Lost Features?

[Sweet Tooth]

Sorry if this has been mentioned anyway, here is an interesting list of features which made a later apperance or were cancled.

It actaully intrests me what BW could have been like with these features, these could of effected alot of aspects to the game.

    *  The Puzzle Master. A character which guided you through different puzzles.
    * Creature mini-games. "Sports" events you could play in multiplayer games.
    * Random map generation (skirmish and multiplayer).
    * Villagers talking back to you (or maybe mind reading, or thought bubbles).
    * Creature talking back to you (or maybe thinking or using telepathy).
    * More advanced Creature Help Text (more advanced creature?).
    * Additional Silver Scroll quests (island two Stones quest was also shortened).
    * Croc creature (left out for looking "too human", like the Human creature.
    * Diciple Protector for the villagers.
    * Docks civic building and boats for the villagers.
    * Village sports (and the ability to build soccer fields).
    * ICQ integration (was this ever official?).
    * More varied good aligned creatures (golden lion, white tiger, etc).

Source-

http://www.planetblackandwhite.com/theguide/questions.html

 

[Kee715]

* Random map generation (skirmish and multiplayer).

I wish...

* Croc creature (left out for looking "too human", like the Human creature.

Not necessary, it would have been another stupid Evil creature.

* Disciple Protector for the villagers.

Not necessary because there are extremely few threats to the villagers that they could stop. (Wolves primarily.)

* More varied good aligned creatures (golden lion, white tiger, etc).

I would have liked that.

* Village sports (and the ability to build soccer fields).

There is the soccer add-on, but a bit more would have been nice.

* ICQ integration (was this ever official?).

Now there is Xfire, which is free and has in-game chat. It also has free video capture and the ability to take screenshots.

* Docks civic building and boats for the villagers.

That would be cool, and it reminds me of this thought of mine "Why is it that nobody can swim!?"

* Additional Silver Scroll quests (island two Stones quest was also shortened).

The game is too short, it needs more scroll quests...

* Villagers talking back to you (or maybe mind reading, or thought bubbles).

The Villager Banter add-on is a step in that direction.

* Creature talking back to you (or maybe thinking or using telepathy).

That would be cool.

* More advanced Creature Help Text (more advanced creature?).

It was 2001, not much could have been done with it still being able to run on a 2001 system, but that would have been cool.

* Creature mini-games. "Sports" events you could play in multiplayer games.

That sounds to be a little boring actually...

*  The Puzzle Master. A character which guided you through different puzzles.

Well the puzzles are not exactly very hard, but with those additional ones that were planned that may have been helpful...

 

[Kays]

A number of those items did make it into CI. Or the add-ons, as mentioned.

Once item not mentioned was the weather system.Which never really worked.