CLEST'S PROFILE

Darken; Yep, he should actualy do that uo down motion (and in fact it is that way in the walking template). Just that when I animated I didn´t remember that XD (was paying more attention to the scarf moving) but I will fix it tomorrow maybe, today I am dead tired from making an iso sports bar x.x

Thanks for the pointer though :D

Not really realism as realism apply to reality and this would relate to even fantasy or science fiction, it is more like making everything match between story, setting and gameplay, unless of course there little to know story (think fighting games here).

But for rpgs, I at least like everything to make sense and it is not hard neither breaks the game anyway.

heheh Equip "drive" materia to become a bus driver :)

Anyway, regarding number of skills, I like Chrono Trigger 8 skills for each character, they have everything you need there and the battles are mostly fun and interesting.

Also, regarding unique skills, I ike it when several playable characters and enemies use the same skills, implying those are fairly common things in the world. I am no fan of comic heroes or shounen anime where characters are supers with unique powers, I am more for the regular guys using regular weapons to fight other regular guys (just that I like it when over tech and magic are regular stuff in the game settings :P)

Yep, but it shouldn´t work for simple stuff like steal, unless you go like all skills are only accessed by tapping on to the spirits inside the stone, but then it would make characters feel rather dumb as if they can´t learn anything for thenselves (like those games where without equipment you can only attack and use itens, in fact, for FF8 you couldn´t even drink potions without having the junction stuff set).

Of course I rather extremist when I discuss.

hehe funny how I disagree entirely with w_w:

I am fairly against building the whole skill set, I think skills are tied to the character personality and background, if you have then all open to choose it makes your character kinda disconnected from their background.

Not to mention it takes speciality away, think F7 where no matter who you had in your party, just which materiais they had equiped.

Similarly, unequipping skills doesn t make sense, you don´t forget skill you learn, so it makes no sense. And gameplay wise: if a skill is not useful, it souldn´t exist in the first place.

As for progression: I only mind strategic diversity, so having several versions of a one target only fire damaging spell is silly, but having a single target, a hit all and a status inducing fire spells would be actually great.