GAMEOVERGAMES PRODUCTIONS'S PROFILE

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Well, their (NVidia's) first DX11 cards are due out on April 6, and the lower end one (GTX470) is expected to have an MSRP of $350.

So much for pushing down video card prices

Speaking of video cards, I'm still crawling by on my old ATI X800XL card. Still beats integrated graphics for older stuff at least. :(

A voodoo fix that I've used before is sticking a damaged harddrive in the freezer for three-four hours (inside of a plastic bag). I guess something got contracted to where it could work again for a little while, long enough to get stuff off of it. Fixes like these really depend on what caused the harddrive to fail though. As for data recovery software for physically damaged harddrives, I've never managed to find any that works well that I consider to be in a "reasonable" price range.

I originally stumbled on RMN when searching for a free oldschool style rpg to play (who would've thunk?). I've played a few entertaining games off of here from start to finish, Hero's Realm, Lexico, Hellion, and others, although finding games to play is not the main reason I come here; I don't exactly have much free time to devote to playing games anyway, so I spend more time programming "games" than playing them. I actually stuck around here for so long because when I joined the place seemed like it had a decent community (in which at the time everyone capitalized their sentences). I've also uploaded some of the things I've made to RMN, but I'm not really uploading them here looking for feedback or praise since I don't make RPGs (on the other hand though, what little feedback I do get here is generally positive since the site is somewhat lacking in impressive games and ideas from other genres).

In short, why am I still here?


Edit: Also, I've enjoyed the various community events that I've taken place in here. My BQ2 puzzle is one of my favorite submissions, and Missiongarde gave me an idea for something that I went ahead and made.

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So... how could an RPG work without battles?

My initial idea was PUZZLES. Puzzles are a good challenge alternative to battles. The problem with puzzles is that they usually involve the player's wits, not the characters' stats. So having characters' stats would be pointless. You could make more complicated puzzles that demand different character abilities... well, you could. But could you make a whole game around that? I don't know. Not easily, anyway.

Without the combat though, I'd say that a game would fit under a different genre better myself. Such as calling something like the game above a puzzle game with emphasis on story, or maybe even with some rpg elements if you involve stats somehow, etc, but it would still be mainly a puzzle game, not an RPG. Some form of combat involving stats is sort of a staple of the RPG genre, so without it you're not aiming for making an RPG so much as a different genre/mishmash of genres of game. If you could come up with a system that involves using skills and stats in a similar fashion without it being traditional combat, it could still be called an RPG, but otherwise...

Edit: So basically, if you're sick of the combat elements of RPGs and strip them out, then you'll more than likely end up with a visual novel, adventure game, puzzle game, management simulation game, etc. instead of an RPG.