Wilwarin
Cadet
I don't know if this has been implemented in other games, but I figured I'd throw the idea out there and see what you all think...
I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with the idea of "Epic" quests (usually resulting in some high end item in the end), in which there are a lot of parts, usually involving several smaller battles, which end in some kind of epic fight with a boss that can only be killed with a huge raid party, requiring that you be part of a high end raid guild to complete it, etc etc. Basically the same old story of what most of us hate about today's MMORPG's.
What about a quest with parts which must be completed by the player alone? For example, instead of there being some climactic battle requiring a huge number of people, you could instead have a quest in which the "climactic battle" is an instanced zone into which only the player doing the quest can be transported. The player must then fight his way through the zone, relying only on his own wits and skill to survive, in order to acquire the quest item at the end by means of his own merit.
Imagine reaching a point in a quest where you find yourself alone in the corridors of a dark cave, with no exit behind you, your only option to press forward into the impending darkness. Imagine the fear and excitement that would come from not knowing what will be around the corner, but that whatever it is you must fight it or be killed. This is the kind of quest experience I want, as opposed to the usual "okay guys we need to wait for our healers to log on before you can hand in your item to spawn super-omega boss #865 so we can attempt to fight it and probably die because we didn't time the heals correctly". Or even more likely, "I can't even do this quest because I'm not in a raid guild! Yay!"
Of course there would be aspects that would have to be worked out, like if you die, your corpse would have to be teleported somewhere where you could actually get it, but these are all minor details.
Anyways like I said before, I don't know if this has been done before, but if not I figured I'd throw the idea out there. So what do you guys think?
I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with the idea of "Epic" quests (usually resulting in some high end item in the end), in which there are a lot of parts, usually involving several smaller battles, which end in some kind of epic fight with a boss that can only be killed with a huge raid party, requiring that you be part of a high end raid guild to complete it, etc etc. Basically the same old story of what most of us hate about today's MMORPG's.
What about a quest with parts which must be completed by the player alone? For example, instead of there being some climactic battle requiring a huge number of people, you could instead have a quest in which the "climactic battle" is an instanced zone into which only the player doing the quest can be transported. The player must then fight his way through the zone, relying only on his own wits and skill to survive, in order to acquire the quest item at the end by means of his own merit.
Imagine reaching a point in a quest where you find yourself alone in the corridors of a dark cave, with no exit behind you, your only option to press forward into the impending darkness. Imagine the fear and excitement that would come from not knowing what will be around the corner, but that whatever it is you must fight it or be killed. This is the kind of quest experience I want, as opposed to the usual "okay guys we need to wait for our healers to log on before you can hand in your item to spawn super-omega boss #865 so we can attempt to fight it and probably die because we didn't time the heals correctly". Or even more likely, "I can't even do this quest because I'm not in a raid guild! Yay!"
Of course there would be aspects that would have to be worked out, like if you die, your corpse would have to be teleported somewhere where you could actually get it, but these are all minor details.
Anyways like I said before, I don't know if this has been done before, but if not I figured I'd throw the idea out there. So what do you guys think?