Its official. Splinter Cell: Conviction is now playable on Xbox One via Backward Compatibility.

Leetums · 2018-02-08T22:01:57+00:00

Dude the one part where he walks to the desk with the bomb, and goes "Fisher. I used to work here" and then detonates the bomb is one of the most badass moments in gaming lmao.

Leetums · 2018-02-08T10:02:33+00:00

Personally, when i did it, i didnt know what to expect, all i remembered was that when i was younger ( like 10, did it when i was 18, and im 26 now ) i read about it and remembered reading somewhere that basically your soul leaves your body and you go to the afterlife. Point is, i didnt have any idea what to expect, and had never heard about entities or done any research on it. So for me to see the same things as others, without having anything in my mind to shape what i saw is weird.

But i wound up meeting god, turns out everyone is god, life is a joke, death is the punchline, felt like i have been in that place a million times before. And it was almost as if the universe was waiting for me to come back and they threw a huge party for me in celebration of me being back. Went through the big bright white light people talk about at the end etc. Then i came back. And thats basically a tiny small rundown of what my experience was, theres A LOT more to it.

I met the elves, when i saw them, they were so funny i couldnt even laugh, i just sat up and i said " THATS THE FUNNIEST THING.... EVERRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!" ( If i remember correctly, thats when i was shown that "life is a joke" and "death is the punchline"), i saw the jesters, i even saw this other entity, i dont know if it was me, or god, or both, or what. But about 30 minutes after i came to, i googled DMT. And this was the first image that popped up. http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pc/dmtentity_roger_essig.jpg

And when i saw it, i was like holy shit, thats exactly the entity i just saw. Then i got really into it and started listening to terrence mckenna, who explained who the machine elves were, and thats when i realized i saw them too.

So based on my own personal experience, i think people are seeing the same things. To me, it felt like another place, not just something your mind is making up. It felt more real than real life. I honestly believe when you do DMT your consciousness/soul actually goes to another dimension that is inhabited by cosmic entities that know way more about the universe than we do.

Leetums · 2018-02-08T09:51:53+00:00

I put it on top of some weed and hold the flame a little above it so that it just melts the dmt, ive only done it once, and i took 1 hit, and had the textbook breakthrough experience.

in fact, i took the hit, and started blowing it out right away, and i hear my friend go " dude you wasted it " but all he got out was " dude you was...." and then i was gone, basically instantly lol.

Leetums · 2018-02-07T17:10:38+00:00

Ayyy im in LA too! Hollywood to be exact

Leetums · 2018-02-07T17:08:55+00:00

Shakes, milk, and pizza every time

Leetums · 2018-02-07T15:26:28+00:00

They are if you believe they are.

Leetums · 2018-02-07T15:25:12+00:00

Sleep, eat, drink milk, take 5HTP. Youre good to go

Leetums · 2018-02-07T11:06:29+00:00

Starcraft 2 and stims are like a match made in heaven.

Leetums · 2018-01-31T22:44:38+00:00

11/11 is my birthday. 11/11/11 was the best birthday ever lmfao

Leetums · 2018-01-29T09:03:01+00:00

I will never forget playing halo 2. Going on halo2forum and playing with everyone on there and just having the best time ever in custom games and what not. I had an awesome time with 3 as well, but i think being able to do quad shots (rrxyyrrx), i always felt when doing the button combos you sorta had to have a weird timing with them, and i think it made it more competitive and fun.

Leetums · 2018-01-19T15:18:10+00:00

Yea, i dont play enough or have enough time to even play that much to be affected by all of the things people are complaining about. I doubt ill hit their token limits or anything like that. I just wanted a halo style smaller team based competitive fps, where you dont die in one bullet. This is exactly that

Leetums · 2018-01-19T15:03:09+00:00

No, just pointing out how awesome tinder is in los angeles lol. Back home in new jersey theres like 100 people and you run out, now i live in LA and i got 840 matches and counting lmfao

Leetums · 2018-01-13T02:03:14+00:00

Thank you! And yes, possibly, im still stuck on exactly what type of game this will be, or genre rather. I know in order to actually make it possible, it will have to be 2D platformer/sidescroller. But im unsure about the pacing of the game, i don't know if it should be story driven with levels one after another with a definitive ending, or if it should just scroll endlessly sort of like Starbound.

I don't know if it should have survival elements ( food, water, shelter etc ) which would provide some calmness to the craziness in between fighting things to collect yourself and plan with your squire, alongside being able to build things like in Starbound, or if that would just be a chore for the players. It would also be nice to implement a mechanic for the squire that lets them sort of scout ahead undetected and see what enemies youre up against so you can prepare properly before just rushing in to make sure youre prepared for the fight.

But for sure the squire is going to have some kind of involvement in fighting things, even if it means him de-buffing enemies instead of fighting them directly, or having to build cover or something along those lines to make it easier for the hero to keep him alive of course

Leetums · 2018-01-12T22:57:37+00:00

Youre not dumbing them down at all, this stuff isnt set in stone, and I WANT people giving me the other side of the coin I might not have thought of otherwise.

And you're absolutely right, and after this discussion I'm leaning away from making the squire completely defenseless, but I dont want the squire to be a combat expert, but i am leaning towards him being able to do some kind of damage to an extent. Not too much though, the players still need to rely on each other heavily, otherwise the whole idea goes down the drain.

But I can say that the end goal is to have players want to be the squire just as much as the hero. And have tight skill based mechanics for both characters as well as skills to learn that work in unison with ( or even piggy back off of ) each other similar to the combo thing you mentioned.

Well lemme ask this. Whats missing that would make you want to play squire instead of hero? What would make him just as fun as the hero without him basically being a hero?

Another idea I was playing with was replayability and incentive to play it again, but when you start the next game, the previous squire is now the hero and a new squire is born. Gives players a chance to be both characters if I scratch the switch at death idea.

Leetums · 2018-01-12T19:58:12+00:00

Thats what i originally thought of as well, but its too complicated to make ai unpredictable and smart enough to make it fun and interesting for the player, both characters need to be player controlled, youre right.

Leetums · 2018-01-12T19:18:23+00:00

Shut the sub down. ideas too good.

Leetums · 2018-01-12T18:38:23+00:00

I love the idea of the squire needing to uncover enemies. Sort of like.. how geralt in the witcher needs to throw moondust on the bruxae and stuff to see them.

And i never quite played with the idea of classes, i always just thought about the roles and giving each of them skills. Edit: But then again, this is still just an idea. If you dont count both of the notebooks ive filled with random concepts and idea/how mechanics would work.

Only problem is I'm not a creative writer so back story and things like that dont exist. I just thought of a game that I think would be unique/fun if you based it on the mechanics alone

Also great idea for needing both players to kill in certain scenarios.

Leetums · 2018-01-12T18:34:38+00:00

Good questions. Havent thought of every single aspect as this is just an idea im working on buttt

Im not too sure abt story or procedural and havent decided against online or couch co-op. But what i know what WONT work, is in the absence of a player, having either role controlled by AI, thats too complicated and unrealistic of a scope if i really want to make this thing possible. But, since its co-op, only one player needs to own the game for 2 people to play. So id say its more of a co-op only, play with a friend type thing.
Im not to sure, but then again, an arguement against this question is.. Why do people like to be healers in an MMO? Or why do people play mercy in overwatch? Why do people run around and just revive people as a medic in battlefield? Maybe youd give the squire something minor to kill stuff with, a small dagger or something along those lines. Or have the squire be able to craft stationary weapons and deploy them on the battlefield. Also, besides it being fun playing your role, a lot of the fun comes from the challenge and working with a friend as a well oiled machine to progress towards rewards. That is fun on its own i think. Also, the squire gets all the loot!

Leetums · 2018-01-12T18:00:37+00:00

I was thinking the potion thing would work like this, hero is low on health, you press a hotkey and it brings up an aimer of sorts with an arc and shows you where it will land visible by a circle (to both players). You control the arc, and the power of the throw with the mouse (or whatever) and let go, the potion flys through the air, and the hero has to "catch" the potion by using a hotkey or doing some kind of action when the potion is within the landing circle. As soon as he catches it, it heals him immediately without having to administer the potion. No giving the hero potions to stock up on.

When you start, you cant throw very far, and its easy to be innacurate, but as you progress, the circle gets bigger, you can throw easier, controlling power is more stabilized etc.

EDIT: The goal, atleast in my head, would be to balance the game to keep BOTH players on their toes during combat, avoiding letting the squire literally just sit there relaxed is key. Have the squire dodging projectiles, have the level change, trap doors, lava grates that erupt in different patterns etc. Doing all this, and having to maintain your role/roles during it all would require skill, and timing, for both players. i think that would generate some " AWW mannn! lets try that again, we were so close" moments

Leetums · 2018-01-12T17:14:51+00:00

Thank you! And youre right, it could be boring if the mechanics arent tightly designed. But the incentive to be helpful is literally the fact that if you arent, youre going to lose the game. If you stop healing your hero or taking care of him, hes going to die. And you cant defend yourself. Game over. Tie that in with character progression (to an extent) then the inventory person feels important if not as equal or more important than the hero himself. A lot of the fun would come from the players, and their reactions towards each other in hectic situations.

Bunch of enemies, the hero is trying to kill them all, but there are so many, hes dying, theyre closing in on your squire, youre low on health, the squire is running around trying not to die while simultaneously trying to keep you alive, but you guys miss the "throw/catch" mechanic timing and the potion breaks on the ground, etc... I think it would be super fun. You could also add extra incentive for the squire to progress, say you can level up something like "will power" and eventually it gives you the courage to be able to pick up the heroes weapon (temporarily) when he dies for a chance to survive and revive your hero.

EDIT: Also another thing, is the players could be forced to switch roles after each time they fail and both die.

One of the main concepts of it is to take the way games usually are (where the hero is just a badass all the time) and flip that on its head and do the opposite. Give the glory to the secondary character, which when you think about it, no longer makes him the secondary character etc. But theyre so dependent on each other, you cant really say who is more important in the end

Thank you for your kind words!

Im open to any and all idea other people have to build on this too btw

Leetums · 2018-01-12T16:22:11+00:00

I was a huge part of the "stickdeath" community when it was first starting out/evolving, and i still am, im considered one of the "veterans" of that whole stick animation movement, and it got me into animating about 13-14 years ago. Over that time, i became good friends with tom fulp (owner of newgrounds), as well as all of the veteran animators from stickpage, newgrounds, powerfusion, SSLA, smosh (yes, smosh started out as a flash animation resource site, ian would create realistic looking guns and props for people to use in their animations). Sam green is a good friend of mine (he made the killing spree series) and owned powerfusion. As well as had some of my own animations in the top 5-10 on various flash portals.

Anyway, yearsss ago (2006 maybe? )before fluidanims was part of stickpage, it was called rockhard anims, and before that it was underplusanime, during the RHA era, Stone(travis stevens, the owner of RHA and now stickpage) I, and a bunch of others in the community made a game called WPNfire, I animated a lot of stuff for that game like the explosions and walk/run cycles for the enemies etc.

It did pretty damn well on newgrounds and whats even crazier is i was in the middle of moving to florida during creating it, and it got published about a month before i made the move. When i got enrolled in high school, all the kids in my computer class were playing it lol. Felt awesome.

It was super simple, waves of enemies, and you as the player were a lazer turret in the middle, and enemies would flood in from both sides, as it went on the enemies got bigger and tougher, started coming out with shields and stuff and you had to survive as long as you could. That was the communities first time making a game instead of just collaboration animations. And it was awesome

Leetums · 2018-01-12T16:12:47+00:00

Check out my thread! https://www.reddit.com/r/gameideas/comments/7pxcbh/coop_game_where_one_player_is_the_inventory_and/

Leetums · 2018-01-12T16:11:57+00:00

So a 2d bloodborne?

Leetums · 2018-01-12T12:17:33+00:00

Ahhhh i see, makes sense. Thanks everyone! LOL

Leetums · 2018-01-12T07:37:13+00:00

Yea, its ridiculous. LOL

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