02-14-2018, 02:55 PM | #21 |
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Re: What sort of computer game suits GURPS best?
One thing that I think will suit a GURPS based computer game is a lower frequency of combat. The realism level inherent to GURPS makes combat more deadly and having the ability to be able to largely avoid combat entirely might fit.
How many combat heavy games result in situations where you are button mashing to dispatch a mob of 30 low level opponents. Personally I would think a rarer more detailed combat paradigm where the character is in genuine peril would suit the gurps mechanics better.
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02-15-2018, 12:27 PM | #22 | ||
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Re: What sort of computer game suits GURPS best?
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One thing that always annoyed me about any party-based game is the strict limit on number of party members. I know this was probably done for performance reasons, but it's still annoying that I can't make a party of 8 or 10 characters if I want to. It would feel really epic, in my opinion, to have tactical battles with larger numbers of participants on both sides. It also always annoyed me with D&D games that the specific characters you can recruit are set in stone and once they die, they die. This has nothing to do with GURPS really, but having a mechanism for hiring randomly generated new recruits (with DF templates) would allow you to keep playing as long as you didn't suffer a TPK. It would be very in-genre to have a defeated party end up back at a tavern trying to Carouse up some new recruits. Quote:
I didn't mean to make this all about DF. I was mostly trying to point out that GURPS can do combat heavy games like DF while still having combat be tactically interesting (not button mashing) and potentially deadly. Beyond the combat situations, even if you focus on DF due to the popularity of the genre, there is great potential to be had in leveraging non-combat skills for things like puzzle solving, environmental challenges, information gathering, and social situations to name a few. |
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02-15-2018, 05:05 PM | #23 |
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Re: What sort of computer game suits GURPS best?
GURPS is just too deadly for characters to go solo against mobs. A group of five 50 point guards can take out a 250 point combat specialist without that much difficulty.
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02-15-2018, 05:26 PM | #24 |
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Re: What sort of computer game suits GURPS best?
Eh, depends on TL and rules in use. A 250 point DF combat monster is unlikely to lose to 5 50 point guards.
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02-15-2018, 05:37 PM | #25 |
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Re: What sort of computer game suits GURPS best?
Of course, but it is a completely different story at TL8. Five guards with DX 10, Guns (Pistol) 16, OHWT (Pistol), and DWA (Pistol), which costs a total of 26 points, will make lunchmeat out of most 250 point characters.
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02-15-2018, 05:46 PM | #26 |
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Re: What sort of computer game suits GURPS best?
Urr...that's a super weird build. If you want to disintegrate people, just take guns(rifle)-23 [48] and use an assault rifle. If you want to be non-silly, even guns-12 is enough that five will take out a 250 point character.
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02-15-2018, 06:29 PM | #27 |
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Re: What sort of computer game suits GURPS best?
Pistols are easier to hide.
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02-15-2018, 07:19 PM | #28 |
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02-16-2018, 07:31 AM | #29 | |
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Re: What sort of computer game suits GURPS best?
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Absolutely. TL makes a huge difference, and at higher TLs where firepower outclasses armor, circumstances and equipment have a far greater impact than point totals. |
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02-16-2018, 07:36 AM | #30 |
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Re: What sort of computer game suits GURPS best?
Spread sheets.
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