zex20913
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In no ranked order.

1. Hot plates.
2. The plot--the gossips talking about the guide being killed! It's very dark, from the beginning.
3. The lighting effects.
4. Everything else.

How about you? What do you love? (Expand on #4.)

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zex20913 wrote:
In no ranked order.
2. The plot--the gossips talking about the guide being killed! It's very dark, from the beginning.

You killed the guide?!? You big meanie! You know, if you didn't kill the guide, the gossips probably would have to talk about something else...

Game on,

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coppro
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See my thread.

As for elements, Stalwarts are really cool.

I also like variables in scripting.

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OK, as for me, I think I've totally got a crush on the female gossip character. (She's cute. And that voice!)

I haven't, mind you, actually played through the entire first level; I mostly poked around with it, and did some further poking in the editor. (And even that wasn't complete, because there's at least one item that I never did figure out the use for.) But I love the 3Dish look of it, I love the voice acting, I love the way the dialogue's written...OK, truth be told, I kind of need to stop now, or else I really will start playing it, and I positively should not do so until the end of the semester.

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Absolutely hilarious dialogue.
The ego trip of seeing one of my feature requests in the game (hot tiles)
The music. The level design. Most of all, the amount of personality in the game. I must say, this tops JtRH, KDD, and incorporates adventure elements and puzzles seamlessly.
Excellent work, and I'll buy the full version soon. A lot of work clearly went into this, and it tops all my expectations.
Thank you. You've outdone yourselves.

--Rob

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Second all the praise.

The hold management menu has gone through brilliant improvements. Saves a lot of time and trouble.

The main hold seems pretty epic, too, and seems so far like a good candidate for the single best hold ever yet created.

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Currently for me - the exit screen with Danforth.
Now that just screams attention to detail.

I'm not so sure about the sound - while some of the effects are the same, the quality seems less than JtRH.

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NiroZ
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Thus far (up to the interlude) I like

Hot plates
The exit screen

What I don't like
(spoilers)

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I was struggling a while with figuring out how to get back that nifty serpent clock I got used to - until I realised that copying the file into the Bitmaps directory over-rides the default graphic.
This prevents that unfortunate problem of people accidentally deleting the file altogether.

Nicely done.

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Here's a neat little thing I just discovered: you can kill the roaches on the title screen. You have to left-click while the tip of the sword pointer is over one. This is tricky, as the roaches run from the light emitted by the sword.

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DGM
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Slight correction: you can click with the right or middle buttons as well and still kill them.

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NiroZ
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While your at it, try clicking on Beethro and his portrait.

Banjooie
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Please change the arrow rotate tile graphic

Please change the arrow rotate tile graphic

Please change the arrow rotate tile graphic

if I say it enough times will you do it please

DGM
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NiroZ wrote:
While your at it, try clicking on Beethro and his portrait.

Cute. His eyes track the cursor, as well.

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Banjooie wrote:
Please change the arrow rotate tile graphic

Please change the arrow rotate tile graphic

Please change the arrow rotate tile graphic

if I say it enough times will you do it please

Yeah, right after they add a 'nuke chat' button, fix the chat from disconnecting, fix the cursor vanishing bug and add numerous tweaks to the chat as well. Oh, and fix H&S.

Banjooie
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actually I'm pretty much cool with those

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Well... Someone has to say it: The graphic sucks! Take that Mrimer!

Please play and quit the game before you judge me

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One thing that stood out when I played TCB yesterday night was that the actual menu options in the menu look weird when you put the mouse cursor over them - bright blue + bright, lit background = terrible readability and looks weird.

Would it be possible to give the menu options a black outline like the "Exit level!" et al text in JtRH had it?

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Fegundos are sooo cool. Especially combined with power tokens.

What's wrong about Fegundos? Why mod me down?

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I just saw the demo screen.

Awesome-gobbing-tastic.

AtkinsSJ
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I haven't played it a great deal yet, as I'm doing all the export/import twiddling. Which is taking ages. But very, very good. I love it!

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zex20913 wrote:
2. The plot--the gossips talking about the guide being killed! It's very dark, from the beginning.

How in the Eighth did you kill the guide?!!!?

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Elfstone wrote:

zex20913 wrote:
2. The plot--the gossips talking about the guide being killed! It's very dark, from the beginning.

How in the Eighth did you kill the guide?!!!?

... with a very big sword?

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NiroZ wrote:
... with a very big sword?

. .but he doesn't have the very big sword when he meets the guide? because of the oremites.

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Pinnacle
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In Quest for Knowledge he does.

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Elfstone
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Pinnacle wrote:
In Quest for Knowledge he does.

?
rushing back in a Quest for Knowledge
yes I know it's a silly pun! yesterday's events disturbed my equilibrium, don't you know, and my equi hasn't re-libriumed yet.

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Oneiromancer wrote:

zex20913 wrote:
2. The plot--the gossips talking about the guide being killed! It's very dark, from the beginning.

You killed the guide?!? You big meanie! You know, if you didn't kill the guide, the gossips probably would have to talk about something else...

We're going to all have to play this hold many times over to get everything, aren't we...

Banjooie wrote:
Please change the arrow rotate tile graphic

Please change the arrow rotate tile graphic

Please change the arrow rotate tile graphic

if I say it enough times will you do it please

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For the people who dislike the arrow rotator - could someone give an actual explanation of what's wrong with it?

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Ezlo
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I think it looks a bit out of place. Can't think of what could be better though.

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eytanz wrote:
For the people who dislike the arrow rotator - could someone give an actual explanation of what's wrong with it?

Running TCB in windowed mode, you can hardly see what it will do when you step on it. The arrow could be a bit bigger and the token could use other colours. But that's really a minor issue.

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