i don't get what's so funny about seeing the monitors in person before buying them. maybe our stores are just set up better, but you can play with the screens etc. also i was under the impression you were half considering a small HD TV, there's more stores that sell televisions than monitors.

i know this is gaming world so SOCIAL ANXIETY but try and look at them in person. walking into any store with a display of LCD screens shows the differences quite radically in cases, there's usually huge jumps between generations, it's not all hype

Just go to your (e-)store of choice, do a search with your budget as the limit and start looking at the monitors from the most expensive to cheapest and try to find the one with the most impressive stats (low response time (ms), good contrast (high x:1), good reviews from other buyers, required connectors etc.). It pretty much just comes down to money; the more you spend the better you get.

I think it will work itself out; the sequel has loads of content, and iirc Valve is still going to release DLC for L4D

Sure, bring a RM game that is worth something and I'll review it like I'd review any other games. Till then, I'll review games made with actual programming.

Regardless of age or experience GW has the potential to promote games with great stories, rather than mini-games.

Now Gaming World has decided to go in the direction of promoting Game Design in general, rather than it's original idea of promoting the tools to create and tell a story. It's selling out to a more generalized crowd. Not that GW has been the greatest community ever created, but it used to own a decent chunk of internet space dedicated to those tools that allowed people to tell their stories. There are already many websites that promote the creation of indie games.

GW used to make more of a difference.

Yes RPG Maker is dying, but part of why it's dying it seems is because GW left it.

Ok, RPG Maker Games can be sloppy and seem to be a lot less professional than mini-games that focus mainly on gameplay/programming, but it all depends on how the website makes the image of RPG Maker Games out to be.

I will say this much. If GW was to promote RPG Maker games with an image of integrity, people on the forums that don't have faith in RPG Maker or any other tools that allow someone to bring their stories to other artists, would not be expressing the same point of view.

What a stupid topic

What a stupid topic

What a stupid topic

Right, but shitty rpgmaker games (and the people making them) are a big GW problem.

Great, you proved my point. They all are great (more or less) because they all did something different with the tool they had. Maybe I am giving an hard time to rpgmaker but it's because it is associated with those awful games that are populating (or polluting) the forum.

No, it is not a fair comparison and was never meant to be.

Yes horrors were made on Game Maker, Flash and C+ but nothing made with rpgmaker was or will ever be as good as what other tools can produce. But please go ahead and show some games made with rpgmaker that are of the calibre of the many indie games that were featured on the main site.

While you do this I'll finish my university, get married, have children and and buy a bungalow.

I was making an over-generalization, but sadly I don't think that the OP was when talking about indie game making in general and that is scary. It's scary because he is a product of the (and I feel like repeating myself here for the 10th topic that is in the last few weeks) incestuous game making community that has been growing here in the last 6 years or so. You all are so busy looking at screenshots of the same kind of games over and over again and stroking each others ego ("oh! I love your use of that chipset" or "oh! nice custom CBS") that you start feeding off each others ideas and slowly all of the games started to look like the same. The members of the little circle can tell the difference between each others games ("pfft, that guy never uses the 3 tiles rule") but to the rest of GW, shit, the rest of the world, it's all the same thing. Sure, one or two will break the mold once in a while but if it wasn't one in the morning here I'd go around each topics on this board and look at the games and prove how alike they all are. The only people that are able of truly breaking that mold are the ones that stay on the side of this whole mess, like Hundley and thecatamites with 78641 and Paul Moose. Or maybe because they did not use rpgmaker or make a jrpg.

Rpgmaker is dead and you should stop playing with the corpse so we can bury it. Once it's done, we can get on with serious indie game making business. Trying to break barriers, trying to say something meaningful and not just tell the tale of some hero through CBS, CMS and awkward "cutscenes", but though meaningful gameplay and design.

You can have your fun with it if you like but GW should be about something else.

Are you seriously implying that fucking games like : Lingering Forsaken, Lucid Awakening, Dhux's Scar , Tales from Zilmurik, (good job on the "imaginative" naming guys) are better than Machinarium, Spelunky, Runman, Time Fcuk (neither being some bejeweled clones).

When people are using a program that are limiting their freedom to create novel game play, created a community of leeches that suck up the materials of last decade's games and off a very limited liberty (WTF?) of programming, I don't call this a tool for expressive artwork. And what the hell is a good story to you ? The ones featured in most jrpgs with androgynous angsty teenage boys waving sword to "save the world" from "an ancient evil" and falling in love with the party's healer.

BTW I sort of like this game... maybe they will add expansion to this game since it seems they left room to do so.

(as in re-makes of bejeweled, pong, and pinball).

This keeps happening to me as well. I basically can't play any online game at all (not tried with brand new patch yet though).


It's mad fun in local splitscreen co-op but so far (ignoring the non-saving problem) I have found online play extremely dull and nobody chats or seems to work together. Not been able to play with my mates yet but so far I'm really disappointed with all the online stuff in the game.


Also beat the game with about 97% of quests (enough to get all achievements, even though I didn't do all the missions in certain achievement areas) in about 20 hours.


Good game save the horrendous ending, but I really can't be arsed to do a second playthrough with the slow start the game has.