Would you like this additional feature?

[Marko]

I am up to the SleepyHollow level and I am really enjoying the game. (I have gone back several times to earlier levels to try for ghosts I had missed freeing or just to try out new ghost comninations!) Anyway, I was thinking of a way to improve on the games playbility life.
Would'nt it be good to include an editor in the game. You could build your own house or whatever building you would like, much like the Sims building editor. Imagine the `Scares you could set up". You could decide who populates the building (nervous college girls or a bunch of toughened prizon inmates!) Set their fear levels and how easy or hard it would be to scare them. Imagine the fun you could have in say a childrens home, populated with loads of little kids and a couple of witless adults! Also if they i did a building editor as an expansion pack they could include some new features, like possesing inanmate objects like toys. I'm imagining an Action Man hunting down a kid!Or a Teddybear growing claws and teeth, toy tanks shooting at people! You could build a department store where you could make the Mannequins come to life! Then they could release downloads of new furniture lke they do with the Sims, some complete with there own features. A mirror that grows a hand and grabs peoples heads, the same with a chair. They could also release new building paks with their own themes. Such as a graveyard pack, funeral home pack, prison pack, swamp pack etc. Each with their own little features like a coffin that has a skeleton in that pops up and frightens people in the funeral home or a tree that grows vines and grabs people in the swamp! They could even include mechanicle features that only activate when you have enough Plasm, like a fire that spits out burning coals, or a dishwasher that throws spinning plates and knives out! What about you guys, what would you like to see or be able to do?

[Guest]

I think this is a very good idea!!! I hope they will come out with things like the in Patchaes or ever add-on's

[James]

You've got some really cool ideas there!
I like the department store idea, and I think the various new objects would be good.
A "build your own location" tool would be very good.

[Frogspawn]

one of the things i missed in this game were talking ghosts, sure they talk when you lay their souls to rest during the missions but when you click on a ghost to bind them or give them orders they're silent as a grave.

most of the ghosts were funny and some really had me in stitches like that undead hamster that kept saying stuff like dude and gnarly.
anyways, if thought it would be fun to give each ghost a set of humorous remarks very much like all the units in the warcraft games.
ghostmaster has far less units and some great voice-acting talents so this should defenitly be achieveable.

furthermore some detailing couldn't hurt, like in the blair wisp mission you see this guy from a previous mission lying in a patch of mushrooms colvulsing and stuff.
when i clicked on him and went to his p.o.v. view came i was hoping for some really goofy trip effects cos he was obviously wacked out on mushrooms.
sadly the view was normal, it's the details like that, that seperate the good games from the great ones.
the p.o.v. cam is kinda badly done anyways, the view is always straight forwards, the character never turns his head while walking in one direction and it never really looks to the floor or to any ghost effects that are happening.
this causes the pov cam to essentially miss all the good stuff.

just some thoughts, the level editor would be fun but i recall one of the development guys saying in a interview that the tools were much too complicated for public release so i have little faith of that happening for this game.

[Blackwolf]

Bruce isnt on shrooms, he merely has lost his soul and his sanity.

[Frogspawn]

i found it a bit too coincidental that he was past out convulsing in a patch of mushrooms.
his bio said he merely went insane after his experiences with the darkling.
considering that the other two were gone and bruce was the coward i say he escaped, went insane and then munched on the shrooms.

[Blackwolf]

Hrm, true, that is a possibility. Perhaps thats why he keeps sleeping on the last level.

[Frogspawn]

since you completed the game could you read my thread about my contest entry and tell me if my character is original or if there's gonna be something like him lateron in the game?

[Sephiroth]

Hmm a level editor, Sounds very cool, and possible! If you notice in the games directory, every part of the game is nicely seperated, and some of the formats I recognize from other games. I think the game was made to have a mod community with addons and sort, but i think that they are planning to lanch a string of editing tools when the US version comes out.

As for what I would like see. I would say, when you get a ghost super trained, Give him the ability the roam (I know their is one but its not all too good.) While taking his fetter with him and protecting it like it was a family airloom. Imagine, Cojammer would take a stero with him around a house, freak out some mortals as they see this stero being pulled for no reason, and when others tried to touch it or investigate the fetter, cojammer would Zap them for touching his fetter. And lets say they did take his fetter, he would double the Ectoplasm he was using, and enter the human realm and attack them, doing all in his power to get his fetter back.

Just a idea ;D

[ManInBlack]

How about a less formal powers system? The powers would have a basic effect, but you could combine haunter's powers to make better/different effects?

Combing Flames and Water would give Steam, or something. Or Scattered Swarm and Gore making blood crawl all over the place... Ikk.