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First time out of the vault
I have been watching this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqkZXNZwZq4&list=WL&index=256
And thinking about how the core of the story can remain the same, while still giving the player the freedom to craft their own player. Here is what I came up with, which admittedly is a bit cliché.
The Game begins, you hear Ron Perlman narrating the introductory cinematic or slides, it doesn't really matter.
As the narration fades away, the screen turn to white revealing the character to be in cryogenic pod. Suddenly it opens, and the main character (Sole Survivor) falls out. The Sole Survivor manages to stand up, he will be reflected in some sort of a mirror. This is where the player creates how he looks like.
After decided on the looks, the Player assumes the control of the character. You access some sort of console beside the cryogenic pod, where the Sole Survivor was frozen. In this console the Player decides on the SPECIAL(which starts with average of 5), the traits and maybe some extra details to flesh out the character.
Opposite Sole Survivors pod is an open pod with a dead body in it, in vanilla game it would have been your spouse. Here its just a skeleton, so you can feel in the gaps for now. The character makes his way through an empty vault, there are no mole rats or rad roaches. By reading the terminals the character finds out that he was frozen before the war. Why doesn't he remember that? Here comes the biggest cliché in this intro, the character is amnesiac. I decided to make him amnesiac so that he can be a blank slate onto which the player imprints his personality.
I would want to compensate it, if through out the game you could either recover your memory, but the memory you recover is retroactive. Maybe one player likes baseball and another despises. (the dialogue system would need reworking for that to be the case). Also an amnesiac character can easily ignore the main quest, or be just as enamored to delve into the main story as the sole survivor in the vanilla should have been.
Also, in my idea, Shaun is still your son, potentially adopted son. And memory den also would play a larger role further in the game.
So guys, what do you think? Would this be a better ending, or how would you make an intro to fallout 4?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqkZXNZwZq4&list=WL&index=256
And thinking about how the core of the story can remain the same, while still giving the player the freedom to craft their own player. Here is what I came up with, which admittedly is a bit cliché.
The Game begins, you hear Ron Perlman narrating the introductory cinematic or slides, it doesn't really matter.
As the narration fades away, the screen turn to white revealing the character to be in cryogenic pod. Suddenly it opens, and the main character (Sole Survivor) falls out. The Sole Survivor manages to stand up, he will be reflected in some sort of a mirror. This is where the player creates how he looks like.
After decided on the looks, the Player assumes the control of the character. You access some sort of console beside the cryogenic pod, where the Sole Survivor was frozen. In this console the Player decides on the SPECIAL(which starts with average of 5), the traits and maybe some extra details to flesh out the character.
Opposite Sole Survivors pod is an open pod with a dead body in it, in vanilla game it would have been your spouse. Here its just a skeleton, so you can feel in the gaps for now. The character makes his way through an empty vault, there are no mole rats or rad roaches. By reading the terminals the character finds out that he was frozen before the war. Why doesn't he remember that? Here comes the biggest cliché in this intro, the character is amnesiac. I decided to make him amnesiac so that he can be a blank slate onto which the player imprints his personality.
I would want to compensate it, if through out the game you could either recover your memory, but the memory you recover is retroactive. Maybe one player likes baseball and another despises. (the dialogue system would need reworking for that to be the case). Also an amnesiac character can easily ignore the main quest, or be just as enamored to delve into the main story as the sole survivor in the vanilla should have been.
Also, in my idea, Shaun is still your son, potentially adopted son. And memory den also would play a larger role further in the game.
So guys, what do you think? Would this be a better ending, or how would you make an intro to fallout 4?
