the open world gameplay is a bit canned, it is still playable at first sight. It does not pull the hips with the game system, and the plot should not be too stretched, at least it is considered excellent. Compared to traditional RPGs, it can only make a fuss about values ​​and performances.”

Many players are discussing on the Internet. Obviously, some old players who have played many games understand how traditional RPGs can be fun.

But if you understand it, you will understand, whether there is a designer who can do it is another matter.

Just like braised pig trotters, we all know what kind of chewiness is the best taste of pig trotters, but the control of the heat when braised pig trotters is not something you can do if you want.

For players who like traditional RPGs, it is extremely disappointing to watch a traditional RPG launch, but just change the skin.

If there is a perfect traditional RPG, it will definitely be a blast!

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"Mr. Chen, the art style of this character..." Looking at the two characters on the big screen in the conference room, Ruan Ningxue, who was sitting next to him, was speechless.

On the projected big screen are two anime-style girls.

A gorgeous fiery red shoulder-length short hair and a pair of red eyes, wearing red and black tights and red ultra-short hot pants, wearing golden arc armor on the shoulders and connecting two slender black-green cloaks, wrists He wears red wrist armors on his ankles and ankles, and his legs wear fiery red over-the-knee stockings.

The other has long dazzling golden hair and golden eyes, wearing a mini dress on a white background with green stripes on a black background, two diamond-shaped back pieces tied behind the belt, shoulders, wrists All of them are barbed armor with gold edges and green background, and an emerald ornament is tied on the right thigh of the two white legs.

Flame and Light, the next two heroines in the game.

Of course, what Ruan Ningxue cares about is not how beautiful these two characters are, what she cares about is that these two beautiful girl characters are really a little big.

"Book style? Isn't this not forgetting the original intention?" Chen Xu couldn't help but smiled, and said what Ruan Ningxue had not finished.

Hearing Chen Xu's free and easy words, Ruan Ningxue next to him was speechless.

What is not forgetting the original intention!

At that time, she was the first to flicker and prepare to pull it into the drawing book, but as a result, she was flickered and ran over to play a game.

But for so many years, she has already let go of the idea of ​​the book, and even she feels it is a black history, especially as the size of Nebula Games is getting bigger and bigger, the fanbooks she painted in previous years are all magical The netizens dug it out. Fortunately, as a painter who dares to draw books, her heart is big enough.

"For traditional RPGs, it takes time to experience the fun." Looking at Ruan Ningxue, whose face was flushed, Chen Xu changed the subject.

One of the biggest features of traditional RPG is to kill time, and **** time?

That is a complex gameplay system, but for players, a huge and complex system will definitely not feel its charm at first sight, and even feel the persuasion point.

Just like Changsha stinky tofu, if you say it tastes good, it smells bad. Many people kneel down when they smell the stench, so don’t eat it.

Unlike FPS or ARPG, which can directly attract players through cool gameplay, how does traditional RPG attract players?

The answer is very simple, that is art and character design.

First attract players with unique art and character design, and then slowly guide them to the core gameplay system of the game.

"Xenoblade Chronicles 2" is such a game, and Ruan Ningxue is right about one thing, that is, the art of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is really adult, but of course it is only biased towards Xenoblade Chronicles 2 after all It is a very serious royal blood game.

As for the reason why this happened, it is also a coincidence.

Tetsuya Takahashi, who was a mecha maniac in his previous life, was exiled from Square to Nanmeng Palace, and finally returned to Nintendo after meeting Mingzhu.

The Xenomorph series built during this period can only be said to be tepid, and the first work "Xenoblade Chronicles" wielded by Nintendo, although it has brought about a change belonging to the traditional RPG.

However, the sound caused by the platform was very limited, and in the later Xenoblade Chronicles X, the huge ambition made him unable to control the planning of the game.

None of the excellent places in the previous work have been inherited. The chaos of music and the large map with more than 400 square kilometers are extremely empty.

Including the plot performance, too much emphasis was placed on the construction of the map, which made the plot and performance unsatisfactory, even inferior to the first generation of the previous game.

At the same time, the characters in the game are also called ugly by many players.

The gameplay of the game can't meet its ideal state, the excellent music can't fit with the huge map and it becomes bad, and the performance of the plot is not satisfactory.

This is a question that Tetsuya Takahashi cannot avoid, but watching players question why the characters in the game can be so ugly.

Takahashi Tetsuya still decided to carry out a willful resistance that belonged to him, so he did one thing, that is, let himself go completely.

Under the invitation of resources from his old office.

Saitom, the illustrator who said 'work-mouth makes people happy', CHOCO, who can sell girls' **** at the comic fair, and Takahiro Kimura, who is the painting supervisor of Lulu Xiu's character design (original painting for a variety of adult game characters). , Risa Jiang Duan, who set up original paintings for adult animation and game life since his debut, Meijin Taichen, an old driver of Qiu Mingshan, who is famous in the rivers and lakes, etc. A series of painters joined this project.

It's hard to imagine how many people's excitement the characters in this game will have when this group of people with common characteristics get together.

Ruan Meng Zhengtai, mature eldest sister, next door eldest sister, man-in-law, social phobia little sister, eldest young lady, Tsundere, Yamato Nadeko, Chung-two disease, mecha girl, maid, Azhai... Almost only you can't think of it , no you can't find it.