Hello.
I'm just wondering... How am I supposed to make it easy for a player to actually alter the game in a FPRPG where he customizably makes his own character from scratch.
I mean, in the future it cant really be like. "And so, the unknown hero slaught the fierce dragon and brought justice to the corrupt dictator of Ashgarl" This was a sentance I thought up as I wrote by the way.
Any ideas how to counter this?
I have been thinking about having a known hero follow the player during big events, but I dont know if that would be solid enough...
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FPRPG Story Writing
So your problem is about how to refer to the player?
Classic solutions to this is either giving the player a fixed last name or codename (Such as in Mass Effect or Deus Ex), a title ("Vault Dweller" in Fallout, or the goddamned "Hero of Kvatch (This is truly an honor)" from Oblivion), or have the game be text-based and just refer to the player as whatever name the player put in (Zelda).
Classic solutions to this is either giving the player a fixed last name or codename (Such as in Mass Effect or Deus Ex), a title ("Vault Dweller" in Fallout, or the goddamned "Hero of Kvatch (This is truly an honor)" from Oblivion), or have the game be text-based and just refer to the player as whatever name the player put in (Zelda).
Using synthesized speech is another way, but that is a hella long way off from actually sounding passable in a gaming sense.
Wanderer, Adventurer, Savior, Loner, Vault Dweller, You, Hero, Boy, Girl, Man, Woman, He, She... just to name a few off my head.
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