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tha_mattster
19-05-06, 08:20
Design a TRAP
Well because the traps in TRL were so puny and simple, we need to design our own and inspire eidos!
Ok so how does one go about making a trap?
Well you need something to harm lara croft, like a blade or a laser etc, then it must try to prevent her getting from point A to point B.
So now you have devised your most evil mechanism, make a little sketch of it, nothing too fancy is required, and post it here! Maybe eidos will see :D
tha_mattster
19-05-06, 08:41
Poison Dart Rock Heads!
They fire poison darts at lara and she must shoot them before they shoot her!
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y273/tha_mattster/trap.jpg
laras_2006
19-05-06, 08:49
but I am not going to post them here because they are going into my own idea.
tha_mattster
19-05-06, 08:51
..idea for what? :confused:
laras_2006
19-05-06, 08:55
Traps
tha_mattster
19-05-06, 08:56
...okay....so why did you post to tell me that? :confused:
You're crazy! ( sets poison dart trap on you )
OK, here is mine:
http://www.ferroequinologist.de/forums/balldestroyingstructure.jpg
Lara is standing on top of a Very fragile structure which is in a pool of Poison or Acid. A Rolling Ball is coming and threatens to destroy the Very fragile structure, which would send Lara into the Poison or Acid (I might have made the pool larger). To escape, she needs to jump somewhere where it's safe.
tha_mattster
19-05-06, 11:01
coool pic! but where is safe for her to jump lol! :D
tha_mattster
19-05-06, 11:13
hey I have an idea for your one.
There is a box on that structure she must open. Inside is an amazing artefact that teleports people to avalon. but the box is locked with a digital code. So she has to break in before the boulder breaks the structure and sends her into the acid lake. But, if she does open it in time, she just needs to hold the artefact in her hand and she will be teleported to safety!
Kamrusepas
19-05-06, 11:14
http://www.ferroequinologist.de/forums/balldestroyingstructure.jpg
Ohh, nice :eek: I know I'd freak if I was there :D
... digital code.
I didn't know they were that advanced a couple of centuries ago :D
tha_mattster
19-05-06, 13:16
Well I didnt say it was placed there by an ancient culture. Perhaps she shot an enemy who had it and he fell in the acid, and she must now retrieve it!
CerebralAssassin
19-05-06, 13:21
but I am not going to post them here because they are going into my own idea.
hehe..sounds like he's gonna make his own game..
tha_mattster
19-05-06, 13:22
I thought so to but still a strange post.
Its like saying, Does anyone know the time?
, he replies, 'yes but I am not going to tell you, I will tell myself though'
LUNACY!:mad:
Legend of Lara
19-05-06, 13:24
I have tons of spare time now it's a weeknd... I might as well work on a trap. Expect seeing it here either today or tomorrow.
CerebralAssassin
19-05-06, 13:26
I can think of something but sure as hell won't be able to draw it..
tha_mattster
19-05-06, 13:28
describe it and we will draw it! What does it do, what is it made of, how big is it etc etc.
CerebralAssassin
19-05-06, 13:32
describe it and we will draw it! What does it do, what is it made of, how big is it etc etc.
alrighty.by tomorrow I"ll have something :D
sweetPoison
19-05-06, 13:41
How about...there is a huge are where a most difficult boss (I was thinking of a colossal monster such as the one in the original or perhaps the dragon in the second) must be fought.
But the whole ground crumbles. Once Lara has stepped on a portion of it for, oh, say three times, piece by piece it would crumble. (Think of Peru's crumbling floor)
And there are switches all around the place but once all the floor has vanished, Lara would then have to fire her grapple (think of Ada Wong in RE 4) across the room to traverse from one area to another, in order to activate the switches.
This may be difficult at first but after a while it could become just another of those 'trial-and-error' type of boss/traps and will soon lose its edge.
Lucy_Croft
19-05-06, 14:35
OK, here is mine:
http://www.ferroequinologist.de/forums/balldestroyingstructure.jpg
Lara is standing on top of a Very fragile structure which is in a pool of Poison or Acid. A Rolling Ball is coming and threatens to destroy the Very fragile structure, which would send Lara into the Poison or Acid (I might have made the pool larger). To escape, she needs to jump somewhere where it's safe.
Great idea! Maybe she has to pick up an artefact and leap, daringly, over to a ledge, to safety.
:jmp:
I don't have any ideas really, I don't know, maybe having to climb a big ladder or wall that has holes in it everywhere filled with spikes, beasties, flames, etc, and you have to avoid them... Oh, I don't know. Maybe a little room where you have to jump over some kind of danger (flames, liquid of some kind) on certain blocks (think TR3's swamp puzzle), and then pick one of three little holes/passageways to climb into. Only one is correct (maybe have symbols above the holes with clues earlier on to help you find the right one) and will let you climb away to safety. The others will spear you with spikes when you climb in. And all the while this is happening, the roof is coming down, threatening to crush you into the flames/liquid. :cln:
Okay. I stole it from 'Seven Ancient Wonders'. But don't you think it's cool?
c'mon guys only 2 img ? les talk pls i'm gonna post one later today! you'll see!;)
Lucy_Croft
19-05-06, 15:02
I'm going to try and make a picture. Oooooooh, aye.
I wouldn't have thought that there was so much reaction to my idea. In general, I just thought "How can one modify the concept of the rolling ball?" and ended up with the rolling ball destroying the ground Lara is standing up.
Some other ideas of mine:
http://www.ferroequinologist.de/forums/leverball.jpg
The ball is placed on a lever here. If Lara steps on the end of the lever (because the level design forces her to do so), it will lower and the ball will start to roll, crushing her. Tactics to avoid the ball: All that are applicable for normal rolling balls apply. The difference to the normal rolling ball is that this trap easily explains why that ball is coming down, something no Tomb Raider game to date had.
http://www.ferroequinologist.de/forums/treadmill.jpg
Lara runs along a corridor and suddenly finds herself on a treadmill where she can run, but won't move further. A complicated mechanism (probably not as visible as here) will use her own running to power a rotating blade that will give her different amounts of damage depending on how fast she is running. Blades are available in multiple heights to target different body parts. More than one blade is easily possible, too. Depending on the mechanism, the blade can come from the front or (especially mean) from behind.
This trap is easily avoided (just jump over the treadmill), it works mainly because having Lara on a treadmill is a very unexpected experience for the player. Using that trap more than once per game is, consequently, a bad idea.
Again, the motivation was having a trap where it is obvious to see how it can work, even after possibly thousands of years have passed and no source of energy is obvious.
Lucy_Croft
19-05-06, 15:59
Okay, excuse my crappy drawings - they have pretty much no (or shoddy) scale or perspective.
Here's the main chamber:
http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/5016/mainchambertext5tq.png
A side view, with the crushing ceiling shown:
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/1038/sideviewtext3yt.png
And finally, a charming image of one of the wrong trap holes:
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/9300/traptext8zp.png
I know they suck, but heyyyy, did my best.
Lucy_Croft
19-05-06, 16:01
What a cool idea, Cochrane! Really uses the whole physics thing.
tha_mattster
19-05-06, 16:02
Cool traps people!
problem with your one lucy, is that they are greek letters so people who read greek would get confused and probably killed :D but I get the idea and its cool ;)
Lucy_Croft
19-05-06, 16:06
lol, well, they wouldn't be greek letters, maybe egyptian or something. But I just used the Symbol font and picked a few 'okay' looking letters. :p So, this is just a draft.
OK, here is mine:
http://www.ferroequinologist.de/forums/balldestroyingstructure.jpg
ROFL!!! :D
tha_mattster
19-05-06, 17:12
Ok this was inspired (some might say copied :D ) from Jason and the Argonauts, a film based on greek myths.
SO we are in greece! Lara is hunting the 'Treasure of Apollo', she has finally found it. And below you can see the entrance, easy huh? Yes but what is above her?!
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y273/tha_mattster/trap1.jpg
As soon as she lifts it off the table, the statue above her comes to life! And it has one bloody big trident! :D
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y273/tha_mattster/trap2.jpg
The only way to defeat it is to climb up its weapon and jump on to its neck and shoot it many times in the back of the neck.
sweetPoison
19-05-06, 17:18
I love the drawing of Lara!!! You even tried to include the backpack!!!!LOL
Naa, I like it...maybe even considering it to be my first avatar!!!!!
tha_mattster
19-05-06, 17:21
haha its just so you know its lara, aint supposed to be her design for the next game :D Anyway you should watch jason and the argonauts it has loads of TR like scenes.
Oh and I like the way you said 'you even tried to include the backpack' nobody has ever patronised me so much lol!!
praise be to the backpack!http://www.smileypad.com/v224/Funny/Prayer.gif
sweetPoison
19-05-06, 17:25
Hey, to think of it, in the next game they should include some monster that looks like the cyclops!!!! me: thinks of a trap with the cyclops!!!!
I know, why not have Lara have the Spear of destiny again and with it, kill the cyclops...or something like that!!
They should bring back some of the old artifacts she found in the previous games and let her use it!!
In the next game I would love to see her use the Dagger of Xian!!! Lovely!! Lara as the Lady Dragon!!! Ouch!!!!LOL
tha_mattster
19-05-06, 17:26
The dagger of xian has to be stabbed into the heart. Lets just say lara's chest has 10cm of armour plating = no chance.
sweetPoison
19-05-06, 17:27
The dagger of xian has to be stabbed into the heart. Lets just say lara's chest has 10cm of armour plating = no chance.
You never fail to amuse me!!!:vlol: :vlol: :vlol: :vlol:
tha_mattster
19-05-06, 17:30
wu gowing to make a twap? :(
(thats my encouraging voice lol ;) )
sweetPoison
19-05-06, 17:33
wu gowing to make a twap? :(
(thats my encouraging voice lol ;) )
Still thinking...again!!!
My first and crappy idea took away the remaining 2 brain cells that I had left!!
Still need more time to think of a 'better' one!!
(channeling all the zen masters in the world for inspiration....dumdidumdidum...)
sweetPoison
19-05-06, 17:47
Yes!!!
I actually have an idea!! A real one this time!!
As we all know, Lara's acrobatics are pretty useless in the game (unless you like to see her tumbling for no reason...) But, I was thinking...okay:
Lara is in a long corridor, and I mean long. Then all of a sudden spears ome out and Lara has to use her acrobatic skills to dodge the spears. I mean nothing like, *quick, press X so she would do a flip and escape unscathed. I mean, we( the player) must manually make her flip on our own.
Or, I was thinking about a concept for a level:
Okay, here goes,
Lara starts the level but unwittingly set a trap that causes the whole level to be filed up with water! (it would probably take about 15 minutes) and the player must finish the level before Lara drowns. And consdering there was not a lot of water action in Legend, I just hope that they do something like this.
tha_mattster
19-05-06, 17:51
Good idea! You know the long corridor at the end of bolivia? I thought that would be booby trapped, but they didnt put anything in it, I bet the planned to though!
sweetPoison
19-05-06, 18:04
They were probably too lazy!!
But anyway, I have another idea!!
Okay, be ready for this one because I can't draw, and will not draw!!
Okay, I was thinking about a trap in Avalon, since that IS where our heroine is heading (unless she is going house-hunting for another house...cus her mansion sucks!!)
But anyway, she enters Avalon, and we (player and Lara) begin in a forest. But in this forest there are many trees (obviously) but the thing is some of these trees are acutally alive ( duh!! no, I mean they will eat you!!) because they are there to protect (I don't know...Arthur or Amelia perhaps) whoever from any intruders. So Lara must make her way through the forest without getting any of her limbs eaten by the blood-thirsty trees!! Yummy!!
And
there is a table and there is some inscription in, oh say Duidic language or whatnot, that Lara must decode and once lara has de-coded, a stone slab will come out of the ground (think of stones stuck in mud as in stonehenge) then lara must shoot the stones and find inside certain potions that she must mix without mixing it wrongly (think of water puzzle in Last Revelation - the very end) and once she has mixed the potions perfectly according to the inscription, she then pours it on the ground and then all the tress die...thus allowing Lara safe passage to wherever the path leads her.
(If you guys can picture this then you are not sane!!!!!!)
tha_mattster
19-05-06, 18:17
no probs, its easy to picture, i just look out my window! (x files music plays)
I will try and come up with something for you :D
but I'm having lots of fun with my Tr2 screenshots just now.
tha_mattster
19-05-06, 18:38
here you go!
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y273/tha_mattster/forestbysqaure.jpg
(the background is concept art for a final fantasy game by square, the tree model was made by some guy ( i got these on google images) and the screenshot of AoD Lara was by me! )
sweetPoison
19-05-06, 18:39
here you go!
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y273/tha_mattster/forestbysqaure.jpg
(the background is concept art for a final fantasy game by square, the tree model was made by some guy ( i got these on google images) and the screenshot of AoD Lara was by me! )
Lovely!!!!! Lara in wonderland!!!!!!!
tha_mattster
19-05-06, 18:40
yea thats what I was thinking! she could use the neck of a flamingo bird as a grappling hook! :D
sweetPoison
19-05-06, 18:41
:vlol: :vlol: :vlol: yea thats what I was thinking! she could use the neck of a flamingo bird as a grappling hook! :D
:vlol: :vlol: :vlol: :vlol:
You people should have worked with the architectures (sp?) or desginers that bult the tombs Lara visited! Although she probably would be dead by now!lol:D
tha_mattster
19-05-06, 18:59
'They're scared of our raw power!' - fry
A side view, with the crushing ceiling shown:
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/1038/sideviewtext3yt.png
I like this one:D
OK, here is mine:
http://www.ferroequinologist.de/forums/balldestroyingstructure.jpg
Lara is standing on top of a Very fragile structure which is in a pool of Poison or Acid. A Rolling Ball is coming and threatens to destroy the Very fragile structure, which would send Lara into the Poison or Acid (I might have made the pool larger). To escape, she needs to jump somewhere where it's safe.
Haven't got any own ideas, but I thought this trap could be like this:
Lara comes somewhere on the side below, hops on the side of the structure and climbs on top of it. Then she maybe picks up something (this triggers the rolling ball) and jumps on a rope hanging somewhere around.
This was just a thought...:rolleyes:
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