I'm awful picky about RPGs and RTS and don't do shooters or platformers.What are your favoured RPG's?
I am a strategy fan and was going to play ffta insane difficulty mod, but I couldn't beat the first scenario.Final fantasy tactics advance....mod? you can mod GBA games?
Apparently x-difficulty is considered more of a chore than strategy.
Final fantasy tactics advance....mod? you can mod GBA games?You could even put them on a cartridge with the right equipment.
ffta?
ffta?Favorite game of mine when I was like thirteen.
Blanek, anything you'd care to point at with pride, especially onsite?I will let you know if I think of anything.
ffta?
Actually, Uno, I think that stuff is helpful in this line -- The Kerbal thread is still a lot better, not least for being onsite. Could you point me at anything you're especially proud of in your Random thread? Text-heavy for a preference.
I'm awful picky about RPGs and RTS and don't do shooters or platformers.What are your favoured RPG's?
Game review writing? I guess that means one or two tries at a beta version, writing your review, and then nothing until the next version of one of another title comes available from this publisher?I wouldn't know - it's a free game. With what they cost these days, an hour or two thoughtfully writing it up after you've tried it is a good deal, even for a beta.
I'm able to criticize games if that would be helpful. But I don't make a habit of criticizing the original StarCraft and AOW.Perhaps you could post a longish thing about what you like? I believe you have it in you, and it would help a lot. Pick one game, pick several, pick a genre - it's open-ended. I know you can write - being able to point at you talking about what you love and approve of would help. Start a new thread or just post it here - it's up to you.
Game review writing? I guess that means one or two tries at a beta version, writing your review, and then nothing until the next version of one of another title comes available from this publisher?I wouldn't know - it's a free game. With what they cost these days, an hour or two thoughtfully writing it up after you've tried it is a good deal, even for a beta.
Not every reader will be as hardcore as you.I'm a hardcore google user, I type acronyms into google and everything. Or rather, startpage.com
I'm just saying. You can pretty safely assume everyone knows acronyms like NASA[/size]
So I googled CRPG, and I've actually played a bunch of those. Are you old enough to have played the SSI D&D games like Pool of Radiance? I still have several of those, and really loved them back in the 90s when they ran slow enough.I looked at it recently, but it didn't look interesting for me to bother. RPG's have to be heavy enough on the RPG element now for me to care, otherwise they ought have some really excellent strategy/tactical element like FFTA should have had. in my opinion, they ought to have both. Then we can finally have a good game.
Wanna write a whole essay on what the perfect game would be like? Or a whole series covering the perfect game in each genre you prefer?So I googled CRPG, and I've actually played a bunch of those. Are you old enough to have played the SSI D&D games like Pool of Radiance? I still have several of those, and really loved them back in the 90s when they ran slow enough.I looked at it recently, but it didn't look interesting for me to bother. RPG's have to be heavy enough on the RPG element now for me to care, otherwise they ought have some really excellent strategy/tactical element like FFTA should have had. in my opinion, they ought to have both. Then we can finally have a good game.
SSI had some killer games back in the day.Yes.
Wanna write a whole essay on what the perfect game would be like?I thought that's what I'd been doing.. Really just saying that RPG's and strategy games don't have to be different genres. In many strategy games they really aren't, as far as the campaign goes, except for not going far enough with the RPG element.
Have you tried Tactics Ogre?I think I tried to play it on SNES emulator, my understanding is that it was more of a Grand Strategy or something, didn't have the tactical battle field.
As with all ogre battle series...I always end up 'evil'.My understanding was that evil didn't mean a great deal.
Have you tried Tactics Ogre?
I think I tried to play it on SNES emulator, my understanding is that it was more of a Grand Strategy or something, didn't have the tactical battle field.As with all ogre battle series...I always end up 'evil'.
My understanding was that evil didn't mean a great deal.
The only game reviewing I've done has been on the Big Fish Games site. I've beta tested some of them, and posted in some of the forums. I guess that's not the sort of games meant here, though. :-\It might be - just as well link a review you're proud of...
Gentlemen, even just shooting the breeze about what you like and don't and your playstyle may be useful in this.
2.) RPG's make you as a gangster! As a result, strategy games sometimes have more compelling stories than RPG's! (overall, there can be good chracters.) Why do they do this? Even If I'm "adventuring", and it's not a tactical RPG like I'd like, doesn't mean I want to be a damn robber.
NWN2 realized this, and makes a different path for the robber, than the decent enough story for the Lawful Good character.
But regarding evil, I'm going to be evil, than make it interesting like a necromancer, not the robber path. Or give me a lawful neutral necromancer!, grey morality and all that. Or the lawful evil cleric, for what was the Lawful Good story. But of course, NWN 2 only gives you the lawful good or rouge path. Trying to play the good path alternatively aligned becomes terribly uninteresting.
The ability to Modify. Civ is modifiable. Pirates! is not. Well, it was designed to be theft proof, and guys at Hooked on Progress are only recently hacking and modding it. Modifiable has helped Civilization a lot. Modding communities tested and developed ideas as well as designers and programmers for use in future versions.
I can't link my reviews, since they were sent directly to Big Fish Games. The way it works is, they occasionally email me with an offer to beta test a game, and when I've done that, I click a link to answer questions and provide a review. I never saved any of them. The only other extensive posting I've done re BFG has been a rather snarky series of comments on "Design This Home."Can you tell us anything about genres you beta'd and your tastes in general? I imagine you have some atypical likes, and as I mentioned above, that's an advantage, probably.
No interest in writing reviews?
Most of the games I've beta'd are Hidden Object Games. I've also done a few Match-3 games, and a couple of the open-ended "find resources and build your town/castle/manage whatever" sort of game (I don't care for that kind - too much confusing micromanaging).I can't link my reviews, since they were sent directly to Big Fish Games. The way it works is, they occasionally email me with an offer to beta test a game, and when I've done that, I click a link to answer questions and provide a review. I never saved any of them. The only other extensive posting I've done re BFG has been a rather snarky series of comments on "Design This Home."Can you tell us anything about genres you beta'd and your tastes in general? I imagine you have some atypical likes, and as I mentioned above, that's an advantage, probably.
I wish I could get some MPlayer participation; that would probably provide more diversity.not necessarily. they are all builders anyway.. which means they're most likely playing RTS/TBS games.
I've been surprised at how little variation in tastes have been reported here - 4x TBS is a given for this crowd, and the same sort of people will usually go for the Age of Empires family and some RTS, allowing for stress levels. I wish I could get some MPlayer participation; that would probably provide more diversity.
Are you expressing interest, sir?
You certainly always have a lot to say about gaming that has an online community aspect...
Eve sounds like an online version of Survivor.
They became unique because of the players camping said systems?