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[Shane]

Flooded Desert: No, it is not an ocean. It's a desert which has been flooded. Cactus, pyramids... all that kinda of stuff submerged or merging from the water. Maybe there's a curse placed inside a pyramid? Unflooding the desert reveals the dungeon.

 

Maze Dungeon: A dungeon where every door could lead to 4 different rooms. You got make note of landmarks and map position in this dungeon as this dungeon should intentionally trick the player.

[Gouanaco]

Crafting: Being able to find item's around the game and being able to combine them into useful items. This is a very interesting feature that i don't think has ever truly been implemented. I'm thinking of putting it in my own quest.

 

Random Events: When your venturing around on random screens a random encounter would occur, this would make the quest feel a-lot more alive, but would also be quite difficult to implement properly.

[RohanGarm]

Overworld

Gerudo Desert: I would like to find some good desert tiles for a Gerudo Desert area. If possible I want to get as close to the OoT style as possible. Once I finish the tutorial and get more experience under my belt, I plan on GD being the first area of the game.

 

Twilight Realm:

 

Dark World:

Dungeons:

Spirit Temple: The Very first temple of the game I plan to make in the future will be the Spirit Temple where the protagonist will clear monsters, defeat a boss (either a souped up dead hand or Gohma. 

 

Sky Temple: 

 

 

(More to come when I can think of it clearly)

[MabusTheDark]

As far as dungeons go, I really like it when it's not just a whole interior adventure.  Like with the first main dungeon in WIndwaker, where you go outside of the volcano / mountain for a few parts.  What I like even more is having to go through the dungeon to fix something in the Overworld itself, like a dammed waterfall or something that fills a chasm up so that you can swim across.

 

Probably going to go for a few of those things in my quest that I'm planning, hehe!

 

(Also, having more varieties of dungeon wall tiles loosely mixed with the themes seems pretty great to me!)

[RohanGarm]

The first part of my quest will be centered around the Gerudo Valley and Desert and the Spirit Temple. You will begin by going around the village doing tasks like dealing with moblins and stalfos, dealing with intruders and etc, but the next day a bunch of screwy stuff will start happening with you needing to deal with gibdos, redeads, stalfos and finally a deadhand before having to venture into the spirit temple and dealing with monsters and poes infesting it before climaxing in a battle with Stallord or some kind of possessing boss, in a sand/quicksand filled room before being introduced to the main villain. The demo will end after returning to the fortress and getting some exposition on the plot and objective of the game.

[KingPridenia]

Put into spoilers due to length of the post.

 

======Megaman Inspired Concept======

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I was thinking of a ZC Quest that is kind of in the vein of classic Megaman/Rockman games. That is, you would start in some kind of hub and have the ability to pick which of 8 bosses you'd like to challenge first. Akin to the source material, each boss has a weakness of some kind. Otherwise, all you have is your normal pea shooter (I guess the Wand). It would do damage equal to the White Sword. Each boss would have a particular weakness and take more damage from it. All bosses would take 1/4 wand damage and be given 28 HP. Upon defeating the boss, you get its weapon, which is the weakness of another boss. The cycle repeats until all 8 are beaten, then you can go through the level 9 entrance room to the final series of levels.

 

Basic information:

-You start with 7 hearts (shown as a sideways classic Megaman life bar with every 4 ticks being one heart.

-Most common enemies deal 2-4 points of damage, most bosses do 4-6 damage.

-You have no shields and can never upgrade your armor

-You could get bolts from enemies (kind of rare drops) to buy powerups and stuff from a shop (like a double strength shot, E-Tanks and even a Proto Shield which would be Magical Shield strength)

-Basically, the idea is have a Zelda & Megaman hybrid

-Small health/energy capsules recover 8 units of life (2 ticks) or two units of ammo.

-Large health/energy capsules recover 40 unites of life (10 ticks) or ten units of ammo.

 

The only concern I have is that a lot of scripting would be needed to make the bosses interesting. Or scripting to make it so you can't buy certain upgrades without beating certain bosses (to prevent you from just cheesing the shop for all its worth). Also I don't know if a script could do this or not, but have Megaman's sprite color change based off his weapon of choice. For instance in the source material, Megaman turns birthday cake pink when he's using the Quick Boomerang but has a green and white color scheme when using the Leaf Shield. One final thing that I don't know if it would be possible or not is having each of the 8 weapons have an ammo counter that, like the original games, only is refilled from pickups, if that weapon is out. Or have some kind of Energy Balancer scripted item in to do that for you.

 

So basically, you start in some central hub where you can do any of the eight levels in any order you'd like. Much like the source games, it would be straightforward to get to the boss and defeat him. After that, you get his ability and either a Triforce Piece (non-scripted route) or have a script check one of the 8 bosses as defeated. Rinse and repeat for the others.

 

In the end, it would turn into one of those points of no return (you'd be warned). Once you go after Ganon/Wily, there is no going back to the shop to restock, so make sure you're prepared! From here, you do a series of levels. The first three would pretty much require usage of all of the items you got to make it. The fourth stage would be the rematch with all of the bosses. Afterwards, you go to the fifth and final stage where you battle Ganon/Wily and beat him for good!

 

I won't lie. It seems doable on paper, but with my lack of scripting knowledge, I can see it being very boring and just reliant on either boss fights being enemy warp gauntlets or using the hell out of the enemy editor.

 

======Link the Magician Concept======

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Simply put, Link is a pure magician in this quest. Almost all of his weapons save for his pathetic Wooden Staff (L1 Sword) use magic. Thankfully, he recharges it on his own, albeit slowly early game. As Link gets stronger, he can regenerate magic faster and even health. His magic meter would kind of work like the Focus meter from You Only Live Once. The only problem I have is that when I tried using a "Heal Spell" before, even without remove from inventory when used checked, if I would run out of magic, the item would glitch out and disappear. Unless I just kept potions the same and had a majority of Link's other weapons use magic...

 

So pretty much, Link is a glass cannon. He is stuck with a crappy Wooden Rod/Wand/Staff/Cane as his only emergency weapon (and bombs), and has to know when to fight and when to flee. The other main issue I have with this is a lack of balance in the game. Early on, the game would be hard since Link's non-staff attacks fall under the awesome but impractical category because of how prohibitive his lack of MP is at the start. By late game though, Link would be pretty much able to spam his magic willynilly with little need to be conservative. That being said, the beginning would be tough to make since nobody is going to want to smack things with a Wooden Sword strength staff most of the game, and just standing around to recharge magic would be tedious.

 

======Another Minor Idea======

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Ever get frustrated when you're out of magic? How about if you run low/out of magic, you can still use magic, however all of your spells are cast from hit points. For every 32 units of magic used, Link will take 1 heart worth of damage, regardless of his current defense. However, it is important to know if you don't have the hearts to expend, it wouldn't let you do this. I mean you'd be willing to trade 2 hearts to use Din's Fire to clear out that room of enemies that would have drained 10+, right?

Edited by RedmageAdam, 14 December 2013 - 10:47 AM.

[KingPridenia]

What if someone made a credit screen like in Donkey Kong Country/Land 2 where it shows all of the characters and enemies walking from left to right? Like actually would animate them and all. So for instance, when it would say "DARKNUT", you would have a Red, Blue, Super Darknut and a Death Knight all walk together from left to right. The order doesn't matter, but it would have the following categories:

 

-Good Guys (Link, Abei, Ama, Merchant, Moblin, Goriya, Abei 2, Fairy and Zelda)

-Bad Guys (all non-boss enemies)

-Bigger Bad Guys (bosses)

[MarinaraSauce]

How about a quest where Link has a (heavily scripted) dog or other pet that has AI and follows Link around and possibly kills enemies, but can be played as, possibly with something like the control melody in Wind Waker.

[KingPridenia]

I just had an idea. Make some kind of quest where you are in some kind of Pit of 100 Trials knock off and are offered items to make survival easier. However, each item that you grab hurts your ending. The ultimate ending would require you to literally complete the game with NOTHING more than a mere Wooden Sword without slash and 3 hearts. But making such a challenge tough even with 16 hearts, Red Ring, Magical Sword, etc and still doable with only 3 hearts and green tunic with nothing more than a basic sword would be next to impossible outside of being a Zelda god. Think you could go through a 100 room gauntlet with just your green tunic and a splinter stick? Or do you need the security of your precious Red Ring, 16 hearts, Magical Sword with slashing and a full complement of items?

[Yloh]

I just had an idea. Make some kind of quest where you are in some kind of Pit of 100 Trials knock off and are offered items to make survival easier. However, each item that you grab hurts your ending. The ultimate ending would require you to literally complete the game with NOTHING more than a mere Wooden Sword without slash and 3 hearts. But making such a challenge tough even with 16 hearts, Red Ring, Magical Sword, etc and still doable with only 3 hearts and green tunic with nothing more than a basic sword would be next to impossible outside of being a Zelda god. Think you could go through a 100 room gauntlet with just your green tunic and a splinter stick? Or do you need the security of your precious Red Ring, 16 hearts, Magical Sword with slashing and a full complement of items?

 

I'll sign up for the green tunic, three heart, and wooden sword only challenge.

[Alucard648]

I'll sign up for the green tunic, three heart, and wooden sword only challenge.

And in the final room you are locked in with 3 death knights to fight. 

[coolgamer012345]

I had this idea where there could be a tower or something similar that would be really old, and each floor increasingly decrepit, and making it more and more dangerous, eventually where some floor tiles would 'randomly' fall apart all the way up to the final floor where you would fight the boss or something.

 

Just a random thought that I liked.

[Dark Ice Dragon]

Overworld whit snow and erupting volcano ( a  place like Iceland ) and a dungeon whit the boss of all other levels

[Shane]

Overworld whit snow and erupting volcano ( a  place like Iceland ) and a dungeon whit the boss of all other levels

Lost Isle much? Not exactly, but it had a similiar set up.

[Dark Ice Dragon]

Lost Isle much? Not exactly, but it had a similiar set up.

ops...is hard whit all this quests...someone already thinked to a Tiaga /mountain whit conifers ? the tree seem al the same in every quest, evergreens are not many used,  for dungeon... something like you cannot open boss room untill you free a certain number of imprisoned people, and a dungeon made like a school ?

Edited by Dark Ice Dragon, 18 November 2014 - 04:29 PM.