NIGHTBLADE'S PROFILE

Tried some new things here.

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Since RMN is one of the most active English-language RPG Maker sites, I thought that by becoming a member I could introduce my friends' games to an entirely new audience after being involved with RM for almost as long as RM has existed. Of course, this maneuver was somewhat of a failure, generating very little enthusiasm for our hard work. Only one possible conclusion can be drawn: we're just not that good.

I'm curious about the reason behind the community's general apathy towards Brasington Lane's expansive body of work. We have our own message board and dozens of YouTube videos with footage from our carefully-produced games, and we encourage our viewers and players to give us feedback, comments, criticism, etc.

I don't mean to open up old wounds with this following question, but how much of our lack of appeal has to do with our connection to Gaming Ground Zero? The impression I got from you all in my introduction thread was that most of you have either forgotten the feud, or the whole thing happened before you became active.

So, this long winded and wandering post can be easily summarized with "Why don't any of you bother to play my games". Disregarding the really annoying way you narrate dialogue in your "Let's play" videos, let me begin with this.



A simple screenshot of this guy's game is very telling. The presentation is just awful. It looks as if little to no effort was made in putting this game's scenery together. Random tiles are jumbled all over the place and conflicting styles are used within the same tileset, and a hero randomly talking to himself; throwing out a barrage of information for no apparent reason in the game's introduction scene.

The only appealing thing here is the font. If I had been just browsing around, I would have closed the video off and just passed it off as another crappy RM2k3 youtube video... But I'll dive further.

Knowing full well that the level design was atrocious and the dialogue equally so; I decided to try and find some game play... I took a look at 11th video in your series and had a glimpse at the dungeon / field gameplay. Nothing interesting here either. Just a lot of mashing of the enter key. So, let's take a look at all of the information that's front and center for me, a guy who has no connection to your friend whatsoever.

- Absolutely horrendous visuals
- Tedious and generic dialogue
- Underwhelming, typical game play.

+ Nice Fonts
+ Caterpillar system

In the end, it just looks an uninteresting mess thrown together by someone who has a lot to learn about the basics before worrying about NICE FONTS, CATERPILLAR SYSTEMS and FANCY INTRODUCTION LOGOS.

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I'm gonna take on FFX-2 again. I rebought it a while ago, and im gonna give it another go in the mindset of not really expecting much storyline wise.

I never liked FFX-2. I found it a little boring (I am lying about the little ). The game became way too repetitive, and the story didn't help either. I suppose taking your way of going about it, you might find it slightly more enjoyable.

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i am playing FF6 AGAIN. rippin' shit along the way.

I just started doing this myself. If you happen to make it to this area of the game before me, would you be able to rip General Leo's "Shock" ability animation for me? (Not the sprite, mind you)

I attempted to rip Leo's 'Shock' ability, but it ended up being way to big and having WAY to many animations to fit into a standard large battle animation template, so I stopped :(.

That's strange, it always seemed like 5 repeating frames at the most.

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i am playing FF6 AGAIN. rippin' shit along the way.

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I just started doing this myself. If you happen to make it to this area of the game before me, would you be able to rip General Leo's "Shock" ability animation for me? (Not the sprite, mind you)



Old translations are fun.

Sorry, I'll contribute something a little more interesting as soon as possible. Can't exactly take a screenshot of every scene of the game.