>If you think I picked the engine from PA3 and simply added some changes to >enable sequels, you really insult me. I've worked half a year on the engine >to change it into the RoA engine. I practically re-programmed the entire >engine. Especially the battle system. Not only the animation routines, but >the fact that each enemy has unique attack abilities with its own text >files and responses, not to mention the the shops, the animations in the >back and foreground, the snapshots of the characters and, most important, >the non-linear plot! Yes, yes, and I know that, you told me when we were busy with the FD- project... I'm sorry if my words insulted you - although I haven't played RoA, I heard from many sides that it's a great game... What I meant by saying you used the same engine, was mainly the main engine, which is actually the part responsible for the overall looks of the game. You added quite some things to it, which gave it a lot more dimensions than for example PA3, but the game just looks the same! >Bsides, like saud before in this discussion, you can make 100 RPGs with the >same engine and each of them can be original and fun. I doubt that, to be honest. Do you know the games 'Tales of Destiny' and 'Tales of Phantasia' (SNES/PSX)? Those games' engines are nearly similar to each other, and that's why, after having finished the first game, you really don't want to fight the enemies of the other game anymore. And those battle sequences are actually a lot more advanced than those of the average MSX RPG, which mainly exists of a turn-based battle controlled by a battle menu. Ofcourse, the storyline and maps of the newly developed RPG are new and therefore as much as fun/original as their predecessors, but the other elements just get boring. At least, that was a consideration. But I might be the only one sharing it :). In the case of PA3 and Lost World (since I didn't play RoA, I can't say anything about that), there were similarities like exploring huge mazes and fighting enemies in almost exactly the same way. Ofcourse, it's much more beautiful to watch when an enemy is animated, but if the course of action remains to be the same... I personally had much fun playing PA3, but I never finished The Lost World - I was tired of exploring all those mazes and walking from point X which is in the northeast of the overall map to point Y which is at exactly the opposite side. Judging from the overall commentaries in this mailinglist, I understand that this is not the case when you play RoA (actually I'm still considering buying a copy - everything I read was really interesting), but I didn't buy a copy at the fair in the first place because I was afraid of the same kind of problem. Rieks. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com **** MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes) in the body (not the subject) of the message. Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] More information on MSX can be found in the following places: The MSX faq: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/ The MSX newsgroup: comp.sys.msx The MSX IRC channel: #MSX on Undernet ****
