Grain of Salt

What about groups of many weaker enemies?

Better than wearing no pants...

That's what I meant. I define "hack & slash" as "turn corner, kill zombie, turn corner, kill zombie, turn corner, kill zombie, turn corner, kill BIG zombie, turn corner... etc." I have nothing against big battles that are related to the plot.

I think that he means that the ending is determined by your actions, and it is: you get different endings based on what allegiance you are.

Quote: Originally written by Spidweb: The game will be smaller in size than Geneforge 3, but with a much higher plot density. I've tried to make the game have a more intricate plot and more involved quest chains, battles, and characters. I have some concern that the amount of talky interaction in the game will cost me hack-n-slash gamer money, and this bums me out, but it ended up being the sort of game I wanted to write, so here we are. *A light shines down from above, and a course of angels sing* Seriously, this is awesome. No need to play a pacifist just so I can stomach it anymore! Random creations related to the plot! NO MORE HACKING AND SLASHING! I really don't think you should worry about hack-n-slash gamer money. Not many people who play your games play them for the adrenalin rush of hacking through skeletons. Even if they do, they shouldn't when they could easily be playing FPSs or next-gen RPGs. I think that the majority of your fan base does not like hack-n-slash, and will be very happy about the plot density. (Out of curiosity, where does this one take place? Terrestia? )

Aaaargh. I should have guessed. We need either a sarcasm smiley or a special title for cult members. It gets hard to keep things straight. Even my implants don't help. ...wait...

Quote: Originally written by Zorro: Spiderweb Software, a shareware development house best known for its three franchises of Avernum, Geneforge and Galactic Core, Stop right there. Do not, my friend, completely ignore the entire Exile series (including Blades), in favor of Galactic Core. Exiles 1-3 are huge, immersive RPGs. Blades of Exile is several hundred huge, immersive RPGs. While I don't agree with the rest of the boards that the mere mention of "Galactic Core" and "good" in the same sentence is a felony, it's really not comparable to Exile. Exile, for one, has a story.

Some really, really big castraphotic event would have to occur to turn Avernum's four continents into the two continents of Geneforge. And how would every species on the surface and below die out, to be replaced with new ones? Maybe there was a Vahnatai nuclear war .

If you ever needed to reinstall A4, just email Jeff. He might ask for your previous unlocking code, so save the email, but he would be more than happy to give you another code.

Not that I'm an ultra-experienced designer, but I like designing dialouge. Whenever I get bored by a particularly tedious bit of code or town design I write some colorful dialogue. It's like writing a really, really short story. I come up with interesting pasts and present them. When I can't think of any stories, I use humor. I had a terrificly sarcastic bartender in a truly horrible scenario called The Arena, and a magnificently insane person named Mad Ned in a version of the scenario I'm working on now that I ditched. Oh well. And yes, incremental alpha testing is vital. Otherwise I would be depressed to the point of giving up by the sheer volume of fatal bugs .

An excellent point.

Quote: Originally written by Mr.Bookworm: EDIT: The Shapers, in their darkest hour, will let you join if your a Servile, because they need everyone they can get. They wouldn't be as nice to you, but you could join. And betray your own kind. This doesn't make any logical sense, though. Why would an intelligent servile fight for himself to be killed and imprisoned? The only way I see is that they might bribe you to agree to fight for them by promising not to kill you, but then the killing of your own kind would make being allying with loyal shapers even less appealing.

The transforming of Geneforge into a soap opera is a general no-no.

Look at the Item List. EDIT: The location appears to not be on there. South Honeycomb, then. The ooze cave.

Look at the Item List. EDIT: The location appears to not be on there. South Honeycomb, then. The ooze cave.

I understand that the Oozing blade is among the best weapons. I myself sold it because I judge how good a weapon is on price, and it doesn't sell for all that much .

I understand that the Oozing blade is among the best weapons. I myself sold it because I judge how good a weapon is on price, and it doesn't sell for all that much .

BoG won't exist. If it does, it won't have custom graphics. You need about two hundred for one monster because of real-time animation. But I think we need another storyline as well. It's been the same thing with minor variations straight through the trilogy. How about a massive creation revolt?

The hardest part is clearly resisting the urge to play Halo compulsively in the middle of development. I have so far failed. Maybe I'll stop when I beat the campaign.

Given that Geneforge is real-time animated, wouldn't there be about two hundred individual graphics for a character? That's a lot of copying and pasting.

I also severely doubt that a small party of four people could take on the entire world. The Vahnhatai (sp? I never get that right), Avernites, and the Empire are going you regard you as insane and try to kill you. Powerful your mage may be, but no one takes on an entire army.

Umm... I think the call's over, Desert Plah.

'Cause he's trying to tell us that Halo is better than Spiderweb or something . Felix, slow down. SSSSSSLLLLLOOOOOWWWW DDDDDOOOOOWWWWNNN. Seriously. You've posted in every single freaking topic on this page of the forum, and said nothing useful in any of them. You've created 4 entirely useful topics. If this keeps up you will be banned.

Wasn't there a deli sandwich in Nethergate too?

That would be me .