PixlBit

balance is overrated in single player games. Too much micromanagement from the developers. Balancing around health has lead to a lot of tepid games. To regenerating health and easymode default difficulties. The onus should be on the player to play better, avoid damage or minimize damage, play the game of attrition better. DOOM had it perfect as did many old crpgs. Used up all your health pick ups or healing spells? Fuck you, do better, be smarter or go reload/go all the way back to town. Dark Souls I don't think is balanced that way either, not to the extent that other games are at least. You used up your Estus, you either have to run back to the bonfire or advance through the gauntlet (too many bonfires in some of the levels is where they fuck up imo). Or maybe you missed some shards and have less estus than another player. Pay better attention is the answer. From Soft can't possibly know what a given player's situation will be, so their games don't run into the same pitfalls. One of the good things about DkS2 was that Estus was also harder to come by. You really felt the struggle and danger. But alot of modern FPS and RPGs are and they designed that way and it's stifling, too mathematical. The player is babysat the whole way through.

Anyway, cool ideas but you're all over the place with this game lol. Good luck getting an actual functioning design out of that chaos. Never fond of the "our game is like these games" pitch either. I don't like fanart lol. The middle ground between complete originality (which is impossible probably) and emulating others is where you want to be imo. Too many indie devs are just copying and not dipping into their own well first.

Don't mean to down your idea man, just offering some food for thought. You know how opinionated i am. I think you have several cool games in that stew, not just one buffet of a game.

Oh ok. I was only looking at it from my point of preference. That's why I said other games fill the role the series used to fill for me, meaning the first two games and ALTTP and LA to some extent. Although I still did enjoy the hell out of OoT and TP, it rubs me the wrong way that  many people now think LoZ = puzzle game and anything else is not the "correct" way to make a Zelda game because they grew up with OoT and not the the original.

I like Wizardry type dungeon crawlers, but in keeping with the LoZ theme, I'm thinking single character with real-time combat. See my list above. I would add roguelikes too, like Caves of Qud and Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, which are in between.

Dragon's Dogma/Dark Arisen.

Dark Souls (1 in particular).

Modded Skyrim (there are a lot of samey, bland dungeons, but some standout ones too).

Diablo 1 HD mod.

Ys series

Divinity series

Darksiders

Path of Exile/Torchlight/Diablo clones in general.

Binding of Isaac/rogue-lites and roguelikes in general

Some of that sounds unfortunate. Well, I get my fantasy dungeon delving fix from many other games now. I really don't know what I would want from this series these days since so many games fill the same roles and do it as well.

Yes, but what is "traditional"?  The themed gimmick dungeons seen in, say, Ocarina of Time are not tradtional to people who see the early games as definitive. Combat being dull is something I can say about the games after the first two: easy, non-threatening, not twitchy enough. Yet I heard the combat in BoTW is the hardest it's been since Adventure of Link. Dungeon do look weak though, from what I've seen, but a return to Water/Fire/Sky/etc and the gimmicky puzzles are not the answer imo. Make the dungeons dark, gloomy, dangerous places like in the first two games, where death is likely. Turning levers and using the new whatsit on the new widget that only exists in that dungeon is played out .

People need to get outside. Our bodies need sunshine, outdoor light, to be active, for the blood to circulate, deep breathing, exercise.  And we need to have constructive hobbies, not passive. Be producers, not just consumers. Why pay someone else to entertain me all the time when I can create my own amusement, maybe even sell what I produce?

Have you played the Half Life 2 remake, Black Mesa? I'd say it's one of the better remakes.

Resident Evil Remake is the best and my favorite.  More than any other remake, it improved, expanded, renewed, and made the original obsolete. It's also the best game in its series, the prototypical Resident Evil game, a crystalization of what is great.

I seriously believe people have been brainwashed to overreact to insignificant events. The media uses terms like "shocking" "jaw dropping" "EPIC flub" to describe what happened. And they do this over and over again, every day of the year on any kind of topic. Mouths agape, wide eyed expressions...because the wrong results were read. No, it's not shocking, jaw dropping, or epic. Reminds me of a Louis CK bit about the way we talk, using words like "amazing" to describe a basket of chicken wings. So what's the reaction if aliens or Jesus appear on Earth? We've already thrown 'amazing' at fast food, and 'jaw dropping' at someone messing up at an awards show.