But Ghost Trick isn't available on decent platforms. I'd play that if it got released on Android.Jonathan Fifer said:
Extra Punctuation: An Invisible Protagonist
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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I quite liked Yahtzee's own TRILBY: The Art Of Theft. The missions were structured with multiple solutions and most could be beaten without leaving a trace. Good game actually.
Games I like that you can be invisible in:
Geist - Game Cube
In Geist you're a scientist who's been turned into a ghost in a crazy experiment (if I remember correctly, it's been a while since I played). You can fly through doors, possess items, and scare people witless. Very good play.
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Um, there was one of the Marvel games, but I can't remember the title of 'em (because I know they made more than one), but the Invisible Woman is a playable character. A friend and I were playing, and were stuck at this one part where a bunch of baddies were guarding a very essential piece of equipment that needed to be shut off. A friend and I had our butts handed to us once or twice, so I said, "Screw it!" and switched over to Sue Storm. When we reached the objective I simply cloaked, snuck past them, and simply flipped the power switch. I felt rather empowered and clever, but my friend seemed to have mixed feelings about it.
Team Fortress 2
Everyone's favorite class is Spy, hands down.
Othr games I know of are Tenchu, Wrath of Heaven, and The Hobbit.
But in none of these games are you permanently invisible :*(.
Geist - Game Cube
In Geist you're a scientist who's been turned into a ghost in a crazy experiment (if I remember correctly, it's been a while since I played). You can fly through doors, possess items, and scare people witless. Very good play.
...
Um, there was one of the Marvel games, but I can't remember the title of 'em (because I know they made more than one), but the Invisible Woman is a playable character. A friend and I were playing, and were stuck at this one part where a bunch of baddies were guarding a very essential piece of equipment that needed to be shut off. A friend and I had our butts handed to us once or twice, so I said, "Screw it!" and switched over to Sue Storm. When we reached the objective I simply cloaked, snuck past them, and simply flipped the power switch. I felt rather empowered and clever, but my friend seemed to have mixed feelings about it.
Team Fortress 2
Everyone's favorite class is Spy, hands down.
Othr games I know of are Tenchu, Wrath of Heaven, and The Hobbit.
But in none of these games are you permanently invisible :*(.
ITs ideas like this that and the Reverse-leveling that make me wish I could erase Bob Kotick and put Yahtzee in charge for a few years.
I wonder, if any of us Escapist readers do eventually create such a game, and manage to turn a profit, if Yahtzee would be within his legal rights to sue? It occupied a short segment of an <a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/extra-credits/2216-Mailbag-1>Extra Credits episode, and if that's the case, it seems as though the only way to guarantee a game's security from legal action is to think it up yourself.
I don't think Yahtzee would pursue it, as he'd rather see these experimental mechanics implemented successfully. But if he did, it effectively denies any of us reading about the mechanic from ever incorporating it into a game.
Granted, not many of us will break into the industry, but for those that do, legal action could be a niggling little doubt in our minds, even if we really wanted to try some of his stuff out.
I don't think Yahtzee would pursue it, as he'd rather see these experimental mechanics implemented successfully. But if he did, it effectively denies any of us reading about the mechanic from ever incorporating it into a game.
Granted, not many of us will break into the industry, but for those that do, legal action could be a niggling little doubt in our minds, even if we really wanted to try some of his stuff out.
Some games have actually made it so that stealth and invisibility don't only make the game better, it's technically part of the core gameplay.
Thief, Assassins Creed to an extent, Metal Gear Solid going as far to literally being invisible; Heck, as much as I want to tear it apart, Halo's Cloak. It just makes the game more fun.
Thief, Assassins Creed to an extent, Metal Gear Solid going as far to literally being invisible; Heck, as much as I want to tear it apart, Halo's Cloak. It just makes the game more fun.
I don't get the snobs that put honest, non-cheating gamers into the same row with the regular cheaters because of a broken game mechanics. Dudes, it's in the game: I play the game by its own rules, what's wrong with that? I always use all of the tools the game gives me. Why shouldn't I?
As for the cloak using the same energy as other augmentations (yo there, Deus Ex), right, make the game even easier than it already is. I played Crysis 2 on the hardest difficulty and I managed to breeze through it still. The funny thing is that fighting humans was a lot tougher on that difficulty than fighting aliens, because humans come in much larger numbers. But you can't really perma-cloak your way out till you get faster energy regen and reduced cloak energy consumption, whatever those upgrades are actually called. I would only perma-cloak my way at the very end, because I didn't feel like murdering dozens of aliens, *spoiler alert* as they would all get evaporated anyways.
As for the game idea, that might actually work. I always welcome a breath of fresh air into my games. That's why I loved Mirror's Edge so much, even though the story was shyte.
As for the cloak using the same energy as other augmentations (yo there, Deus Ex), right, make the game even easier than it already is. I played Crysis 2 on the hardest difficulty and I managed to breeze through it still. The funny thing is that fighting humans was a lot tougher on that difficulty than fighting aliens, because humans come in much larger numbers. But you can't really perma-cloak your way out till you get faster energy regen and reduced cloak energy consumption, whatever those upgrades are actually called. I would only perma-cloak my way at the very end, because I didn't feel like murdering dozens of aliens, *spoiler alert* as they would all get evaporated anyways.
As for the game idea, that might actually work. I always welcome a breath of fresh air into my games. That's why I loved Mirror's Edge so much, even though the story was shyte.
If I knew how to make games, I would totally make that, provided yahtzee doesn't mind of course.
again only limited to the thieving genre? an action oriented game were you travel back in time to kill certain key persons with traps and heavy objects would work as well.
EVERY SINGLE TARGET in Blood Money has at least one way of making it look like a suicide or an accident. You just didn't find themTemplateResponse said:
. Trying to work out how to do it for each target is the best part of the game imho/
"There's a bimbo on the cover of my bookEvidencebased said:$10 says... a half-naked chick in no way related to the game play?HankMan said:
"There's a bimbo on the cover of my book
"She is blonde and she is sexy, she
"Is nowhere in the text, she
"Is the bimbo on the cover of my book"
? Maya Bohnhoff
Seriously, I'd go for something like an empty street, illuminated by WORKING streetlights, and you just see a bunch of footprints going into the distance... and suddenly just stoping in the middle of the street. And above it all's the title: Unseen.
Just my 500 cents
Many of the constraints of being invisible are in HG Wells' The Invisible Man.
Not to mention being invisibles biggest drawback, not being able to see.
Not to mention being invisibles biggest drawback, not being able to see.
