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Played the Jagged Alliance - Back in Action demo. Finished the tutorial and started the demo mission (secret lab in Orta). The map is pretty big, but graphic looks good and sound is fine too, imo. What I noticed is that the controls annoy me. Especially that I can't zoom in / out as I wish, etc. makes me feel as if I can't see a lot. And then you'll have to move the view with WASD and not with the mouse... But maybe I am not yet used to it... Now seriously. Giving items from one character to the next is this: Click on the merc, move mouse to right side of the screen, click "share" button, then click on the other merc and now a window pops up where you move items from one merc to the other. Could have been done A LOT more simple and less click-heavy, imo... Combat seems hard. So far I had no battle yet in which I survived without getting wounded. The combat system itself doesn't help it much either... I just hate to press pause all the time and see where my men are, where the enemies are, that I have to click for every(?) shoot action, etc. But yea, graphic is good looking in the game. I even don't mind the character faces that much anymore. From all Jagged Alliance-like games which had been released in the past years (Brigade E5, 7.62, Hired Guns, etc) I find this one to be the closest one to a real JA game. Though, not yet sure if this is only due to the same mercs or because it feels much more polished than these other 3D real time with pause JA-inspired games.

I feel fat now.

Ah I see. A bit bad, because Chris posted something in his blog the day the forum went down. Something else: Is it somehow possible to totally disable the WYSIWYG editor? I'd like to punch in my posts in plain text, not with this button clickery. :> Didn't found anything about it in my profil settings right now. (Due to this, my Firefox plugins for "make marked text into link" etc. doesn't work anymore and I am so much used to it.)

I can shed some light on stuff like the RPG Maker, because as luck would want, today I finished my 7-days game. The last 7 days I have done nothing else than working on a game, watching some Buffy and Angel, did some sleeping and eating, etc... But I don't want to bore with that. So, in my humble opinion, I'd say that the RPG Maker is a good tool for people who haven't done any game cration yet but would want to try it. Especially if you are a realist and want to start small: With some small 2d game, as example. The tool is simple to use and doesn't need much additional scripting knowlede. In fact, you place triggers, click togther some events (if switch A is on, do Y etc.) and it works. From the perspective of someone who knows a bit more than nothing, the tool is too obstructive, though. Exactly because of all this clickery, doing larger stuff bloats up everything.... But if you are new to the party, I really highly suggest to play around with it, even if nothing serious get's out of it. At least you will learn some basics of game creation and get some feeling of how things went- you have an idea, finish up a concept, create a prototype, etc. You just can't do wrong with that.

This forum template currently overwhelmed me from design point of view and stuff. Will need some time for me to get used to it. Also I noticed that I don't have any access to the blogs anymore. "[#1062] You have no permission to view the Blogs" Not cool.

What I have seen about it so far doesn't look so bad and I probably will play it too at some point. Problem is just that it's no JA game... You could rename the NPCs and change the games title and nobody would realize it's meaned to be a JA game due to the changed mechanics.

I find this "take downs" highly silly. It has no purpose and is like fighting against windmills.

They are milking the thing till it is like Final Fantasy, heh. I stopped liking the Resident Evil franchise after RE3.

One of the best movies ever created.

Wonder how many people are buying a game only after downloading it. I mean, just because 10 people have downloaded a game, it doesn't mean that nobody of them ever will pay for it. Who knows how many of the 25% who downloaded the Humble Indie Bundle bought it later on.

I love Incubation. Played it a lot and finished it quite often. Just not the wilderness missions. It was just too hard for me at some point. I'd love to have a remake of Incubation. The same game with just more pretty graphics and some editing tools. Yeah. Blue Byte should do that instead of more Settler games. Never liked Settlers. :>

You didn't played Fallout 2 or Vampire: Bloodlines? :>

Heh, I totally forgot how this game looked like. I played it until my character was level 32, then I got all equipment I wanted to have and it started to get damn boring and I realized how repitative it all is. Really no surprise that it was gone offline a little while later.

I would even say that FNV had no influence yet at all, because there just wasn't a new big rpg release yet, which could have been influenced by FNV. Same applies to Skyrim. The game is way too young to be put in such a list, imo.

I wouldn't mind making a turn based 4th ed. game... Yea, but truth is, in the end it probably would be real time with pause. :>

Haven't bought anything on steam yet this christmas. Either I've got the games already or I find them ****ty or too expensive for their ****tyness.

So, the new forum is up and it's still pretty ugly.

Nah, very unlikely. Chef died, he will never return. :> /Edit: I thought it was funny how they made him die in a way that he is absolutely dead and will not return.

Good suggestion. I wouldn't have seen this board otherwise.

I've played a mobile phone Fallout game a long time ago on my old PDA. The controls had been horrible... So even if there would be Fallout 1 and 2 for modern mobile hardware, I bet the controls would just suck. :>

I hate this arrow-**** that is spawning all over the internet since a week or so. Totally not funny and only annoying, imo.

Wasn't it in ME2? Can't remember them in the first game. Anyway, I think it's a good idea to battle the big shizzle with other big shizzle instead of shepard going solo on it, etc. which I somehow had expected.

I really had no interest in a Stalker 2 game, because the last two games kind of sucked it all out of me already.

I'd pretty much agree with TheHarlequin on everything written above. Codex now isn't as fancy anymore as it was some years ago. I mean, I never posted there much anyway, but nowadays I am not even reading a lot there anymore. The news page and the workshop board is the only thing of interested for me now.

Looks pretty good. Like the show.