FableQuest: Origin of the Phoenix Knight (MO)

[Strife]

I'm surprised that this has taken up a whole page of discussion. Then again, the standing and walking animations -are- the most frequently seen animations in the game, so that might have something to do with it. xD;

Anyway, like I said in my last post, I'll stick with the first one until I can think of something new.

[Poldon]

I just took the time to read through the entire thread, and now see that I'm missing a lot of in-stuff simply by not knowing anything about Guild Wars stuff. D=

Also about all the discussion of food items, I can't honestly remember buying many healing items until I was forced to restock for the final re-match. Having just read that it's possible to break a chain, I'll have to go find that later. I became really efficient at timing to avoid combos so that I can jump with every strike and never stop moving to beat that part. XD

I also realized I'm kinda a terrible tester because I get immersed and then notice nothing wrong unless it's fairly large. I've noticed that I've been like that in everything too, I just glaze over problems or figure out the intent and don't worry about them. Much less investigate stuff to find mistakes or problems.

Also being a fast learner, I tend not to have as much problem with puzzles as others, thus the lever puzzle that people spent pages on I solved in maybe a minute or less the first time through. It was honestly quite a shock to see all the discussion. Same with a number of other rooms. I poke around until I find out what's going on and solve it. XD;

About new stuff, I think the intro dungeon could go with being a little faster. And that new outfit is excellent! And the ally stuff looks good too, though I always like the idea of having a point where I can sit back a bit and laugh at my opponents while some awesome ally knocks them down. Though I think maybe one that's more big and whose formation places them generally in front of the player as a sort of defensive person might be cool.

Lastly, I did finally come up with something that still leaves me looking pitiful:

When the game is started in fullscreen, one can 'leave game' to return to the Strongg Sapling selection screen and cannot remove fullscreen mode without actually quitting. Not a big deal, really...

[Strife]

I wouldn't feel bad about not being a diligent tester. By behaving like a regular player, you're still doing some valuable work since I can gauge the behavior and reactions of normal folks who play the game without dissecting everything in their path. ^_~


As far as testing goes, I probably should mention that since I intend to rebuild the engine from the ground up, you guys don't have to worry about any further testing for alpha 3 unless you want to. I've been involved in so many outside things since my last post here that I doubt I would feel motivated to continue from alpha 3's engine.

When I am ready to pick things back up, it's likely that I'll be treating the game as an entirely new project, as I've had a lot of time to think about what I want to improve, and also what I want to remove and streamline.

[Poldon]

So anyway, I've been bored recently and got back into the game for a bit, and vaguely seemed to remember beating Mallus without healing at least once. So I went to try it again, and succeeded. How many healing items do others tend to need for him, out of curiosity?

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(Video took several tries, only one of which I actually died in, the rest were figuring out a couple settings on the recording software. Also really had to struggle to get filesize down, I need to learn more about that. Originally was 220MB, now got one down to 20MB though. Still think that's rather huge for this. XD;


EDIT: I just played it again for realz (because I kept closing to keep the room) and died the first attempt, then beat him with 49 health left. He's got to be feeling pretty blind by now. XD


EDIT: Oh wow! XDDDDD

Ikkin: "I'm going to have bladder issues if I keep drinking!"

*had to restrain self to see if anything would[/s] happen, though I doubt it*

[Killix]

Feb 29, 2012 16:46:54 GMT -5 Poldon said:

How many healing items do others tend to need for him, out of curiosity?

Depends on how many mistakes I make. I can usually beat him without getting hit. XD

[Poldon]

Mar 1, 2012 6:21:48 GMT -5 Killix said:

Feb 29, 2012 16:46:54 GMT -5 Poldon said:

How many healing items do others tend to need for him, out of curiosity?

Depends on how many mistakes I make. I can usually beat him without getting hit. XD

XDD I'm not quite there yet, but I haven't played in a long time, and when I did before I only played through a couple times at first.


Also I had a friend over who I wanted to play the game on my computer, and he was pretty impressed at the idea of one person creating this. Strife. ^.^

He also happens to be dyslexic, and really appreciated the small amounts of text at one time, however there were places where some instructions disappeared before he could finish them. I think 'breaking the barrels' area had a bit of that, but I wasn't by him the whole time to see everything.
Also he pointed out that "PRESS A KEY" probably needs to be changed for clarification.

He got as far as the first cave entrance. Can't wait to have him over enough until he gets to the third dungeon. I think he'd really enjoy that. XDDD

[Serene]

Just found my old Laptop with this game on it, haven't played it in so long. Not even sure if it is the most current version, but I am about to play it again. I remember finding a few bugs in the past, will do another bug check this play through.