Post by: omegarirue on March 04, 2007, 10:06:22 PM
Once long ago there exsited a land called Tiron. This land had many races and forms of magic. It was a blessed place stuck
in a Golden Age of Prosparity. But one day a great king called Novia sent forth his armies to wipe out a race called the Tapas. No one knew why he wanted to elimante them but he could not reject. After decades of war between humans and
The Tapas the battle ended. The Tapas were completly elimanated as they were no match for the surperior human forces. But the people did not like this. Somehow Novia did not age one bit an he seemed to desire for more blood. They captured him
and left him in a desert to die. But there was a crystal beside him. He embodied this cristal into his hands and it granted him abilties unlike any humans. The crystal was given the name, Crisma Cristal. He made it back to Tiron, and with his new found powers he slaughtered village after village taking his revange. He created an army out of pure evil and cast a shadow over the world. The shadows were said to have stopped the flow of Crisma in the world. The Crisma Tree could not produce Crisma and the world cried for help. The rest of the story is unknown.
[spoiler] After years of hard ships on Earth it seemed like Novia would never die. The Six Spirirts of Earth fell before his power. So they did all they could. They went to the Temple of the Gods and summoned The Great Gods that made the land. A Goddess sent a sword from the sky down to Earth. This sword was embodied with a crystal called, The Goddess Crystal. The sword was named The Sapphire Sword. The spirits took the most worthy man that they could find and sent him to slay Novia. But Novia had done something. He created a beast out of shadows and called it, Weapon. Weapon was a creature made from pure darkness. When the hero appeared in Novia's Castle, he slayed the evil lord. Weapon absored all the darkness everywhere becoming stronger then anything in the universe. Somehow the hero used all the Crisma in the world and slayed the beast. This is the legend past down through time. After many years it was forgotten. But some speak of Novia's son, who wishes to revive his father and the great Weapon.[/spoiler]
In the present day a world wide war is going on. Clans control the land and mercanaries are everywhere. But in the midest of this time, dark forces are working behind the scenes hoping to revive the age old ruler.
Charecters:
Rirue laguna. (e is silent)
Age-16
He is quite timid and does well to hide the fear. He does not like authority and is quite juvinile. But he can keep his cool and follows missions perfectly. Although he seems to crack jokes at the worst time, he is laid back and proud of it.
Illyana telis
Age-16
She is fun loving girl. She is very smart but keeps to herself. She has a tendancy to never break a rule. Rirue is always telling her how to have fun. She seems to have a crush on Rirue.
Kiran desku
Age-21
A skilled thief and the leader of the hell knight's clan. He is very moody and set off by even the slightest remarks. He never seems to laugh and never says a joke. He seems to think of Rirue as a punk. Raised as an assassin he leaves his past in secret.
Septhan Tisaya
Age-17
The most outgoing person you will ever meet. He listens to no rules and does things his way. He's not the person who thinks of a battle plan. He's a kill everthing in your path kinda guy. Quite skilled with a blade he makes a powerful ally.
Game features:
Sub menu
Cristal system(Not in demo)
Airship base and CSS(Character switching system)
Realy kewl dungeons(Hack my RPG and play the Sand Temple)
Game can be found here:
http://www.phanxgames.com/pxg/projects/view.asp?id=738
Post by: omegarirue on March 06, 2007, 11:09:15 PM
Post by: Moosetroop11 on March 07, 2007, 12:22:11 AM
Looks good so far, though I don't have the time to play it.
Post by: omegarirue on March 07, 2007, 12:24:52 AM
Post by: VulcanRaven336 on March 07, 2007, 01:06:00 AM
by the way, ur not a g unit artist!
Post by: YankeePaladin on March 07, 2007, 01:17:52 AM
It's not too bad. The maps were nice, and you had some interesting systems going on.
However, the game still needs some work, primarily in the spelling and grammar department(I REALLY hope that "cristals" is intentional). You made many, many mistakes when writing the script, sometimes making the story incomprehensible. Fix this problem, and you're well on your way.
The story is somewhat cliched, but don't let that deter you too much. I really think you may have some good opportunities here.
Post by: omegarirue on March 07, 2007, 01:22:56 AM
Post by: omegarirue on March 08, 2007, 12:38:00 AM
Post by: A Forgotten Legend on March 08, 2007, 12:46:38 AM
btw, don't take this the wrong way, but you are really bad spelling... is English a second language or something? It says your from Canada so that might be it... pm me about it. I really want to know. ;)
Post by: omegarirue on March 08, 2007, 12:49:31 AM
Post by: A Forgotten Legend on March 08, 2007, 12:55:40 AM
sorry, i didn't think i was spamming, i did mention that i would play the demo in this post... oh well. I'll shut up now.
Post by: omegarirue on March 08, 2007, 01:17:45 AM
Post by: Bluhman on March 08, 2007, 01:22:35 AM
However, the programming was impressive.
But the dialog and characters were bland and silly.
Post by: omegarirue on March 08, 2007, 01:25:39 AM
Post by: Bluhman on March 08, 2007, 01:37:43 AM
Secondly, just... THINK. Think of stuff which nobody else has thought of before to put in your game. Don't do the same things over and over again. Who wants to play things that resemble games of the past, when they could play games that expand on ideas that very few designers have ever thought to use.
Come to think of it, I bet you'd work incredibly well with anybody who is literate, and can write stories. That way, he can type the script, and you can insert the design elements such as animations and graphics. Then your game would probably rock more.
Post by: omegarirue on March 08, 2007, 01:45:23 AM
Post by: SaiKar on March 08, 2007, 02:21:40 AM
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Originally posted by omegarirue
But the problam with my chars is not them. I thought of them from scratch. In fact Rirue is like no one you ever seen. I cant seem to describe it.
Having original characters is very good. But not being able to describe them is bad. RPG creators are storytellers. Remember that it doesn't matter what the plot of your game is and how badass your heroes are later on if the beginning of the game isn't any good.
Edit: I'm downloading it. I'll tell you what I think after I play.
Edit 2: Um. I got attacked by a plant, some guys that weren't in my party had a conversaton, and I got totally destroyed. That's an... interesting way to start the game.
Post by: SaiKar on March 08, 2007, 03:47:45 AM
Programming: NO BUGS! Well, no bugs that I found, which is good enough. Having no bugs is good.
The sub-menu is also very good, even though I don't quite get how to use Illyana's skills there. But it's well programmed.
Graphics: All of the maps looked very good. The forest, the town, the overworld map. Lightning effects and spashy noises when I stepped in a puddle were very nice touches.
The problem with the graphics was the poor spelling and other text issues that other people mentioned. I can understand the spelling, maybe, but some things were just weird. Like how Blizzard is capitalized but fire was lowercase. Spending a few minutes polishing that sort of thing up would really help.
Music: a lot of secret of mana and final fantasy VII. Meh, kind of
boring. Go forth and steal more original midis!
Characters: Honestly none of them really seemed to have any personalities. They all pretty much sounded the same. Rirue was interesting because he lost his memory, but then he got it back real quick and became boring again.
Being able to run around as Illyana on the world map was interesting. Normally you don't play the girl. But it quickly went to Rirue being the leader of the party, which is weird because, far as I can tell, he's just a random tag-along with Illyana and Kiran's mission and isn't important to the story.
My favorite hero was Kiran, just because he was good at combat. My favorite NPC was either the owl or the guy that yelled out BARREL TIME!!! for no apparent reason. Or the talking cat. Come to think of it, the whole "purple world" scene was pretty humorous XD.
Story: It's cliched but it's not unworkable. Some more details after the intro (i.e. when we've met the main cast) would be good. I'll admit I don't know what's going on at all with the beginning of the game. Kiran and Illyana are running from... someone? Why? Am I supposed to know what's going on?
One of the things that bugged me was the fact you never told me where go. Like, they decide to go see the mages. Where the heck are the mages? The characters in the game know where the mages are but I didn't. Eventually I found them but something along the lines of "let's go visit the mages, who live to the west of town" would have been nice.
Battles: Having all the enemies visible on the world map was nice but that's about the last thing I can say I liked about the battles. Mainly it was just attack attack attack. A lot of the normal enemies had lots of HPs and annoying moves (really strong poison and confuse, ugh).
The diety limit break system, while well-programmed, didn't really add much. It just made my attacks stronger when weak. But I was already losing the battle anyway so they didn't help much.
None of my skills seemed to do anything except damage with the exception of cure. And on that note, why the HELL couldn't Illyana cast cure in battles? She can cast it outside! But it's a pretty weak cure spell anyway - healing 80 HP when characters had over 600?
The first boss had a LOT of HP and poisoned all three of my charactesr down to 1 HP before I spammed diety after diety to kill it off. I even had a few antidoes to cure the poison but it just poisoned me again.
None of the enemies ever dropped any items. And you couldn't freaking run from them, ever. I tried to avoid as many fights as I could.
Overall: It was interesting. I don't feel like I wasted my time playing it. There is some potential there for a great game. I can tell you're good at making interesting systems. If you clean up some of the questionable dialog, give the characters more personality, and make battles more enjoyable this could really go places. Good luck.
Post by: omegarirue on March 09, 2007, 06:05:07 PM
Post by: omegarirue on March 09, 2007, 08:32:56 PM
And enemies wont be so hard plus the secons boos works now(For some reson he wasnt in the first demo but he is now.)
Post by: Dominicy on March 10, 2007, 06:33:16 PM
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Originally posted by SaiKar
Go forth and steal more original midis!
PSH! Who needs midi's when you own the sound track to some of the best games (music wise)? I'm making a game that has NO midi files whatsoever. :P it makes the music much more enjoyable.(except for music from aria of sorrow, there's that irritating crackling in the background.) :D
Post by: Darkfox on March 10, 2007, 06:51:25 PM
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PSH! Who needs midi's when you own the sound track to some of the best games (music wise)?
*Beats the hell out of you with a shovel, drags you out in the back yard and buries you six feet under the earth*
Anyways, why is there a lot of FF in your game omega?
Post by: omegarirue on March 10, 2007, 07:24:35 PM
rm2k3. Plus I never played ff1,ff2,ff3,ff7,10part 2,ff1 or 12 so I dont know whatgames my mid is off of. And I never finshed a whole final fantasy game eathir.I do make a little bit of music with anvil studios.Sry Dont know y but I'm sry.Any way dont dowaload the game for awile folks.I tested the game somewhere else and I found some realy bad glitches(fighting first boss as a normal enemy)ANd more. But I still plan to realse demo 1.6 with no spelling mistakes
or gltiches.
oh and siker thanks for the nice revue.
Post by: SaiKar on March 10, 2007, 08:11:04 PM
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Originally posted by Dominicy
PSH! Who needs midi's when you own the sound track to some of the best games (music wise)?
People that want their game size to be under 100 MB. Distribution for my game has been a real problem due to size in the past, and it doesn't even contain a single mp3 file. Remember that not everyone on the planet has the best internet connection.
Post by: Dominicy on March 10, 2007, 09:45:22 PM
I didn't personally realize that MP3's were that big. hm.
well, even so, its a small sacrifice. MIDI's are lame. they sound so computer generated. (and technically are.)>_>
Post by: omegarirue on March 10, 2007, 09:51:09 PM
Post by: Dominicy on March 10, 2007, 11:31:58 PM
I just checked the file and its 240 Mega-bytes!!!!!!
Post by: Archem on March 10, 2007, 11:46:14 PM
Post by: Dominicy on March 11, 2007, 01:41:26 AM
Post by: Finality on March 11, 2007, 04:15:27 AM
Post by: Meiscool-2 on March 11, 2007, 05:11:54 AM
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Originally posted by Dominicy
should've told me that before I decided to use tifa's themesong (5 minutes long) for a town AND used used the mauseleum suite from halo (8 minutes long) >_> lol
OH MY GOD DAMN SHIT.
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Originally posted by Finality
You do have an option... but a lot of people will just about hate you for it ^^
U R RITE.
Post by: Finality on March 11, 2007, 05:36:07 AM
Post by: omegarirue on March 11, 2007, 02:02:04 PM
Post by: Finality on March 12, 2007, 02:49:01 AM
Your programming on the random battles is sweet. I liked the enemies appearing on the map and the fact that they actually go away when you kill them... (yes I played a game where they just reset the position...) Also I think the music was well chosen for the parts of the game... except one... but that would be a bad... This however is (imo) where the good stops...
In the intro I saw Cloud, Sephiroth, and I swear Illyana (sp?) Is just a grown up Mint sprite or a character from Secrets of Mana 3... I hope they were just place holders cause if not that is really sad... Also in the forest with all the monsters there is this sad music that really put me out of the danger mood of being chased by those ninjas stolen from FF6 through a monster infested forest... Also is English your first language? You really might want to get a beta tester to fix your spelling errors because at the current state it is barely playable at best. But as I said before keep the Cristal misspelling as it adds something at least somewhat different from FF. Now I am going to admit that I hate Square so what I say about this may be a little biased and someone else might like that sort of cameo thing. But seeing Sephiroth AGAIN almost made me turn it off before the intro was even done. I am glad I didn't it is a good game... Just feels like playing a FF compilation...
Edit: AGH Sorry about the double post I didn't really notice... And rereading this it sounds like I hated the game... I didn't mean that. I found it enjoyable. I just didn't like the overabundant Square references... I mean... Rirue LAGUNA! They are everywhere!
You can remove the previous post if the double post will be a problem... Sorry again...
Edit Again: Never mind I just realized I could do it and did. There ya go ^^
Post by: Meiscool-2 on March 12, 2007, 02:52:24 AM
Post by: Finality on March 12, 2007, 07:36:14 PM