Request: No Turtles Please

[Coridan]

I am still in the process of playing through TQ:IT for the very first time, and love it. That being said:

I beg of you, please, no more turtles. I let out long yells, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo!" every time I see a turtle. If I get a formula that has turtle shells in it, I just vendor it, because there's no way I'm going to kill turtles any longer than I have to. They take forever to kill, and if you're a caster, you miss them half the time because they're so darn low to the ground, so you have to shoot them with your staff... boof.... boof.... DIE ALREADY... boof... boof.... *pulls out hair*. Please. Think of the children.

(Note: This post is only semi serious. I do despise the turtles, though)

[yerkyerk]

Heh, I thought this was going to be about the Overlord and breaking the fourth wall and shit :)

Turtles were a bit uninteresting though. They just took a heavy beating, but you could kill em from a convenient distance. Just taking sooo long. Now if they were backed up by caster turtles and fragile (teenage mutant) ninja turtles, than the tanking turtle would've made a lot more sense.
Or just let them being mounted by Ichtians :D

[ASYLUM101]

Sissy! Turtles are only difficult on normal mode, after that they become a joke. (except dave, who is pretty tough.)

I do hope we get some demonic turtles. That would be cool. Anyone play MTG? Wormfang turtle?

http://www.extensiveenterprisesonline.com/OnlineStore/images/tcgs/mtg/jud/wormfang_turtle.jpg

[Coridan]

Oh they're not difficult, they're just stubborn and don't die fast enough. I can kill the undead, demons, and two headed dogs that spit fire faster than I can kill your run of the mill turtle. I argue that these turtles are already possessed (with the soul of a donkey).

[Malpheas]

*cough* am in the process of getting my power 9 back again... stupid selling out. On that note: Asylum, you must be one of them new-fangled players, back in my day the only set symbols you needed were: Legends and Arabian Nights.

OT: Damn the turtles! Actually, I really liked the turtles. They were a challenge. I mean, who says you have to kill everything in the game? And yes, I found that it was possible, with a little grind (like all reagents) to get turtleshells.

Cheers,

Malph

[eisprinzessin]

you have to shoot them with your staff... boof.... boof.... DIE ALREADY... boof... boof.... *pulls out hair*. Please. Think of the children.
ROFL - thank you, Coridan - just what I needed ... for the sake of such post, please add them to GD, too :D

[yerkyerk]

OT: Damn the turtles!
It's actually quite confusing when you use OT both for On-Topic as well as Off-Topic..

[Rhis]

Think of the turtles!

[The Old Farmer]

GD needs warp turtles huge demonic creatures twisted by the nasty powers that abound in this grim dawn.

[Malpheas]

It's actually quite confusing when you use OT both for On-Topic as well as Off-Topic..


I do? Hmm, I occasionally use Offt for off...

[yerkyerk]

Yes, I saw that, the one person I adressed happens to be one of the few who makes a clear distinction :)

I didn't mean you specifically though, most people use OT interchangably for both Off-topic and On-topic and usually you can derive from the answer what it is (than again, posting "OT" is kinda senseless if the meaning has to be derived from the post). Oh well, doesn't matter.
OT: Turtles! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paQ0wjTTrBE&feature=related)

[Coridan]

Think of the turtles!

Rhis, why do I get the feeling the turtles were your idea to begin with?

[Rhis]

Rhis, why do I get the feeling the turtles were your idea to begin with?

Hah, I didn't work on TQ. I would have put in way more turtles.

[subshape]

There are actually a TON of turtles in TQ...more than I think most average players will ever see. They are named 'Overlords'. So why are they there??

Well, while working on TQ, and TQ:IT some of us, myself included, would take breaks walking outside over a little pond/river outside of Clock Tower (Iron Lore's offices). Turtles would sun bathe out on logs and large snapping turtles would occasionally pop their heads up out of the water. It was really cool and relaxing to watch them. So when we were assigned to make ambient creatures for the locations in TQ we decided to add in a turtle as a little thank you to the turtles in that pond. Of course content designers were a bit more mischievous and perhaps it was all the long hours we spent on the project but somehow we started making screenshot/scenes in the editor where the ambient creatures would commit horrible crimes on the NPC's all the while the Overlord would oversee it happen. It became a giant inside joke so much so that the one artist that made the turtle snuck the image into to all of his texture pages as well as into armor sets. I wouldn't doubt it if that artist is still sneaking turtle images into his art on his new projects.
Anyways, that's enough ILE bed time stories for tonight.
Back to work!
B

[ASYLUM101]

So THAT'S why there's little turtles in some of the textures!!

[Malpheas]

There are actually a TON of turtles in TQ...more than I think most average players will ever see. They are named 'Overlords'. So why are they there??

Well, while working on TQ, and TQ:IT some of us, myself included, would take breaks walking outside over a little pond/river outside of Clock Tower (Iron Lore's offices). Turtles would sun bathe out on logs and large snapping turtles would occasionally pop their heads up out of the water. It was really cool and relaxing to watch them. So when we were assigned to make ambient creatures for the locations in TQ we decided to add in a turtle as a little thank you to the turtles in that pond. Of course content designers were a bit more mischievous and perhaps it was all the long hours we spent on the project but somehow we started making screenshot/scenes in the editor where the ambient creatures would commit horrible crimes on the NPC's all the while the Overlord would oversee it happen. It became a giant inside joke so much so that the one artist that made the turtle snuck the image into to all of his texture pages as well as into armor sets. I wouldn't doubt it if that artist is still sneaking turtle images into his art on his new projects.
Anyways, that's enough ILE bed time stories for tonight.
Back to work!
B

No longer a mystery, now history. "And now you know the rest of the story!"

That's wicked, although, to be honest, I'm just as happy not knowing.

[heron]

http://www.mariowiki.com/images/thumb/8/81/KoopaTroopa_SPM.jpg/180px-KoopaTroopa_SPM.jpg

[yerkyerk]

Rainbows ftw!

Diablo 3 got this just right;
http://diablofans.com/images/funny/unicornshootey8.jpg

EDIT: wrong thread, hehe

[Llama8]

Could we have some gun turrets on the turtles?

[MadWasp]

I like turtles :) Kind animals. :)

[Panthro]

Could we have some gun turrets on the turtles?

Perhaps some sort of mecha-turtle?

[Malpheas]

Oo, or that mech turtle that fought the ninja turtles. hmm, let me see if I can find a link..

EDIT: Close enough... LOL

http://i50.tinypic.com/ohisxy.jpg

[Sile]

I just had to reply to this thread after not so long ago, killing the turtles in TQ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNry4PE93Y

!!

[ws5926]

I thought the turtles were good monster "tanks" in the game. They moved slow, so if you didn't want to fight them, you could get away from them easy. Turtle shells only went in shields, so if you didn't use shields, then just run away. The animations on them were well done. I also like the way that they had a ranged attack, whatever it was that they spit up. I would have liked some more variation on the colors. It seemed like they were all about the same color, even the hero ones.

There were too many one-hit kills in the game anyway. Something with a little armor and didn't one-hit kill you was kinda nice.

[eisprinzessin]

Turtle shells only went in shields, so if you didn't use shields, then just run away.Didn't you play the Immortal Throne expansion? Or were you not interested in those artifacts requiring turtle shells? These artifacts turned them into one of the most precious relicts for me.


There were too many one-hit kills in the game anyway. Something with a little armor and didn't one-hit kill you was kinda nice.I second this!

[ws5926]

Didn't you play the Immortal Throne expansion? Or were you not interested in those artifacts requiring turtle shells? These artifacts turned them into one of the most precious relicts for me.


True, but by the point that you got to the IT part of the game, if you weren't shield based you had a million of them. Maybe make it sheilds and torso armor. The shell goes over the torso of the turtle anyway.

[eisprinzessin]

OK - fair point. Those who started to play, when the original TQ was released, probably ended up with too many turtle shells. I started with TQ:IT directly about 2 years ago.

[PinkFrog]

Jeez... after all these years finally we learn about what's the deal with all the turtles in TQ... :D

Thanks a lot for sharing.

[Vreejack]

Okay so what I am getting out of this request is to remove the creature that took the longest time to kill. That's an easy fix. Just don't have a creature that takes longer to kill than any other. Solved. Any more problems like that?

[Malpheas]

Nice, 9 month necro, brain baby!

I think this thread was "pick on Coridan" day.

[Vreejack]

Nice, 9 month necro, brain baby!

I think this thread was "pick on Coridan" day.

I must have been having Diablo flashbacks because TQ didn't have necromancers.

[clipso]

i hate the turtles in titan quest >.< i just started playing for the first time from like 3 years was going for a 0 death at end of ez mode fought the clyclops* no problem by dodgeing his attacks but then when i got into the sea part and... i got pwned bu da turtlez -.-

[Douglas Siano]

No. We need fireball-spitting turtles that fire spikes out of their shells every couple seconds. And sharks with laserbeams attached to their heads. And exploding kamikaze llamas.

[Leon]

What we need are undead turtles.

Undead Turtle! (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Galapagos_Turtle_skeleton.jpg)

Look at that and tell me that wouldn't be awesome to kill. Come on, do it. You can't? Of ****** course not!

We don't have spoiler tags? What a horrendously large image for the small resolutioned laptop user :(

Ah, thanks for the fix.

[Douglas Siano]

Zombie turtles?

[eisprinzessin]

What we need are undead turtles.
Yeah, but they have to be zombie turtles as there will not be any skellies.
I personally love skeletons but I don't think they fit with the fictional explanation for undead in Grim Dawn. I mean, if I thought they were going to make the game better I'd work them in anyway but, as much as I enjoy traditional fantasy undead, I think a change of pace can be refreshing too.
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We don't have spoiler tags? What a horrendously large image for the small resolutioned laptop user :(

Nope, no spoiler tag: BB Code List (http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/misc.php?do=bbcode)
For images: SPOILER (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Galapagos_Turtle_skeleton.jpg) ... cool pic btw :)
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[Douglas Siano]

Yeah, but they have to be zombie turtles as there will not be any skellies.

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Nope, no spoiler tag: BB Code List (http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/misc.php?do=bbcode)
For images: SPOILER (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Galapagos_Turtle_skeleton.jpg) ... cool pic btw :)
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No skellies!? SQUEEEEE Bleeding damage a go-go.

[Leon]

No skellies!? SQUEEEEE Bleeding damage a go-go.

Do zombies bleed?

[Douglas Siano]

Draining them of fluids would probably make them not as structurally sound. :P

[Leon]

Draining them of fluids would probably make them not as structurally sound. :P

Sure, but I'd imagine their blood has congealed so much that it barely flows anymore. You'd have to make some mighty big holes in their body, and at that point, you might as well start disarming their limbs.

[Douglas Siano]

Sure, but I'd imagine their blood has congealed so much that it barely flows anymore. You'd have to make some mighty big holes in their body, and at that point, you might as well start disarming their limbs.

It all depends... are we talking classic zombies or bio-zombies?

[Leon]

It all depends... are we talking classic zombies or bio-zombies?

I don't know, maybe we should ask medierra.

[Seronx]

http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Top 25/Top_25+_Turtles_in_Trouble_2011.pdf

Ahem.....

[ASYLUM101]

http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Top 25/Top_25+_Turtles_in_Trouble_2011.pdf

Ahem.....

Get the hell out of here with that crap, zombie turtles are not endangered, neither are digital ones for that matter.

[Leon]

http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Top 25/Top_25+_Turtles_in_Trouble_2011.pdf

Ahem.....

Where are our zombie peace therapy sessions going to be held at?

[Seronx]

Where are our zombie peace therapy sessions going to be held at?

Seattle, in Apartment 1011 Suite 130-140

[jeckhyl]

Some turtles mounted by tiny elephants would be funny though.

[Moschl]

Or a turtle, which looks a bit darker or more dangerous.
Somethings like that :
http://www.abload.de/thumb/800px-alligator_snappirnri.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=800px-alligator_snappirnri.jpg)

[wsensor]

Turtles!

Can we get mutated turtles and Giant Turtles and Skeletal Turtles and a ton of turtle monsters.

Whats wrong with turtles though? They are cool and have strong shells!

Oh don't forget Soft shell Turtles!

Every time I see this thread pop up with a reply I go "I LOVE TURTLE MONSTERS!".

[eisprinzessin]

http://interesting-world.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Two-Headed-Turtle_3.jpg (http://interesting-world.info/2011/03/magda-and-lenka-tortoise-with-2-heads-5-legs/)

[wsensor]

Now I want to see a two headed turtle monster. :D

[Moschl]

Now I want to see a two headed turtle monster. :D
That would be funny, it´s a good idea, you should create a two headed turtle :D

[wsensor]

0.o Can we get a two headed Giant turtle that one head shoots oil and another head shoots fire or lightning lol.

It would make a great boss in an optional turtle monster paradise area.

[Douglas Siano]

0.o Can we get a two headed Giant turtle that one head shoots oil and another head shoots fire or lightning lol.

It would make a great boss in an optional turtle monster paradise area.

I want that psychoreactive agent you are using.

[Harlequin]

0.o Can we get a two headed Giant turtle that one head shoots oil and another head shoots fire or lightning lol.

It would make a great boss in an optional turtle monster paradise area.

Sounds like the rockturtle-boss from Zelda: A Link to the Past. :P

[hooby]

Could be a licensing problem:

http://videogamecast.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles.jpg

[Urban Scorpion]

Perhaps a very small chance that upon entering an area all the normal monsters are replaced with turtles possessing terrifying tenacity and the goal of pounding our protagonists.

You know, like a cow level that just kinda...happens. No obscure item combination required.

[hooby]

Hellgate London had these in it's online mode.

Some rare times a level suddenly would be like fire-enchanted, with flames everywhere, and burning enemies that dealt fire damage... and then game would crash, not able to handle all the fire particle effects.

But apart from the problem that it didn't work technically, the idea that levels could exist in magic, rare and legendary versions (with different random modifiers attached - like extra fire damage) seemed kinda cool to me ;)

[yerkyerk]

Why not use a dimensional portal spawn creature that appears at random, like in Torchlight?
That way, you allow the player to choose to do the freaky challenging level. You could also "lock" the level once the player enters, removing the exit and disabling town portals.

[eisprinzessin]

It could be an occasionally occurring weather phenomenon ... seriously, I like the idea, especially if it becomes part of the lore but not just a freak game event.