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Hi guys.
I got the document with the text in-spoilers, in my intallation of Fallout 1 FIXT, i think.
I was wondering. Is it something mainly relater to GURP games, or especially Fallout 1 ? Considering the Fallout franchise used the Special instead of GURPS, is that vision statement outdated or could we still consider this as the core of Fallout Games ? By extension, all Interplay/InXile/Black Isles/Obsidian/Troïka games ? Does the quotes from that statement can be used in conversation about Fallout core ?
I got the document with the text in-spoilers, in my intallation of Fallout 1 FIXT, i think.
I was wondering. Is it something mainly relater to GURP games, or especially Fallout 1 ? Considering the Fallout franchise used the Special instead of GURPS, is that vision statement outdated or could we still consider this as the core of Fallout Games ? By extension, all Interplay/InXile/Black Isles/Obsidian/Troïka games ? Does the quotes from that statement can be used in conversation about Fallout core ?
FALLOUT
A GURPS Post Nuclear Adventure
Vision Statement
(or why this game is damn cool)
1. Mega levels of violence (you had better give us that Mature
rating right now)
You can shoot everything in this game: people, animals, buildings and
walls. You can make “called shots” on people, so you can aim for their
eyes or their groin. Called shots can do more damage, knock the
target unconscious or have other effects. When people die, they don’t
just die – they get cut in half, they melt into a pile of goo, explode like
a blood sausage, or several different ways – depending on the weapon
you use. When I use my rocket launcher on some poor defenseless
townsperson, he’ll know (and his neighbors will be cleaning up the
blood for weeks!)
This is the wasteland. Life is cheap and violence is all that there is.
We are going to grab the player’s guts and remind him of this.
2. There is often no right solution (or dang, we have some
moral dilemmas)
This is a bad place. There are bad people. Like it or not, the player
will not be able to make everyone live happily ever after. The player
will have to make some tough choices. We want the decisions to feel
more realistic then other games. We want the player to feel more, not
just go through the motions of playing a game.
For example, to restore the ability to make fresh water to the player’s
home Vault, the player must take a critical piece of equipment from
another town. That town will no longer be able to purify their water,
and that town will die. The player can then attempt to save that town,
but that’s another problem.
In another town, two people are fighting for control of the town.
Neither of these guys are saints. It’s a matter of choice for the player,
he has to choose one of these criminals to run the town – and kill the
other one.
GURPS FALLOUT Vision Statement - 5/29/2010 - Page 1
3. There will always be multiple solutions (it’s more fun that
way)
To continue the example from the previous point, the player could
also just walk away. He doesn’t have to solve every problem, and
there are always multiple solutions. If a player wants to go through
the wasteland with guns blazing, laying waste to everyone and
everything he sees – we let him! If he wants to sneak around, be
quiet and not get into trouble – he can do that to! If he wants to talk it
out, offering a diplomatic solution, or lying his teeth out – he can try
that to!
No one style of play will be perfect. The player will have to try
different actions to get to the end of the game.
In one case, the player needs to get into an armed camp. He can try
to sneak in (using his stealth skill), bluff his way in (using his fast talk
skill), or shoot the guards (using his combat skills).
4. The players actions affect the world (and the world reacts to
the player)
The game will notice what the player does and respond accordingly.
If the player shoots up people in a tavern, the other patrons will
notice. If the player seems badass, then the patrons will leave him
alone and go on their way. If the player looks like a wimp, the patrons
could take him on. As the player gains a reputation, NPCs will notice –
moving out of the way, or going out of their way to kill the player.
Once again, we want the player to get involved with what is
happening within the game. If the player feels like he is making a
difference, then he will want to play more – even if it is just to see how
he can change the game world.
5. There is a sense of urgency (the player moves, no sitting
around in our game)
There is a clock running. The player’s actions will affect this clock –
slowing down or speeding some events, but the clock will always catch
up to the player.
The main bad guy isn’t just sitting back and letting the player come
kill him. Our bad guy is taking over the world. The longer the player
waits, the more towns our bad guy will take over – making it harder
for the player to get information and equipment.
We will, of course, offer the player the time needed to solve the game
and still be able to explore. And the player will get feedback about
GURPS FALLOUT Vision Statement - 5/29/2010 - Page 2
what is going on in the world. We want to avoid the problem of “What
do I do next? Help me, I’m lost and I can’t get a clue!”
6. It’s open ended (well, as much as it can be and still not pull
a Darklands)
The player can go anywhere. He may not have the tools, or the
experience, to handle where he is, or gain access to some hidden or
guarded areas. But the player can explore freely, and return to
previous locations.
The player can wander around the world map, and some areas will be
hidden on this map. These areas will have more monsters, equipment
and maps for the player to encounter and explore.
A game can feel large in scope, without being a huge game.
7. The player will have a goal (goals are good, like shipdates)
The player should always feel like he has something to do. And he
should always have an idea of what that “something” is.
We will help the player from getting lost and confused by offering
them an Adventure Journal. This Journal will take the form of a PDA
Computer (sort of an advanced Newton). It will allow the player to
check his status during the game. Any adventure seeds that the
player is currently following will be noted in the PDA. The player can
play back the cinematic sequences that he has seen from this PDA.
The PDA also records important clues and information offered by
NPCs.
At the beginning of the game, the player will have an immediate goal
– surviving long enough to find the water chip to repair the water
purifier. As the player advances through the game, they will find out
their ultimate goal – stopping the Master from taking over the
Wasteland and turning all the humans into mutants.
8. The Player has control over his actions (it is a role-playing
game, after all)
The player can act good or evil. It’s up to the player. We want to
keep the feeling “Why can’t I do that?!” to a minimum, to avoid
frustrating the player. We want to cover a spectrum of gamers, and
the actions they might want to do.
At the end of the game, the bad guy will offer the player a job –
working for him. The player can accept, and the game will take this
into account.
GURPS FALLOUT Vision Statement - 5/29/2010 - Page 3
If the player wants to be a butthead to people, we will let him. It
might make the character’s job a little more difficult at times, but it
might intimidate others into doing what the player needs done.
9. Interface (not in your face)
OK - it needs to be said. A lot of work will go into the interface. It will
be easy to use, but can perform complex actions without making the
player seem stupid. It will look great, and allow the player to jump
right into the action. In general, the left mouse button will perform an
action and the right mouse button will bring up a menu of actions to
perform or do an alternate action.
A good interface will let the player concentrate on his actions within
the game, not the game itself.
10. Encounter Windows (or how you talk to somebody)
When the player talks to somebody important in the game – they will
actually talk to them. GURPS covers reactions very well, and we will
translate this into the game. If you piss someone off with your
comments, then they will look and act pissed – and they will
remember it. Depending on the player’s choice of conversation
topics, the NPCs will look happy, normal and/or angry. The speech will
be lip-synched with the animation.
And your character’s intelligence stat will determine what the player
can say. If the character’s IQ is high, the player will be able to select
intelligent lines to say – and the NPCs will respond to this. If the IQ is
low, then the player will lose the ability to say complex lines, and
eventually just be able to say “Duh?” or “What?”. And the NPCs will
react to this as well…
11. A wide variety of weapons and actions (means a lot of
animation)
The character on the screen represents how the character is
equipped. The player has a wide selection of weapons to choose from
during the course of play. Weapons like: machine guns, laser pistols,
flamethrowers, sledgehammers, knives, clubs, gatling lasers,
chainguns, plasmacasters, grenades and more! During combat, the
player’s character might be knocked down, knocked out, blown up, set
on fire or shredded by machine gun fire. The player gets to watch this
happen live on the screen. And the player can do it to other people, of
course. And when the player adds armor to his character, he gets to
see the new armor. All this will give the player more empathy with his
character.
GURPS FALLOUT Vision Statement - 5/29/2010 - Page 4
12. Detailed character creation rules and premade characters
(more choices, imagine that from a role-playing game)
The player can choose between detailed rules for making his character
(like buying attributes, skills, advantages and selecting disadvantages
to get more points) or he can choose from a set of three characters
that we will make.
The premade characters will be detailed, and will embody the three
types of players: combat, stealth and diplomacy boy. This will let
some players nitpick their characters to death, or jump right into the
action.
As the player gains experience, he can improve his character’s skills
and attributes. This will let the player change his character during
play.
Detailed character creation is important to many role-playing games,
and it is certainly important to GURPS. Letting the player fine turn his
own character will get the player more involved in the character, and
thus the game.
13. We are making this for the public, but we’ll make the
GURPS players happy (it gets pretty ugly when they get too
happy, you need a lot of paper towels)
GURPS Fallout will be a GURPS title, using the GURPS rules. But first
and foremost, it will be a fun role-playing game. It will just happen to
have enough GURPS material to make the GURPSers happy. We must
keep this in mind. The game comes first.
GURPS gives us:
· detailed tactical combat (turn-based but not slow)
· realistic NPC reactions and reaction based skills
· complex characters that are very life like (with faults and
advantages)
· non-combat skills that are useful
· balanced encounters
· a core following of dedicated players
And Finally,
14. The team is motivated (Tim has incriminating documents
on all of us)
This is extremely important. Team GURPS is excited to be making this
game. Everyone on the team is happy with what they are doing. We
want to do this. We care about this game and we will make it cool.
GURPS FALLOUT Vision Statement - 5/29/2010 - Page 5
-Team GURPS
TEAM GURPS MISSION STATEMENT:
Our goal is to work together to make a fun roleplaying
game, and do it in a reasonable amount of
time.
GURPS FALLOUT Vision Statement - 5/29/2010 - Page 6
A GURPS Post Nuclear Adventure
Vision Statement
(or why this game is damn cool)
1. Mega levels of violence (you had better give us that Mature
rating right now)
You can shoot everything in this game: people, animals, buildings and
walls. You can make “called shots” on people, so you can aim for their
eyes or their groin. Called shots can do more damage, knock the
target unconscious or have other effects. When people die, they don’t
just die – they get cut in half, they melt into a pile of goo, explode like
a blood sausage, or several different ways – depending on the weapon
you use. When I use my rocket launcher on some poor defenseless
townsperson, he’ll know (and his neighbors will be cleaning up the
blood for weeks!)
This is the wasteland. Life is cheap and violence is all that there is.
We are going to grab the player’s guts and remind him of this.
2. There is often no right solution (or dang, we have some
moral dilemmas)
This is a bad place. There are bad people. Like it or not, the player
will not be able to make everyone live happily ever after. The player
will have to make some tough choices. We want the decisions to feel
more realistic then other games. We want the player to feel more, not
just go through the motions of playing a game.
For example, to restore the ability to make fresh water to the player’s
home Vault, the player must take a critical piece of equipment from
another town. That town will no longer be able to purify their water,
and that town will die. The player can then attempt to save that town,
but that’s another problem.
In another town, two people are fighting for control of the town.
Neither of these guys are saints. It’s a matter of choice for the player,
he has to choose one of these criminals to run the town – and kill the
other one.
GURPS FALLOUT Vision Statement - 5/29/2010 - Page 1
3. There will always be multiple solutions (it’s more fun that
way)
To continue the example from the previous point, the player could
also just walk away. He doesn’t have to solve every problem, and
there are always multiple solutions. If a player wants to go through
the wasteland with guns blazing, laying waste to everyone and
everything he sees – we let him! If he wants to sneak around, be
quiet and not get into trouble – he can do that to! If he wants to talk it
out, offering a diplomatic solution, or lying his teeth out – he can try
that to!
No one style of play will be perfect. The player will have to try
different actions to get to the end of the game.
In one case, the player needs to get into an armed camp. He can try
to sneak in (using his stealth skill), bluff his way in (using his fast talk
skill), or shoot the guards (using his combat skills).
4. The players actions affect the world (and the world reacts to
the player)
The game will notice what the player does and respond accordingly.
If the player shoots up people in a tavern, the other patrons will
notice. If the player seems badass, then the patrons will leave him
alone and go on their way. If the player looks like a wimp, the patrons
could take him on. As the player gains a reputation, NPCs will notice –
moving out of the way, or going out of their way to kill the player.
Once again, we want the player to get involved with what is
happening within the game. If the player feels like he is making a
difference, then he will want to play more – even if it is just to see how
he can change the game world.
5. There is a sense of urgency (the player moves, no sitting
around in our game)
There is a clock running. The player’s actions will affect this clock –
slowing down or speeding some events, but the clock will always catch
up to the player.
The main bad guy isn’t just sitting back and letting the player come
kill him. Our bad guy is taking over the world. The longer the player
waits, the more towns our bad guy will take over – making it harder
for the player to get information and equipment.
We will, of course, offer the player the time needed to solve the game
and still be able to explore. And the player will get feedback about
GURPS FALLOUT Vision Statement - 5/29/2010 - Page 2
what is going on in the world. We want to avoid the problem of “What
do I do next? Help me, I’m lost and I can’t get a clue!”
6. It’s open ended (well, as much as it can be and still not pull
a Darklands)
The player can go anywhere. He may not have the tools, or the
experience, to handle where he is, or gain access to some hidden or
guarded areas. But the player can explore freely, and return to
previous locations.
The player can wander around the world map, and some areas will be
hidden on this map. These areas will have more monsters, equipment
and maps for the player to encounter and explore.
A game can feel large in scope, without being a huge game.
7. The player will have a goal (goals are good, like shipdates)
The player should always feel like he has something to do. And he
should always have an idea of what that “something” is.
We will help the player from getting lost and confused by offering
them an Adventure Journal. This Journal will take the form of a PDA
Computer (sort of an advanced Newton). It will allow the player to
check his status during the game. Any adventure seeds that the
player is currently following will be noted in the PDA. The player can
play back the cinematic sequences that he has seen from this PDA.
The PDA also records important clues and information offered by
NPCs.
At the beginning of the game, the player will have an immediate goal
– surviving long enough to find the water chip to repair the water
purifier. As the player advances through the game, they will find out
their ultimate goal – stopping the Master from taking over the
Wasteland and turning all the humans into mutants.
8. The Player has control over his actions (it is a role-playing
game, after all)
The player can act good or evil. It’s up to the player. We want to
keep the feeling “Why can’t I do that?!” to a minimum, to avoid
frustrating the player. We want to cover a spectrum of gamers, and
the actions they might want to do.
At the end of the game, the bad guy will offer the player a job –
working for him. The player can accept, and the game will take this
into account.
GURPS FALLOUT Vision Statement - 5/29/2010 - Page 3
If the player wants to be a butthead to people, we will let him. It
might make the character’s job a little more difficult at times, but it
might intimidate others into doing what the player needs done.
9. Interface (not in your face)
OK - it needs to be said. A lot of work will go into the interface. It will
be easy to use, but can perform complex actions without making the
player seem stupid. It will look great, and allow the player to jump
right into the action. In general, the left mouse button will perform an
action and the right mouse button will bring up a menu of actions to
perform or do an alternate action.
A good interface will let the player concentrate on his actions within
the game, not the game itself.
10. Encounter Windows (or how you talk to somebody)
When the player talks to somebody important in the game – they will
actually talk to them. GURPS covers reactions very well, and we will
translate this into the game. If you piss someone off with your
comments, then they will look and act pissed – and they will
remember it. Depending on the player’s choice of conversation
topics, the NPCs will look happy, normal and/or angry. The speech will
be lip-synched with the animation.
And your character’s intelligence stat will determine what the player
can say. If the character’s IQ is high, the player will be able to select
intelligent lines to say – and the NPCs will respond to this. If the IQ is
low, then the player will lose the ability to say complex lines, and
eventually just be able to say “Duh?” or “What?”. And the NPCs will
react to this as well…
11. A wide variety of weapons and actions (means a lot of
animation)
The character on the screen represents how the character is
equipped. The player has a wide selection of weapons to choose from
during the course of play. Weapons like: machine guns, laser pistols,
flamethrowers, sledgehammers, knives, clubs, gatling lasers,
chainguns, plasmacasters, grenades and more! During combat, the
player’s character might be knocked down, knocked out, blown up, set
on fire or shredded by machine gun fire. The player gets to watch this
happen live on the screen. And the player can do it to other people, of
course. And when the player adds armor to his character, he gets to
see the new armor. All this will give the player more empathy with his
character.
GURPS FALLOUT Vision Statement - 5/29/2010 - Page 4
12. Detailed character creation rules and premade characters
(more choices, imagine that from a role-playing game)
The player can choose between detailed rules for making his character
(like buying attributes, skills, advantages and selecting disadvantages
to get more points) or he can choose from a set of three characters
that we will make.
The premade characters will be detailed, and will embody the three
types of players: combat, stealth and diplomacy boy. This will let
some players nitpick their characters to death, or jump right into the
action.
As the player gains experience, he can improve his character’s skills
and attributes. This will let the player change his character during
play.
Detailed character creation is important to many role-playing games,
and it is certainly important to GURPS. Letting the player fine turn his
own character will get the player more involved in the character, and
thus the game.
13. We are making this for the public, but we’ll make the
GURPS players happy (it gets pretty ugly when they get too
happy, you need a lot of paper towels)
GURPS Fallout will be a GURPS title, using the GURPS rules. But first
and foremost, it will be a fun role-playing game. It will just happen to
have enough GURPS material to make the GURPSers happy. We must
keep this in mind. The game comes first.
GURPS gives us:
· detailed tactical combat (turn-based but not slow)
· realistic NPC reactions and reaction based skills
· complex characters that are very life like (with faults and
advantages)
· non-combat skills that are useful
· balanced encounters
· a core following of dedicated players
And Finally,
14. The team is motivated (Tim has incriminating documents
on all of us)
This is extremely important. Team GURPS is excited to be making this
game. Everyone on the team is happy with what they are doing. We
want to do this. We care about this game and we will make it cool.
GURPS FALLOUT Vision Statement - 5/29/2010 - Page 5
-Team GURPS
TEAM GURPS MISSION STATEMENT:
Our goal is to work together to make a fun roleplaying
game, and do it in a reasonable amount of
time.
GURPS FALLOUT Vision Statement - 5/29/2010 - Page 6
