What about a sort of...I know you are in there fight thing?

edited 6th Feb '12 5:41:30 PM by ApplelightLimited

Punch someone in the face and then tell them they're a good person?

Hm.

I still don't like the idea of fighting, even if it is only with magic. There has to be other uses for these Character's abilities other than for simply scrapping with each other

edited 6th Feb '12 5:43:33 PM by gingerninja666

I'm with Ginger here. I'm tired of the RPGs Equal Combat thing. F'rinstance, I tried to play Skyrim but I couldn't get over the idea that it would be sooooooo much more fun if I could walk down the road for 2 minutes without being savaged by wolves.

Fighting Is Magic is still cool though.

edited 6th Feb '12 5:47:04 PM by Bluespade

@ Ginger

Like I said, the fighting can be very limited. Mostly in the mane quest and whilst exploring.

Cooking is about setting up a restaurant, Sports is about becoming a professional athlete etc.

P.S: I'd like for you to have the choice to be good or...jerkish.

edited 6th Feb '12 5:48:09 PM by ApplelightLimited

I also can't stand moral choice systems in games. Although if it's handled like the Paragon/Renegade choice I guess it'd be sort of ok.

The morality system is okay as long as there's actually a range of responses. There are way too many systems out there that basically force you to choose between

• Donate all your cash to charity
• generic neutral option
• Torch an orphanage run by nuns

edited 6th Feb '12 5:54:33 PM by JapaneseTeeth

Re: Fighting is Magic

Never bring hooves to a book fight.

The real problem is you always need to pick the same morality choice every time, regardless of how you feel about the specific situation, or you end up screwing yourself out of the morality rewards. Which completely negates the purpose of the morality system in the first place. The only moral system I was ever truly ok with was the one in Dragon Age (the first one).

They need to hurry up and pick a Rarity VA so they can release her theme and trailer. :[

@JT and then there's the problem of keeping the character's personality interesting and consistant regardless of the combination of morality options you choose. All good and all evil are generally consistant, but things start to look weird when you try and mix it up.

I can't bring myself to ever willingly choose the evil option. I care too much

Fighting Is Magic looks awesome.

Also plenty of times the Evil Option would be totally reasonable and pragmatic if you could just modify one or two little details, but games rarely allow that...

Yep. Twilight looks like the sort of character I love to play in fighting games, lots of projectiles, tricky attacks (like laying magic landmines), and quick close range combos. Applejack looks fun too.

That game has great music too.

edited 6th Feb '12 6:01:38 PM by Bluespade

I'd like Skyrim more if there was a moral system. Or at least some way to, for instance, get in with the Thieves' Guild and then betray them and help Mjolla clean Riften up, that sort of thing.

I can't wait to see what they do with all the characters. So far, Applejack seems to be the straightforward brawler, and Twilight prefers books and magic.

Pinkie Pie brought out a foam finger, of all things, but who knows what else she's got?

For Fluttershy, they may be hinting at her calling her animal friends to do the fighting for her.

The rest, I have no idea.

Fighting is Magic does indeed look Awesome. I like Zoners/Area Control types in fighting games, but to be honest, I usually fare much better using a straight rush-down character, like Cody from Street Fighter.

Yeah, AJ looks to be a close-in fighter with a bit of rush-down which honestly surprised me as I figured that's the route they'd be more likely use with Rainbow Dash, unless they do something tricky with her. I Imagine Fluttershy would probably be a different type of Zone Control, less reliant on projectiles but maybe making use of a second character you maneuver around the stage to set up high-low traps. I genuinely have no idea how Pinkie would play.

edited 6th Feb '12 6:11:22 PM by Drenius

Pinkie Pie = Schrödinger Fu

Rainbow is pretty simple, just make her really fast and have a lot of aerial attacks.

Rarity could make use of her illusions to trick her opponents. Make a few special attacks that look exactly the same, but attack from a different angle depending on which button you use (like Makoto from Blazblue). Also I think she should be good at defense for some reason.

Fluttershy should be the grappler of the game, like when she snapped that bear's neck. Give her big throws that knock half your health off in one shot. /half serious.

From Bro NY Con, they showed that Pinkie is combo-centric and uses charges like Makoto and Rarity is long range with traps and such.

I think the ideal way to do a moral choice system is to not have it in terms of dialogue options, but give you certain paths and quests you can do that are inherently jerkish or good. Then, based on your current morality score you unlock or hide different dialogue options. IT wouldn't even be hard. It's basically just "if morality <= 50, dialogue 1 = true, dialogue 2 = true. dialogue 3 = true, dialogue 4 = false dialogue 5 = false", basically.

Also Ginger, I agree with you - it's a big part of the reason I want to make an RPG with kids, so that I can find ways to create dynamic gameplay without combat. I'm an ardent pacifist, so I love games that don't include combat at all. But really, a 'conversation battle' would be interesting. You have to sort of react to what the enemy is doing. A bit complicated for kids, but you can dumb it down so it's effectively combat in the skin of conversation, and that'd still be good enough.

I'm really looking forward to Fighting is Magic. I can't wait to see what they end up doing with it, and who all the characters are. Sadly we have to count out Discord, since the game was started in season 1... oh well. Think we'll see either of the goddesses? They'd be god-teir characters, obviously, but they might still be fun. I'd totally play as Luna and shout people to death.

edited 6th Feb '12 6:23:37 PM by kegisak

...Insult swordfighting?

edited 6th Feb '12 6:36:13 PM by Crowind

Insult sword fighting could work, as could Dresden!Fate's social combat system.

^Legal battles?

That's the first thing I thought of.

I'm guessing Trixie is going to make it in. Derpy might have a pretty good shot as well, and I'm guessing at least one of the CMC are going to eventually get added. Spike and Big Macintosh will probably end up in there eventually as well.

edited 6th Feb '12 6:40:43 PM by JapaneseTeeth

^There are going to be sixteen characters, right?

I think so, yeah.

EDIT: 17. Just check their FAQ.

edited 6th Feb '12 6:50:56 PM by JapaneseTeeth