Prescott

@cabfe I'm very aware of that. It's more of a soft goal than anything, I didn't want to make any throwaway "go kill the rats" quests but I do believe I have room to make more things that are unique enough to put in. If I don't make it to 100, that's okay, quality is definitely put before quantity.

Even a "go kill the rats" quest can be good. Like, if you have to corner them or make them get out of their hiding place, set up a trap... It's not just "kill".

Right, most of them can really be boiled down to that since, you know, it's an RPG lol, but I have been trying to make them as unique as I can.

I feel you. The first half of my game is very open world, but it took so much time that I made the second half linear (works with the story too). At the end of the game, the game returns to being open world with the addition of all the endgame side quests.

Do what Ubisoft does and fill your game with garbage. Oh, and towers that reveal the map.

@The Stranger If the game is filled with too much garbage, Ubisoft might sue us.

Also the complete lack of balance or attention to the weapons irked me. There's just no weight to them, I remember criticizing 4 similarly when it comes to weapon verisimilitude but boy did 5 see me missing 4 with it's nonsense.

Not at all interested in New Dawn, truthfully speaking I've had as much as I can stand of on-the-rails openworld "sandboxes" at this point.

Yeah--the weapons were bad. I could not understand how a .45-70 takes two bullets to take down a normal enemy. It should be one bullet to take out a bear.

I ended up using the 1911 most of the game hahaha

And yes--I hated the constant kidnapping... It's like c'mon bro, lemme just explore and do sheep, I wish there was the option to reduce the amount of reputation you would gain or just to turn it off entirely and make it a quest line or something.

Thanks for the wishes everyone "nobody likes you when you're 23" is a blink182 reference

Thank you by the way--I couldn't get that song out of my head for about 12 hours.

Oh, I don't know that one. Oops!

Winter sale?

@Poryg oh i'm stupid

I was so happy when the makers came over officially. I now own them all from 2k forward on Steam, but I did have both PK and a regular unofficial english XP back in the day. I've always been pretty evasive about talking about PK since I know it's not allowed on most forums.

@kirbwarrior the way i see it, it's more of a funny part of rm's history than something a lot of people are actively using nowadays, it's probably not as much of an issue.

That's true, and it's not like people don't know about it or Don Miguel's 2k. Honestly, I don't know if using PK is "bad" if you also have and use the official XP.

Yup, happens to me with move routes.

Good luck!

That's good!

@Prescott, you have a big team and your artworks are cool.

@Kupotepo thank you! i wish i could show off more, but it really isn't in a place where i can do that... yet getting very close though

Clicking global achievements reveals its name is "First Launch".... I'm guessing achievements were planned, but this is all that remains of it.

Activated it on my profile to check. It doesn't even have a picture, so they probably gave up on the idea.

RIP on achievers.

@samkfj i have 1 written piece per town, that explains a lot of the world's and people's history. the rest is mentioned by villagers you talk to or overhear in conversation

I do that too! Gives the NPCs things to talk about instead of "Hey great weather"

Those little details of the story really make a difference! c:

The average alpha stage for a modern game is 5-7 years...that's for professional development teams with hundreds of employees behind it. I shutter to think what the average for solo hobbiests is. Probably closer to never released than most of us would like.

2010 I started mine (I think). I know the feels.

@Philosophus Vagus yeah we are going into alpha 2 very soon. i've done most of the work myself but the art has been done by other people and that's really the only thing that's slow going. hopefully we can get it done within the next two years xD

Game series that run long enough always seem to deteriorate at some point. Maybe this is what happened here...

Reversal Edge got you?

@BloodletterQ i actually understand that, it's pretty cool. i play siegfried, can't do anything with him in sc6 that i can in sc5 it seems. he'll jump when i want to do upwards vertical attacks and stuff like that.

why not both

Neither. Both are huge turnoffs for me.

How about good custom music?
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