VOLRATH'S PROFILE

Do you remember which song it was that you tried to play?

There's a certain amount of items you have to investigate in that section. One of them hints that something is buried in the dead crops outside the house. That's usually the one that stumps people, but there's also a path located northwest of the house that leads to a grave.

The game comes with a script that automatically installs the Anime Ace font that's used in the dialogue. It looks like the error occurred because your computer denied the game that permission? I'd suggest looking for the font on the internet and installing it on your own. Hopefully that helps!

Spam bots are finally all cleared out. Thanks to whoever made that happen.

author=Fallen-Griever
Because this doesn't happen with the Oscars or the BAFTAs or... you don't even need to name an award because this happens whenever anything is successful. The Harry Potter and Twilight franchises seem to polarise opinion quite strongly, yet both are successful. Ke$ha could go die in a fire for all I care, but I can't deny that she's making a lot of money. Halo and Call of Duty... well, you shouldn't have to go far to find people bitching about which of these two is better.

Seriously, people are acting like this sort of stuff only happens in the RM* community. Hell, people are acting as if this only happens on RMN. How fucking silly is that? It clearly happens in all communities centred around any particular art form. If something wins an award or a prize then there are inevitably going to be people who will disagree and they will make their opinions known. That's just how it works; to think otherwise is naive.

You simply cannot please all of the people all of the time, accept that before you even think of submitting anything artistic to anything ever.

EDIT: Oh, I'm sorry, is this post too dickish?

No, you're not being a dick by saying that. But at the Oscars....when someone wins, do the people in the crowd immediately walk on stage and tell the person that they shouldn't have won? If they did, I think the nominees would stop showing up.

But I wasn't referring to negative reviews or people who actually didn't like a game after playing it. Critical reviews (including yours, I might add) led to an extensive revision of our project that has improved it, so I am ultimately glad they were written, even if I was annoyed at the time. Good criticism tends to sink in after a while even if there is intitial disappointment/resistance.

But if you read the post carefully, you would see that my major issue is when people HAVEN'T played the games in question (in many cases, they boast that they haven't because the screenshots weren't pretty enough or something) and still claim that an award was undeserved.

I'm not out to please everyone, but if people act like uninformed arrogant douche bags, this site will lose members. The whole "there will always be criticism/negative comments" answer is a pretty weak response when someone points out a specific bit of douchebaggery which is objectionable for specific reasons. I don't think a suggestion of "try not to talk shit about a game if you haven't played it" is particularly bad or unrealistic advice. If people think it is...well, the thread's question may have been answered.