GREATREDSPIRIT'S PROFILE

"Finally; A boss fight!" - Gene of God Hand

"Some call me mad, but I much prefer Doctor Cranium" - Doctor Cranium of Quest for Glory 4

I wish I had a text dump from the QfG1-4 games. There were a lot of great lines in those games :(

1. Do you maker use of tiers?
Yes, but barely. There's only two version of single target damage spells and each tier belongs to a different class. There's only one tier of multitarget spells and most other spells don't have a stronger/weaker version of itself.

Not as much tiers as upgrades. Getting the stronger version of a damage spell overwrites the previous spell but there's no point in having the older version since they both cost the exact same. There are plans for a higher costing version of damage spells with the intention of dropping an immediate nuke since its DoT is less than the lower cost version of the spell.

2. What are your skills called?
Magic. Its just flavour text and there's no explanation at all so just stick with whatever works best. The name of individual skills is "Whatever sounds cool/Stolen Homage to Something Else (see Missile Punch)".

Abilities which cover magic and passive/active skills. For names, I don't have decided names on for now and every once in a while I change names.

3. Do you use elements?
Absolutely. There's seven in total (Physical, Fire, Ice, Air, Earth, Dark, Holy). They're all interchangable really, you're just as soon to find a weapon that deals Physical damage as one that does Earth damage. The only exception is Holy as nobody can learn a spell that does Holy damage. Its important to diversify the elemental damage your characters can deal, putting all your eggs in one basket can be bad until characters get a good array of elemental attack magic.

Absolutely, but I divided them into Physical/Magic (Slash, Pierce, and Bludgeon/Heat, Cold, Electric, Corrosive). Characters can only deal one type of physical damage since they can only use one type of weapon, but anyone can deal any type of magic damage which makes it too generic so I've been thinking of improving that (but with little success so far). There's also some elements that fit into both categories, such as Divine. A weapon or spell can be divine in nature but these elements play by a different set of rules compared to the others.

4. Do you have status effects?
Yes. I currently have ~30 status effects although all of them are just variations of stuff seen before. Some of the stronger status effects are just combinations of others (one is a mix of Confuse, an IntDebuff, and MP-Poison), some of which are monster-specific. Instant death attacks are available and work on most bosses with three exceptions, although success rates vary depending on the skill and who it is being worked on. Later bosses resist InstaDeath more than earlier ones (but at the same time better InstaDeath spells are available).

Yes, but the current list is far from complete and everything currently planned is tentative. Some of the current ones that aren't as old as the NES is "HP can't be recovered", "Stop MP regeneration", "Status can't change (except in certain circumstances)", and "Increase damage of next attack, but next turn can only be increasing damage again or attacking". No InstaDeath for either side, there'll be other ways to cheese instead.

5. Do you raise or lower stats?
A level up increases stats by a set amount before level 10, but after the amount each stat is increased by is slightly increased. There's also the x2/x0.5 (de)buffs which last as long as the buff lasts.

Base stats can only be increased by a set amount via special items or through experience but combat stats can be modified through a variety of ways such as equipped items, passive skills, (de)buffs, or the best modifier out of a character's class list. These modifiers can be both set amounts or multipliers, the source being what determines the modifier (equipment usually gives set bonuses while (de)buffs give multipliers)

6. Who has what skills?
The skills that can be learnt are based on the character's class and you can change classes as often as you like so you can have a party of characters who know every skills in the game if desired. Skills are learnt through level ups while a certain class.

The skills available are based on the character's class but unlike above each character only gets three classes so the pool of available skills is limited. There can only be one character of each class which adds to diversity although some skills are available to multiple classes. The first class of every character is predetermined so that only leaves two classes at most for the player to customize characters with, and some characters even have their second class predetermiend as well. The skills are leant the same way a character gets base stats or levels: Spending experience.

7. What skills do enemies have?
Enemies have a variety of moves including their own special status conditions mentioned earlier. The early enemies have poor movesets and they usually don't have access to more than two attacks and their status effects are weak or don't have a high chance of working. Later enemies start throwing other attacks into their line up such as (de)buffs, lower/raising elemental resistance, and some AI to use these skills properly instead of randomly.

This is something that's been given some thought, but its mostly been on a per enemy basis and there aren't many enemies yet so I can't really say (plus I've been writing this post too long and I want to wrap it up :I)

The variety of the characters is one of the things I like about the game. I'd be damned if I'm going to play as the same set of characters just so I can learn top tier characters. I select random unless there's someone in particular I want to play as and even then its not for more than a few rounds.

Read up on Augments now. The game does a piss poor job of explaining it and since you get a limited amount of NG+ (and therefore a limited number of augments) you should know what you have to do to get the good augments.

Thinking about this game fills me with Nerd Rage. Most of the game isn't bad, but the end game is fustrating and not because its hard.