THENECROMANCER'S PROFILE

What's the white stuff? It looks odd that identical white stuff is coming out of every corner of every house. Oh wait..is that snow? I just noticed stuff falling. Why is there only build up in the corners of the houses and nothing on the ground? If it supposed to be blowing snow collecting..it wouldn't be on the outside corners but inside corners where it would get trapped. It would look better if there were 2 or 3 different patterns to add variety.

Does anybody keep track of how many downloads occur while a game is featured? It would be interesting to see what the download count is when it's first featured and then what it's at when it's removed from the main page. and page views!

*Fable of Heroes: ~67 Downloads

I usually quit an RMN game within the first hour because of overall poor quality. I have no problem sitting through 20 minutes of text as long as it programmed correctly. That means no slow text, no characters walking through walls/trees, no music/chipset errors... After a while of that I will quit.

An example of a RMN game that I thoroughly enjoyed a long intro is Liberty's game Celdran's Curse. It might have had a bit of slow text..don't remember, but the story was somewhat original and the characters had personality, they weren't spitting out one-liners. It wasn't about comedy and it had a good pace. Also, you weren't exactly sure who you were going to start controlling because it was showing both sides. So a successful intro depends on the story telling ability of the writer and the quality of the characters. I wouldn't be impressed by flashy explosions if a lame stereotypical character was behind it.

And about the gameplay side of things, I HATTTTTE starting a game with 0 money and no skills. If I get to level 4 and don't have an ability/magic and have just been spamming attack I will quit without hesitation(probably). About giving the player too much information/skills, it all has to do with experience. If you have been playing RPG's for over 10 years then you are far less likely to feel overwhelmed. I like being given a ton of information and options right from the start. I'm not stupid and I don't need to be eased into something, gimme lots to do so I can experiment with everything right away. To me that's extremely fun and rewarding. I don't mean give me EVERYTHING so there is nothing else to gain. If a game would normally take 40 hours to complete, where the first 10 you only have a handful of skills..I would rather be given more skills earlier and play a 30 hour game. There's tons of games to play out there, commercial/indie .. rpg/non-rgp, I don't want to be slowly fed gameplay. It's preventing me from playing other games. You used to be able to get away with 70+ hour, 4 disc epic RPG's back in the day, but not anymore. Short and sweet, unless you've got a good formula of ever evolving gameplay.

Something I read in another thread which could apply here, is the option to give the player high-end gear or skills at the start, give them a taste of what the power is like and then take it all away (Symphony of the Night). You know what the end result is going to be but still have the fun of starting from scratch.

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But all time favorite? Seems there's no way around it:

Not a boss battle, but a great battle theme.

Yeah, I was mostly referring to the fact that you put tons of screens shots. If there's a spelling mistake just say the fix.

But also, if you are going to be providing tons of ongoing feedback then you should PM the creator or work out some other form of contact. This section is for comments and now you've ruined this first page of comments with tons of spam. Once the problems are fixed, what point will your comments have? People will visit this game page, possibly read through some of the comments, see all the mistakes you've pointed out and think less of the game. Even if there are multiple pages of comments, it always shows page 1 first. Not to mention your first post was simply trolling, trying to make fun of someone for making a typo.

Another thing, you posted and then edited your post, but 7 minutes later you posted again. Couldn't you have just edited your post again? Especially when nobody has posted after you and you are announcing such an unimportant piece of information. If your finished and are deciding to review, just write the damn review and we will be able to realize on our own that you

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Just finished it. Now onward to the review button.

Please don't reply in this section to anything I've said, as I will not be reading it or taking up any more space on this page. It's had enough. Now I should say something related to the game to at least salvage this mess...

To the creator: I like the basic idea of this game and with some polish it could be a decent game. Looking at the screen shots your maps are pretty good, they aren't too empty and the stuff in the rooms makes it feel natural and not just a bunch of objects thrown in the room for sake of filling up space. Good example is the bathroom(try making 1 tile smaller and it would be perfect, imo). I would rethink how you put down the red rugs in those rooms however. Think of how rugs appear naturally in the wild haha