yeah i never thought about diablo, i guess the only reason why i could care less about it happening in diablo is because i was a generic rpg hack n slash character the whole time with very little character interaction, and my guy had no background story etc. now in diablo 2, fighting your former selves as demons was kinda cool because that little bit of story interjected at the end of diablo 1, aka your guy jamming the evil stone in his nogin and becoming pure evil. but at the end of diablo 1 when he did it, im like, i could care less because i didnt know my character and he had zero personality. i think it worked so people didnt get pissed off about something bad happening to thier character at the end, but it sealed diablo 1 as very non story and non personall, and a good hack n slash. which is good or bad, pending what you want to play. i think the worst is a mid ground where people think its something its not and it doesnt deliver on a competitive scale to similar offerings. it may still be a good game with a somewhat decent storyline, but people may be ticked because they either wanted more or less, so possibly clearly defining your games area instead of a shady or gray area, might better help the public choose what they like to play.

its like i used to look at games like rainbow six or ghost retard or simple scrolling shooters and think, man, these stories are barely tried, i dont see a effort even. i think thats because there betting thier books on the gameplay soley and arent going to make the story something that people hem or haw over that may or may not have been good.

i had the same problem with my game, do i make a fun good story, do i make it a simple follow an shoot em up, or do i delve deep and try hard. at 1st i was going to try the midground, but then it just seemed like a half story couldnt tell all of the story, and keeping it duh simple just didnt entertain my brain so im now ass deep in story trying to write it all up!

peace, hope i helped!

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Originally posted by Debra:
**As moderators, we have the responsibility to interpret the rules in order to try to maintain an atmosphere where people can be helpful to each other. RD did not "break" any rule here.
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i never said he broke a rule please read what i wrote. i said he treaded closely.

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You seem to have taken what he wrote and used it for your own purposes, and managed to treat RD with a great deal of disrespect in the process.

part of what he stated is clearly outlined as something not to do in the web guidelines debra. the reason he didnt break the rules is because it wasnt a stand alone post. however the fact remains that reminding people of thier typing is frowned upon in the web guidelines. how is pointing this out disrespectfull? i did not call names nor did i even say he broke a rule. please refer to my original post and point me to the clearly malevelant tone you detect in ref to RD.

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Yeroc's post is difficult for some people to read due to a lack of punctuation. So is yours and some others who post.

i dont like the way some people drive, or behave themselves in public, yet it is not my duty to CORRECT them in public as long as what there doing is not against the RULES. nor is it yours as a moderator as long as rules are being followed. if said person/persons would like thier typing corrected then im sure they would simply state so.

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At no time did RD or anyone else debase Yeroc for the lack of punctuation. DJ, in my opinion, you did debase RD for doing his job. It needs to end now.

i am seriously confused, where is this defacing of ones character in my post? please debra again point out EXACTLY where i took such a tone and stance in my simple original post in which in your opinion i have "debased" ones character.

i simply thought it not fair to publicly correct someones typing as touched upon in the rules and very simply pointed out so. im sorry i did not lay icing on seven layers thick so involved parties wouldnt get offended. i find speaking plainly in forums is often best so not to be taken out of context. was my original post in anyway shape or form as tort as RD's rebuttal? debra, i feel i am being publicly accused of false malevolence in my original post and am therefore defending myself publicy.

birds of a feather flock together, make sure it is not in error.

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Originally posted by Rubber Ducky:
**I am not surprised you could understand him. You write in a very similar style. At least I'll give you credit for putting periods at the end of your sentences and an occasional comma in the text. Please re-read my post. Not once did I pick on his spelling, nor shall I criticize yours. Punctuation and capitalization promote clarity.

I am very familiar with the guidelines, thank you. You, apparently, are not.

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rules:
Postings should be brief and to the point. Don't wander off-topic, don't ramble and don't post messages solely to point out other people's errors in typing or spelling. These, more than any other behavior, mark you as an immature beginner.

what did you correct?
typing

whats it say in the rules?

who's familiar with the rules?

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Originally posted by Rubber Ducky:
Yeroc, your posts are very hard to read with no punctuation and no capital letters at the start of each sentence. Please try to make it easy for people to understand what you are saying.

i could understand him just fine and your repeat opinion of peoples spelling unless specifically asked for, treads very close to the breaking of web board guidelines.

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yeroc, i do understand your wish to have your "ideas" remain yours, BUT they are as old as time and have been used in games, movies, books and anime.

for instance your idea of a magical weapon corrupting its user has recently been done in warcraft 3 hence the premise of the main bad guy in the expansion and also it is akin to the lord of the rings in which the bearer of the ring is constantly pulled down into wearing and later on changing because of the ring, typically for evil.

the idea of a magical weapon raising the undead has been done in so many rpg universes (staff of the undead etc) that the idea is wholly common place in any tabletop rpg. if you want to include these in your game, that is wonderfull and i truly whope you can pull it off, but please dont warn everybdy about stealing ideas which you have simply borrowed from pop culture.

as for having the weapon turn you bad at the end of the game, this idea would work, as llong as the user knew it was coming. like say when you 1st get this weapon, you are warned that its power is terrible to behold and the wielder of such a weapon would surely submit tot he weapon itself. or say its cursed, or evil etc. that way when the user reads this and later picks up the weapon they have a premonition as to what may happen in the future.

now that the player knows the weapon may work evil upon its user maybe have the ingame hero character do something out of character in a evil way once in a while to show that the weapon is working it wiles upon his spirit. this way maybe the player can see the character break down over time. it would be like in lord of the rings if frodo was more heavily consumed by the ring, along the way maybe killed a party member in secret, and at the end decided he wanted saurons power for himself and became the new dark ruler or something. the reader would be subject to the rings work along the way so this idea of the character turning suddenly evil wouldnt be such a jarring surprise.

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well at 1st i thought it would be gay and we'd just sit around and joke, and we did, but id have to say in half a hour i found out about more games, got more art and previews sent to me via file transfer, and got really cool personal opinions from authors on thier games then what ive collected on the cs boards for weeks. these people are all really nice and so far it seems like a cool gathering of developers and ideas and what not. since i have aim on all day i just leave it on afk and when i want to chat i take it off afk. too fun getting to know people finally too. if these people are my peers and opposites CS wise then im glad to know them on that level.

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excellet 1st mag, needed a end page, a wrap up or things to come feature etc, otherwise it was pretty tight, specially since i didnt know what it would be like. good fun and great effort specially for such a small community.

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damn thats alot of dialog Ped.

uhmmm, so far, so so this month. while i havnt been overly working on inner game elements since most of those are 75% done, i have started close up character art and logos and vehicles etc coupled with some story dialog ingame. i posted my logo to my site here ---> (url="http://"http://www.redknightentertainment.com/rkewerks/htmlrke/rkesoglogoevolution.html")http://www.redknight...oevolution.html(/url)

so its nice getting to see my game take some character rather than "just another" anonymous shooter. a small morall boost i guess.

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uhmmmmm........... it would be very possible to use any of the fair madien npc's and give em man hands and weapons? iwonder what some would look like with his entire arms color matched..... i think you could go into photoshop and play frankenstien with the figures and put together a woman warrior after studying which animations you need. id possibly email the guy who is asking if he can mod pog graphics for a pog add-on. if ambrosia says yes you could actually put some nifty monsters and characters together. and terrain and houses etc.....

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what aspectsof tron would you like to see turned into a coldstone game and maybe we could come up with a original game instead?

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ha, hahahaaa, hahahhahahah..........sigh.............

cool.

buh bye, buh bye!

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