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Old Boot posted:I don't think it's a stretch to say the franchise was heavily influenced in the first place. There were definitely moments that I felt like 'this is the closest I'm gonna get to playing a pew-pew B5 RPG.' Personally my main theory about Mass Effect is that it was heavily inspired by the Star Control series. Including the very poorly planned Star Control 3 that centered around the threat of extra-galactic creatures that regularly attack galaxies to nosh on all sentient forms of life.
Even the Mako or scanning sections are reminiscent of Star Control's lander. There's a lot of coincidences there.
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# ? Jun 15, 2019 05:33 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 06:28 |
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SlothfulCobra posted:A spacefighter game like freespace Comrade, do I have good news for you. http://babylon.hard-light.net/gallery1.php Full-up Freespace 2 total conversion for B5.
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# ? Jun 15, 2019 05:36 |
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SlothfulCobra posted:What in particular was wrong? Nothing stood out to me. Little bits and pieces (eg Into the Fire is ep 6 of S4, not ep 8)
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# ? Jun 15, 2019 11:33 |
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The Unlife Aquatic posted:Honestly B5 might make for a mapgame I'd actually play, or a good space RTS, or an old school space-fighter game. What I really want is a next gen adventure game that takes place entirely in Babylon 5 with the entire station explorable.
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# ? Jun 15, 2019 14:10 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Little bits and pieces (eg Into the Fire is ep 6 of S4, not ep 8) Oh come on!
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# ? Jun 15, 2019 14:48 |
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And "beyond the ring". I'm inclined to chalk it up to bad proofreading/editing, which nobody does anymore.
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# ? Jun 15, 2019 14:57 |
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Habibi posted:Oh come on!
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# ? Jun 15, 2019 23:35 |
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Platonicsolid posted:And "beyond the ring". I'm inclined to chalk it up to bad proofreading/editing, which nobody does anymore. Yeah. Everyone knows in B5 there's no ring.
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# ? Jun 15, 2019 23:47 |
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Grand Fromage posted:Yeah. It's true!
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 06:10 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:It's true! There were a lot of hidden butts in B5
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 17:37 |
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I'd rather have a game where you had actual power to change the narrative, not just a meaningless "G'Kar will remember this." Main thing Telltale did well was nailing the feel of big franchises, so YMMV when it comes to the whole branching story stuff but I'd still be tickled to be able to argue with cartoon Londo or whatever even if in the end I couldn't actually prevent the entire Shadow War by glassing him. The real limitation would be the inability to get a depressingly large amount of the cast back to VA it.
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 19:17 |
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You could probably write around a lot of the people who are no longer with us, but missing G’Kar will make it hard to tell a meaningful story that involves the main cast. A pure side story, where it’s hitherto unknown characters playing for smaller stakes in the same setting, is still possible but will demand impeccable writing to not be butt-grade poop.
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# ? Jun 16, 2019 20:02 |
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Just hire imitators, I'm sure there's plenty of people who can do a convincing "Aaaaaah, meeeester moooorden"
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# ? Jun 17, 2019 20:19 |
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Londo stealth-adventure game where you balance scheming with avoiding your wives and G'kar.
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# ? Jun 17, 2019 20:59 |
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The Unlife Aquatic posted:Londo stealth-adventure game where you balance scheming with avoiding your wives and G'kar. Your end score only increases while you're watching dancers or gambling.
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# ? Jun 17, 2019 21:04 |
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Vir saves your game. He gives good advice. You ignore it.
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# ? Jun 17, 2019 21:09 |
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McCloud posted:Just hire imitators, I'm sure there's plenty of people who can do a convincing "Aaaaaah, meeeester moooorden" Good lord bite your tongue and throw salt over your shoulder. Jurasik is still alive. And yes, I heard that in his voice in my head.
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# ? Jun 17, 2019 23:33 |
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The Unlife Aquatic posted:Londo stealth-adventure game where you balance scheming with avoiding your wives and G'kar. Yes. CainFortea posted:Your end score only increases while you're watching dancers or gambling. Yes! The Unlife Aquatic posted:Vir saves your game. He gives good advice. YES!!
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# ? Jun 18, 2019 01:14 |
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The Unlife Aquatic posted:Londo stealth-adventure game where you balance scheming with avoiding your wives and G'kar. > The elevator arrives and the doors open. G'Kar is standing inside. Do you enter? Y/N
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# ? Jun 18, 2019 21:55 |
John Murdoch posted:> The elevator arrives and the doors open. G'Kar is standing inside. Do you enter? Y/N You post this as a joke, but the scene where Vir is in the elevator with G'Kar shortly after the Centauri invasion of Narn (the "Dead, dead, dead..." scene) is when I realized that Vir was kind of a badass under all those nerves. He confronts an awkward situation and apologizes. That's not easy.
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# ? Jun 18, 2019 22:19 |
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Doctor Zero posted:Good lord bite your tongue and throw salt over your shoulder. Jurasik is still alive. physically taken aback by this fact
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# ? Jun 18, 2019 22:31 |
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I hope that a sequel series gets made eventually with Peter Stormare as Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari
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# ? Jun 18, 2019 22:41 |
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Just do B5 as an old-school early-90s adventure game. I can't help but feel like there would be excellent symmetry in depicting the show that broke ground by going all-CGI for their visual effects, with a game that only used 2D art. .....actually, if we wanted to get really 90s, we'd do it all ~*multimedia*~ style and have every death/lose ending capped by an FMV featuring one of the surviving cast. (I'm remembering the old Rama game where dying or losing the game would result in Arthur C. Clarke coming out and talking to you for a bit.)
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# ? Jun 18, 2019 23:27 |
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:.....actually, if we wanted to get really 90s, we'd do it all ~*multimedia*~ style and have every death/lose ending capped by an FMV featuring one of the surviving cast. they are mostly dead, tho. now, a clutch cargo-esque reimagination with extremely bad impersonations on the other hand
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# ? Jun 18, 2019 23:37 |
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Just do B5 as an old-school early-90s adventure game. I can't help but feel like there would be excellent symmetry in depicting the show that broke ground by going all-CGI for their visual effects, with a game that only used 2D art. Just make sure it’s fuzzy, wobbly, faded out fmv with bad sound that awkwardly inserts battle clips from actual episodes.
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# ? Jun 18, 2019 23:39 |
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Just do B5 as an old-school early-90s adventure game. I can't help but feel like there would be excellent symmetry in depicting the show that broke ground by going all-CGI for their visual effects, with a game that only used 2D art. If I manage to screw up badly enough, will Boxleitner appear and tell me to get the hell out of his galaxy?
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# ? Jun 18, 2019 23:44 |
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John Murdoch posted:If I manage to screw up badly enough, will Boxleitner appear and tell me to get the hell out of his galaxy? Noooo, no no no no... he'll just put on that big ol' goofy grin, and give you some folksy advice his dad gave him.
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# ? Jun 19, 2019 05:38 |
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Noooo, no no no no... he'll just put on that big ol' goofy grin, and give you some folksy advice his dad gave him. "Never start a game, but always finish it."
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# ? Jun 19, 2019 06:52 |
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"And like I told Kevin Flynn once, never get too deep into a game that you can't get out."
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# ? Jun 19, 2019 12:32 |
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lol but posted:they are mostly dead, tho. now, a clutch cargo-esque reimagination with extremely bad impersonations on the other hand Honestly I kinda prefer the old adventure games that didn't have voice-overs; I can read faster than they speak and the delivery usually isn't so compelling that I like waiting for them to finish before I can keep playing.
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# ? Jun 19, 2019 21:22 |
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There's something I don't get about Kosh in "The Gathering". After Kosh was poisoned, did Dr. Kyle witness him in angelic form or cephalopod form? It seems like the former, since Kyle said "I have looked upon the face of a Vorlon...And nothing is the same anymore." But how is that possible? Even though the younger races are genetically primed to see Vorlons as holy figures, the Vorlons have to consciously project that false image, right? Yet Kosh was unconscious and near-death.
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# ? Jun 25, 2019 00:14 |
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I always took it to be like a psychic re-writing that they programmed into the younger races. I don’t think it has to be consciously projected. I think it just kind of happens and has to be specifically overridden. For example, when Sheridan takes out Kosh II (Ulkesh) the fragment of Kosh still in his mind shuts that whole poo poo off presumably I assume to ensure that the humans who have never seen one will be able to see that they aren’t attacking some angel. At least that’s how I always took it. I assumed that the Vorlons somehow programmed in, ‘when you see us, you really see an angel’ kind of like a psychic illusion. That’s why the Centauri don’t see anything. 404 - file not found.
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# ? Jun 25, 2019 00:57 |
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Doctor Zero posted:I always took it to be like a psychic re-writing that they programmed into the younger races. I don’t think it has to be consciously projected. I think it just kind of happens and has to be specifically overridden. After Kosh rescues Sheridan from the tram bomb, he remarks that it was exhausting being seen by so many of the younger races. General thought is that means it's something the Vorlon do actively, that takes effort.
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# ? Jun 25, 2019 01:02 |
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Or Kosh is just an introvert
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# ? Jun 25, 2019 01:40 |
Kosh wasn't unconscious after he was poisoned. At least, I don't think he's ever specifically said to be unconscious. He's dying and unable to consent to the mind scan, but one wonders how they could even tell whether Kosh was unconscious or not.
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# ? Jun 25, 2019 02:13 |
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Lemniscate Blue posted:After Kosh rescues Sheridan from the tram bomb, he remarks that it was exhausting being seen by so many of the younger races. General thought is that means it's something the Vorlon do actively, that takes effort. Oh yeah that’s right. Hmm. Forgot about that. It could also be that JMS changed things around a bit later.
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# ? Jun 25, 2019 02:57 |
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Yeah, the real answer is "it's the pilot, things changed".
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# ? Jun 25, 2019 03:01 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Yeah, the real answer is "it's the pilot, things changed". And the in-universe explanation is "It's Vorlons, I ain't gotta explain poo poo."
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# ? Jun 25, 2019 03:14 |
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Doctor Zero posted:That’s why the Centauri don’t see anything. 404 - file not found. This is Londo specifically because of the Shadow influence, not all Cenauri.
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# ? Jun 25, 2019 06:15 |
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Grand Fromage posted:This is Londo specifically because of the Shadow influence, not all Cenauri. We don't hear any Centauri mention anything. And Londo can't even remember exactly how many gods the Centauri have.
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# ? Jun 25, 2019 07:59 |