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Sounds cool.
I think I wanna join. My local Knight of Columbus are becoming way too quiet these years. I think I have now a clue where they all gone.

Wow!

Definitively my kind of game! I get addicted when the Sid-style sounds starts. Yes I will definitively plays that game.

A point of C&C : (Take it as a compliment - I never think that the C64 - 16 colors can get used to that full level) - Because of the palette restriction and the resolution, there's a little thing that I found annoying: The characters,( by being well drawn with shadows etc...) are easily lost in the background (kinda camouflage effect) and It's removing a litle something of playability/immersion (kinda lost focus effect).


And I will definitively enjoy it.

We can argue if you want. 

By bringing the Fallout extraordinary combat system, you're touching the taboo question. Do Fallout is a RPG or an adventure game? And why (But mostly : when) did the 2 kinds are (became) separated?

We probably all going to answer that the both were not mutualy exclusive entities. And it's right. And in the same time we all agree that there is more than a 'little' (euphemism) difference between Final Fantasy CCDXII (I don't know where they are now) and  Grim Fandango.

ProgZmax : That was the essence (I'm way too much into philo 2nite... sorry guys) of my non-rpg-combat-question.
EDIT : Thanx for link- I'll try it tonite

Or it's dexterity. (click fast)
Or it's stats emulating dexterity (almost necess. turn-based)
Or it's a puzzle (find the talisman and win the fight/s)
Or it's a trivia of some sort (MI - the Shivah)
Or it's a way to do a cut-scene, faking rpg (Tombs and Treasures for Nin8b Yike...)

Is there anything I forgot?

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Anyway, the important is the player enjoying himself. And immersion/coherence/freedom should be on top of any to-do list. Chicken with pulley if needed, Powered-armor with a lovely/charming/classy/glamor/adorable Gatling minigun if it's more suitable.

LUnique 'I ever sing the maybe song in the shower' Dan

Can you repeat the question?

EDIT : Ok! Got it : The MMORPG, but not Teh old MMOFPS, will like COFPS (CC), and CORPG (DI &   DII, tend to their (P U nP). If and olny if,  time (t), love (L) and integrity (I) of a given individual (I') [remove the I from I'] to acheive their non-selfishness. So, if I'm following You, The indivuals (S of all the I') will stop will start living real life in love by themself (P U P)?

Personal answer : no.

EDIT2 : After rethinking of the problem, I changed my mind.

Love, Dan

Congrats for your mark, Linda.

Is this possible to have an abstract of your conclusions?
The subject is interesting.

[obligation]

Combat in Adventure games?

Like it was said before, almost anything involving reflexes in AdvGame tends to be annoying to many players.
The FTrot' demolition derby on the very top of my black list.

Dexterity are sometimes necessary. (Is there someone who can tell me how else the loose brick puzzle in the MM'Jail  can be useful and realistic?)



In other hand, without moving the thread to the 'definitions debate between RPG and Adventure game', there is an obligation to have Combats in many cases. Matter of coherence. Matter of freedom. Matter of immersion.

Ex.:
The story of the kid who want to be a Pirate. (I don't remember the name, ask Cyrus, maybe he does). Swordfights are in all kosher pirate stories/novels/movies since RLStevenson created the genre more than 1 century ago. It populated the pirate island with pirates (sic) . Gave a reason to put in the game all the stereotypes about pirates than can't get pluged anywhere else. It's fun. And, yes, it lenght the game.

The Genius of Gilbert, (both of them, btw), was to do it without dexterity AND make it related.
Swordfight is not Caber Tossing. Rabbinic fight is not a mandolin contest.


I'm really about to ask a question. : Is there any other way to make non-dexterity combat without the positional Left-Right? (sic... you know what I mean) without looking like RPG? Or without looking like 1213 (is 1213 adventure anyway?)

LUnique'you fight like a cow'Dan

Updates in the first post.

So Thanks ! I appreciate the goods comments and especially right now that I'm doing the most boring job of beta-testing ever made with that game.

I close my eyes and I see {x,y} coordinates; I walk in the street and see the walkways on some nasty pastel colors; I cDan.script too much; I see the world in less than 24 colors and have a wet dream about Leslie last night; I uploaded the Zak tune in my cell phone and I'm starting to found any true-color picture inadequate; I'm about to smash my old C-64 with a baseball bat for fun and I'm actually wearing and ugly nasty plain green shirts.

Life is beautiful anyway.

I now have a small Beta-tester team with the head office base in Germany.  One other well known AGS contributor and, last but not least, a patient writer who going to proofread me. (If that is not a proof of patience, my friends).

You still have 2 weeks to contact me if you want to get in the B-team.

See Ya !

I like the bunkers on the beach. It give a taste of a real military base island.  Been a long times in videogame since it was possible to enjoy a tropical island without the epidemic presence of pirates. 

I'm looking foward to this game.

LUnique'Dr. Casanova-Frankenstein's Psychofraculator rulez' Dan

HOORAY Ninjas!

Ninjas are pretty cool. But I prefer pirates.

nah...  Ninjas can throw stars. While pirate's standard shovels have a lower range of action. All south-american dictatorship banned pirates anyway but never ever said a word against ninjas. I swear.

Ninjas are pretty cool. But I prefer psychoanalysts.

Can we have Guerilleros who raid village to buy Sandwiches? Please Please Pretty Please with Woody Allen false beard on Top?

Hudders :

I think if you're going to have dialogue, you ought to provide the option to have a character repeat what they just said.

Yeah your right! (English is not my mother tongue...so  you're right x2 - how many times I restored a save game only to got the point on a too fast monologue).

For the other point : I think it depends on how WHAM will deal it. Some games a have agenda for that purpose.

I think I just was on my 'No-Talk-to-button-day' (  )
Cheerz

EDIT : I downloaded the 'tech demo' hidden somewhere in the Forum... only the door opening alone rushes me to play that game...

Woow Monsieur... I wish I could draw. I really wish I could draw... Did I mention that I really wish I could draw.

Everything looks great in your game...

I'm a Dune fan too, I wish your gonna make your game.

Hudders : I got your point about immersion, but I should agree 100% with WHAM.

There's although lot of situations where dialogues kill immersions. (mostly on non parody game)

1) "Guys, we are in a big rush to avoid dying - how's your wife?
2) "We works together since 10 years - It's our vessel - I'm a mecanic, but can you repete me what I'm suppose to do with the reactor."
3) "I have a 300 rnd/min gattling minigun, but sure I'll do the 3 fairy tales task you wanted me to do before you let me in."

WHAM : Your game looks great - Can't wait for the first part. But take your time :
"Shoot straight, conserve ammo, and never ever cut a deal with a Xenomorph, mostly the orange ones"

Over and out.
Dan

I'm...I'm... I'm not a... nerd.
Stop talking in my back.
:'(

Update in the 1st Post.
Wow, am I  bumping my own thread?

A metaphorical representation of everything that's wrong with people. Drugs, sex, hate, everything.

gee.. sounds like punk rock change a little since I shaved my last mohawk. 

The lyric sounds good, but tell me, for which kind of music, it's written (exactly), Ramones style, or more like new stuff (if Nofx still punk)?

Promising. Like a lot the :

It's time to rebel
crawl back out of Hell

But I'm singing it with a early BxR song in my head.

Limping Fish : I tried your recipe but it didn't works.
I started with x = 6 slices; Everything burned.

Otherwise, the alternate worked better.
But It took me 2 hours to clean: half-dozen of roses and a tour to an expansive fashion restaurant.
Next time, I'll call for deliv'.

InCreator : Were you talking of the old Dune 2 ?
EDIT : Or a sequel to it?

The one with the full screen Mentat? I was soo apealing. Almost unbelievable when it got released. Probably the olny RTS who respected proportions. (and the only one who can justified Harvesting ressources).



Akatosh ! I have a story for your future StarCraft adventure game : It's a Zergling who get newly created, and ask himself why he should obeys the Overlords and was secretly in love with a Queen.

You can call it : Zergling-Z

Everybody knows that Randi was cheating his testings. It was so easy for him to use his own magical abilities, like Houdini did before him, to hide the thruth.

It's like every time I'm creating Psy-balls. They get stole even before I    was able to watch it. The Engine says.  Must be a bug somewhere inside 'Player enters room before fadein'

:p

If CJ got shot, who will adopt Cuppit?

I guess I would hate it too, if some amateurs made a successful fan game out of my theme. It would totally suck and ruin the world I created.

I think Lucasarts don't really need Fan-made games to ruin the characters and the worlds they created - they're totally able to do it alone.