Massacci wrote:mrmichaelt wrote: For the team that did the Realistic Version, they did follow the GBI system but made a few mistakes (i.e. Pappy Sargassi should have changed to a Class IV. In a earlier permutation of the game, he was an unknown Class III and the team helped him solve his problem). I'd say the biggest error was the Possessor Ghosts and making them Class VII entities. Nothing else stood out as erroneous to me.
They couldnt have followed the GBI system completely. Every single ghost or entity listed as class VI in game shouldnt be given that classification if we were following the GBI system. Thats what leads me to believe that the development team created their own system. UPDATE: Im at the very beginning of rewriting the classification system and Im pretty sure Ive discovered and corrected the errors in both the GBI system and the game. More soon.
I see, like the zombie and the golems. I think skankerzero said they were going off the descriptions more than the class #'s. Cool, always looking forward to this type of material.
TristanJones wrote:I'm very interested in hearing what people have to say on this. Ever since I started doing the Spirit Guide style art it had always bugged me what system to use. I was planning on writing a completely new one that would incorporate a lot of what's said in the shows and movies, but into separate categories -- Ghosts, Demons, Physical Entities, Deities, etc. -- so you wouldn't have a class 13 like Tenebraug being inconsistently more powerful than Gozer who's classed significantly lower.
Yeah, I settled on Ghosts, Corporeal, Unstable, and Deities/Supreme Beings like TVG but also think there are subcategories for some i.e. Demons would go under Deities/Supreme Beings (because some often stood in as gods like recently with Dumazu) and Vathek as a sub category of Ghosts with the trio from "Deadliners" or Moriarty, Sherlock, Watson, and the Hound from "Elementary, My Dear Winston" or Captain Steel etc.
Class 13 always irked me but I settled on the idea that Egon probably wrote his own classification system by 1997 like he did his own Spirit Guide.