JPARKER1984'S PROFILE

Don't it really suck when you know you're doing your very best in life and STILL feel like it's taking a huge shit on you? I got a wife, a daughter, a house and two somewhat decent jobs. I'm affording my bills and what now. Not by much mind you, but they are getting paid. That leaves hardly anything left over for fun stuff. I've got good jobs on my resume and I'm trying to better my personal and professional life, but damn. How great dose someone have to be to find a good living? I'm not by any means poor if you will I'm just not doing well, not really sure how to describe it. To me, it always seems like the good people in life seem to get the crap end of the stick. I'm not typing this to get "Oh I'm so sorry" pity, I'm just curious if any of you guys are in a similar situation.

As we all know, while Final Fantasy may not be the BEST series at doing character development, it sure did a good job for the most part. A discussion I had with a buddy yesterday sparked this. Which game in the series did the best job at character devolpment? While I'm not going to list ALL the systems, I will list the ones that I enjoyed the most. Now, keep in mind I have not played past 10-2, so if there was something in there you liked then my bad. I will describe a few of my feelings on each one, but not to much. If I did that, the post would be to long, more then it already is.

FF5 - Job System

It was good because you had alot of options to play around with. It helped distract from the bland story (yes, I understand that era of RPGs wasn't really THAT know for story.) If you were the achievement getting type, it gave you lots of hours to spend maxing out each character. Downside, you could make some fights SUPER easy. Example being, four monks on alot of bosses.

FF6 - Espers

I know this is a fan favorite, but it's not the best in my oppinion. Though kind of similar to FF5's job system, it had it's own ups and downs. The ability to have any character learn anything is great from a do everything stand point. Though, by doing that people tend to use magic over all the things that made ever character unique, because magic is for most part better.

FF7 - Materia

Closer to being like espers, but more diffucult. You had to pick and choose what to learn based off equipment. And the fact magic is learned for good to a character, made strategy a must. This was more fun then espers, becasue magic was more useful due to the fact that besides limit breaks (which you can't use all the time) there wasn't any unique character skills.

FF8 - Junction System

Grrr, how I hate this so. I like that you can draw and equip magics to stats, which was new and it seemed cool I will give it that. However, I almost never wanted to use the magics, because obviously that particular stat will decrease as the magic does. Not only that, it was so broken. With the right magic, you could make a lv70 stronger then a lv90, that should not be able to happen.

FF9 - Equipment Skills

This is my 2nd favorite. I loved it, it gave you a reason to hang on to old equipment. Say that old dagger has a skill your good one dosen't. It's not always as simple as "Oh, I need money. Let me go though and sell all this old stuff and not care." And while some characters had a few skills/magics that were alike. You couldn't teach everyone everything. That brought back the charm of being unique. Which at times, could be annoying depending on who you were required to use at that point.

FF10 - Sphere Grid

Now, to where you could get everyone to every spot on the grid. It would take alot of work to do so. Another thing that was cool, it wasnt just skills. You could get stat boosts to. The fact that it took so long to "Master" a character if you will, made more fun to avoid the boring "Everyone is the same deal." Now, I know some will be better at doing things then others, but everyone still has access to everything. On a side note, Yuna is the best character. Not only for the obvious use of summons. If you teach her Lulu's black magic, damn is she OP. Concidering she has the best magic power in the game.

I want something with a little more style. The default ones are blah. Here is a picture of what I mean

I'm working on some custom character sheets from the DS Pokemon Series. The normal size of the sprites are a tad to small, but when I do x200% they become a tad to big. Is there a way to adjust the size allowed for character sprites in RPG Maker VX Ace?

I've notice monster characters are border line hard to find for RPG Maker VX ace. I need a Zombie one. Well more then that, but right now I need a Zombie one. Can someone point me in the right direction?