GREATREDSPIRIT'S PROFILE

Shadowtext, I could kiss you. This is exactly what I was looking for (well, not quite. I'd like another layer of organization, but its close enough)

I don't think I've ever really played a game with a truely non-linear plot. A few come to mind that weren't completely linear but they really weren't non-linear as I'd think of it. KotoR1 had you going to the four planets to assemble that map which you could do in any order, but that was really doing four linear plots in the order you wanted and doing them in different orders didn't change the gameplay except for some encounters (although its been a while since I've played the game, so I could be wrong). Fallout is probably a better example for a somewhat non-linear, although I've only played short bits of that game.

Really, the only non-linear plots that I've experienced have been tabletop RPs like D&D (from good DMs, DMs that follow linear plots are horrible DMs), but tabletop RPs are in a completely different category from video game RPGs.
(And D&D has a load of non-linear gameplay which can be (and has been) adapted for video games. I don't see why you need some wacky non-linear plot to implement the stuff)


I'd personally never consider writing a non-linear plot (trying to, at least :P). The scope of the game would explode like a hydrogen bomb before long and its something that I wouldn't consider very fun in dealing with. Breaking up the complete linearity of the plot with where the player does have choices is nice though (see the KotoR1 example again, or FF6 World of Ruin), but hardly mandatory for a good plot or non-linear gameplay.

See if you can't get it activated once (how is up to you, if its a notebook maybe an Internet cafe?), after that you should be set to go. I got RMXP a while back and I've used it even when my Internet/Wireless Network was down without a problem, so if you can get by the initial speedbump hopefully it should work fine.

95% of all popular FPS or music games released... let's say since 2000.
Also, any MMORPG that isn't City of Heroes/Villians

Others would be...
-Resident Evil (I don't know how this series became popular, I watched someone play it and I found it more stupid/funny than scary by any stretch of the imagination)
-Silent Hill, this series caught my eye somewhat but I never really bothered looking into it

I'm sure there's more, but if I haven't played it, then I probably won't remember it

90%+ of it was by me. There's some bits that I didn't know how to do (like getting the names of the map the player is on and the map its contained in, ect.) and I did use the default Windows_Selectable code as a basis for my own code (although I only read it, never copied a thing from it).

As for how it looks, I aimed for more of a mirrored FFE/FF7 menu crossbred with the WA3 menu with the Objective bar slapped on top.