NARCODIS'S PROFILE

author=Darken
well at least there's a WoW clone set in the star wars universe

i'm actually kinda looking forward to this, if for no other reason than to appeal to my inner pre-teen dork.

author=Ocean

Short project I did in a few days, then back to commissions/Adalyn/Stuff.

Looks really good, I especially like the shingles on the rooftops. They have a nice color to them. The chimneys are pretty dope, and that little cog-machine thing in the upper-left portion of the screen is rad!!
Removing the bushes from the rooftops was a good call, but it still might be cool to have some plants hanging from the windows or something.


Also, some of this screen might look a bit jumbled up, but I think that is largely due to the way it's cropped. Hard to make sense of tiles when they aren't entirely in context sometimes.

author=kentona

Also, in regards to dumbing down the game, they're not really dumbing it down, they're just making it so you don't need to research how the game works before you play it. Like we were talking about above in Diablo II, your stat points were super important they way you distributed them. If you didn't do it correctly, you could literally break your character. That's no fun :(

but...that's part of the challenge, isn't it? Building a successful character? If I can't fail, then where's the fun that I derived from character building? Preparation for a battle in an RPG is half the fun for me. :(

Half the fun is picking useless skills and not realizing it until you're halfway through nightmare mode? This isn't customization, it's poor design. I think you just need to accept that your idea of fun is wrong.

Every skill being useful and viable > Only some skills really being useful while the rest are all filler.

It sounds like they're optimizing things to me. Plugging numbers into stats every time you leveled up was not fun, especially if you find out you'd rather prefer a different choice of stats. It led to hoarding skill points until you got an item that required a certain amount of stats, after which you'd just use yer skill points for that. That is lame, sorry.

There's still plenty of customization, so I don't see what you're getting so worked up about. You can still play Diablo 2 if you want to play the same game, you know.


Really, complaining about shared gold? Who cares? All people ever used gold for was potions and scrolls anyway (unless you wanted to gamble for some sweet amulets), it became annoying to have to grind up enough gold to afford that shit on new characters. A very welcome change. Besides that though, it probably doesn't work the way you guys are assuming it does. I don't think you'll start a new character and have thousands of gold just sitting in your inventory.

10 characters just makes it sound like I'm going to value my characters more, and like Blizzard even stated themselves, this isn't necessarily a permanent number. Relax.

In any case, I'm still pumped for D3. All these cons you guys are listing are just kind of rolling off of me, and really don't seem like a big deal.

the tree trunks look good, the grass looks fine. the canopy looks like butt. I'm not sure how to fix it, but it looks incredibly inconsistent with the tree trunks. I'd focus on making the canopy more leafy and full, as opposed to a 'dark grass tile' as it looks right now. if you compare your canopy to the blades of grass on the ground, the grass is actually thicker. it should be the other way around. i'm not saying you should change the grass, because it looks pretty good.

my earlier reference to a canopy from chrono trigger:


see how the leaves are full and puffy? i would aim for a style more closely related to that. would work with your tree trunks alot better.