LadyCrimson

No, it's not rude per se, just an opinion, but I guess maybe it's a sore spot with you. Of course settings can be important or influential to a work, I never said they weren't. In reality you often need both things (chrs. + environment) to work well together for it to be a success (imo). I find it rare that a lot of film/game/tv etc. work can stand alone entirely on just one or the other. But between Majek's "Champloo is just Edo period with rap" and your comment, it sounded as tho some kind of atypical variation (eg, "original") of the commonly known settings was taking a higher value place in terms of RPG, and I don't think that's true at all. Also, originally I was taking "setting" to mean more the actual setting - the period, the time, the place, the architecture and perhaps known social structure of said period that the story of the characters is woven through - not so much the story thematic setting (political struggle, moralistic struggle). "Just another castle/serf setting." "Just another city in space setting....." "Just another dull historical period setting" and so on and so forth. While it's true there are some more common settings that may become mundane or whatever to some people, to others those settings are still not necessarily "easily replaceable" just because it's a common/not unusual setting. Does everything have to be chock full of "lore", weird and unusual variations of a theme/setting, in order to be "not replaceable," interesting, or worthy of RPG? I'd much rather have interesting characters that I can relate to than a cool-looking setting, vs. the other way around. Guess that's just me tho?

I'm sure. It's not so much shocking or unexpected as it is just...disheartening.

Avatar : The Last Airbender, the cartoon series, not the Cameron movie Your point still stands, obviously, but this is a confusion that should always be corrected . Oh....I did it again. My sig gets more apt every year. I tried watching that anime once, because I heard such good things about it. It was a little too...youthful in execution for me, couldn't get into it. But yes, my point still stands.

But chr. driven narratives are all there really are anymore. No setting is really original. It's the story and characters within that setting that give it spark. Game of Thrones would be just another medieval setting with kings and princes if it weren't for the characters and the fact the author likes to kill them off willy nilly, unlike most authors. Avatar's setting isn't original. Far from it. Adding sci-fi space props and CGI humanistic aliens to such a setting does not make it original.

So you haven't seen any cartoons since the 80s, but cartoons have no depth. Watch G.I. Joe Renegades, Young Justice, Justice League Unlimited, Ben 10, Thundercats(new one) etc. Modern Cartoons are made by people who grew up enjoying the ones of the 80s, but try to do it better. Agree with Oerwinde. There are still plenty of "very young" cartoons, to be sure, but there are also plenty of more adult cartoons, anime, and comics. The Walking Dead, for example. Even Superman got the "dark and tormented" treatment a while back. I haven't personally seen many of the modern day versions of my childhood cartoons (like GIJoe/Justice League etc) but...shrug...I figure if they have more adult themes now, that they're just as likely to have RPG potential as something like South Park.

Because the 3 main characters are so awesome. A game based on them doesn't have to follow the actual anime plot y'know...you could base a rpg around those characters that occurs soon after the events in the anime. Or something.

haha....I was just thinking about this the other day. He's like this generation's Michael Biehn.

I'll just leave this here. http://i.imgur.com/vynW8.png

At least this episode had a bit more focus. Tyrion, how I love you. ....I'm considering putting this series on semi-hold tho. That is, wait for a few episodes and watch them all at once via HBO's on-demand. With the type of structure the show has, watching more than one at a time would probably make it click better for me.

Think someone already mentioned it, but I'll say it myself: Samurai Champloo. I love that anime. I also think Slayers would make a good setting for a Diablo clone or something along those lines. Not saying it'd make a good story-rpg (it might, but I doubt it). But with the absurd sense of humor and constant action, I think it could be a fun game.

Yeah, that's where I am. At this point I must admit to myself that I enjoy the puzzles a lot more than the combat. One gog review apparently complained that combat was "based on your WASD Tango Skill," which I think is a rather apt description. At least the puzzle focus means the combat isn't always the focus, tho. I also wish they had varied the tileset a bit more. I realize this is a very low budget etc. game but it wouldn't have taken that much to give it a slightly less generic feel, while still retaining that old skool flavor, I think.

Never Let You Go. Deliberately slow paced, and for the most part a bit emotionally stand-offish, so it takes a bit before I "got into" it. Certainly not a cheery movie, but I liked it a fair amount. The premise isn't anything I haven't seen before in alternate/future reality type writing but I did like the perspective it was told in. It's not a sappy romance, btw...some of the descriptions make it sound like one, but it's not. If this Andrew Garfield is going to be the new Spiderman, I hope he worked out a little, because he is one super-skinny dude. I know Spiderman isn't Hercules but...at any rate, I was impressed with him and I can totally see him as Peter Parker.

Yes, dungeons are randomly generated, last I heard. Above ground the land is static but there are randomly generated different pieces (like you might encounter a cart where it wasn't before). Dungeons more random, but it won't be quite the same sort as in Diablo2, I think.

I still don't like how you can no longer choose where to put your VIT and such. Perhaps there are items down the road that make that less of an irritation. Here's a person doing some recent no-chat/talk LP's of the Wizard and also has one MP vid up. I've come to prefer ppl who don't yak during their LP's. http://www.youtube.com/user/wiqedgaming/videos

Also, in the vein of Might and Might 6 or 7...with graphic improvements, but yet are old skool, like they did with Grimrock. I don't want another Skyrim.

Yes, there's that too. It looks like even less chr. customization is possible than before. No more trying out interesting oddball builds, or at least it'll probably be very limited. I do like how they've put in all these original sounds from the first game and stuff.

Ahah....I discovered my EVGA Precision program has a framerate limiter option. So I set Grimrock's .exe to a limit of 100, and now I can turn vcync off/the temp stays around 60-65. Yay! (without limits/vsync it runs at a near constant 250ish for me). @Drowsy - I'd forgotten about poison resistance, I think that was probably it. She took that trait that gives her more. Poison (maybe all area magic), will hit them even if they're in the rear. Maybe a little less so but it definitely does. If you're terrible at avoiding, like me, you find that out quickly.

Yeah...not that atypical at all these days. No different, really, than pitching something verbally using other shows as examples (ala "It'll be like Wagon Train to the stars!"). Easier these days to give a visual impression on a no to low budget. Altho, I'd consider it likely they'd have some rough art drawings and maybe partial storyboards to go along with the video too.

I'm too weenie to not have the automap option just in case, but I've hardly had to use it. Think I've looked at it three times, and then only because I lost my bearing re:what direction I was facing in and was too lazy to walk a distance to figure out if I was going in the direction I'd intended. Funny...terrible memory for text/verbal things but visual memory is super high. Is Evasion supposed to work only on physical damage? Because I swear my Rogue, who has 24 Evasion, usually takes very little damage against, say, those poison spitters...her health will be almost full while the others have just a sliver left or something. ie, like her Evasion is kicking in.

Turning off triple buffering seemed to improve it somewhat. Still not as good as w/out vsync but a bit better. Decided to start over anyway...the original party I created was the suck since I had no idea what I was doing re:skills, they were getting too far behind. Amazing how blazingly fast the first couple levels go by when you've already done them once.

I think the vsync is causing some bad input lag or something, for me...probably why I end up turning in circles when that's not what I think I've done in terms of pressing keys. Someone on the gog forums mentioned they have it too....I have triple buffering on but maybe I'll turn it off and see if it changes anything. Frantic I can get used to/have dealt with before - input lag is harder. And yeah, those poison spitter things were a pain at first encounter. My mage couldn't even cast a spell then. lol

@Gorgon - I think my husband has you beat. No migraines but constant headache - moderate to severe - every day for 25 years. They started around age 21 and he spent his early 20's going to doctors, brain ppl, chiropractors, and acupuncturists trying to figure it out but nothing got rid of them. Now he just OD's on Advil and has learned to live life with them. These days you wouldn't realize he suffers like that ... unless you're his spouse. My grandmother had migraines tho...they were pretty bad, so I know how terrible they can affect a person. I actually function fairly well with even very high fevers, but give me a bad tension headache (the kind that makes you feel nauseous when your head moves) and I'm taking a nap immediately.

That's rather difficult in a few situations I've encountered, starting towards the end of lvl2 actually. (edit-or was that the start of lvl3...can't remember. Anyway...) And I hear it gets worse. I have only one mage and all he can do right now is the original lvl 2 fire ball, is that fireburst? Anyway, the controls are just too rapid/sensitive for me. I press a key to turn L and I end up turning almost full circle instead. Movement was better/smoother w/vsync off, too, but I can't turn it off.

High fevers are horrid. Glad it's down, hope it stays that way. Also..."audio equivalent of teddy bears" is an awesome phrase.

Sigh. I is sad. Good luck on future endeavors.