SAM'S PROFILE

I've got good news for everyone who enjoyed this. There will be two more Fenrir titles hitting in 2009!

First off, we have Fenrir: Fayte's Operation. Fayte's Operation runs paralell to First Operation, and as the name suggests you follow the path your red haired colleague took through the original game.

Those who've played First Operation will know that you and Fayte cross paths three to four times in the entire game and commonly take alternate routes from one another. This game alows you to see the events of the original from Fayte's eyes and answers some questions about the plot of the original game. (Think of it as being able to play as either Leon or Claire in Resident Evil 2, starting from opposing sides of the burning car)

It will use the same graphical style as First Operation, and use an edited version of First Operation's systems. There will be changes though. There are two new weapons, one of which is a pistol, with infinite ammo, the other will be revealed ingame. Fayte also starts off with 3 bars of health instead of 5, and has oppurtunities to increase her maximum health as the game progresses.

The other game I'm planning, is the true sequel, Fenrir II: Second Encounter. This game will be fairly darker than First Operation, with a completely different graphical style, tone and story. It's going to be darker, deeper, and more difficult than the first game (longer too). The "coding" (yes I realise it's not really coding in RM2k3) will be completely revamped, and rebuilt from the ground up, allowing for more enemies on screen at one time, no glitches stopping bullets in mid-air, and new weapons! It promises to be a completely different beast to First Operation, in my opinion, for the better.

Expect screenshots and teasers in the coming weeks. =)

Personally, when I come to this site, I skip the main page entirely. My bookmark is to the front page of the forums. Why? Because the main page rarely offers anything for me, and I find the forums to be a lot more interesting and useful.

Now, WIP put a lot of work and effort into how the main site works, and a lot of people, myself included, don't use it. Yes, I upload a few screenshots and download links for my games, but I never post as much on my game page as I do in my forum topics.

It comes back to the idea that people are more comfortable to make a topic in the forum than rely on the front page to grab people's attention. Whilst these new controls enable us to have a lot more flexibility with our game pages, I've never felt them to be as effective as a forum topic for actually letting people know your game exists in the first place.

We'll have a ton of control over our game pages, people can subscribe and it'll all work well, once people actually find your game. Again, I find that the forum topics, for me, as well as other members serves as a better way to initially grab your audience. I've never really discovered a game through the main site.

The general attitude of the games database is that, if someone recommends a particular game to you you can just whack it into the search bar and download it.

My issue is that no one will be told of your game in the first place if we can't make forum topics anymore. Even if we solve that issue, I don't feel like we'll be able to properly discuss these games without feeling restricted.

You said the Games Releases forum was being removed. What I find interesting about this is that you never called it the Games Releases and Discussion forum. I would love to keep the discussion part of it intact because, well, that's what a forum's primary function is.

Reviews, podcasts, "Old/ Rare/ Reccomended Games List" and "Need help in Game X" are all perfectly valid topics that come up time after time in the Games Releases and Discussion section. I feel that the new system would kill off all of that area of the community because they'd feel isolated, restricted and unwelcome with nowhere to freely post those topics anymore - and that's a major concern of mine.

I'd much prefer if, instead of getting rid of Games Releases and Discussion, you'd at least compromise to making it purely Games Discussion. You could make it clear in the section's description that it is not the area to hype or advertise your own game, if that's your concern.

Also, as for people's concerns with people bumping their games by adding screenshots etc, please remember that all screenshots, download links, and various other additions/ changes to your game page has to be approved by a moderator or admin. I assume this will be the same with RMN3 and will prevent such clutter. However, at the same time this raises issues in that it will slow down how the system works and how quickly we can get news out to the community, as well as putting extra work and pressure on the staff here.

I apologise if there's anything I've misinterpreted or even missed completely which already tackles these concerns.

Thanks for the review Nick! =D
Glad you enjoyed it, as for a sequel... It's not impossible ;)

(Oh, and your helmet's meant to come off in the ending)

I got this from the XBox Live Arcade. Fucking awesome to play it again. Get my arse handed to me online though.

Thanks man, always good to hear =)

Anyone else played this yet?