MALADROITHIM'S PROFILE

author=rcholbert link=topic=760.msg10076#msg10076 date=1204658592
I actually liked Rush Hour 3, but someone HAS to have the numbers wrong on this. Rush Hour 3 came out on DVD with, like, a week left in 2007.

Checking the source on your link, as well as wikipedia's source, and every other source, all link to some random blog that no one cares about. Call me a skeptic.

Yeah, Rotten Tomatoes is a pretty big site and I wouldn't expect them to do half-assed research like this but now that you mention it (and I check their source) I really do have to be skeptical. It's pretty hillarious that a lot of serious or peer-reviewed websites across the internet take some numbers posted on an unaccredited blog with only one commenter and run with them. However I am not surprised; I know that I've used more than a few fishy sources in my college research papers with the hopes that my professors won't actually bother to check them out.

However about your other comment: A lot of US companies end the fiscal year at the end of January so that they can include the previous year's holiday shopping in their financials and also because it is inconvenient to wrap up the year's accounting not only during the holidays but also during the busiest time of the year. So it's likely that Hollywood studios include January sales in their 2007 figures.

Planescape: Torment is a fantasy role playing game that uses the Advanced Dungeon and Dragons rules with the Planescape campaign setting. This setting turns most of the traditional fantasy elements on their pointy ears, and challenges you to solve the intricate riddle of the Nameless One. You awake from death on a cold Mortuary slab with no memory of your previous lives and no idea who you are. The rest of the game involves unraveling your past and seeking out clues to your identity and past sins. Torment uses Bioware's Infinity engine, which was put to good use in Baldur's Gate. Players control the action from a top down view, and the game generally adheres to the Dungeons and Dragons rules, which allows you to grow your character in terms of experience level and equipment.

Just kidding anyway:

In the year 1996 a secret underground organization has developed an aeroplane capable of sentient thought as well as sexual reproduction. They build two prototype models and have plans to try and market their idea. A number of years pass during the planning and bargaining processes. Unfortunately, the two airplanes, which become self-aware, have developed personalities and are unwilling to be considered as property and simply sold to the highest bidder. The two airplanes, who have named themselves Kit and K Rider, agree that they must fight for their freedom to protect themselves and the futures of their suddenly very sizeable family.

Kit believes that the humans are only willing to enslave what has become an entire race of sentient airplanes and thus sets out on a mission to destroy the entire human species. K Rider disagrees with Kit, with whome K Rider has become smitten and hopes to continue to copulate. K Rider believes that the sentient airplanes and the humans can work together to achieve a common goal. With the ingenuity of the humans and the powers of the sentient airplanes, both races could prosper forever. Kit, believing that K Rider has been duped by the humans, brands K Rider as a traitor. Their many children are split in half between the two senior airplanes and rival factions form. A war ensues. Kit and K Rider lead opposing armies of sentient airplanes who bitterly hate each other; Kit and K Rider, however, as the two leaders of these struggling forces, remain close friends and lovers during the conflict.

Humans, dually appalled by the heinous acts of Kit's forces as well as impressed by the benevolent acts of K Rider's desciples, are split evenly on the issue. The general belief of the conservative sector is that sentient airplanes are dangerous and need to be destroyed -- this conservative sector including the administration of the United States of America at the time (who of course control the military). The liberal sector, representing most foreign developed nations as well as much of the US population, believes that sentient airplanes are fundamentally good at heart and do their best to promote their cause. Riots, civil wars, and international military conflicts spring up surrounding the issue.

After that the plot is basically identical to that of the X-Men universe.




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author=Ephiam link=topic=749.msg9978#msg9978 date=1204494758
Also...the game is fairly long. Not TOO long...but long. How long, exactly? About 4-5 hours. Maybe more, maybe less. I suppose it depends on what you do.

I was just about to ask. When you posted a full game, I was wondering how long it was; I wouldn't want to play another 40-hour RPGMaker game after Dondoran and 4-5 hours actually sounds like just enough time to have lots of fun.

I'll probably download this later in the week when I have more free time!

author=kentona link=topic=741.msg10018#msg10018 date=1204571897
I think you are taking this way to seriously. And I don't think Video Games are trivial, thus I do not feel that placing this post here trivializes the community.

Yeah well I think you're a JERK >:( >:( >:( >:(

author=kentona link=topic=741.msg9919#msg9919 date=1204355323
It's not really a game demo or a design of a game either...

It is, however, a commercial product in the same vein as commercial games.

If there were a new version of Torque or Ika were finished and released as a retail product, would you put it under Videogames or Game Design? In my opinion you're trivializing the entire RPGMaker community by classifying RMVX as a videogame.