/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10811706
>I'm thinking maybe the open environments make it hard to design levels
You just need some creativity and artistic license to make it work like other FPSes - no one said the whole game has to take place in a town with small buildings. You could make up level themes and then make 1-2 levels for each one - a classic wild west town with a saloon/prison/bank to start the game, a trip to the mountains similar to the canyon level in douk3d(it is an open environment, but not that bad), a gold mine which would allow for a lot of closed caves and tunnels, a long ass train like in Blood, anything else you'd come up with, and then at the end of the game you'd come back to the town.
>>10811717
>lack of weapon variety
Same thing, you need to not take the setting too seriously and then you can make a lot more shit up:
>A knife, lasso maybe?
>classic revolver, you can akimbo it later
>a bow and arrow looted from the indians
>rifle for shotgun replacement, some historically inaccurate portable gatling gun as a chaingun replacement
>classic cannon? as a rocket launcher
>fire water for molotov or dynamite from blood as a tossable explosive
>optionally some goofy ass high scifi plasma weapon(put it in some sort of John Carter/Cowboys & aliens secret encounter)
>there's room for a lot more things, just use your imagination
Basically if you want to make it fun you have to forgo historical accuracy - you can add some arcanum style more advanced machinery even - just don't overdo it with steampunk because a lot of that genre is utter sovlless faggotry in style of "machine from modern times, but it's brass/wooden and has a cog randomly placed somewhere"