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[LSDMaster]

No no no no no, this entire thread got it all wrong.

In the current video game climate, it is not profitable to create strategy games, especially ones of such depth and complexity!

Halfway through development, the publisher would cancel the project and assign a new dev team.

 The game would take place in first person, starring a semi-bald, muscular and grizzled protagonist Dwarf. He would be thrown into a rather bland generic deep dark and mysterious conspiracy story, but with high quality visuals and stunning special effects, with production values trumping all triple A titles over the past decade. With a wonderful lush landscape full of all the colours of the rainbow, brown, dark brown, and some light brown, our hero would travel around the world, from the unforgiving tundras, scorching deserts and wastelands, to the lush forests and meadows of the surface realm.
 
 The protagonist would interact with a myriad of highly original and interesting races such as elves, goblins, dwarves and, with a DLC bought at release day, humans. Interaction would consist of two choices, a 'good' choice, and a 'bad' choice which would ultimately always lead to the 'good' outcome. Our hero would also be at times accompanied by various annoying, bland and sincerely unimaginative original, mysterious with a troubled past, and hilarious, at times stereotypical, characters and companions romantic interests.
 
 There would be no health packs, our hero would simply have to squat down and avoid damage for several seconds to regenerate like various echinoderms and reptiles. As well, there would be a vast selection of weapons, such as swords, knives, spears, axes, staves, bows, crossbows, magical wands, firearms such as flintlocke pistols, blunderbuss rifles, and M16's.

 Ultimately it would be published by Activision EActivisionBlizzard and be titled Dwarven Warfare Effect 3, and it would be the best selling game ever made.

[Bauglir]

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[SirHoneyBadger]

No no no no no, this entire thread got it all wrong.

In the current video game climate, it is not profitable to create strategy games, especially ones of such depth and complexity!

Halfway through development, the publisher would cancel the project and assign a new dev team.

 The game would take place in first person, starring a semi-bald, muscular and grizzled protagonist Dwarf. He would be thrown into a rather bland generic deep dark and mysterious conspiracy story, but with high quality visuals and stunning special effects, with production values trumping all triple A titles over the past decade. With a wonderful lush landscape full of all the colours of the rainbow, brown, dark brown, and some light brown, our hero would travel around the world, from the unforgiving tundras, scorching deserts and wastelands, to the lush forests and meadows of the surface realm.
 
 The protagonist would interact with a myriad of highly original and interesting races such as elves, goblins, dwarves and, with a DLC bought at release day, humans. Interaction would consist of two choices, a 'good' choice, and a 'bad' choice which would ultimately always lead to the 'good' outcome. Our hero would also be at times accompanied by various annoying, bland and sincerely unimaginative original, mysterious with a troubled past, and hilarious, at times stereotypical, characters and companions romantic interests.
 
 There would be no health packs, our hero would simply have to squat down and avoid damage for several seconds to regenerate like various echinoderms and reptiles. As well, there would be a vast selection of weapons, such as swords, knives, spears, axes, staves, bows, crossbows, magical wands, firearms such as flintlocke pistols, blunderbuss rifles, and M16's.

 Ultimately it would be published by Activision EActivisionBlizzard and be titled Dwarven Warfare Effect 3, and it would be the best selling game ever made.

The dwarf needs a sidekick, maybe a hot tigerwoman chick samurai. Oh and the love interest. Better make her a hot elf chick. Make that two hot elf chicks and "slutty yet demure" human priestess type. Can we get Vin Diesel to voice the dwarf? We can make the dwarf completely bald, so it kindof looks like him...And the "big bad" should be a hot demon chick with naughty tentacles.

[Thief^]

That would make an awesome film I think.

That's a mistake a lot of game designers make these days.

Can we get Vin Diesel to voice the dwarf?

Fun fact: The only commercial game I've been involved with so far starred Vin Diesel. It was a "Action Driving Movie" game. The studio has now been shut down, but not before we managed to get the game released. It was called "Wheelman", there's probably still a demo lurking on XBLA. It's good fun, if you don't take it too seriously.

[SirHoneyBadger]

That would make an awesome film I think.

That's a mistake a lot of game designers make these days.

Fun fact: The only commercial game I've been involved with so far starred Vin Diesel. It was a "Action Driving Movie" game. The studio has now been shut down, but not before we managed to get the game released. It was called "Wheelman", there's probably still a demo lurking on XBLA. It's good fun, if you don't take it too seriously.

Yeah, I like Vin Diesel. For one thing, he's "one of us". From my understanding, he's big into fantasy roleplaying.

[Thief^]

Yeah, D&D and World of Warcraft IIRC.
Though he couldn't play our game for toffee the one time he tried to advertise it for us. It was kind of embarrassing.

[SirHoneyBadger]

What game?

[Thief^]

It was called "Wheelman", there's probably still a demo lurking on XBLA. It's good fun, if you don't take it too seriously.

EDIT:

Though he couldn't play our game for toffee the one time he tried to advertise it for us. It was kind of embarrassing.

This isn't the one (apparently there is more than one interview/advert), but watch closely and you can see him being taught how to play the game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbMbccdiEM4&feature=PlayList&p=A8BC19E82BD75906&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=5
A game he was "closely involved in the development of".

Of course, he was developing another game of his own with his own studio at the time, so that probably limited his time a bit. He met with our creative director and other such people quite a few times, but I never got to see him myself

[Aklyon]

No no no no no, this entire thread got it all wrong.

In the current video game climate, it is not profitable to create strategy games, especially ones of such depth and complexity!

Halfway through development, the publisher would cancel the project and assign a new dev team.

The game would take place in first person

Why must everything be in first-person!? FPS games suck.

[SirHoneyBadger]

Oh, sorry Thief^. I read that, but I didn't get that you were talking about the same game.

[Thief^]

You can make up for it by giving it a go

[SirHoneyBadger]

I think I will, actually. It looks pretty exciting.

[Thief^]

Anyway, back to DF as a triple-A game.

There's no way it would stay within budget, it would suffer massive feature cuts and still run late. At the end, as with all new IP, it would only be marginally successful and not be considered worthy of a sequel.

[MrWiggles]

Anyway, back to DF as a triple-A game.

There's no way it would stay within budget, it would suffer massive feature cuts and still run late. At the end, as with all new IP, it would only be marginally successful and not be considered worthy of a sequel.

o.O
What about Drakes Fortune? First one that came to mind.

[darkflagrance]

The dwarf needs a sidekick, maybe a hot tigerwoman chick samurai. Oh and the love interest. Better make her a hot elf chick. Make that two hot elf chicks and "slutty yet demure" human priestess type. Can we get Vin Diesel to voice the dwarf? We can make the dwarf completely bald, so it kindof looks like him...And the "big bad" should be a hot demon chick with naughty tentacles.

I prefer this cast: