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when was the last time you played a game that you travel by train to get around ?.
it just crossed my mind and thought that would be interesting in maybe an RPG game to travel around some of a game by train instead of on foot or fast traveling since that's kind of overdone.
i think the last time i played any game that used a train to travel around is maybe a final fantasy game but not sure which one maybe FF7 or FF8 but not terribly sure.
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The Deeprun Tram in WoW comes to mind, but that's not a very long ride.
....and I think it was 8 that had a bit of train/tram travel, in fact you fight a boss on the train that you could kill with Pheonix Down or a res spell. Oh yeah and the ghost train in 7, so yeah both.
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Huxley, Ragnarok Online, FF13.
However, I don't think these are to the affect they were done in FF7 and FF8. I think it has alot more to do with setting. Alot of RPGs now are set in a tolkien-like universe. There are not alot of Steam Punk based RPGs. Outside of RPGs I don't think the application for riding trains is what you are looking for. There is Sid Meiers Trains, then there are the action games where you run ontop or below a train.
I think there are a few difficult design elements with actively riding trains. First is the speed. If you are traveling on an open terrain, this means you will be changing the cells you are in quickly. A cell is an rendering section in a game. Most open terrain games have 16 to 25 cells visible at a time, then have the rest viewed on the LOD layer. Changing cells at a rapid pace means unloading 4-5 cells at a time than loading in 4-5 cells at a rate that could be seconds apart. It would also require unloading character information of characters out of range and loading in character information of those in range for mmorpgs. Ofcourse there are work arounds around this. Second is the scale of the train. Trains are not a big environment, and given the dimensions of a train the area might seem claustrophobic without making the train excessively large.
Saints Row 1+2
Yup, me too.