slantz
04-21-2006, 12:00 PM
Back in the day, I believe in the SNES era, Koei released an RPG that was essentially taking place inside a RoTK game universe.
That is to say that the AI was essentially playing a grand meta-game of RoTK, but you never really got to see it at that level. You were simply a guy, starting off as a whelp, in a single province. You went around at low-levels just getting some xp/levels/gold. But eventually you started doing odd jobs for provincial leaders, making a name for yourself, and recruiting followers.
Eventually, as you grew in power and fame, you began effecting the top-level meta-game, eventually affecting who won. I seem to recall that once you got big enough, it was open-ended enough that you could go anywhere and choose to ally with anyone who liked you enough.
I seem to recall fights were somewhat like Final Fantasy -- that is to say a fight would start and you zoom in to the battle and select your action from text-based menus until one side or the other dropped.
I may very well be getting some of the details wrong, but I really loved that game. RoTK X reminded me of that one (you're just a guy in the world), but I found myself reminiscing for the old one. I'd like to dig it up on emulation if anyone can help me remember the name...
That is to say that the AI was essentially playing a grand meta-game of RoTK, but you never really got to see it at that level. You were simply a guy, starting off as a whelp, in a single province. You went around at low-levels just getting some xp/levels/gold. But eventually you started doing odd jobs for provincial leaders, making a name for yourself, and recruiting followers.
Eventually, as you grew in power and fame, you began effecting the top-level meta-game, eventually affecting who won. I seem to recall that once you got big enough, it was open-ended enough that you could go anywhere and choose to ally with anyone who liked you enough.
I seem to recall fights were somewhat like Final Fantasy -- that is to say a fight would start and you zoom in to the battle and select your action from text-based menus until one side or the other dropped.
I may very well be getting some of the details wrong, but I really loved that game. RoTK X reminded me of that one (you're just a guy in the world), but I found myself reminiscing for the old one. I'd like to dig it up on emulation if anyone can help me remember the name...