God now I hate the U.S. even more, I myself am irish and that was one thing I loved about it. Damn U.s. the I.R.A. should come over and kill the president.

I truely hope you mean the country and not the people.  A lot of us aren't as retarded as some may think.

*eats things from garbage*

Taking Zylokh's idea into account, I add the following:

One thing you must remember is that creating a game, even with a large team, can take years.  So, if you are not retired or under the age of school attendence, you may have to free up an assload of time in order to complete your goal.  If not, make sure you set up a plan in which all of your free time is used solely for the purpose of creating your game!  If you can't do that either, make everyone else do it!  You'll be muchly rewarded in the end!

The End.

Thanks for that, Noma.

You are very welcome, sir.

I'm affiliated with you guys (although its not the same), doesn't matter really.  It's not like I'm getting you any extra traffic.  :roll:

Blah Blah Blah, this topic now falls into my I-don't-care-so-this-topic-is-boring section.

Have a nice day!

Wonder who many shitty rtcrpgs Sega will make until they realise SF fans want strat0rgy...

They've realized, they simply choose to make a game that goes with the mainstream of buyers.  They probably don't think an SRPG will do them any good, when in reality, it will probably be bought more than any of this constant crap they are making.

Yeah, as I've said numerous times before...we suck.

I don't much like our government either, but there's nothing I can do...yet.
(continues building weapons)

May I add that neither of these games have been mentioned at all and may not even have these names used, AND that the 'Shining Project Next' is naught but Shining Tears merchendise and the like.  Another of Sega's consecutive let-downs to add to my list.  This has to be some kind of record.

I think it's just 'Grans Island', but anyway it obviously rotated to the one side.  He was trying to confuse us!  GET EM!

Thats the major flaw in most of the games.  The storyline is pretty simple, and the characters have no personality.  Even the main character doesn't say anything...but oh well.  That's what fanfiction/fangames are for.  My fic has been going for more than a year and its getting slightly harder since I have to try my best to give each of the 15+ characters in the story so far a personality.

But back on topic.  It would have been one of the games highlights to have all the characters say more than just two lines in the entire game.  Multiple lines by differant characters from time to time would at least let you know how every character acts, and it would make the story more enjoyable.  Given RotDD tried to give all the characters backgrounds and personalities, I still don't think they did well enough since they messed up most of the games other great features.

*says garbled nonsense*

Hah, in your faces!

Nah, I'm going for Satan

Agreed.

Newts!

Well you have to remember the plot of this story is very shaky in some respects too.  Maybe some of the characters have reasons, I admit, but after you get them they dont have any influence anymore, and thusly they just seem to be a giant group of people with no personalities and no real reason for being there.

Because characters don't say anything much after they join, and the main character doesnt really react to anything to begin with, the characters that join just seem flat.  They don't seem to have a meaning, and if they do, its in an underlying story that isn't mentioned in the game.

As for being called the Shining Force, I was talking about SHF2(they are called the Shining Force usually by enemies, but there are a few people who randomly blurt it out).  But since you bring up SHF1, you can easily see that the plot is flawed right from that knight you mentioned at the start.  No one dubbed them 'Shining Force', and who would make up rumors about them being called so before hand?

Nice pics guys.

http://www.freewebtown.com/shiningforever/fanart.html

Not all mine, obviously.  Just the ones with my name above em.  Haven't drawn anything in a few months actually, but Ill get around to doing some.