HARBINGER'S PROFILE

author=Crystalgate

author=Harbinger
Im not creating anything I wouldn't use. And so far im just focusing on towns, if I make anything unnecesary I will just not have it and save that map for a later game. Usually my best inspiration happens at random so im being random XD

Perhaps, but we can't really give you advice to how you should randomly get the best ideas.

I will note that inspiration is not always the answer. Sometimes when I don't know how to write a certain scenario, the solution is to sit down, think and that way figure out the solution rather than hoping for inspiration. It has also happened that inspiration came while thinking.

Now, I can't really force good ideas to come out, but I have found that reviewing what I already have allows me to expand into what I'm lacking. For example, if I don't know what to write in a certain section of the story, I can look at my characters, what kind of personalities they have and so on and then look for what events would play on their personalities. Likewise, I once encountered a situation where I felt that one of my character was too flat and rather than looking at that character himself, I looked at the other characters and was able to fill out his personality by thinking of how he could interact with them.

What works varies from person to person, but do question what you think works for you. I have been in the situation where I thought "X works for me" and then a lot of abandoned projects later found out that X does in fact not work for me. Don't be to sure what you think works for you actually does work for you, especially when you run into barriers.

author=Esrep

author=Harbinger

author=Ilan14
Oh, that. Yeah, that's pretty cool actually! :D

Huh I don't even remember that, it's been years since I played lol Can't wait until KH3!

What do you mean by 'Can't wait for KH3?'
I thought the game is already out?

author=Shinan
I hate arbirtrary triggers. A location is unreachable for no reason whatsoever until you've done something that has nothing to do with the thing you can't get to. There was an RPGMaker game I played ages ago that had something like this. You couldn't enter a city because... something was up and the only way to get in was to give an old lady some medicine in a neighbouring town.

Or the example in one of the call of dutys, where they say "we have to fight these guys" and they are infinitely respawning enemies until you advance. Even though the game explicitly said "hold your ground". Or similarly those arbirtrary cutscene triggers when you've emptied a scene and checked every nook and cranny and then you happen upon the correct spot to walk on and suddenly there are a bunch of guys surrounding you that clearly were not there before.

I like it when things make sense world-building-wise. Fallout New Vegas maybe wasn't the most excentric or with weird and wacky locations all over but each location made a certain kind of sense. If you looked at any location they all had farms or cattle and a water source. The locations made logical sense. In Deus Ex: Human Revolutions there were bathrooms and cupboards with cleaning supplies in buildings. They made it all feel a bit more real and not just a location where gameplay happened. (Unlike say Mass Effect 2 (or was it 3) where chest-high walls LITERALLY spawned just before encounters)

author=Ilan14

author=Esrep
I hate RPGs that are too level dependent like '.hack//G.U.' Its possible for the player to completely overpower some bosses in the game.I'm talking about all three volumes of it.

What I love is the special level up in 'Kingdom Hearts 2'. You level up when you defeat a boss.If a game implements something like no exp gained from enemies, just gold and items....level up only by defeating the boss.Of course there should be side quests that gives stat increasing items(permanent) as reward.Then the world of RPG would be free of grinds....except when you need gold.

Yeah, I liked .hack//G.U. but the game becomes too easy if you do more battles than necessary...

Also, I played Kingdom Hearts 2, and you can actually get XP and level up from normal enemies. It takes longer, but you can do it.