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3rd: random encounters. I for one don't like them. Imagine you walk around a happy clearance, nothing but flowers in all directions. Suddendly screen flickers, some monsters (the same you killed already 100oo.. times) pop up, "encounter!" messagge, and you have to make them flat, screen goes green again, you walk happily around until flicker again. After some time each screen flicker will only do frustration, and you hope to finish this part fast enough to get on with the plot. Honestly who ever didn't consider them nerve-racking at some point? Solution: Make the monsters visible on the main screen, they can respawn as well when out of view of the heros, encounter happens as soon you touch one. If you are too close (viewrange depends on monster) they will run towards to you. Its sooooo much better than random encounters happening out of nowhere.
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2nd: Combat, okay I played quite some games with this pokemon style combat, its okay. It isn't great however and it IMHO gets very tedious and unimaginative fast... One good idea is Talesworth arena just here on kongegrate. I for one have not yet seen it with traditional RPG style, and I think it would make a very nice combat system. An There is enough place you can make the few actions each character can do a seperate button seen all the time, when clicking "use item" another menu pops up to select the item. In this case everything is (and IMHO must be to work well) mouse controlled. Only additional challenge is how to make target selection, also here could be 4 or 8 with own team seperate little boxes you can designate as target, before designation the action to take. I know it would be quite a complete different system, but IMHO it would be worthwhile and making combat a more interesting part of the game, than a time expanding buffer between plot development.
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Also the inventory menu for example. Holding a keyboard button while rushing around with the mouse, not nice. Make for example the inventory smaller (or 2 pages if must) and add the description things permanent to the screen. There are so many things to do here on many screens when just making a bit of focus there.
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My feedback for developers: 1) Work on the human controller interface. I know it might be inspired by NES, and I know you can learn anything by adapting the human brait, but IMHO its quite quirky. Pressing Enter for menu, then X, Y, to navigate, Enter to get out again. Its feels somehow nasty and unnatural. Also switching between keyboard and mouse. This may be different to a console, but on the PC make at least one medium capable to do all actions. Currently the game is most time keyboard based, but sometimes you *must* use the mouse (inventory) for example. But yoo hardly can do much with the mouse eitherway. So either make everything controllabler at least with keyboard or mouse. The other medium should only add extra comfort. I know as developer you hardly see this issues, because you are so used to things you designed yourself, but for user, things can really be improved here.
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Moshi, Mardek NATURALLY is a healer, the game would be too boring if everyone had straightfoward attack-and-kill skills. Besides, it was his IMMAGINATION (sorry, no italics) in chapter 1, and we all know that a child's playtime fun usually doesn't become reality.
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Great game, faved.
But... is really a-n-n-o-y-i-n-g when an enemy can AoE poison / blind /curse / etc you 1.000 times and you only can heal ONE target at time... just an UNENDING sequence if we think that each character has a different inventory and u can't use always determinate things althrough having loads of them.
(Plus, why the hell can't I use things like a simple "remedy" while I'm out of combat? O_o bug? ).
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Can Mardek have some attack skill next chapter? Why he become a healer? Magic sword skill = healer?.....In the opening of chapter 1, he is a fighter to kill dragon.
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People, stop complaining about the dialouge. It's an RPG, which equals= A: Leveling up and a lot of party customization, and B: An epic story with a lot of dialouge. Personally, the humor was very entertaining, and I feel bad for the people who don't take the time to read it and just give the game a low score for the 1 point. Please PLAY before rating.
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I don't know if this game is good or not.
After 5 minutes of reading and not moving I got bored and closed it.
Cut out 90% of the BS in the next chapter perhaps
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Hello! I'm still working on MARDEK 3... I've already talked about it on my userpage here and my own website, but I'm posting this here anyway for some reason.
It's been taking so long because I've been working on other projects AND recoding the engine (it works the same, but the code is neater for me to work with and less buggy). The delay between chapters won't always be this long.
I don't know when it'll be done, but I'm aiming for before Christmas...
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wow im pissed.... i was at end of game and i decided to play mardek chapter 1 and when i went to finish game that chapter one save overwited or w/e that save file 8 hours for nothing...
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Got into a random fight as a conversation started, I fought the enemy during the convo, but when they attacked he glitched into he fight, with 0 life, not a target, ansd his weapon and shield constantly changing
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My game is saved at a point where whenever I load it the game just ends again. I can't get the last two badges now without playing the whole game again.
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wtf.. i lost from that 4 adventures, clicked new game, and after that i started right i n front of that 4 @ssholes, and i was able to simply walk by them...
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Argh! What the hell happened? I defeat Moric, the day after that I go to Canonia, and suddenly all my items are gone! Ftw!
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What sucks is that when i got to the trib cave after finishing the game, i couldn't beat two Crysophages... 'Cos they absorb light damage... So here i am stuck in a battle i can't flee, with no damage going either way (i get hit 0s)...
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*sigh* You'd think by now, Mardek 3 would be out... I'm getting tired of waiting. I LOVE this game, and waiting is just making me insane. Argh! This is harsh... c'mon, Pseudolonewolf, get Mardek 3 done soon!
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1st off, Kick the King, it's the second floor. You mean the World Saviors? Aim for the princess first, she heals and makes life hell if she's left in play. Aim for Benard using Verhn's smite evil ability, it's super effective against dark characters. While Benard is being smited, have the others aim for Vinnie (the thief), his attacks are annoying. Finally, kill Barthalio.
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I don't exactly know why, pcbb, but it's definetely not a glitch. Maybe they aren't as "important" as Mardek, Deugan, and Emela... still, I'm wondering about it too.
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Don't know if this is a glitch or not but is the fourth character in your party (Zach or Vern) not show up at all in shop menus, meaning that you can't access their inventory or see their sprite but still see the arrow/equal sign for stat changes based on items highlighted?
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Not a glitch, jkingshooter. Alas, some treasure chests have two items in them, you just have to click x twice. You can check your map to see any items, hidden in chests or ground, still in play. Of course, everyone knows that, but it's a good reminder.
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either this is a glitch or im an idiot, i went to a treasure tchest in the mines, got a pheonix down,hit x again and got mana berries?
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PseudoloneWolf had better finish the sequels soon... I had a cool idea. It would be awesome if they released all the chapters as a DS or Wii game... a great RPG like this can't stay off store shelves forever.