STRANGELUV'S PROFILE

I AM DOOM HEAD. YOU ARE ALL DOOMED.

My post wasn't about your review. I didn't even read that review yet. My post was not about your review or how you personally review. Also what I should've said instead of "Some people spot more flaws than others" is "Some people see flaws in things others wouldn't", and this is why I consider Max's statement to be rather ignorant!

But at the end of it all, my post was about Max holding the opinions of people who have given his games glowing reviews higher than those who haven't, who have both taken the same time and energy to critique his game. While I understand why Max would be more eager to hear that person's review, no reviewer who has taken the time to play and detail a review for someone's game should be told, "Well.. that's cool but your review isn't very important to me, sorry, you didn't give me 5 stars."

If you don't understand my point, I apologize. If you still feel insulted and see a personal attack, it is unintentional. No need for an argument.

Who really gives a fuck. Just play the game.

Oh snap. I thought I just couldn't remove it/block it out or whatever. I'll fix it.

-fixed-

Legion/Max, please make more games. I await the new Legion game with bated breath. Your response to criticisms is very enjoyable... much more enjoyable than dying 100+ times.

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At the same time, I can feel alienated with created slang. I can typically deal with, "By Draco!" where Draco is some culture's deity, but if a character tells my hero to "go stuff a snicker," I'm going to be too distracted by it to follow the flow of the narrative and merely understand that I was told to screw myself. I don't know, that's just me.

I dunno. Seeing a charset saying "Go fuck yourself" is much more distracting and interrupts the flow of narrative much, much more.

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On the whole, F-G's opinion is much more important to me. He gave Iron Gaia: Virus five stars...

To which you responded: "Yes. My point being that I don't think it's impossible for him to grok/enjoy my games and that if he has issues it is more likely that the game has issues and that it is not a case of "no accounting for taste"."

Please. Some reviewers spot more flaws than others. I am not criticizing F-G's ability to review at all. It is possible he could have liked some things the majority of players wouldn't and probably wouldn't mention it in his review. Same for anyone. Sometimes when you think a movie or a game is really good, you're ready to dismiss some of the flaws it might have. When a person isn't having such a great time, he might spot some things others won't.

Every player's opinion should matter to you, unless you have a specified target audience, and those usually go by just genre in the RPG Making "business". But even that's kind of dodgy, since it's such a small community! I am sorry the people who matter to you more are the ones who give you five-star reviews and not the ones who actually take the time to write out their qualms about your precious game. Like SF La Valle said, this website isn't to pad out your resume. It's to give comments and criticism and people shouldn't restrain themselves from doing that. Sure, you cannot please everybody and there are going to be people who are going to hate the kind of games you make no matter what! But take a step back from your work sometimes and see it the way other players would.

If you want good reviews, why don't you try to please the majority of players, who seem to have a problem with your game's difficulty! If you're not out to please the majority and want to leave the game as difficult as it is for the few who love this kind of pressure, then so be it! That isn't to say it's a bad thing! There is a niche that enjoys bullet hell, after all. But if you want to keep the game very difficult, don't come in here and berate the average player for catching hell in your game. THAT would become the Ghostlight trademark, if the Ghostlight trademark is represented by this game, whether you like it or not - whoever cares about that, anyway!

As for the cursing thing, who wants to see a charset say "fuck"? Sure, it might be in A Song of Ice and Fire, but who would not chuckle at seeing the word "fuck" in an RPG Maker game? It's like a thought bubble coming out of a Lego man's head saying "fuck". You so would not get the reaction you are looking for! It's just a joke (see: RaZor). It's totally out of place, like in that pic Brickroad linked, and I am sure, being a Creative Writing major, you could come out with some sort of suitable alternative that fits!