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well if either of you dont want the cd... i guess i just got myself a new drink coaster
as far as basilisk winning over a much larger dmod with probably much much more work put into it
dmods dont strike a chord by just being large, epic, general, vague, like every other single RPG IN THE WORLD. ill tell you the reason i think my dmod did so well. it had a bug in the sword which made pretty much the whole boss scene worthless, which i think was scripted out pretty well to do cool unique things that get negated when he dies in one strike with a 100 power sword. it didnt have much diversity in terms of what to do. no side quests. no hording items and weapons and questing and npcs and et cetera. i think it was appreciated for the vast DIFFERENCES it brought about. the completely complicated new menu screen that pretty much took up a week to make that a lot of people probably just take for granted because unlike the voters they have no idea what doing that entails for in using dink c. or the dragon flies. the falling in the holes. things like this get appreciated more that 1000 more of the SAME THING of just copy pasting sprites and modifying original source code. i spend so much more work just on tiny little details and i think the voters here could appreciate that. not some big long game. although that deserves its due credit, as we see merlin and simonk prefer prelude to tahmor 2-4 and 3-5! but redink1 and striker prefer tahmor 1-2 and 1-4. i think the reason for this is the fissure between the two styles. long and typical (although not all that bad) and short and unique. and here i think the bottom line is sabretrout shows us that something short and unique is far far long lasting over something 10000000 years long that delivers not much of anything at all.
its a matter of style, i would say. and style can be appreciated in many angles, aspects. its relative to the appreciatOR. what makes a good, highly received game? is it just one thats very big with lots of quests? well, look at the best dmods out there. they are the ones that fuse lots of content with LOTS OF new, fun, creative, funny, and innovative stuff. with this contest length, it just wasnt possible to do BOTH. because while my dmod was short, it took an incredible amount of time. pick a card, one or the other. and i think sabre won for picking the one he did. which was to pick style over length.
as far as basilisk winning over a much larger dmod with probably much much more work put into it
dmods dont strike a chord by just being large, epic, general, vague, like every other single RPG IN THE WORLD. ill tell you the reason i think my dmod did so well. it had a bug in the sword which made pretty much the whole boss scene worthless, which i think was scripted out pretty well to do cool unique things that get negated when he dies in one strike with a 100 power sword. it didnt have much diversity in terms of what to do. no side quests. no hording items and weapons and questing and npcs and et cetera. i think it was appreciated for the vast DIFFERENCES it brought about. the completely complicated new menu screen that pretty much took up a week to make that a lot of people probably just take for granted because unlike the voters they have no idea what doing that entails for in using dink c. or the dragon flies. the falling in the holes. things like this get appreciated more that 1000 more of the SAME THING of just copy pasting sprites and modifying original source code. i spend so much more work just on tiny little details and i think the voters here could appreciate that. not some big long game. although that deserves its due credit, as we see merlin and simonk prefer prelude to tahmor 2-4 and 3-5! but redink1 and striker prefer tahmor 1-2 and 1-4. i think the reason for this is the fissure between the two styles. long and typical (although not all that bad) and short and unique. and here i think the bottom line is sabretrout shows us that something short and unique is far far long lasting over something 10000000 years long that delivers not much of anything at all.
its a matter of style, i would say. and style can be appreciated in many angles, aspects. its relative to the appreciatOR. what makes a good, highly received game? is it just one thats very big with lots of quests? well, look at the best dmods out there. they are the ones that fuse lots of content with LOTS OF new, fun, creative, funny, and innovative stuff. with this contest length, it just wasnt possible to do BOTH. because while my dmod was short, it took an incredible amount of time. pick a card, one or the other. and i think sabre won for picking the one he did. which was to pick style over length.
