I really like miss Necromancers in video games. Not as a different type og playable but as the main selling point.
Anybody know of any games like that?
I would like it if there was more crafting of your skeleton og maybe you killed towns people to get more and you have to stay hidden untill you can take on the king of the land
What would your ideal Necro game be?
>>344267338
>necrobro
i was starting to think i was alone
>>344267449
Man alive!
I wish there was one where you would start of bulding your base and army by slowly killing people from small towns at they would be rasing their alarm level so you would need to bulid better warriors or rouges.
The bones you get would have different stats and could be combines with others to make better ones.
I would love to hear your ideas!
>>344267724
That, otherwise some kind of skill tree with abilities that allow you to summon different undead types or boost the ones you already unlocked.
You could go with absurd amounts of small undeads or just a few of very powerful ones.
It'd also need to tie the most powerful spells to rare objects found exploring or killing special monsters
>>344267338
Well Diablo 2 is the obvious choice
HoMM3 and TWW both have armies of skeletons you can lead as necromancers
And of course there is alsonothing else
>>344267338
Ideas i have myself.
3D Semi open world.
You start of low level. 3 lives and you are gone.
medieval setting. You start by killing farmers because of nobody being around. Stop them before they reach a town where there a guards.
You kill animal to and their bones can be combined with human bones so you can have fitghers with differen abilites.
Some are for grave robbing others are for stealth.
>>344268043
I have played alot of Diablo 2. But is is very easy with the necromancer and also kindoff shallow.
Still the best necro in video games.
>>344267338
>What would your ideal Necro game be?
It would be a party-based RPG, the kind where you run around collecting and bonding with all the optional companions in the vein of Dragon Age. The catch would be that you are a necromancer, and all your party members were past heroes that you hunt down, tomb raid and reanimate.
The plot would be that some prophesied ancient evil has arisen, but the prophesied hero is nowhere to be found. Out of desperation, a necromancer decides to try reanimating every Chosen One he can find and hope that a whole party of them might stand a chance at saving the world.
You'd also have the option to reanimate enemies you've killed and NPCs who die during the story, and not everyone you reanimate will be appreciative and friendly. Some of them will turn hostile, so you can't just run around reanimating everyone and expect them to love you for it.
You could also just reanimate them as mindless corpses too, but that will have significant consequences and might jeopardize your chances of beating the ancient evil if you abuse it too much.
>>344267449
>>344267338
big necromancer fan,
no good games
hoppoo was making a necromancer game for 3 weeks that i was excited about a while ago, but it became something else.
I just want a cool cozy necromancer RPG where you slowly take over a large area of land :(
Modded Skyrim and Dwarf Fortress come to mind
Guild Wars 1
Dat giant minion
Dos suicide bomb minions
HoMM
Dominions
Heroes of Annihilated Empires
Diablo 2
Total War Warhammer
Mount and Blade mods
>>344268592
Skyrim modded could be great but the combat is still so clunky. I would love to be able to create my own fighter for the right job
>>344268374
Thats sounds really really good.
>>344268826
>Guild Wars 1
Came here to post it. Love Necromancer because of it
>>344268997
not only the combat is too clunky, but the necromancer mods for skyrim are pretty bad
they're really unbalanced and glitchy
>>344268928
>mount and blade
Which mods bro??
>>344269676
Im sure Phantasy Caldadia and Warsword Conquest. There are probably others.
>>344269734
>>344269676
Solid and Shade is really good, but it only works on M&B, not Warband - unless you cut some files, check /vg/ for it.
Worth it though.
>>344268826
There's a lot of variety to how you use your minions too. As bombs, as batteries, a small army of strong minions or a big army of weak minions
modded skyrim had the most fun necromancery I have ever had
>rise over 50 skellington followers to the point game gets extremely heavy
>just rush through dungeons with your skelebro army
>>344268043
I love watching the skeletons in TWW march in sync.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUR-sg5jRBQ
>>344269564
>>344269734
>>344269791
Having played some other Necro games what elements would you like to see in one?
>>344268374
Great example
I want a game with customizable undead so I can make a Frankenstein monster like abomination.
>>344270847
Yes! That sounds awsome!
>>344270675
the first thing is that it has to get right the size of your army
too small and you don't feel powerful
too big and it becomes too much a rts
another important thing is that you are a mage in the game, you don't just cast spells around, you also create them
rarely you see games that allow you to customize spells
>>344271091
Overlord is a great example. You arent a Necro, but it is a good approach.
![maxresdefault[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/BH6dX2c.jpg "maxresdefault[1].jpg")
If you're into rogulikes I'd recommend Tales of Maj'Eyal. You can even become a Lich.
If I made a necromancer for Wow it would have Blood, Flesh, and Bone specs. Blood would be a healing spec with spells like rain of blood, transfusion, and leeches. It would have a pet that was a floating ball of blood that would be attached to your slit arm by little blood tendrils. As it attacks enemies it grows in size and can explode as a raid healing cool down.
Flesh would be a tank spec about summoning an abomination that can mutate growing arms and shit. You would ride on its shoulder. Typical abilities would be pulling with the hook chain, flatulation, vomiting up slimes. If the abomination ever died you would drop to the ground and assuming you somehow don't get smeared instantly you could summon another one and get back to tanking.
Bone would be a DPS spec all about having a skeleton army. Aside from summoning skeletons you could cast bone cages would have bone Lance and possibly a cool down that would combine all of your skeletons into one big bone golem for a bit that did massive damage.
>>344267338
I, too, want a necromancer game where you start out as a neophyte designated to a small town to study the effects of a wild herb when ingested. From there you concoct potions and move on to making small epidemics.
As you progress you would gather corpses and start experimenting on elixirs and simple spells.
Eventually you become a necromancer with a skeleton army and crudely stitched flesh horrors.
Warlords Battlecry 2 has a good necromancer class. It also makes you feel good summoning giant skeleton overlords.
Should a necromancer know how to fight?
>>344271654
A necromancer should know how to buy some time for an escape.
>>344271654
why would he?
even though giving the player the option to use some resources (be it xp or materials) to have more survivability wouldn't hurt
>>344271654
I like the thought that they could drug people. Drag them away and kill dem with a knife.
Maybe load them on to a horse driven cart.
>>344271796
maybe experiment on them before killing and resurrecting them
or maybe use them for rituals
put them on a skeleton horse and ride to battle, then in the middle of the fight sacrifice them to get more powerful abilities and buff your minions
>>344271594
I like the whole study part. Like he is a scientist.
>>344271654
Of course.
That Which Sleeps
Isn't it pretty lonely being a necromancer?
Dominions 4, there's several undead factions that have different mechanics, and you have a pretty highly customisable avatar god you play as.
>>344272071
>cause too much death and investigators would comb the village
>let abominations loose early and paladins would track and hunt you down
>let your gathered souls haunt the village and priests/shamans would purify the area, robbing you of resources for further experiments
>main goal is to subdue the king, either by killing or zombifying
It could work
>>344267338
I think if you were going to make a game entirely about being a necromancer it would have to increase in scope the longer you played. Like initially it would be sort of action adventure or arpg as you began summoning minions then as time went on it would go full RTS with resource gathering as you command a massive undead army.
>>344272583
Isn't this similar to the original pitch for that Nekro game? Only they ended up turning it into a level based campaign instead of a procedural thing.
>>344267338
Civ 4 fall from heaven 2 (fall further modmod) several undead factions
Necromancy best mancy
>>344273351
Fuck I cannot wait for Bannerlord.
>>344273351
>dem spell icons
A modder who is a Might and Magic fan I see.
>>344273465
It's a HoMM3 mod
>>344273516
>>344273351
That mod looks ancient.
As in Salt Mine ancient.
You can play gothic 2/3 as a type of necromancer, though it'll probably not be much of an experience.
>>344272515
You can create all the buddies you need!
The last really good necromancer game where I truly felt I commanded a part of a dead world was Everquest 1. Every spell felt related.
What most necromancer games fail at today is the temporary summoning spells. That only irritates me.
It may sound weird but a necromancer game that I liked was modded Skyrim
>>344273627
Relatively new actually
chaos legion maybe? I dont fucking know nigga
>>344272713
I love that idea. Also, you could get knoced down all the way to a single Necro again, fleeing til the heat goes down and get revenge!
HoMM3
Diablo 3
Guild Wars 1
are the ones i've played
Well, there WAS Nekro, which was genuinely fun.
Remember to never sponsor early access games unless you're 100% sure the developer will actually deliver.
>tfw the only game that really got the necromancer down to a T was Guild wars 1
>tfw Guild wars 2 necromancer summons 3 little rats...
>>344274094
>diablo 3
having 3 shit pets isn't a necromancer
>>344268928
>boobs on pugna
Herecy.
>>344274094
>diablo 3
diablo 2 necros can literally have like 40 things doing their bidding, in diablo 3 witch doctors have a bunch of useless pets that are basically just flesh walls
What's going on in this thread?
>>344274185
Once you get good items going you can walk around with 30 or so pets gangraping demons for you.
Path of Exile has no necromancer class?
>>344273874
>>344273351
>>344272583
I love seeing your ideas !
I am so hype for a game like this!
>>344274260
absoultely nothing, mr paladin
>>344271251
To be honest, yred/kiku from DCSS provided me with a more enjoyable necro experience than ToME.
>>344274481
It has necromancer skills.. PoE has no class. Skills are tied to gems which you place in socketed items.
It's been a long time since I've touched the game so I'm not sure if necromancy is good for pvp now.
>>344274529
I can almost hear him whistle
>>344274481
Eh, not a class per se but it has plenty of gems that deal with necromancy. Best classes for that is the Witch and the Templar because they can easily get the right magic skills early.
>>344274152
>kikestarter drama
>No skeleton customization
>No summoning wraiths, ghosts or ghouls or strike deals with vampires
>No alchemy brewing
>No lich research
Skyrim's "necromancer" was ok, but I miss games like, Diablo 2 Necromancer, Nox Conjurer class etc
>>344274543
ToME is a lot more flexible and streamlined, so it does away with corpses and stuff. DCSS definately has more immersion when it comes to necromancy, but it's also kind of bulky game if that argument makes sense.
>>344274578
>pvp
Absolutely disgusting.
>>344274626
>Diablo 2 Necromancer
I got pretty bored of this by the third act.
>>344274094
meant to say Diablo 2 fuck me im sleepy
>>344268130
Rather than killing farmers you should have to either dig graves or pillage fresh corpses from a recent battle fields, without being caught of course.
>>344274702
Because nothing else really happens. Once you get to lvl 30 you've kind of seen every skill, and the only progression you'll see will be in the form of stat bonuses to skellies and golems.
This is something PoE does really nice with the gem system. You can make your skellingtons and zombies have flaming attacks and if I remember correctly even active skills, although I might be wrong.
Also, I strongly recommend one of the Necromancer mods for Skyim. I remember playing one a long time ago that required you to harvest bones and such in order to make minions.
Necromancers are almost never playable in games because they are universally seen as bad guys and also because it would probably require sophisticated AI, wich is also why summoners aren't common either.
>>344274481
witch can start off as summoner, and the zombros you get are actually useful when they die with a keystone, pic related
well not just zombros but they have nicer max health
>guy refuses to give info
>kill him and question his soul
Other than Arcanum what else let's me do this?
>>344274094
>girl raised by the dead
I don't know why this turns me on
>>344274794
True. That would be a better starting point.
Maybe you ket chased of by the farmer. And you are told you should start of smaller, kinda like Black and White
>>344275053
Divinty 2 is making just that.
I am looking forward to it
Dominions 4
Come join us on /vg/, we need more MA Ermor players.
>>344275146
>I am looking forward to it
It came out in 2009. 7 years ago.
>>344274908
>You can make your skellingtons and zombies have flaming attacks and if I remember correctly even active skills, although I might be wrong.
As well as skeletons and zombies you can summon floating, flaming skulls (Summon Raging Spirit) which is an apt active skill for a necro-build as the skulls will die after a few seconds so you have to keep casting it to keep up your army of like 30 skulls.
>>344275186
I mean the sequel
>>344275165
how much is the game again
Tales of Maj'Eyal and Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup both have great necromancer
in TOME you can eventually turn into a lich and use fuckin moon magic and shit, it's pretty rad
>>344275012
Funny you mention that passive, since many "guides" I've read don't recommend it at all because lategame you need your minions to survive for as long as possible.
Personally I think the skill is great. By the time a zombie or skellington are down so low to trigger the skill they're problably gonna die anyway. Make sure they do so with a bang.
>>344275186
he's reffering to original sin 2, devs showed off one of the quests where you need to go around town to figure out who poisoned this character and as a quick way of "solving" the case you can just kill the victim and question their ghost who dun'it
>>344275279
Oh?
When's Divinity 3 coming out? I haven't heard anything about it.
>>344275345
It got kicstarted. I think it is next year. Lookes really cool. They raised alot of money really fast.
>>344275345
Original Sin 2
>>344275301
A bit on the expensive side, but it's the kind of game you either spend 1 hour on or 500 hours on. I really wish the UI and gameplay didn't have so much goddamn micromanagement.
>>344275345
They're not making Divinity 2, they're working on Original Sin 2 for now.
Which I'm hyped as fuck about.
Is there an RTS that lets you play as undead where you gather bodies instead of gold?
>>344276157
Basically Dominions and Conquest of Elysium.
>>344275446
theres already a divinity 2
>>344276024
thats a lot of skeletons
Why the fuck is every good Necro game a roguelike. Fucking hell.
I fell for it lads, wish me luck
>>344276372
Yeah, Ego Draconis.
>>344276530
Fell for what? PoE is free as fuck. You can drop it later without regret
>>344274481
path of exile have no real classes but Witch have an "ascendancy class" you might like
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Necromancer
>>344275318
There are builds that use that keynode heavily!
They try to summon as much as possible and just make em explode, suicide summoner
>>344276530
PoE is fun.
Pick Witch if you want to be a Nerco, she starts out much closer to the proper passive skills in the tree.
>>344276459
Extremely few games are centered around necromancy. I think the concept is awesome, but I'm not so sure publishers want to have a game which is focused around collecting bodyparts and corpses.
>>344276574
You don't know how I get with F2P shite
I got liek 600 hours in Warframe
And I hate it
I want a dynasty warriors style necro game, but with more strategy involved.
I'd love if the necromancer had the ability to summon Skelton armies anywhere, but re-animated corpses are the stronger units, so you have to build up an army of undead by being crafty with your skeltals, flanking etc until you turn the enemy upon itself.
>>344276642
>And I hate it
And most do.
I mean, game has a brilliant setting (which was ruined by space lolis because fuck you fanbase), tight controls, good soundtrack and just generally great gameplay.
But goddamn if the grind doesn't make the game terrible. It's downright awful.
>>344276642
I know a lot about f2p shitI have over 3k hours in dota 2. I've dropped it many times, making me an expert.
>>344276914
Samurai Warriors 2 Empires is the most strategy I've seen in a musou
>>344267724
>>344267449
Holy shit my friends, where have you been all my life?
I've wanted a good necromancer game for the longest damn time. I also had an idea of a blood cultist type of dude that worshipped an eldritch god and his source of magic was blood; carving runes into your self and invoking them by smearing your blood over them and speaking the invocation in the ancient language.
>>344277272
that sounds edgy as fuck...i love it
>>344274998
They're also a pain in DnD because they clog combat flow
>>344274626
>Skyrim's "necromancer" was ok
Unsurprisingly, Necromancy in Skyrim gets way better if you mod the fuck out of it.
>>344267338
Sure wish I wasnt coding dyslexic, kinda want to make a game about that (and more but thats for another subject)
>>344277496
If skyrim had better combat then necromancy would be good.
>>344269156
SHOOT NIGGA SHOOT
any good recommendations on medieval games im pretty new to the genre
>>344277272
Glad i found other like me!
The type you just mentioned could fight other necros on the map.
Some could be the guards others maybe farmes
>>344277585
Do tell
That's literally the game I'm developing RIGHT NOW. Build up your outpost using skeletons for free workforce, slowly spread your corruption or take over the land brutally, major specialisations that change gameplay significantly. Design phase is done so I'm moving on to some basic prototype in Unreal Engine.
i just wanna game where i feel like a badass wizard in the endgame
>>344267338
Knowing /v/, the ideal game would involve dating weeb corpses.
>>344277935
Thats the best news today!
Would you mind sharing a pic of your work?
Please tell me more and where i can follow you?
>>344277953
Heavily modded Skyrim maybe? The trick is finding the balance where all your modded spells don't delete the game too much and make it feel pointless.
>>344277960
>Be a powerfull necromancer
>Conquer castle with my army of the dead
>Try to woo captured princess
>Get rejected cuz smelly and no fashion sense
>Kill princess
>Raise her from the dead and make her wear a maid outfit
>>344278115
>a pic of your work?
It's literally made of default UE assets.
Right now I have my third person character, input treatment, animations baked to walk, run and jump, I'm building up the classes for summons and base. I'll try to make a basic hideout management UI and some proof of concept summoning ritual (can't just summon skeletons "like that")
Give me an email adress and i'll update you if it ever comes to fruition.
>>344278121
yeah i figured as much too bad im running a potato
>>344278240
and pls deliver someday based necrobro
>>344276024
Mr.Skeltals are coming to steal my good bones :DDDD
>>344277960
>weeb
Implying?
>>344276615
I remember a MMO...Vanguard could be? Very Everquest-y and there was a necro class who had a pet you had to improve by using body parts from enemies or something like that, at lower levels it was like a little pet but it grew bigger as you leveled up.
Still...
>SOE
>>344278458
I'm really glad I pirated this, the gameplay is hot garbage.
>>344278347
I'm a running a potato too. You can mod Skyrim on a potato pretty well. You just have to put up with eyerending graphics and shitty FPS.
Also avoid Riften because it WILL rape your computer and your FPS.
>>344278498
Sure but characters and writing was breddy good.
>>344278152
>Get rejected cuz smelly and no fashion sense
Holy shit my sides. For obvious reasons
>>344277009
Why SW2 E?
I remember playing every empires game and they become more and more boring each time, being the base game much better than the empires, and DW4 E or 5E being the best ones for me.
What did SW2E had as a better strategy?
>>344278514
oh ok any mods i should look out for in particular?
>>344278598
http://www.tesgeneral.com/
Also, keep in mind that a lot of graphics mods will ironically improve your framerate because the vanilla assets are just that terrible.
>>344278781
really? interesting to hear, thanks a lot man
Any necromancy mods for Skyrim that are particularly good?
>download necro mod for Skyrim
>in order to summon skellingtons you have to kill something
>then drag the body to Winterhold's basement
>then flay all the skin off and reinforce the skeleton with leather and nails
>then perform a ritual
>shit takes like three days and you have to do it like 15 times before you can move up to zombies
>the skellingtons are piss weak and die in two hits
Fuuuuuuuck.
>>344278889
Yeah, just don't get enb or shit like that one grass mod and you'll probably be fine.
>tfw no skelebros to summon and find my puns humerus
>tfw no villain to fight just because he cant stand your constant cackling
>tfw no hot bitch summoner to win over with your earthly musk
>tfw no pet undead raven named spoopy
it hurts necros
Shit /v/.
I will created a 3D semi top down necro game, where you rape and pillage, dragging off farmers .etc.
It's going to have to be after a while though, but there WILL BE a decent necro game soon enough.
>>344279901
You best not be memeing nigger, or I will find you and raise your skellington for getting my hopes up.
>>344280281
this
you cant piss of necros because you cant even die
>>344279901
>You start as young mage wanting to learn more about the power of magic
>You suddenly get into necromancy
>start kidnapping farmers, children etc. to experiment on them
>You learn more and more and rumors spread
>Have to escape the town in order to save yourself and pursue the ultimate necromancy
>get back with 10000 skeletons to take revenge on the town
Man that would be awesome
>>344280281
No memeing here my good man.
I'm almost done with my UDK shit, swapping to UE4 very soon.
>>344280885
You're a good person, Anon.
What would be better, a RPG tactical nercomancer game or a RTS nercomancer game?
Or would something else blow those two genres away for nerco role playing?
>>344281204
probably rpg would be better
But i feel RTS would be easier to make
>>344281091
Thank you.
I was supposed to be doing some work, but I'm filling out the GDD for the necrogame.
Need some design goals now, pic related.
>>344280750
While nothing is set in concrete i do want to make a necro game, I'll have this GDD as a reminder for what people want.
>>344281204
Depends on your fantasy of what a necromancer is. If you're the type of guy who envisions necromancers are raising and commanding endless hordes of undead then RTS is the way to go. If you see necromancers as mages with a focus on death-based magic, including undead but also more conventional magic, then tactical RPG is the way to go.
I'm personally more partial to the RPG approach.
>>344281391
customizable minions is a really big one
metal joint-braces for skeletons, mummified zombies, flesh golems with different kinds of limbs
>>344281573
Thanks
Look forward if you actually make something
>>344267338
>I want to be an edgy little tart but devs wont let me!
I bet you are underage too.
>>344281713
>not wanting to kill your enemies with their own dead and being a commander supporting with curses and other such things
What kinda faggot are you?
>>344281678
I have to learn semi top down, like dungeon siege style games so it will be a perfect learning tool, it's not even that 'extreme'.
>>344281629
Yeah people have said that, maybe their gear is like, a spell you can cast on them, or how powerful they are for ease of gameplay use.
Environments seam pretty cool, I'm getting some nice ideas here, enough for a basic game.
>>344281713
>Not making human meat abominations and taking their skeletons as minions
>Not being a FUCKING GOD OF THE DEAD
>Eh guys you are edgy I'm a paladin btw
>>344273892
What's it called?
>>344281391
Customizable Necropolis, perhaps? For storing your phylactery, doing research, raising creatures, experimenting, interrogating humans/elves/whatever, etc.
SACRIFICE
im surprised that a thread this long hasn't mentioned it.
>>344281873
>>344281991
>Let me show you how not edgy I am by being ultra-edgy
Teen-/v/ is really the worst.
>>344282153
Chronicles of MIght and Magic
/v/'s offical cleric in residence here, please DO NOT desecrate corpses and under no circumstance are you TO RAISE THE FUCKING DEAD
guys c'mon
also fuck paladins
>there will never be a necromancer game that requires you to sacrifice a % of your maximum life in order to summon a minion; The greater the minion the greater the cost; Until eventually if you summon another minion it will kill you, forcing you to look for a spell that will allow you to extend your life by constantly spending mana, thus allowing you to summon infinite minions as you plummet your max health until the negative digits, forcing you to forever manage your mana pool as your new life force lest you run out and immediately crumble into a heap of dust
>>344281713
>comes into thread and spouts edgy
>calls someone else underage
>>344281391
I wouldn't mind a game based on Overlord/Pikmin's gameplay.
Maybe Staff/Armor upgrades that give buff to certain type of skeletons?
ex: warrior skeletons would get shields/heavy armor and archer would get cross-bow/helmets/Long-bow shit
>necromancer is my favorite fantasy class
>paladin is very close second
am I retarded?
>>344267338
Anon personally I think the be necromancer class is perfect in age of wonders 3 but you gotta like strategy if u want to get into that. Aow is like a mix of total war and civilization with a fantasy trope
>>344282669
>necromancer is my favorite fantasy class
Yes you are
>>344282669
yes
paladins are the worst, what's wrong with you?
>>344282669
I'm still waiting for a Necropaladin class or a Undead Paladin.
>beign so faithful to your god that you resurrect to keep spread your faith into the face of your enemies.
>>344267338
Mount and Blade with CoMM mod
>>344282807
Discliples 2 had Demon Paladins.
Dwarf Fortress: Masterwork Mod
It has a warlock Civ that can raise the dead, cast spells, craft skeleton civ members and raid nearby civilizations for slaves. You can also stitch extra heads/arms onto ghouls using body parts.
>>344282481
>Implying being edgy doesnt come hand in hand with being as 16-year old little twit
Get back to school, boyo
>>344282210
>>344282227
Right added them in.
>>344282530
Added that to the ideas, I might be able to work something into the design of it all.
Great ideas guys.
What type of GAMEFEEL would be best suited?
>>344280750
>Day 2: I need a reliable source of bodies to experiment on.
>Day 7: My skeletons still crumble once they start moving, I need more books and parsley.
>Day 12: Skeletons last a couple hours and can follow simple orders like crouching.
>Day 18: My limit is 12 skeletons at the same time, they are still unable to use tools.
>Day 19: The farmers on Carrotville to the north think I'm the one stealing corpses, I must eliminate them quietly.
>Day 27: I think I'm starting to understand this old books in the town's church, I might be able to reanimate more meaty minions soon.
>Day 28: I'm lonely in here surrounded by dead people, maybe I should talk to somebody, start a little chat with the shopkeeper girl I buy food from.
>Day 35: I reanimated my dinner by accident, it's working!
>>344282970
>Day 35: I reanimated my dinner by accident, it's working!
>>344282970
>Day 35: I reanimated my dinner by accident, it's working!
Master Necromancy at peak
Just incase you have any ideas after I have a throwaway email: [email protected]
Feel free to send ideas, I need to start constructing them now so I have a solid gameplan to work off, even if I get a demo then get more people on board.
>>344281713
>i main stealth archer in skyrim btw ;)
>>344282459
That doesn't sound fun at all though.
>be a necromancer who is supposed to be leader of a grand army of the dead
>summons are either weak or a liability in anyway
>summons are timed and disappear in 30s
>summons are weak and are barely a distraction
>summon costs are way too high for any practical use AND is timed to disappear too
>summons are retarded, too slow and can't keep up with other players
>getting any use out of summoning requires all your skills spent in it and you're still weaker than more direct classes
Fuck that. I just want my followers do proper work for me and throw curses at my enemies while chilling behind my skeleton army sipping tea.
>>344282970
>>Day 35: I reanimated my dinner by accident, it's working!
>>344282959
Do you mean GAMEFEEL?
Sounds effect? Visuals?
Hearding the a good quality sound of bones moving around is probaqbly a good gamefeel.
Fuck, we forgot a very important.thing:Villan Laugh.
>>344283515
How the game feels and plays.
https://pietro-ferrantelli.itch.io/mobs-inc
See this game plays VERY well, It's fun.
That's what I want for this necro game.
>>344283390
I never implied any of that shit.
>>344283751
Should have clarified that those are the mistakes most games do with necromancy and summoning.
You play as a loli necromancer in Phantom Brave, if you don't mind.
>>344283749
Holy fuck, this game is amazing.
I want a complete game out of it.
>>344283974
Garbage weeb games
>>344283885
Devbro here.
I'm glad you summarized this, is there anything else you hate in the necro videogame world?, because you labeled all my pet hates.
>>344284467
I know, it was done for a game jam.
>>344284643
>only able to animate humanoids
>either need to micromanage minions or have no control over them at all
>>344283749
Shit, this is actually pretty fun and engaging.
>>344284643
Do you have any idea of how game would be?
If you really want to go heavy on numbers, a top down view is probably the most reccommended by numbers.
Or you can go lower to like 40-60 skeletons and go for the Overlord/Pikmin route, camera behind the MC.
Did you played them? I suggest to do.
>>344267338
As long as its NOT turn-based, I will like it.
>>344284579
Golly, you are jelly. I'm sorry that your taste is shit.
>>344285379
Yeah I have played them, I'm thinking "Dungeon Siege 1" style, kinda top-ish down.
>>344285460
Nah, that's pretty bad, I don't like turnbased.
>>344285205
It's got a really nice feel to it, I want this type of unique feel, so that's why I'm doing the GDD now, so I can sit and let the idea marinate.
>>344285046
Added as a "Not-to-do" list.
>>344268374
I would play the hell out of that.
>>344285901
Look into The Guild 2: Renaissance. You may pick up something from it regarding top down view and player control. Basically, the game is like The Sims but focused on politics and business.
>>344275318
>>344276612
As someone who has played summoners in PoE in literally every league so far (and since before there was any leagues at all) I'd say that MI isn't worth it at all. Maybe for leveling, but i never touch it nowadays. Zombies deal huge amounts of damage per hit anyway, and resummoning them takes time away from your other skills, as summoning raging spirits, multicursing, offerings, etc.
Just run zombies with minion damage (it's a "more" multiplier nowadays rather than an "increased as it used to, so it's slightly better than melee phys damage), melee splash and either fortify or melee phys damage (can be switched quickly when the survivability from fortify isn't needed) in a +2 minion helm. Your zombies will gang up on shit and instantly demolish full packs instantly when they all hit with their high damage AoE attacks. MI is just annoying as it kills your minions early, as soon as they reach 33% hp. Your zombies can go down way lower and still recover with a bone offering up.
Summoners in PoE are very effective nowadays with the Necromancer ascendancy class. My clearspeed with a summoner using only self-found gear is at least 70% of my clear speed using "top tier" builds with expensive items, especially now that you can give yourself Flesh Offering in the Necro tree. Bone offering also gives you quite a nice defensive buff, enough to actually be able to use the necro aegis keystone, which earlier used to make me feel way to vulnerable. The unique shield Victarios Charity can therefore make your summons give eachother (and you) frenzy/power charges, making them even more effective, especially as charges have a much larger effect on monsters/minions than on players.
Best Necromancy game:
>Graphics are tolerable, but not extreme
>Open world Sandbox
>Your character can become permanently stuck in a Spectral/Soul Realm for all eternity, possess corpses, etc etc
>there's a stick, it does something, no one knows what exactly, but who knows
>boob and butt physics, because magic
>you can only raise the corpse of one deity, at a heavy cost
>if set in a futuristic setting, Techno Necromancy becomes possible, and you can become an Anti-Magic Techno-Necromancer by raising undead cyborgs instead
>>344285841
>Every anime game is good.
Grow up faggot.
>>344286258
Cool, will do anon.
>>344283974
>kusoge
Wow, thanks.
>>344286315
>Different eras
>You have the 70's disco mancer that has an afro and all skeles do disco moves
>90's mancer is all about having Funk and Boomboxes.
>>344286315
>open world sandbox
Don't forget to add dem sweet upgrade systems and quest markers everywhere
pomp
Someone post the necro screencap of the guy that made zombies as slave for regular farmers and such, then a group of adventurerst killed him just because.
>You will never make a desperate, sneaky midnight run from your cave to the local cemetery for the materials to build your first skeleton thrall, carting back a wheelbarrow full of bones.
>>344286262
yeah i was eventually regretting taking MI, but i was playing summoner around the time that spectre was all the rage, and then getting specific spectres felt like a pain
plus my zombies would die in bossfights anyway, there was no way to heal them back then. I think i used melee phys, added fire, splash and multistrike on them in a 5L
then came along some bugged way of putting raise spec inside a trap + mine support gem combo and abusing the multipler to summon some mob from pietys rooms that had righteous fire aura
they patched that up pretty quickly
rolled a dual flame totem after that and had a lot of keks even if was shit on later, but during my time i was under the radar cause of bumblast users
>>344267338
I think a tycoon type of game would be perfect. You have your base of operations which you can upgrade. Like the Black Tower or something where you build new floors as you want to expand available space or just have specialized floors (library, reliquary, treasure room). Kinda like DK or Evil Genius base building but vertical.
At the beginning, you can control only your character and all commands to your minions are issued through spells and stances (guard, roam, hunt). Later on you can acquire special servants who you can also control directly.
Apart from building your base and conducting research you can raid various locations which are progressively more difficult (villages, towns, castles, churches).
I think it would also be quite good if you could have different walkthroughs in term of having different kinds of power (ghoulish, vampiric, lichdom, soulshaping or whatnot) which also affect your characters skills and the decorum of your base.
>>344286262
Would you have a link to a good Zombie build?
total warhammer desu
actually having fun playing it as well
>>344288747
Cant torrent it
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>344288580
i don't know man, that kind of game wouldn't quite have the right atmosphere
you'd be too detached from what is happening
So what do you guys think of Necromancers ascending into Lichdom? What games get it right?
>>344289247
Surely at the point where you're powerful enough to become a lich the only benefit for doing so is immortality, which in a video game is kinda pointless.
>>344278498
The actual battles were such a fucking disappointment. All the stuff outside of it was fun though
>>344288909
Why not? You can put interesting gameplay ideas in here. Like raising your own guards to repel invaders (those pesky paladins and adventurers), or solving the problems of decomposing body supplies by building underground cooling chambers. Lots of trivial, everyday stuff for a necromancer. You are creator and inventor walking the path which no one dares to thread. You can flex your muscles sure but I'd like to see the game where you have not only solid gameplay elements but some feeling of progression. It does require a lot of sacrifices but for you the end goal is more important.
>>344286289
>MM lfg
https://juicybeast.itch.io/right-click-to-necromance
>>344289247
I remember the Might and Magic 9 process being fun but it's been a long time so I can't remember it
>>344271654
Nope.
If we're going by the necromancer stereotype, they would never have time to learn.
See, Dins can just just chill in a church for a while to get power, sorcerers are talented elementalists that can't fathom the more complicated magics, and druids just chill in the trees.
But Wizards have to learn their shit, and necromancers are wizards of a sort. Magic to them is more of a science. As in science, you build upon the discoveries of old to make new advancements in your field of study.
Whereas other wizards have libraries to research and build a base of knowledge concerning their field of magic, necromancy is considered evil. There isn't much access to literature/education on the subject.
Therefore, the necromancer would have to experiment and brute force his way through every Necromantic advancement, essentially reinventing the wheel as he learns every axiom/law/spell. That's why those fuckers have to put their shit in phylacteries, otherwise they wouldn't have the time to learn enough to matter.
>>344288747
How does necromancy works here?
I think vampires are hella gay
>>344289952
One of the few highlights of that shitshow of a game, I remember the process being very difficult and it had multiple steps compared to say the Lich ascension quest in MM7 where you steal a case of soul jars to put your phylactery in.
>>344267338
>I would like it if there was more crafting of your skeleton og maybe you killed towns people to get more and you have to stay hidden untill you can take on the king of the land
Goddamn that would be amazing. Sitting in your underground lab concocting strange new types of zombie buffs and curses. Slowly dwinding the population of nearby towns until you can start sending out your minions to do it for you. Eventually overrunning a province and turning your gaze toward the overall kingdom.
>>344290727
>>344290815
is this your work anon?
looks nice
>>344273351
mod name?
>>344290727
>>344290815
>>344291030
Some fag anon that didn't deliver. It's just some scribbles he did for shits and giggles. Didn't go anywhere.
>>344291423
>Maker of Risk of Rain
>Some fag
>>344289846
looks kinda similar to
>>344290727
>>344290815
except half assed
>>344291560
Well, nothing more was made other than those gifs.
So yeah, a faggot anon that didn't deliver.
>>344274581
imposible he has no lips!
>>344291749
Anonymous asked: Whatever happened to that Lich/Necromancer game? I'm pretty sure you had a demo but I'd really like to see it return
Answer:
It’s definitely something with a lot of potential! I’m planning on developing games for years to come, so it’d be nice to come back to it at some point
>>344267338
Guild Wars desu
The first one not the shit one
>>344291423
>Every idea and dev test needs to become full games
its like you have no idea how this works
>>344290089
warhammer vampres are ok, they are mostly more Nosferatu and dracula then interview with a vampire and twilight
>>344289247
I know the Undeath quest mod for Skyrim actually lets you do a ritual to gain a Lich transformation.
Total War: Warhammer
>>344290089
Hopefully we will get Tomb Kings
