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Hmmm... that'd have been pretty cool.Barastrondo said:
Capcom/SNK 2d fighters RPG -- what system?
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blackshirt5
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Um, not to sound uneducated, but since I've never played the fighting game, what exactly constitutes a "Darkstalker"?
Belphanior
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blackshirt5 said:
No excuse boy! I've never played any of the DS games, and yet I know perfectly of what they speak.
Then again, I might have a thing for Morrigan...
Anyhoo, the Darskstalkers characters are supernaturals of some sort. Ghosts, mummies, succubi, demons, vampires, zombies, it's all there.
I suppose you can find more info here:
http://www.accessv.com/~ehuang/
Since my boss is watching over my shoulder (hi boss!) I better leave it at this. Enjoy.
Morgenstern
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Actually, I wrote a D20 martial arts game drawing from most of SNK (Kim Kaphwan is the MAN) and Capcom (with special love exteneded to Rival Schools/Project Justice) a while ago. Didn't have a lot of time for self-publishing, so I took pieces from it along with a heap of Tekken-inspired goodness and Soul Calibur-style weapons stuff to make the big martial arts expansion we prinited in the Pan-Asian Collective. You might take a look at that, as the Martial artist and Soldier classes play off quite diferently in the ring, and you'll certainly recognize some SFII moves in the feats section 
.
Baically, I divided moves into 7 levels + Secrets (which are pretty much unique to each character). You made up your own style (distribute points amongst 6 categories of basics- sort of like writing your own martial artist class), picked out moves, or followed one of about 30 styles I pre-addapted from video games, and then you started playing.
Basically, every style gets the following moves when you're finished~
1st level: 5
2nd level: 4
3rd level: 3
4th level: 2
5th level: 1
6th level: 1
7th level: 1
+ 1 wild card (any level).
You could also trade one higher level 'slot' down to bust a lower level up, such as lowering the one 5 slot down to an extra 4 to move a 2 slot up to 3.
With this set up I could map the salient abilites of dozens of different videogame fighters. The possibly supernatural stuff started showing up around 4th level, with energy projectiles at 5th, and signature moves at 7th (Ken's Flaming Dragon Punch, as opposed to the regular dragon punch Ryu uses at 6th level).
To round out high level characters, you can develope 1-3 secret moves. To continue with the Ken example, the "Chain Dragon" multiple dragon punch, the "Dragon Gyser" in-place, no-reach, massive multiple hits move, and the "Super Rolling Hurrican Kick" move would all be secrets. Basically in Capcom terms, if it ate all of your 'power bar' you could expect it to be a secret. I had about 120 moves preped, and rules for making your own, as there was a point-based system for evaluating all aspects of your moves (like reach, damage bonuses, special effects, multiple hit chains, etc.).
Working with Spycraft, I'd use the 2 half/1 full action per round system, and fluid initiative, but d20 does really lend itself to such conversions - Reflex saves vs. Sweeps, Fort saves vs. staggering blows, Will saves to produce some of the more mystical and flashy effects. Honestly, it wouldn't be that hard to do.
.Baically, I divided moves into 7 levels + Secrets (which are pretty much unique to each character). You made up your own style (distribute points amongst 6 categories of basics- sort of like writing your own martial artist class), picked out moves, or followed one of about 30 styles I pre-addapted from video games, and then you started playing
.Basically, every style gets the following moves when you're finished~
1st level: 5
2nd level: 4
3rd level: 3
4th level: 2
5th level: 1
6th level: 1
7th level: 1
+ 1 wild card (any level).
You could also trade one higher level 'slot' down to bust a lower level up, such as lowering the one 5 slot down to an extra 4 to move a 2 slot up to 3.
With this set up I could map the salient abilites of dozens of different videogame fighters. The possibly supernatural stuff started showing up around 4th level, with energy projectiles at 5th, and signature moves at 7th (Ken's Flaming Dragon Punch, as opposed to the regular dragon punch Ryu uses at 6th level).
To round out high level characters, you can develope 1-3 secret moves. To continue with the Ken example, the "Chain Dragon" multiple dragon punch, the "Dragon Gyser" in-place, no-reach, massive multiple hits move, and the "Super Rolling Hurrican Kick" move would all be secrets. Basically in Capcom terms, if it ate all of your 'power bar' you could expect it to be a secret. I had about 120 moves preped, and rules for making your own, as there was a point-based system for evaluating all aspects of your moves (like reach, damage bonuses, special effects, multiple hit chains, etc.).
Working with Spycraft, I'd use the 2 half/1 full action per round system, and fluid initiative, but d20 does really lend itself to such conversions - Reflex saves vs. Sweeps, Fort saves vs. staggering blows, Will saves to produce some of the more mystical and flashy effects. Honestly, it wouldn't be that hard to do
.Morgenstern
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I'm not a big fan of SFIII. The last version of it was ok (picked it up for my DC), but -nowhere- near the glory that is Alpha 3.
Ageteck started publishing SNK games fo rthe DC right towards the end, so I've also got Mark of the WOlves and Last Blade II (Love that game). The DC ended up being a really good fight game platform, since it has so many exclusive titles, and in my opinion it paid for itself after I got Soul Claibur. I'm such an addict on that game .
Like I said above, the general "World where highly expert martial artists can throw bolts of energy - and more surprisingly make a living doing it!" seems like a great basis for some d20 play. What's not to love about the simplicity of saying "If you spend a chi point on this attack, your kick gains the flaming burst quality!"?!?
Ageteck started publishing SNK games fo rthe DC right towards the end, so I've also got Mark of the WOlves and Last Blade II (Love that game
). The DC ended up being a really good fight game platform, since it has so many exclusive titles, and in my opinion it paid for itself after I got Soul Claibur. I'm such an addict on that game .Like I said above, the general "World where highly expert martial artists can throw bolts of energy - and more surprisingly make a living doing it!" seems like a great basis for some d20 play
. What's not to love about the simplicity of saying "If you spend a chi point on this attack, your kick gains the flaming burst quality!"?!?
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Hero
SF3 was pretty good, actually. The graphics were the best ever for a 2D fighter, and the gameplay was almost a "back to basics" approach in many ways, especially relative to the over the top craziness of the vs. games that were coming out at the same time.ShadowX said:
However, at the same time, the only returning characters were Ken and Ryu, and the newer ones weren't as engaging or interesting as characters the series had already developed, at least I didn't find them to be so.
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