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The god-like critique creature sleeps in its cave.
A roaring sound is heard whenever it breathes.
Beware his wrath, embrace his approvement.
You have not yet experienced true horror.
General Rating Table
The Formula:
(+++) = Perfect or Excellent
(++) = Very Good
(+) = Good
(0) = Neither Good Nor Bad
(-) = Bad
(--) = Very Bad
(---) = Horrendous
I do not formulate reviews upon request. I do them only on "The RMN Journey" or "The RMN Short-Trip" which is completely random and dependant on my mood. Testing Games and giving Bug Reports or General Feedback I do on request, sometimes even without. Realize that I am nothing more than a gamer. I have no technical expertise in making games or writing scripts of any sort. If I Review a game positively it means that I think that the general crowd would also enjoy the game. If I Review a game negatively it means that I think that it won't be liked. I may be mistaken.
Do NEVER ask me to promote your game. Do NEVER request that I open a thread talking about your game. Do NEVER expect ANYTHING from me. I WILL disappoint you. Except if we are friends. Do ask me if we can be friends, but only if you can take rejection. That's all.
And no, I'm not such an hard-ass. I'm just playing around. If you're nice, I'll be nice too :)
If you are actually interested in my stuff, here is my List of Reviews
The one thing that will always stay above anything anybody will ever tell me.
The one thing that will always shine brighter than any random RMN quote.
A roaring sound is heard whenever it breathes.
Beware his wrath, embrace his approvement.
You have not yet experienced true horror.
General Rating Table
The Formula:
(+++) = Perfect or Excellent
(++) = Very Good
(+) = Good
(0) = Neither Good Nor Bad
(-) = Bad
(--) = Very Bad
(---) = Horrendous
I do not formulate reviews upon request. I do them only on "The RMN Journey" or "The RMN Short-Trip" which is completely random and dependant on my mood. Testing Games and giving Bug Reports or General Feedback I do on request, sometimes even without. Realize that I am nothing more than a gamer. I have no technical expertise in making games or writing scripts of any sort. If I Review a game positively it means that I think that the general crowd would also enjoy the game. If I Review a game negatively it means that I think that it won't be liked. I may be mistaken.
Do NEVER ask me to promote your game. Do NEVER request that I open a thread talking about your game. Do NEVER expect ANYTHING from me. I WILL disappoint you. Except if we are friends. Do ask me if we can be friends, but only if you can take rejection. That's all.
And no, I'm not such an hard-ass. I'm just playing around. If you're nice, I'll be nice too :)
If you are actually interested in my stuff, here is my List of Reviews
The one thing that will always stay above anything anybody will ever tell me.
The one thing that will always shine brighter than any random RMN quote.
wow. so indepth. much complex. very review. *play intensifies* - kentona
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At Last Alone: Rescue at Moranthia
White haired chick o.o
Must... play..
no...download link...
*becomes dust and vanishes with the wind*
(Of course I realize that this was only added yesterday. Good luck :) )
Must... play..
no...download link...
*becomes dust and vanishes with the wind*
(Of course I realize that this was only added yesterday. Good luck :) )
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Hartacon Tactics
Downloaded it now, expect a potential bug report and other suggestions in the aftermath ;)
You make me glad that I always use an X-Box 360 controller ^.^
Edit: Aftermath
The cleric strategy works btw. Almost Gamebreakingly so
Cheapness
Wins
Yet
Again
You have a beautifully made system here. I don't know what your intentions for your final product are but as long as you carefully adjust the skill-prices, rewards and so on I'm sure It'll be a hit :)
I also hope that the maps will get a little bigger (with movement ranges also becoming farther).
Either way, no bugs found and judging from the amount of different skills and Items there is alot of strategy to be had.
In the end, a question:
How exactly do status efects work? Why are there 5 bars, what is a red bar, what is a white bar? Just curious but if you could answer I'd be grateful :)
You make me glad that I always use an X-Box 360 controller ^.^
Edit: Aftermath
The cleric strategy works btw. Almost Gamebreakingly so
Cheapness
Wins
Yet
Again
You have a beautifully made system here. I don't know what your intentions for your final product are but as long as you carefully adjust the skill-prices, rewards and so on I'm sure It'll be a hit :)
I also hope that the maps will get a little bigger (with movement ranges also becoming farther).
Either way, no bugs found and judging from the amount of different skills and Items there is alot of strategy to be had.
In the end, a question:
How exactly do status efects work? Why are there 5 bars, what is a red bar, what is a white bar? Just curious but if you could answer I'd be grateful :)
Me, the Twisted and the Journey
Thanks you two :)
It's good to know that much more people play games than there are registered users. Also kinda sad, but then again it wouldn't make sense for everyone to register if they don't intend to post in comment sections or the like. (... mh... can guests post on game profiles? I know they can download... mh...)
Sadly I'm not quite the game-creator. Lack the artistic creativity for that. But I can write. Alot. And different. And stuff.
Anyway, my first review is up but pending. Don't know the mechanics behind review-submissions but I guess someone somewhere gets notified to look over it. Oh well.. :)
It's good to know that much more people play games than there are registered users. Also kinda sad, but then again it wouldn't make sense for everyone to register if they don't intend to post in comment sections or the like. (... mh... can guests post on game profiles? I know they can download... mh...)
Sadly I'm not quite the game-creator. Lack the artistic creativity for that. But I can write. Alot. And different. And stuff.
Anyway, my first review is up but pending. Don't know the mechanics behind review-submissions but I guess someone somewhere gets notified to look over it. Oh well.. :)
Under World 3
Thank you =)
Got it to work under Soundcloud, which will suffice. I think that's all from me on this topic. I'll send off the review but thats it then :)
Edit: The Review is pending now. If anyone can tell me or direct me to somewhere where there is explained if I have to personally ask someone to take a look at it and if so who that would be that would be very much appreciated :)
Got it to work under Soundcloud, which will suffice. I think that's all from me on this topic. I'll send off the review but thats it then :)
Edit: The Review is pending now. If anyone can tell me or direct me to somewhere where there is explained if I have to personally ask someone to take a look at it and if so who that would be that would be very much appreciated :)
Under World 3
Question:
1. Am I allowed to upload Music from the game I'm reviewing to implement it into the review itself?
2. If I am allowed to do so, is there a way to include it with a small player, since Forum posts are obviously not html-coded?
1. Am I allowed to upload Music from the game I'm reviewing to implement it into the review itself?
2. If I am allowed to do so, is there a way to include it with a small player, since Forum posts are obviously not html-coded?
Under World 3
I thank you very much for all the advice, I appreciate it alot :)
My problem of not being able to ask the active community who played it on their opinion on that game still stands, but since there is no resonance I have to assume that they don't exist anyway.
I'll see what I can do, aside from that I apologize for any disturbance I may have caused you through my topic.
Take care everyone :)
Krolan,
The Twisted
My problem of not being able to ask the active community who played it on their opinion on that game still stands, but since there is no resonance I have to assume that they don't exist anyway.
I'll see what I can do, aside from that I apologize for any disturbance I may have caused you through my topic.
Take care everyone :)
Krolan,
The Twisted
Under World 3
author=Liberty
It's not that people don't play games, it's that most talk about a particular game tends to go on the game pages because that's where people who have played the game tend to talk.
Besides, if we had a thread to discuss every game people found interesting or fun, the forums would break under the pressure. XD
Game discussion is part of why the game pages were made - the comment section there is solely for that actually.
Sometimes a topic will pop up in the forums where you can talk about different games that you enjoyed, but it's not often because, again, it can jam the place up. The whole site was designed so that forums were less about the games than game creation, while game pages are more about the specific games themselves.
Thanks for this response!
I totally understand the initial idea behind the seperation, but I see a share of problems with it.
First and foremost, Games that have been around for a while (Underworld 3 for example since 2010) completely disappear from site-contiousness and can only be found either by accident (Send me in, coach!) or by searching through the whole list. And in the already unlikely case that someone stumbles upon an overlooked game, the game then has to compete against perceptions based on recent games and star-rating regarding their expected quality (before-download).
After all that, the small amount of people that play that game in 2014 still have to decide if they like it or not, and even then the relevance is minor, since the general crowd is not notified about it because of the seperation.
But that is just general mumbo-jumbo. My issue with it is just that it gets in the way of my reviewing, since if I post something like "Hey dude, if you actually played this game and actually bothered to go on the third comment-page of this game and then read this, please share your experience." Ignoring the fact that there it probably would still look like I was the cloaked Developer and therefore won't even get the response I need from someone who could give it.
Either way, I wouldn't dare ask to change the rules or mechanics of this site for my pety needs, it is however bothering me a little that I can't "promote" a game I like because I like it. Just to give an example What if I wanted to promote that 2-star game from 2008 because it is criminally overlooked? What if I wanted to make a thread about "most overlooked and underrated games 2012"? It still would be somehow promotion.
I also think that a developer talking about "It Moves" if it was still in developement would still kinda promote the same way if anybody who made a game from 2006 that is not in developement would if he started to talk about it.
If you fear overflow I understand that, but then again, there is a "Welp, Welp" category, which certainly doesn't help with "overflowing". So In my opinion there could very well be a "Old-Games-Corner" category where Devs are allowed to mention/promote their old games, since nobody would be forced to click on "old-games-corner", and get opinions and stuff. Maybe even for the purpose of a sequel? Who knows.
God, I write too much. Sorry for that. Have a nice one :)
Sincerely,
Krolan, The Twisted.
Me, the Twisted and the Journey
Hello everybody :)
I'm Krolan and I am a gamer. I play alot whenever I have time to spare. My Name originates from 2 Characters/Avatars I created about 10 years ago, one called Kraneloran (the Balance) with the other being his counterpart Krolan (the Chaos).
Their circumstances to one another gave me the nickname (to my nickname) "the Twisted"
I'd decribe myself as slightly crazy but passionate.
Only a couple months ago I stumbled upon rpgmaker.net and was a little disappointed to find that it hasn't really got the crowd one would expect with So-Much-Content. On the other hand there are probably many ghosts (or guests) roaming around, downloading and playing games without ever appearing on either game sections or the forums.
Nontheless, I stuck around and played some games, left my notes but didn't want to try to contribute anything being new and all. I think that now, after playing a rather neat amount of different games of different genres, from popular to unknown ones (love the "send me in, coach" function), old and recent.
And that is why I want to revive a review Series I once did on another platform, which I'd call "The RMN Journey", where I give my personal experience from before downloading the game, to after finishing the game. I also like to have different peoples opinions which lead to a misunderstanding yesterday, where I was mistaken for a developer trying to promote his game ^^'
The Order in which reviews would appear would be the order in which I play a game that I find I have enough to say about to form a review worth my (and hopefully anothers) time, which can be based on either the game being incredebly awesome or horrendously bad or just plain interesting and somewhere in between. It comes down to personal preference.
Since the forums are strongly seperated from game pages (rather than intertwined like where I did that series before), I won't be able to link to a pastebin to show my general rating table and such. I also like to seperate my reviews into my own "hive journey" category, which lead to me also posting those into pastebins which were linked through another pastebin entry which was linked through my signature.
I guess here I won't have that option, so I decided to present here my general information.
General Rating Table
*The formula was used to present a short and tidy summary of rating on each category on the game-topic in the forums, presented with a link to the full review in pastebin*
The formula goes
(+++) Perfect or almost Perfect
(++) Very Good
(+) Good
(0) Neither Good Nor Bad
(-) Bad
(--) Very Bad
(---) Horrendous
(*Here is the additional information I gave for Warcraft III Custom Campaigns and Single-Player maps, just to give you an idea of how I do stuff*)
Different kinds of maps spawn a different number of ratings. While Campaigns are usually rated and reviewed for 5 basic elements (Gameplay, Story, Music/Sounds, Graphics/Terrain and Bugs) others tend to have more ratings based on relevance.
If riddles and discovering is not part of a RPG-Map or if there is no story, RPG-Maps usually have those, it'll get a (0) rating, since where there's no attempt there can't be a rating.
Melee Maps for example won't even get a (0) rating on Storyline, because there is none to expect.
Pending Maps will be most likely re-rated but not re-reviewed when changes occur as my reviews are more of a journal of my experience on Hive than anything else, allthough I will provide the information that the map improved if it happens to be that way.
Full Reviews *Here would usually be a link to the list of reviews I made*
*this entry would usually be a different color, here yellow*
The Final Verdict is an overall experience rating. Therefore don't be surprised if you find a Map where more work was put into it with a worse rating than a simple map. For this Verdict the enjoyability of the map is the most important aspect.
*this entry would usually be a different color, here green*
Also please don't confuse a Rating of 3/5 in comparison to 4/5 meaning that the first is like saying "This is Sh!t compared to the other". That is not the case. In general the Final Verdict is also a personal Opinion and you are free to have your own.
_________________________
I review as a gamer not as some sort of god-like critique creature, therefor I try to present a review that reflects the negatives and positives considering the experience that is to be expected rather than a technical summary of things that theoretically could be included or taken out.
I was pondering about the Points with which to rate the games on RMN and this is what I came up with
Gameplay - (0)
Story - (0)
Characters (+NPC) - (0)
Graphics - (0)
Music/Sound - (0)
Discovery (Secrets) - (0)
(Side-)Quests - (0)
Layout - (0)
Skills/Skillsystem - (0)
Items/Itemsystem - (0)
Bugs (Layout/Skill/Item Bugs excluded since mentioned in respective category) - (0)
Anyway :) A rather long read, I guess nobody's gonna torture him- or herself with this. Anyway at least it's out there now.
Greetings,
Krolan, the Twisted
I'm Krolan and I am a gamer. I play alot whenever I have time to spare. My Name originates from 2 Characters/Avatars I created about 10 years ago, one called Kraneloran (the Balance) with the other being his counterpart Krolan (the Chaos).
Their circumstances to one another gave me the nickname (to my nickname) "the Twisted"
I'd decribe myself as slightly crazy but passionate.
Only a couple months ago I stumbled upon rpgmaker.net and was a little disappointed to find that it hasn't really got the crowd one would expect with So-Much-Content. On the other hand there are probably many ghosts (or guests) roaming around, downloading and playing games without ever appearing on either game sections or the forums.
Nontheless, I stuck around and played some games, left my notes but didn't want to try to contribute anything being new and all. I think that now, after playing a rather neat amount of different games of different genres, from popular to unknown ones (love the "send me in, coach" function), old and recent.
And that is why I want to revive a review Series I once did on another platform, which I'd call "The RMN Journey", where I give my personal experience from before downloading the game, to after finishing the game. I also like to have different peoples opinions which lead to a misunderstanding yesterday, where I was mistaken for a developer trying to promote his game ^^'
The Order in which reviews would appear would be the order in which I play a game that I find I have enough to say about to form a review worth my (and hopefully anothers) time, which can be based on either the game being incredebly awesome or horrendously bad or just plain interesting and somewhere in between. It comes down to personal preference.
Since the forums are strongly seperated from game pages (rather than intertwined like where I did that series before), I won't be able to link to a pastebin to show my general rating table and such. I also like to seperate my reviews into my own "hive journey" category, which lead to me also posting those into pastebins which were linked through another pastebin entry which was linked through my signature.
I guess here I won't have that option, so I decided to present here my general information.
General Rating Table
*The formula was used to present a short and tidy summary of rating on each category on the game-topic in the forums, presented with a link to the full review in pastebin*
The formula goes
(+++) Perfect or almost Perfect
(++) Very Good
(+) Good
(0) Neither Good Nor Bad
(-) Bad
(--) Very Bad
(---) Horrendous
(*Here is the additional information I gave for Warcraft III Custom Campaigns and Single-Player maps, just to give you an idea of how I do stuff*)
Different kinds of maps spawn a different number of ratings. While Campaigns are usually rated and reviewed for 5 basic elements (Gameplay, Story, Music/Sounds, Graphics/Terrain and Bugs) others tend to have more ratings based on relevance.
If riddles and discovering is not part of a RPG-Map or if there is no story, RPG-Maps usually have those, it'll get a (0) rating, since where there's no attempt there can't be a rating.
Melee Maps for example won't even get a (0) rating on Storyline, because there is none to expect.
Pending Maps will be most likely re-rated but not re-reviewed when changes occur as my reviews are more of a journal of my experience on Hive than anything else, allthough I will provide the information that the map improved if it happens to be that way.
Full Reviews *Here would usually be a link to the list of reviews I made*
*this entry would usually be a different color, here yellow*
The Final Verdict is an overall experience rating. Therefore don't be surprised if you find a Map where more work was put into it with a worse rating than a simple map. For this Verdict the enjoyability of the map is the most important aspect.
*this entry would usually be a different color, here green*
Also please don't confuse a Rating of 3/5 in comparison to 4/5 meaning that the first is like saying "This is Sh!t compared to the other". That is not the case. In general the Final Verdict is also a personal Opinion and you are free to have your own.
_________________________
I review as a gamer not as some sort of god-like critique creature, therefor I try to present a review that reflects the negatives and positives considering the experience that is to be expected rather than a technical summary of things that theoretically could be included or taken out.
I was pondering about the Points with which to rate the games on RMN and this is what I came up with
Gameplay - (0)
Story - (0)
Characters (+NPC) - (0)
Graphics - (0)
Music/Sound - (0)
Discovery (Secrets) - (0)
(Side-)Quests - (0)
Layout - (0)
Skills/Skillsystem - (0)
Items/Itemsystem - (0)
Bugs (Layout/Skill/Item Bugs excluded since mentioned in respective category) - (0)
Anyway :) A rather long read, I guess nobody's gonna torture him- or herself with this. Anyway at least it's out there now.
Greetings,
Krolan, the Twisted
Under World 3
author=Kylaila
Don't take it personally
Oh, I don't :) I didn't expect that kind of reaction but I, too, read the "don't promote your game here" line, so I wasn't completely lost when it happened.
author=Kylaila
I glanced over them and started the first or second I think. I'll keep in mind to start with the latest entry then
If you could give me your experience on that afterwards, I'd be grateful :)
author=Kylaila
I'd rather make a status asking for fans of the series and then talk more about it in private/via pm whatever. That should prove more effective for what you'd like to do
If I get you right on this you suggest that I make a Status on my Profile or something like that? Thing is, I, as mentioned, realize that I'm a nobody around here, so I thought the fastest and best way to get a crowd impression on something would be the forums :/ In my naivity I actually thought that people who played the game would still roam the forums, since it is not like nobody played it.
My reasoning here is, that usually after playing a game, a person won't return to the game-page except if they want to post something along the lines of "AWESOME" or "Your game sucks". That's a generalization, but I don't think that I would get any response asking the same thing on the game page.
author=nurvuss
I was being facetious, as your chosen topic is very focused and rather unusual. I wasn't actually accusing you of fraud. Welcome!
Thanks! :) I actually reacted more to Corfaisus, your question on the otherhand I even misunderstood when I first read it. I thought you ask "if I made it through the game", which would be a valid question considering there are people who consider the series (especially the first one) rather difficult.
I hope some people who played the game back in the day or recently will find this thread before it vanishes into obscurity ^^''
Sincerely,
Krolan, The Twisted
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