Your Viva Pinata 2 concepts

[Lupaie]

Could we discuss some idea;s for the followup

REALLIFE MODE
I would like to see a mode in which the time is linked to reallife. So that I can check my garden everyday for a couple of minutes. I could let my kid see how well the plants are growing. If you could come up with a sort of gardenbabysitter who informs you about the things that happened that day...(while you were away) you could than get messages like....'A Dogrus visited your garden at 14.00...would you like to see the footage I shot'?

That footage will be interactive in which you can try to get the Pinata in. You would be able to play as long as you want per day. But growth of plants will go at a slow pace. Pinata's visitations could be a little more speeded while you are on. But will go slow if you are offline.

Since the seaons are in, we could have christmaslights in the trees for christmas..attrackting special pinata's.

MUSIC
And about the music...would it not cool to have a musiciantheme...you have to collect musicnotes or something like that (by breeding special Music-inspirred pinata's and then make a choir. By letting the choir play special songs (which need a combo of different notes - all unlockable) you will be able to attrackt new pinata's or make some pinata's in the mood for reproductiion. How cool would that be to collect ...say '25 songs', and per song you might need another team for your choir. A simple song only needs a singer and bass-oriented pinata. While a more complex song needs Elephanilia for the trumpetsound too.

So...
1) Find a music score
2) Collect enough notes to fill the score up. (4 different 'tone'colored notes + quantity)
3) Get the choir complete
4) Play song

The music in the game changes then...and you have new background music. Attrackting new Pinata's, Mooding for Love, and Events.

[Smouvy]

Nice, but wouldn't it take a VERY long time to get a good sounding choir together that way?

[Lupaie]

Well..its about getting first the 'Scorepiece'. In that piece you get hints on which pinata's are perfect for the score. Also you can see how many notes you need for the 'score' and which variants.

You could end up doing the score with other pinata's as musicians, but the piece would sound different. Even by putting the wrong 'variantnotes' in it could change the way the piece is supposed to sound. Making it awefull to listen at...but hey..Maybe there is a Pinata who diggs that and wants to find out where that 'beautifull' sound is coming from?

But the cool thing is that is usercreated content. YOU make your own background music. The scores which are unlockable..contain special songs made by Rare. But you can also get a cleanscore. On that one you would be able to put your own compositions in. You can choose out of the 100+ pinata's sounds and their 4 variantnotes. The number of notes needed only changes the lenght of the track.

You must be able to save your tracks..and go ask the Musician character (maybe an ingame DJ to play those in stead of the standard music.

[Smouvy]

Originally Posted by Lupaie

But you can also get a cleanscore. On that one you would be able to put your own compositions in. You can choose out of the 100+ pinata's sounds and their 4 variantnotes. The number of notes needed only changes the lenght of the track.

This I like, but wouldn't that mean, since all music is orchestrated, that Grant'd also need to record individual instruments so that when you do this is still sounds as if it was recorded by the Rare Orchestra. I don't think Grant would want that much work really. And with that, also every Piñata must have a different choir to be recorded. This all in all is, I think, more work than Rare would ever want to put in the music.

Also, if i told nonsense or if something was already explained in an earlier post, then it's because I only read it globally

[Lupaie]

Its a lot of work..yeah. But it could be BIG. Al community battles and stuff like that who has the best music. Clean-Custum scores who can be past to other players over Live.

Just imagine it

[sim245]

I like the music idea but i dont like how the plants grow so slow, cause for example if this was your first game on ur new 360 wat could you do while waiting for your plants to grow. And personally i wouldnt wait 1 day to just get one plant.

[wkw427]

Everything VP1 is, but with all the bugs/annoyances GONE!

[Lupaie]

nah..i need something more. I dont think my musicconcept will be in but I think its a nice concept none the less

[BIGsheep]

Originally Posted by Whyme123

Everything VP1 is, but with all the bugs/annoyances GONE!

Aw, but I liked the bugs

Trust me, we have built a hit list up from the various forums and threads that were around so we've got a handle on those things that drove people mad.

[wkw427]

Then add this to the list.

I HATE HAVING TO DIG A FREGGING HOLE 4 TIMES TO MAKE A POND. ADD THIS TO THE FACT I WANT A 90% WATER GARDEN MOST OF THE FIRST 2 HOURS IS SPEND DIGGING. EVILEVILEVIL!!

Make digging diffirent levles. And you can drag it like putting down grass. I would buy the game just for that

[BIGsheep]

There is now an area select tool which should dig large portions of your garden in one go, which should please those diggers amongst us.

[ATC 1982]

Awesome news about the diggers, but will the three stooges come to your garden and put all the dirt back every 5 minutes?

[BIGsheep]

I take it your on about the Ruffians? There are ways to cope with them but occassionally I found a use for them in the first game as they did make me some very nice land bridges across my lakes at times.

[ATC 1982]

Yes those ruffians ketp twarting my plan on getting the hippo at times.