COZZER'S PROFILE

I was not talking about your game since I don't think it has a 0 in any area. It had become sort of a theoretical discussion. XD

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I found that second mellynd war game with a 10 in story and a 0 in just about everything else very enjoyable. There was also this other game that used nothing but RTP graphics, kinetic cipher, was also really cool to play.

I don't know. I'm kinda big on choosing the right medium for your ideas.
RPGs are a very composed medium; if you make a game with 10 in something and 0 in everything else, that idea would probably have been much better as something else.

Still, general consenus was that your video was cool, wasn't it? Even the harshest critics said that it could be cool with some ajdustments. So, it seems that one guy who made Ascension is in the minority here.

Scribbling your areas on a piece of paper before opening RPGMaker really does wonder for mapping.
It's one of those "spend 5 minutes at the beginning, save 20 minutes at the end" situations.

You still seem to assume graphics is more about "marketing" than part of the quality of the game. Oh well.

The point is not graphics, anyway.
How can I put it... if your game scores an 8 out of 10 in an area, I will gladly accept everything else to be a 5/6.
But I cannot overlook a 2, even if you have a 10 in your strong area.
Whichever your "strong area" and your "weak area" are.

Also, I think everybody assumes you post things on forums like this to get feedback on your weak areas, not your strong ones.
I mean, what can I say about your coreography other than "it's good, don't change it"? It is more productive to point out the ways you could bring up your weak areas to a 6.
Consider that it's always way easier to bring a 4 to a 6 than to bring a 7 to a 8.

(By which I'm not saying your graphics are a 2. It's an example.)

Huh. °° I don't know the whole story (never liked irc), so I won't comment further on that.

Still, even supposing he was actually trying to attack you or something, the points he makes are true (I'm talking about his edited post, I have no idea how it was before).
By making those two changes, you could improve like 50% the quality of the scene with like 15% effort. That's a win.

Still, enough talking about someone else's feedback. Here's mine:
The scene is nice, but a bit too long. Since it's an opening that fault is partially forgiven, but you could improve it by changing the dialogue a bit: other than random tactical things, the characters could drop some hints about the game's main plot to keep the player interested in what is happening, and not only how it's happening.
It would be probably hard to do that while keeping the dialogue natural, but... well, we were talking about writing skills before, weren't we? I suggest you at least try it, and if you really don't like the result you can just revert back to the old scene.