Castle Paradox

Rya.Reisender · **Snippy** Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 821

Hey anyone remembers me? I couldn't really find a forum section for general talk, oh well.

This community seems to be almost dead when I see how few posts there are on these forums. It's kinda sad.

Also I played Boundless Ocean today and dislike the fact that the best game ever has no review. I wanted to write one at first but it the form needs so much text in fixed format and screenshots and I couldn't really motive myself for those oh well.

Also is there no way to search for a game by name or grade or rating or anything? Wtf...

And Iblis gave Ends of the Earth a really bad grade? Wow, whoever allowed that review to be released, poor job. ._.

Also, is a high rating or a lower rating better? And can you rate without writing a review?

Wow, in the end it wasn't really a introduction thread, more of a list of things I wanted to say since various months and only never bothered to register again lol. *changes subject slightly*

Joe Man · Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 9:38 am Post subject:

Reviews are allowed to be released based on the quality of the review, not the opinions expressed.
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msw188 · Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 1041

Go to www.superwalrusland.com and look at the Hamsterspeak magazine. If you go to the game directory, you will see that Boundless Ocean was reviewed for that mag a little while ago, and the review opens very similarly to what you had to say about it.

Higher ratings are better.

If you want to find games by a person, you can view his profile from the memberlist. His profile ought to have a link "games made by person". If you know the name of the game, you can pick the starting letter. But I don't know if you can search the gamelist directly, unfortunately.

I don't really remember your name. Do you have any games you consider to be high quality?
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Rya.Reisender · **Snippy** Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 821

JSH357 · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 1705

The community has been through several major shifts since those people were frequent users; most of them are still around, actually, just not involved with OHR stuff.

Ends of the Earth is, simply put, a really dated series. Those games had their place when they first came out, but the OHR has really come a long way since then--a lot of stuff about EOTE1 particularly is seen as newbie game drivel today (Walls of text and bad balance particularly).

If you want to write a more liberal review, try SlimeSalad.com.

James Paige is still around on all of the OHR-related sites (Superwalrusland is more Surlaw's forum than an OHR forum).

Valkayree left; I didn't know him well.
Mattgamerr - same

Royal pokes his head in occasionally. He's making Xbox games or something.

Radar, I've never heard of.

WhiteOwl poked his head in a few months ago. He has a life now.

TheMadCacti is still a regular.

Grandtrain, can't tell you.

Misteroo distanced himself from the OHR, but he's achieved cult internet fame with Arfenhouse since then.

Rinku/Rydia/Raft/Rell is just Rinku now. If you really want to look up on him, he spends at least 50% of his day on elgay: http://www.livejournal.com/~rinku

Fortis is a regular on SlimeSalad, still making a game.

Moogle1 · Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:13 pm Post subject:

Hey, I remember your name, if not you personally. Weren't you in RMS?
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Rya.Reisender · **Snippy** Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 821

Um I wasn't really asking where they are lol. I just wanted to mention which people I had really good contact with.

Also for most the word "left" is strange. I'd just say they disappeared because they never said anything about leaving they just stopped replying to their e-mails altogether (Valkayree and Grandtrain especially). I have WhiteOwl on MSN but he's only on like once every 3 years lol. I had frequent e-mail contact with everyone of those until they stopped replying.

Radar is a good friend of Royal, he is actually a pretty good composer who composed most music of Royal's and Mattgamerr's games. His soundtrack for "Grief" is epic.

And yeah interesting how Royal got professional and Misteroo got famous.

Rinku is quite infamous in some other gamer communities for his 'strange' opinions (not my opinion).

In fact all the OHRRPGCE people are so special. Well not all but the famous ones. Games like Boundless Ocean even surpass games like Final Fantasy in terms of original ideas and game design.

Why are there multiple OHR communities anyways? Would be better if all unite on one IRC channel and forum. Oh well. Also IRC seems so dead, I'm the only one writing there all day.

By the way I totally forgot to mention that I also worked on Dreams of Light and Dark with Tamaria. I think my name is mentioned in the credits there as well. Tamaria had some really bad real life issues so she didn't came online anymore. She sends me a mail once a year still, though. I'll add her and the game to the list in my last post I guess.

Regarding Ends of the Earth, I'd say even today it's still an average game. When I look at the games released in 2006-2007, they didn't look any better, but maybe I just haven't found the really good ones yet due to the lack of a search feature.
Ends of the Earth has quite good graphics and I disagree that the gameplay is not balanced. I think it was neither too hard nor too easy. Except maybe for the first few battles that are quite hard indeed. The music wasn't so bad either. Story is just a an average fully linear rather boring story so yeah, that's where I think a grade below average can be set. Altogether it's still pretty average, though. Kevin always had some issues with giving 'clever' stats to the heroes and monsters, though. That's why I helped him in part 2. =)
Anyways, in my opinion a grade C would still fit it.

Rya.Reisender · **Snippy** Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 821

Is double posting allowed here? I'm used to be allowed to do it in forums that don't feature multiquote. If it isn't allowed just tell me and I'll stop.

The Wobbler · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 2221

Rya.Reisender · **Snippy** Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 821

I don't really agree that this is a good reason not to unite the whole community. Setting up a forum only takes like one day (in case the main one goes down) and also we should at least all unite in one IRC channel. But many don't even seem to use IRC or I just don't know the real channel (I'm at #castleparadox at EsperNet).

Well just my opinion anyways.

Edit: Wow Destiny Calls never got a demo in all those years.
http://www.castleparadox.com/gamelist-display.php?game=346
Sad.

Edit2: Oh actually there are two older version posted. o.o

Moogle1 · Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:53 pm Post subject:

RMS was Red Murdock Software, the one with StellarX and Royal and Radar and Mattgamerr and so on.
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JSH357 · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 1705

Rya.Reisender · **Snippy** Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 821

Nope I wasn't really in RMS then since I'm totally unrelated to StellarX. But Mattgamerr, Royal and Radar were all friends of me and I tested all their games, so maybe they listed me? Dunno.

Well I really enjoyed the Dimensions series. They old parts were a bit (really) strange and glitchy but the one that introduced that new leveling system was quite enjoyable. Too bad it was just a short demo when I played it back then.

Yeah Cube was his name. He might still remember me.

JSH357 · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 1705

Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

Don't forget we have a bunch of new people now, including myself, who is only seeing the only recent drama that goes on in the community.

I, myself, have no clue why people are making a fuss about "problems" with the community that mostly hinge on the fact that it's different from 8-10 years ago. I just think it's an issue of making the OHRRPGCE and some of its better games (a lot coming from very recently) appealing to people, not just within the community. There are people out there that actually shudder and twitch at low resolution graphics, and I hope to reach out to those that are open minded and willing to play games for their gameplay, and hopefully those people will convince their friends to play the games, etc...
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