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Decided to forego battles entirely by Lurker 410942 05/07/2014, 5:26am PDT
Partly because of Jerry's Q&A and mostly because of Might and Magic X.

MMX has a lot of fun riddles and puzzles. I'd say these are the highlight of the game since a good number of them made me feel clever and rewarded me with some great bits of equipment, most of which broke the game since any relic you get from an optional dungeon/puzzle is way the fuck better than anything else you'll ever find. The end of the game, however, was basically me steamrolling over hundreds of fairly easy enemies, which barely put a dent in the hundreds of potions I had saved up. I really can't think of any RPG that has successfully made a turn based fight fun, so I'm not even gonna try. Most battles will just be the main character shooting people in the face. I accidentally based most of the game on "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", which is apparently the first ever time travel story. Twain basically just bashes Christians for chapters on end and then has thousands of people killed with dynamite and machine guns. It's amazing.

I added another rolling ball room! This one has poo balls being shot at you.

Do you think there's any way I could make the town area enjoyable? I've started on a little quest journal to make things a little less obscure, but is there any minor change that would alleviate the feeling of just combing the town until an event is triggered? I feel like I haven't played enough adventure/IF games to really have a good grasp of the design. I also toyed with the idea of making so you can just talk to the king and he'll let you skip everything at the cost of missing out on some substantial secret at the end (completing every puzzle and the town will give you a super secret sex room at the very end. Just as much porn as we can manage, all related to the game somehow).
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Anyone wanna playtest? by Lurker 340924 01/08/2014, 10:35pm PST NEW
    I'm sorry I didn't see this before! by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/13/2014, 8:41pm PST NEW
        Tweeted, placed on main page side bar. Do you want your own sub forum? NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/13/2014, 8:51pm PST NEW
            Re: Tweeted, placed on main page side bar. Do you want your own sub forum? by Lurker 340924 01/13/2014, 10:45pm PST NEW
                What is the game called? NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/13/2014, 10:47pm PST NEW
                    Re: What is the game called? by Lurker 340924 01/13/2014, 11:35pm PST NEW
            Sidebar link is broken by Lurker 13243 01/14/2014, 2:29am PST NEW
                Fixed! NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/14/2014, 8:17am PST NEW
        Re: I'm sorry I didn't see this before! by Lurker 340924 01/13/2014, 10:45pm PST NEW
    Decided to forego battles entirely by Lurker 410942 05/07/2014, 5:26am PDT NEW
        Where does lazyness factor into your decision to forego battles? by Jerry Whorebach 05/09/2014, 3:27pm PDT NEW
            Me being lazy is probably the strongest reason by Lurker 340924 05/09/2014, 11:19pm PDT NEW
 
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