NEOPHYTE'S PROFILE

It is good you get the nitpicking out of the way early in production (better now than later). It's annoying, but you'll learn from the inconsistencies so you don't make the same mistakes again. There is a point where you need to stop though, and continue onward with a project. The overbearing amount of criticism is something wrong with the rm scene, this is true. Most of the complaints I've seen could be fixed in 20 seconds though, so I don't see the big issue on the comments.

Good luck with the game. =)

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/155212/
and
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1136452/

Now I wasn't actually there to see it, but they are the worst things that I've seen during highschool. Just seeing all the grief and seeing the scene only hours after that second accident (which was down the block from my house) was really sad. All of this happening in a span of less than 12 months.

Some of the best moments in highschool though...now that would be a topic.

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Skill would be infinity easier

Good luck finding out who was targeted.

Branch: If monster is the current target.

Doing it skill based means you need to track the users current MP and their new MP after the skill was used. Subtract it, and if it's equal to a certain amount, then your scan skill initiates. No other skill can have the same MP requirement as the scan skill. All of this must be done through battle event pages. That's for scanning one enemy btw, not all.

Or you can just make it an item and be done with it.

I really enjoyed that mission in CoD4. It's not just that part, though. You are literally holding your breath throughout that entire level, staying prone and taking out enemies, and even going under trucks to hide. The buildup to that final moment is really really incredible.

How they do it is different than how most RPGs create that moment. When you die in Call of Duty, it starts you off right before the place you died. I mean it starts you literally SECONDS before the moment you died. It creates that addiction of knowing that you will eventually pass that roadblock and continue with the game. You can't do this in most RPGs. You can't make checkpoints that go a few seconds back in time, because how well you do is based on how well the player prepared for the encounter. You have to take into account the last 15-30 minutes rather than those last 60 seconds in Call of Duty.

So yeah, the best dungeons and encounters are when you are literally dragging your feet across the exit. Some great ways to create this moment is by taking away privileges the player is used to having. A good example would be an arena in an RPG, where you are limited to the items the arena gives you before you start your battle run. It's up to you how you manage those items, and arenas in general are good at creating those tense moments. Another good example is creating a dungeon that's 20 floors deep, where checkpoints are every 5 floors and there is some great loot the deeper you progress. So if you exit the dungeon or die, you'll have to start from the last checkpoint and attempt to pass those next 5 floors again. It's those moments of "Hm, I could progess to the next level of the dungeon, but if I die, my progress will be for nothing." that are really great in RPGs.