KILLER WOLF'S PROFILE

Couldn't you just use the Class Change for this? Change to the Dragon class, and back as needed? There are controls in the actual class change event that lets you either reset the level/skills/stats in the new class or not.

I think there may be a lack of perspective here on both sides. As a writer, when someone tells me "Your writing sucks, you should do blah freaking blah" I stop paying attention three words in. That is a failure on my part as much as it is on theirs.

I entered a songwriting competition a couple years ago, and despite being up against a lot of stuff that was so bad (to me) it was all I could do not to spend most of the night laughing, I didn't make it through to the next round. When one of the judges called me a couple of days later and let me know that I hadn't advanced, I missed out on a big opportunity. Instead of saying, "Just curious, but what was it about my performance that you all didn't like? Is it anything I could work on, or just a personal taste thing?" which might have given me some useful feedback, I just said, "Okay, thanks. Bye." Would I have done a big genre shift just to increase the odds of swaying a trio of judges next time around? No, but if they'd suggested I arrange something differently, or to emphasize the vocals in a certain part a little more, that would have been something I could really have used... but now, I'll never know.

I've watched this project for a long time, between two different forums now. I wasn't that thrilled with the demo, but that is largely because of glitches/issues inherent in it being a "DEMO". The RM community definition of demo is very different from that of the larger world. A lot of the demos here are pre-beta, at best. Writing issues aside, if any of us had played a pre-beta version of FF4,5,6,7,8,9,10,or 12, I'd be willing to bet our opinion of it wouldn't have been all that stellar.

I think you just have to make the game you want to make. You'll go crazy trying to please everyone, and what would the point of that even be if YOU didn't enjoy your final product?

I never really paid much attention to the build up before The Dark Knight, I just waited and watched the movie. Unfortunately, I don't have that luxury this time around, since I've been looking for info on this one pretty much ever since walking out of that theater after TDK.

So far it looks like almost everything makes sense. Bane appears to be played true to form. In the comics he put Gotham through hell and broke everyone out of Arkham just to make Batman run a gauntlet so he could analyze him and wear him down. That kind of sounds at least a little terroristy to me, so them labeling him as such is spot on in my book.

I'm just wondering about the scenes that appear to be in Santa Prisca prison (or Peña Dura prison, or whatever they call it for the movie). The rest of the trailer makes sense, but then we see an older (or at least scruffier) Wayne there. I thought, okay, maybe this happens after he is aware of Bane, and he's trying to get a read on him the same way Bane presumably read him. Then later on, you see a brief glimpse of armed units rappelling into what looks like the same set. That makes me wonder.

I did read one minor Bane "spoiler" that I really liked, if true.



Pure Supposition: I get the sinking feeling they will establish a previous connection between Wayne and Bane. Possibly during his pre-Batman slow crawl through the world's worst prison systems, Wayne ran afoul of pre-Bane's plans for revolution and had to Keysi fighting method him into submission, prison riot ensued. Years later, Bane (after some upgrades/hate) escapes and does the whole terrorist leader shtick, bringing the game to Gotham specifically because he deduced that Batman and Wayne were one in the same in the interim and wanted to break him as he was broken.

Just make sure you put a circle of salt around the computer, and make sure to disable your network connection first, just in case =)

If memory serves, it was Gobli the Goblin who wanted to become a boss.

Thanks for the compliments on my older work! This topic has me toying with the idea of firing up my old games, or at least the ones that haven't been corrupted yet, and recording commentary lets plays for them. Basically a big Mea Culpa of all the things I've (hopefully) learned to do better by now!

Aside from playing the SNES version up to a glitch on the oil tanker/ship with the oozes, I didn't have much experience with Shadowrun. I've read Neuromancer, even played the old adventure game based on it. I usually end up with some combination of Snow Crash, Neuromancer, and Johnny Mnemonic (story and movie), with a generous helping of Philip K Dick style identity paranoia thrown in for good measure. Heck, in one game that didn't even get off the drawing board, the player would have activated their skills from a menu that was made to look like the inside of their mouth, in honor of the dental switchboard Gulliver Foyle has installed in The Stars my Destination.

author=chana
So you were the fallen angel, interesting, all your maps are basically really good, and the stories seem a priori, interesting, yes, I guess too bad you didn't finish anyone of hem, though, if I'm not mistaking, you're actually doing one somewhat in that style?

Using my face/personality for the main character in the Archangel game was a bad idea, because later on, the story went places I wasn't comfortable putting myself. Also, it wasn't 100% accurate to me. Sometimes I remembered to write him with the personality I wanted him to have, other times I just wrote him to act how I figure I would in a situation. It made him appear to suffer regular psychotic breaks. Once I realized what I'd been doing, I even tried to JUSTIFY this in the story, about his essence being damaged during the fall, but by that point I was just swabbing the deck of a sinking ship.

While I'm not really working on a new take on it yet, I have been doing artwork and function tests. The biggest change, aside from a major gameplay style shift, is that the character isn't me at all anymore, so I can really pull the rug out from under him if I do decide to make it a full fledged project, or at the very least write him consistently!

Story is a huge part of the creation process for me, and aside from pure mechanical failure (or failure on my part to event my way around a roadblock), it is what kills most of my projects. When I start writing a new game/story/song whatever, I get tunnel vision. As I continue to develop the ideas, the vision opens back up and I become conscious again of similar themes/plot points/vocal hooks. Several of my games died when I realized they were just "_Game name here_ with a little twist."

An example: About halfway through the first hub area and attending sidequests, I realized that Archangel turned out to be Deus Ex meets the Prophecy.