I'm lazy, so I'll just link to my review if you don't mind:
http://www.geocities.com/dukeotterland/RPGs/Abyss.htm (http://www.geocities.com/dukeotterland/RPGs/Abyss.htm)
Cool, though there's a lot of malformed characters littering that review. You may want to glance at it in a different browser.
Dracos
Quote from: DracosCool, though there's a lot of malformed characters littering that review. You may want to glance at it in a different browser.
Dracos
Yeah, I'll check into it, thanks. All the weird symbols should hopefully be gone now. Some weird problem with the apostrophes and quote marks...
As a note for future reference, it's Word that causes that. Tends to use 'magic quotes' that are angled in the proper directions, but they're Unicode characters, which appears in the default ISO-8859-1 encoding set as a bunch of weird symbols.
Best solution to get around it is to write in a plain text editor like Notepad, if you plan to post the item online. If you're setting up the webpage yourself, you can force those quotes to appear normally by adding this tag in the <head> section of the page:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
Won't work on a board, but if you're making your own HTML page like that it should work fine. Forces the page to display in Unicode, which will display the characters normally.
Cool, thanks for the tip.
Started this...
Man the lead is a waste of flesh so far and the 'skits' needed either speedy text or voice acting because god it's so slow waiting for them to mime saying what I finished reading a minute ago.
Yeah, and also noticed the sad visuals. It felt like an amateur was trying to do a landscape painting rather than a serious game world map. Not being able to tell the difference between any other forest and the first dungeon was meh.
Dracos
Link's dead, by the way.[
quote="Dracos"]Started this...
Man the lead is a waste of flesh so far and the 'skits' needed either speedy text or voice acting because god it's so slow waiting for them to mime saying what I finished reading a minute ago.
Yeah, and also noticed the sad visuals. It felt like an amateur was trying to do a landscape painting rather than a serious game world map. Not being able to tell the difference between any other forest and the first dungeon was meh.
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I dunno. I'm of two minds on Luke so far. Yeah, he's a complete fucktard, but he's a realistic one given good reactions and a relatable reason to be so. That deserves credit; it's easy to make an angstbot and hard to make an angstbot you can relate to.
The world map fucking blows, though. You're entirely right about that! What the fuck were they thinking there? It' s a shame, the graphics tend towards being all over the place in quality. Between this and a few glitches, I reckon this game was rushed out of development. Shame.