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Hey again! This time around we have an interesting question, one I'm not 100% sure how to fully
answer it just yet without developing it directly, buuut... let's see where this takes us!
First off, the question! "If Saorsa were turned into a video game, what differences would there be?"
I've kinda mentioned a lil bit of stuff here
and there, but never put in the full thought to such before, honestly. It's a little similar
to the VRRP! Q&A, but different enough that it really does warrant its own answer, soooo
here's the answer I guess. To be blunt, this one would require actually
developing the game itself, as different goals for the game would alter the outcome. Like
would it be a live-action game with queued abilities, or one which is turn based with
action points still being used in bulk? Honestly... the way the action points are
set up, it'd make more sense to have a game more akin to something like the original single-player
game Knights of the Old Republic, than it would to have something like Shadowrun Returns.
At least that's most likely how at least one incarnation of the game would be built.\par
I'd really kind of like to see a video game version of Saorsa that plays closer to its
tactical RPG roots though, more like Disgaea or Final Fantasy Tactics. Such an adaptation
would need to change the rules of the game a lot more than the others just suggested,
though. See, although Saorsa is based on tactical
combat RPGs, it's been simplified in a lot of ways for use of play on a tabletop setting.
Compared to the very fine-tuned complexities of most tactical RPGs, it's a bit weak in
that regard since I can't have players doing complex math which would normally be taken
care of by a computer. I'm pretty sure I've mentioned that before somewhere, but there
it is again. The thing about that, is that if I were to
produce a tactics based video game, I'd want to build it in such a way that it's clean
and sleek on the surface, yet complex under the hood. The people who tend to play tactical
RPGs tend to enjoy not just the tactical gameplay itself, but the... researching the specific
details of how the game mechanics work and such. Like if you look at the Final Fantasy
Tactics battle mechanics guide, the thing's over 100 pages long... and I have read that
cover to cover. Several times. The finesse and elegance within such is a thing of beauty
to a game designer such as myself. To those who like that kind of game, it's perfect.
There's so many layers of complexity yet they're so seemingly simple and streamlined on the
surface. The point is... if I were to make a tactical
RPG out of Saorsa, I'd probably be substantially changing the rules so that they looked about
90% the same at first glance, but there were small, far more subtle yet interesting interactions
behind the scenes that I just can't do as a tabletop game.
This does not work with a tabletop role playing game. It also doesn't work with most games
which are based upon a tabletop role playing game's rules.
Something more akin to Knights of the Old Republic, as I mentioned earlier, is probably
what you'd get. Some tweaks to the gameplay would have to be implemented to account for
the issue with there not being a GM to oversee things, but you'd generally get sorta similar
gameplay. I think I'd have a bit more obvious out of combat skill checks in a way as well
though, more akin to how Shadowrun Returns does stuff.
For like 90%+ of the rules though, Saorsa's designed in such a way that I've already considered
the concept of a video game, or of several being put to use. I have little doubt that
the world will resonate with enough people that they'll want to see more of it, so I've
taken that into account. How it would look like as a novel, how it would play as a video
game, what would happen if it got adapted into a movie. I'm not going to make the same
mistakes games like Warhammer 40,000 or Dungeons & Dragons have made by not having considered
these things in advance. The games are good, but their translations have been... really
hit or miss.\par So yeah, I may never have an actual video
game version of Saorsa, I dunno. But if I do, I have a lot of it planned already for
how it would work. But... a lot of those plans are rather vague as well. The issue there
is that each game genre would be a bit different. Like if Saorsa ever wound up as an MMORPG,
which is well within reason, actually, given the nature of the game... it simply couldn't
play the same way as other types of video games would. As such, I haven't spent a ton
of time on the specific details of exactly how it would work because I have other aspects
of the game that are still in need of being fully fleshed out. Most of it is already at
this point, but there's still more work to do. So I can't really justify investing time
into solving problems where I not only don't have a need to do so at the moment, but I
don't even know what the exact problems that need solving are as of yet.
Uhm, if I do end up with a video game verson of Saorsa, I will be tied into it very intimately.
I've mentioned it a couple of times, but my background is in video game design rather
than tabletop role playing game design. Soooo what that means is that if there is a video
game adaptation to Saorsa, I will definitely have my hands in it very deep to make sure
it turns out okay. Even so, I do have some roughly blocked out
concepts. The conversation system in Saorsa can be transferred into a video game pretty
much 1 for 1 without hardly any tweaks at all to it in the slightest. The threat system,
with regards to most of the game genres listed here, would actually work just fine with little
to no modification. An MMORPG would need a slightly more complex setup, but it could
work as is and still be more effective than most other threat systems on the market. I'd
obviously want to tweak it further so that it's better than ALL threat systems on the
market, but I'm picky like that. Anyway, I know, it's a lot of vague and ill-defined
points, and I didn't even really touch on the possibility of virtual reality role playing
as I'd mentioned in the VRRP episode, but yeah, those are some of the thoughts I had
on it. Hope that answers your question!\par
So with that, I'm out. I'll see you next time!
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