theguywhoshotjfk
03-29-2001, 03:10 PM
The last few days, I've been thinking about what would make a really good mod for SS...
The best thing about the SS engine is it's retro style, the ability to have tons of monsters on screen at once. Indeed, the best thing about the game is coop.
So why not make a coop mod where players fight horde after horde of bad dudes? What I have in mind is something reminiscint of old Atari games, wave after wave of monsters. The reward for killing all the monsters? More monsters.
I was thinking that the final scene in the book "The Hobbit", by J R R Tolkien would make a great setting for this kind of mod. You have Orcs, Dragons, Dwarves, Humans, etc all attacking a small party of guys. Perfect scenario.
Players could maybe pick which character from the book they would like to be, Gandalf the Wizard, Bilbo the Hobbit, Gimli the Dwarf etc etc. Each character can have a few unique skills, for example, the wizard could cast spells and heal, but have very little health, and no armor. The Hobbit could have stealth (he is a thief), so he'd be good at backstabbing monsters, but be poor in frontal attacks. The Dwarves could be good at fighting.
There is plenty of opportunity for a good variety of monsters. You have Smaug the Dragon, different Orcs (ones that run at you with bombs, archers, orcs riding wild boars, the boars themselves, orcs with swords), dwarven catapaults, even a few evil wizards.
You could even make a few varying scenarios, and loop to the next one when the players run out of lives. You have the last final, epic battle, the battle in the lair of the orcs, and you could borrow some of the battles from other Lortd of The rings books, like the battle against those tree people.
Sadly, I haven't the time, nor the talent to make this mod, and I won't pretend I do by proclaiming myself project leader and assigning work to others. But if you have a mod team looking for ideas, please, I'd love to see this made.
The best thing about the SS engine is it's retro style, the ability to have tons of monsters on screen at once. Indeed, the best thing about the game is coop.
So why not make a coop mod where players fight horde after horde of bad dudes? What I have in mind is something reminiscint of old Atari games, wave after wave of monsters. The reward for killing all the monsters? More monsters.
I was thinking that the final scene in the book "The Hobbit", by J R R Tolkien would make a great setting for this kind of mod. You have Orcs, Dragons, Dwarves, Humans, etc all attacking a small party of guys. Perfect scenario.
Players could maybe pick which character from the book they would like to be, Gandalf the Wizard, Bilbo the Hobbit, Gimli the Dwarf etc etc. Each character can have a few unique skills, for example, the wizard could cast spells and heal, but have very little health, and no armor. The Hobbit could have stealth (he is a thief), so he'd be good at backstabbing monsters, but be poor in frontal attacks. The Dwarves could be good at fighting.
There is plenty of opportunity for a good variety of monsters. You have Smaug the Dragon, different Orcs (ones that run at you with bombs, archers, orcs riding wild boars, the boars themselves, orcs with swords), dwarven catapaults, even a few evil wizards.
You could even make a few varying scenarios, and loop to the next one when the players run out of lives. You have the last final, epic battle, the battle in the lair of the orcs, and you could borrow some of the battles from other Lortd of The rings books, like the battle against those tree people.
Sadly, I haven't the time, nor the talent to make this mod, and I won't pretend I do by proclaiming myself project leader and assigning work to others. But if you have a mod team looking for ideas, please, I'd love to see this made.