I love the idea of the exploring and different creatures or things happen at different times of the day. Like someone said, maybe in a lightning storm as your travelling, lighting strikes and where it hits there would now be a special crafting material or something. I have a couple other ideas as well. These are only a few, sorry if im long winded.
Camp Fire for resting for perks/bonus’s
This is a throwback to older style RPG’s like Golden Axe and many more. Camping, where when we are on an adventure, we can set up camp, rest for a while, the camera can pan down into the camp area where our party relaxes. It will heal us, give us a buff temporarily, and perhaps reset some skills or respawn creature when you break camp. I know, this is an ARPG, it doesn’t sound like it would fit, but for role-players and if mechanics are done right or we can think of other uses, it could be a cool added feature. I’ve always loved camping in a game, like Final Fantasy 15 or Dragon Age, even Golden Axe back in the day. We cook and it shows our characters and makes for cool screenshots. Also, it would be a good way to introduce some cool special events, like monsters coming into your camp and taking your stuff or a dream state that may start a new questline. Food for thought is all this is.
Additionally, it would give us a resting point and maybe a wondering vendor may come through to offer special items. I also know this is a shared world with night day cycle, but if you place or set up a camp, i would suggest we go into our own instanced camp area, so it doesn’t effect or worry about what time of day or night it is in the real world.
Player housing
This one is more of a Wishlist shot in the dark, but player housing. I’ve always loved playing games that can immerse me and give me a sense of ownership, something I can come back to and call my own. I played Ultima Online WAY back in the day and I had several houses and I could do whatever I wanted in those, post a vendor to sell my wares, store stuff, etc. I always wished WoW would have added it, but when I played it, that never came. With this game being open world now, it would be cool to have a little area dedicated to player housing, even if it’s an instanced area to go to see your own neck of the woods, a place you can invite your friends in and decorate a little bit with your own style. Or even go the route of something like AC Valhalla and give us a plot to create a small town, where we place our Blacksmith, Inn, healer, etc. Again, another idea that is a throwback to classic games and some newer like Monster Hunter and even Torchlight 3.
Camera and Character
This was my other idea to see our character that we create more, whenever we speak to an NPC in the game, since we will be standing fairly static while listening to dialog or looking through a vendor’s wares, why not Zoom and pan the camera down into a close-up of our character engaging with that NPC. Once we get out of the shop or finish the conversation, zoom the camera back out. Also, would be cool if you add a photo mode, if you do, to allow us to zoom all the way into our character to take some cool pictures with the death and destruction all around us.
I have many other ideas, but these i feel our relevant to your topic now. Thanks for sharing. I am excited and been thinking about different things for a long time.
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