LOCKEZ'S PROFILE

For some people, there's such a thing as too many cut scenes and too many flashbacks.

For almost everyone, this line is drawn somewhere before you get to Xenosaga. But for some people, even Chrono Trigger has too many cut scenes and flashbacks. 3 minutes without gameplay is too long.

However, for the most part I'm fine with not being able to please everyone. Everyone draws the line at a different point. Some of them will get over it because it's close enough to what they like, and the others can play a different game.

Too little strategy and the game becomes extremely dull yes, but too much strategy and it becomes exhausting. A good balance is needed.

I seriously disagree with the idea that there is such a thing as "too much strategy." You can have too sharp of a strategy curve, and you can have too unforgiving of difficulty, but you cannot have too much strategy. That's like having too extreme of an orgasm. The more thought your game's complexities provoke, the better.

Step 3. Place an event that restores HP before and after each boss. Then have the boss have a high threat where player's have full-out strategy.

This is a completely terrible idea no matter how you look at it. Your entire dungeon's difficulty is based purely around resource management, yet this completely negates any possible need to manage resources. The player has no reason not to go all out against normal battles, and thus can never die to anything but bosses.

If you recover HP after every regular battle, how will regular troops contain strategy without coming across as a boss fight?

Yes. YES. This is EXACTLY THE POINT. Normal battles are utterly boring. REMOVE THEM. MAKE EVERY SINGLE BATTLE IN YOUR GAME A BOSS FIGHT.

You made that within 4 hours of learning what RPG Maker was? Impressive.

...Are there seriously people who would put an entire software folder on their *desktop*? I admit I hadn't really even considered that possibility, as it's unfathomably messy to me, and if I did that sort of thing I would quickly have a hell of a mess on my desktop. And I've never seen anyone who puts things other than shortcuts on their desktop. I always unzip RM games to E:/Program Files/Games/RPG Maker/<game name>/ because it makes a lot more sense to me to keep things, well, organized.

You don't need admin access to install a program. You just need to be on an account with anything above guest-level access. If you are on a guest account and don't have the ability to install software, that means you're on a public computer and the owner doesn't want you to download software onto it. I have no problem if a piece of software respects that instead of allowing you to circumvent it.

All this said, this argument did convince me to add a .zip version of my game, just for you stupid clownwagons who refuse to play a game otherwise. Though I'm kind of concerned that having two versions will confuse some users.

Uh, doing it manually is NEVER quicker, nor cleaner.

Uninstalling a program takes a total of six mouse clicks from the desktop (five if the program is at the beginning of the alphabet). Deleting one takes a minimum of nine, up to a maximum of infinity depending on where you put the folder, and doesn't delete anything that's not in the same folder as the program (save files, etc.) which the user might not never know to look for.

And if you really think that screwing ANY user is acceptable, you are the shittiest software designer on the planet.