Seven Samurai Quest

[JPRGtheMusic]

Had the idea that it would be a really fun quest line to do the Seven Samurai. Ya know start out as the first Samurai (Kambei in the movie) and be recruited by this village of farmers to help defend their village from bandits. First steps in the quest would be to search the Imperial city for other Samurai to help you on your quest (slowly coming across the other characters in the group) and then head out to defend the village from bandits in a series of attacks (waves of attackers? I'd kinda want a more epic feel to the attacks, perhaps specific strategies for each wave, and they come over a series of days?) If the difficulty were to be amped up perhaps a failure chance could be added, such as if you are the last samurai alive, or if you lose too many villagers. I think that this "quest" should be a series of quests, providing experience and money, as well as items (maybe a different piece of samurai armor, until you have the full set at the end and you have to face the final boss with it, kinda Knights of the Nine style)

 

What do you guys think? It would take a good amount of dedication, but using already made items and skins, I believe this could be very easily achieved. Plus if well done, would be an extremely awesome Mod.

[DavideDomingos]

I saw that movie some years ago and i think it would be cool to play a quest-line of it but it will take much time to do a mod like this

[Eshenaleros]

that's an awesome idea! I never saw the whole movie myself, but there was an anime based on it, and that was incredible, as well as a video game. Certainly I'm no modder, so I wouldn't be able to do this, but I have a microphone here, so I'd be able to do some voice acting, and I heartily endorse it if it comes about

[jaysus]

doesnt even have to be samurai ;)

this old tale was for example also used in "the glorious seven" and so on, yojimbo would be mazing too as a mod, remade as "for a fistful of dollars" or "last man standing"...

id rather play that huge ass samurai tho, he was kinda funny :)

make it depend on player choice before the movie begins, either have him be a samurai and do the quest with the thief, ransom kid in the barn and the 1st samurai and depending on the actions to get the thief you become a different samurai, (or even a bandit!)

or you make a choice through menu and background story

or have the player play through the opening sequence as a farmer and then the first samurai you choose becomes you... or you play the whole thing as the farmer dude who lost his wife, hes kind of a warrior, maybe as additional path...

through playing from the perspective of the first samurai would probably make things easier and more tactical than action oriented, depends simply on the amount of work youre willing to spend on it i assume.... :P

[JPRGtheMusic]

Yeah I agree with Jaysus it doesn't necessarily have to be the seven samurai (personally I just have a huge fascination with the samurai, and that movie) but in reality it could totally be something not involving samurai. Thats the beauty of the story! And your suggestion on playing as any of the samurai I totally like. I had thought about it before I made this post, and had decided that that might make the mod a lot harder to develop, but with the massive scale the mod would have to be anyways, it might not be a big issue. And Kikuchiyo is my personal favorite samurai as well (the big brute one) because he grows the most, and is actually a farmers son, and not of samurai blood, but learns to be samurai. I your idea of the opening quest/battle being that of taking down the thief that kidnaps the baby, would be a great starting point! I think you could take a pointer from the Anime series based off the movie that Eshenaleros mentioned, because the thief scene in that involves Kambei (head samurai), Kikuchiyo (farmers son), and Katsushirô (the youngest samurai). Each of them reacts differently. Kiku charges in and uses brute force to take out the thief, Kambei uses his head and tricks the thief, and Katsu just watches the fight trying to learn.

[jaysus]

i think katsu would charge in too ...after watching a bit :P

he is still young but very honorable :) (always wants to protect the farmers, when he meets the girl in the flower field and so on...)

ya lol the characters are simply amazing in this story... the wood chopping samurai, the old buddy samurai, the wise aikido dude peacenik samurai and so on... theyre all great, but you probably have a point in letting the player only play one of the first 3, afterall they meet during the secondary initial thief, boy, hostage situation.

 

would also be nice to get some flv movie sequences together, im thinking of ingame footage redone too get the feel of a samurai jack movie, stylized environments and such, kinda slow mo, 80ties style comic of japanese or czech origin, with voice overs, for example to be used when the farmers explain their situation and during conversations which contain longer passages of explanation like those about the genki wars and the frowned upon habit of the farmers to murder and rob wounded samurais after large battles

i think short videos would improve the overall gameplay anyway, bethesda is really lacking in this point, really doesnt have to be as mad as final fantasy with 90% story and 10% gameplay, but i think simply replacing some of those click-way dialogues could improve the gameplay.

 

fighting wise it should also get imporvements, oblivion is kinda boring in that regard...

for example a simple script wich moves the camera around the weapon and plays time in slow mo during kills would be easy to achieve, maybe even with finisher moves, idles could be played during this slowmo sequence

 

but really, if you like the seven samurai, watch the original from kurosawa, and also go rent, stream or whatever (should be legal by now) "Rashomon" (one murder, three sides of the story, whats guilt?), "Yojimbo" (one stranger, two gangs, stranger plays gangs gainst each other to make a profit but gets entrangled in moral questions) and if you feel like watching a 3h long political drama with about 20% bloodshed only "Ran" (3 brothers, 3 heirs, one empire, war) ;)

 

and since were at old school stuff... try "Metropolis" (man vs mashine and their owners)(no there are no voices) from 1923... its THE base for science fiction movies, c3po, gotham city, etc... all derive from it.

would also make for a good mod,

has the damsel in distress, robots, huge cityscapes, a mad inventor, rich male without a father, parties an all that stuff... sadly the party scenes are part of the missing 30% of the movie :(... its still amazing however and those ladies dancing in the garden of eden at the beginning simply put are smoldering hawt :D