In the middle of a forest, the native wildlife are suddenly attracted to you and will charge towards a point two feet in front of you. They're peaceful after that, but if you attack any of them their eyes go red and they start attacking you with blasts and swipes of red energy. Ding Dong, the thread aint dead
I remember being a little freaked out when I attacked a wolf in Minecraft and its eyes went red. And thank you for reviving this thread! The OP is very long by now, so I won't be adding any more suggestions, but I will be giving likes to ideas that fit with the theme.
When I see a thread that is still releveant and useful, as well as entertaining but has been shoved a few pages back by waves of bad ideas and/or spam-like threads, I often revive it, because nothing, NOTHING is more embarassing on the internet than having to bump your own thread. Except suddenly realising that the person you've known and gamed with for six years is a different gender to what you'd assumed they were.
Higgintop, it would be nice if you were to quote the section you refer to, so as not to confuse browsers of the thread.
I posted these on the strange and hilarious, but they're more suited for this thread. - When you open up your menu screen underground- A. Your character starts making "taking damage" sounds. B. The screen behind the menu slowly starts to fade into static. C. Your character starts walking off the screen behind the menu. D. Dozens of old men, looking exactly the same, walk past your character. E. A boss mob walks past your character. F. Blocks slowly start dissapearing on the screen behind the menu. G. The area starts filling up with blood. H. Circus music starts playing, and then it slowly gets louder and creepier. - When you close the menu screen however, all of these stop occuring, and you find your character exactly how you left him or her. -
Wanting to share my opinion about the ideas and the thread in general. Generally, I like them it - such little random events, if rare enough, may add much to the immersion and interest the player. So I consider it a great idea. Still, I wouldn't like to see three kinds of things in game as they wouldn't be cool at all. Not just stuff that cannot be explained, but makes no sense: Armor scratching it's head, running away torches I wouldn't find nifty nor paranormal. It would be plain silly and off-putting to me. Stuff that people may just consider actually taking away their immersion or a bug: Electronic elements dropping from animals, bosses passing player by or peaceful animals attacking players but not dealing any damage may plain be taken for some glitch with spawn, monster's player targetting etc. If a weapon works through the whole game, it suddenly jamming also wouldn't be cool. It would be irritating especially if the player would die because of that. It would be plainly a pain in the butt. Things trying to force a mood onto the player: I also wouldn't like random creepy music, areas filling with blood, being hurt sounds and graphical effect etc as per, for example, part Darthkitten's post above this one (although cliche-neutral things like occasional blur of the background or 'snowing screen' effect when player's in some menu could be nice) - as the game world would be randomly made, it's bound to happen that you'll get some special effect in the place that would make it totally unfitting, even if you program locations with special rules in mind. Also, things like standing on some happy, sunny meadow full of cute animals which suddenly starts filling with blood will not be unfitting in a mysterious way. They will be unfitting as in a semi-bizarro 'bah, the game derped, hope there will be a patch for such things.' A little advice, for your own good. Please don't do that. It's attitude like that that made the whole issue with liking and spurned quite some criticism against people doing that. You'll win no favors with such, people will just think your likes are worthless.
SLENDERMAN!!!! Oh god that would be creepy to have slenderman in the game...-shudder- Hehe, that could be another occurence that relates to that.. After you find the note, then you start to see a tall, faceless man, which teleports away the exact instant you approach / look at it, and it only appears on the VERY edge of the screen. Could be twice as tall as the character (As, slenderman is almost 9 ft tall xD) Then, one night on some random planet, no matter where you are, it teleports from side to side of the screen, slowly edging closer towards you, and when it touches you, your screen fades to static with a slight imprint of his face. Then, you wake up the next morning with various claw marks and signs of struggle, and a random item from your inventory is gone.
I am afraid it's not so simple. Continuing with the speculation. Then people start to complain what sort of random effect it is if it has no regard for the location (event taking place on the sunny, happy planet of fluffy bunnies has no impact whasoever) and actually isn't just an additional weird thing but affects the gameplay - and in no small way, taking away (possibly) one of player's favorite or most vital items with no way of preventing that and with no respect for how powerful the character has possibly became. The effect gets modded out publicly and turns out to be a waste of time. Or, more possibly, never gets added in the first place. I again would like to support my statement from earlier - some flavor-type special quirks I'd welcome. But events forced onto the player that are not a part of any storyline and cannot be prevented through some logical action, made to 'pose' as scary etc against player's mood and common sense I consider a bad thing. Personally, I'd rather have some interesting effects observed upon some particular action, maybe some unexpected, additional location to explore. Hopefully original and ambitious enough that even if there are references, they will be very subtle and not affecting much on their own.
This is going to be a long one. You find on a seemingly desolate planet, not post apocalyptic by any means, but with obvious remnants of civilization. However, no humanoid life can be found if the planet is scanned in any way. On a minor note, the planet's sun is seemingly partially obscured by debris, leaving only a crescent of light showing. If you land on the planet, you find a city of sorts with a fairly high tech level, though everything is damaged. Some salvage can be had, but not much of worth remains on the planet. If you walk for a while, you will find a makeshift village inhabited by humans. If asked, they tell you a story of a civil war that destroyed the planet's ecosystem, explaining the widespread destruction and lack of fauna on the planet. After explaining their current situation, the colonists will not speak to the player, not even giving them a look. Upon leaving the village and returning to your ship, you find that while your ship is intact, it has been drained of power. Needing an alternate source of power, you go back to the little village you found before. When you arrive, it is deserted. At the same time, the sky begins to darken, but the "sun" stays in the center of the sky, and gives off illumination of its own. The planet begins to tremor slightly, and the debris covering the "sun" breaks apart, revealing a moon with a hideous grin. Slowly, tentacles emerge from the moon, and the villagers emerge from the ground only to have tentacles burst from their bodies. This sets up a fight for your life against the biggest Bad Moon ever seen, and an entire planet of dead souls risen to fight against you! Inspiration drawn from Yen's Bad Moon http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/bad-moon.2965/
He stated that he wasn't adding any more to the main post, but that he would take a look at any additional posts that came along.
Some of the things are creepy as fk, lol. NIce idea tho, but I wouldn't want it to turn into a SlenderBound Bermuda Triangle horror game type thing.
well no offense centor111 but the forum is for 13 and over and the game is more than likely aimed at 15+ considering weapons violence and online interaction with god knows who so no i dont think it will be aimed at 10 year olds tbh on a more thread related comment love this idea its unique not many games have it unless its a horror game and even then with them games its expected so you dont feel the weird feel of it i would love to see it implemented
Random events like these appearing post planet generation would add a massive amount of depth and personality to every biome. I wish I could +50 but I can only +1.
