ZPE'S PROFILE

A good article reminding us of the importance of NPCs, bookmarked.

NPCs can also act as a source for side quests, for example in Link's Awakening this is used so effectively that you must talk to everyone to get item A to B. In my mindset, not doing is your loss as you don't get the best sword in the end. This also added a lot of immersion in the game as you got to know a lot about characters that aren't even central to the game.

Education for me is the most important thing for me. A lot of games don't use it well enough that you go to places unprepared and have to waste time replaying the same location. Maybe it's intentional on the part of developers to up the play time...

Also, the best example of NPCs IMO is Dragon Quest 4 onwards, I just love talking to NPCs in those games. DQ VI also has reactive party talk which acts as all three of your points, it takes a lot to code though. :/

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The after picture looks like someone threw flour over her. =(

The marks on the face make her look sick not aged.

I guess that means I'm done writing pixel art tutorials for a while.

Lol I hope that's not solely because of my feedback. The aged look needs more than just some recolouring of some areas (wrinkles need to be more apparent), not sure a darker shade does that. In fact it looks like scarring the more I look at it. Anyway, a write-up better than I'll ever do so don't be so deflated. :/

I feel drained after writing reviews. I can't fathom how those guys/gals managed to push out so many reviews in such a short space of time.

Nice article. I thought Dragon Quest: Chapters of the Chosen had several good examples of using dialogue effectively especially point 2 where localised accents were heavily used.

Simple but can be used very effectively. One game that comes to mind is The Way when it pans across this massive city.