Rockstar toying with karma for GTA? Comments by Robert Purchese
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kinky_mong
05/05/09 @ 15:09
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That's it Rockstar, really punish the player for wanting to have a fun rampage through your games by closing off whole parts of the story when they kill a few pedestrians.
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Ninja_Tino
05/05/09 @ 15:18
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Nothing too big, just an extension on 'do I kill x or y' would be nice. Make it have more dramatic effects. I don't want to have to be making decisions non-stop like a BioWare game and I would prefer they make a great main character rather than one with half assed dialogue as they have to write so damn much for him for each possible outcome etc.
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designerheadache
05/05/09 @ 15:56
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If it just means i have to listen to Roman prattle on about something else YET again...then i dont care.
It also sounds more like something to make it more mainstream acceptable, probably so they can flog it on the Wii. |
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It's not necessarily a bad idea in theory, but surely in practice it would mean that due to having to plot every step of the story from at least three different angles (good/neutral/bad) the story would end up being shorter or more repetitive? Also, the main character would probably have to become more "absent" from the story á la Fallout 3 for it to really work. Developing a good, three-dimensional character like Niko Bellic for a game is hard enough, but to develop such a character that works both as a "good" and "bad" guy seems pretty difficult to me.
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Malkotheslick
05/05/09 @ 16:16
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this could be very good. I think it would relate to killing indiscriminately. If you kill someone as part of a mission it is usually plot related and you have reason and perhaps it would not effect your karma as much as say beating on an old women in the street who bumped into you or parking on someone and then kicking their head in while they are pinned to the pavement by a car.
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Jonny5Alive7
05/05/09 @ 16:41
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It would be an interesting idea, but at the end of the day everyone goes on the rampage at some point in GTA. Everyone would end up negative surely.
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GiarcYekrub
05/05/09 @ 16:49
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I think the Karma point would be like Mass Effect and awarded through missions. I do not think steeling a car, speeding through running a red light hitting a old woman and leaving her for dead while taking taking random pot shots at civillians with an uzi would effect it much as that is part of the core GTA dynamic unless maybe its a daily Karma meter that is reset at midnight and dependant on how good/bad you were you'd get a Good/Bad token this could lead to some twilight hour rampages to get the meter pointing the right way for the token award. Not to sure how you'd get it to go positive unless there are SWATT and FIB missions
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DutchDemons
05/05/09 @ 19:02
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could be ok if it's bad versus really bad.
good and GTA are incompatible, as ppl already mentioned. But then again, i don't think many people would go down the 'slightly less bad' path...i mean...we all kill pedestrians non stop, smash ppl in the face over noting, slaughter hookers after their services, stab cops in their faces, etc.. right? |
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Karma?
Why not just have an allegiance system to the different criminal groups? I always hated how, in the GTA3 games, the plot dictated who I was working for. Would have loved it if I could have aligned myself to one of my choice and worked my way up their ranks, while eliminating rival groups. I would have loved it even more if they'd allowed me to wipe out/take over all rival groups. |
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Mentalist(air)
06/05/09 @ 08:27
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I don't see why doing big powerslides, jumps, wheelies and talking good racing lines shouldn't gain the player Karma, just like in Metropolis Street Racer. They could have the big K in the corner of the screen and everything!
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@ Daryoon
They used to have that in GTA 2 from what i remember, Each city / area had the 4 gangs and obviously working for 1 of them pissed of 1 or more of the others was quite cool as you would have to go postal on the friendly gang when the jobs dried out so you could work for the others. Back on to topic: Doesnt need it i dont feel remorse for picking up hookers and them running over to get my money back!
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Sunyavadin
06/05/09 @ 15:03
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I see it as having potential.
Having longer term impact of your actions has been seen before in GTA so it's not like it'd be out of the blue. You already have the impact in GTA2 and SA of each gang's control of the city and your relationships to them, it's not a big step to have your activities have consequences for you. For example, if you commit a lot of crimes, having detectives start tailing you, or if you renege on deals a lot, having gangs trust you less. |
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