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Omega
Omega was authored by Laurence Brothers in the late 1980s. It was the first roguelike with a large countryside and extended plot development.
The reason item trading was important in D2 was that many of the good and great items were only useful for a few character class builds. Also the player's item stash was quite small compared to the number of good finds a player came across during a game. Most of which his character couldn't use.Well these items are meant for ingame trade with AI merchants, or used in cooperative multiplayer. Then again, even the AI merchant idea is broken, if it allows player to trigger the merchant into restocking with a new set of artifacts. Classical roguelikes usually have traders with non-restockable inventories, which player could have tried to rob. There was a Diablo II clone called Broken Land, which restocked merchants on reload, allowing player to buy rare runes to upgrade equipment. The game is so broken and quirky, it was never completed by any one until recently. Now it is played by speedrunners exploiting the glitch to max out everything at the beginning. No challenge in there.
As for point and click adventure games, I generally much preferred the earlier text adventure games like the ones from Infocom.These had the same room graph as Diablo, just in a text form. But yeah, it is easy to implement rather complex stuff with pure text.
The Nox have floating cities. Invisible floating cities. Actually more than invisible, phase shifted maybe. I don't know, it never is explained. The Nox appear to be a primitive pre-agricultural society living on a pristine world. Actually they are advanced far beyond humans and their technology if one can call it that appears to be magic. It doesn't have to have a complicated physics system to describe how it works. It can just be. A bit of mystery is a good thing.Is it related to the classic Westwood's RPG? I don't remember it having flying cities. It was mostly indoors dungeon crawler. With a bit of interactive environment, compared to Diablo 2. IIRC player was able to move and stack boxes to form stairs. Nox was also a proto MOBA game, before DoTA was invented.
the game itself felt completely different.The ingame art style was a bit bright on the side, but it is far closer to Baldur's Gate, than say Gold Box games, Spelljammer, NWN or Dark Sun. It has the same camera angle, and smaller gimmicks, like Baldur's Gate style traps. For example, that grease floor trap triggered by opening sarcophagus. Considering it is made by a totally different team on a rather complex engine, that is as close to original as we can expect. On the good note, modern real time 3d finally approached the quality of 90ies pre-rendered backgrounds. And it is not really a remake, so game can look different. But I hope Larian will also publish the map editor, so fans could recreate the original Baldur's Gate or make changes like filter/palette choice.
Why stop halfway? Make it a floating city, suspended above the clouds!Well that would require implementing special flying support blocks, so the whole construction wont collapse. A can of worms will get opened, requiring implementing all relevant subsystems and answering game design questions. For example, can these levitating blocks be destroyed? Do they need some energy source? What would it require to damage them? Should destroying them be an important gameplay element, so random maps have to be generated taking their tactical significance into account? I.e. collapsing a flying ship with opponent's creatures or landing it on top of opponent's creatures?
The corporations are fully responsible forBlizzard did the equivalent of Disney taking a single surviving reel tape of early Mickey Mouse cartoon and throwing it into garbage. Then taking say Star Wars an re-voicing all characters, replacing Wookiee and Ewoks with 3d models, and releasing it on a badly mastered blu-ray, which crashes after 10 minutes of playback. In addition adding a license clause that viewers submit right to all fanart and fan fiction. And when customers complained, accusing them of setting expectations too high. That is what Blizzard basically did.bribinglobbying the politicians for those overblown copyright laws. See below forplagiarizedfair use excerpt from https://www.theiplawblog.com/2016/02/articles/copyright-law/disneys-influence-on-united-states-copyright-law/
"So, how, you might wonder, have companies like The Walt Disney Company managed to maintain copyrights on certain creations for almost 100 years? In the case of the Walt Disney Company, the answer is simple. It is powerful enough that it actually changed United States copyright law before its rights were going to expire."
