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Questionnaire Info(old)
By: Aeroblyctos Date: November 9, 2011, 1:37 pm
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Dear player,
I would like to thank you for playing the campaign: The Chosen
Ones.
I trust that you had an enjoyable time playing this campaign. I
would greatly appreciate your taking time now to share with me
your impressions and thoughts on your experiences at playing the
campaign.
Please create a new topic to this section, copy these questions
below and answer to them. First add version you have played and
remember to give a number after your comment from one to five.
This will help me to improve the campaign.
Thank you once again for this opportunity and I look forward to
have nice, friendly and instructive message from you.
Friendly regards,
Aeroblyctos
1: Poor
2: Fair
3: Average
4: Good
5: Excellent
Question 1: Story - What do you think about the story? Is it too
confusing? Too simple? What is the best and the worst part in
the story. Why?
Question 2: Characters - What do you think about characters? Are
they boring? Are they interesting? Who is your favorite
character? What character you didn't liked. Why?
Question 3: Game play - What do you think about the game play.
Is it boring? Is the campaign too repetive? Is there too much
killing? What is the best side of game play and what is the
worst. Why?
Question 4: Bosses - What do you think about the bosses at the
campaign? Too hard? Too easy? Please tell me what is your
favorite boss and what is the worst boss? Why?
Question 5: Music/sound - What do you think about the musics at
the campaign? Are they bad? Are they good? What is the best and
the worst music at the campaign?
Question 6: Diffculty - What is your opinion about the
difficulty. Is it too hard? Too easy? Which parts of the
campaigns were not balanced, what are they, and why?
Question 7: Cinematics - What do you think about the cinematics?
Too long? Too much? Too boring? Tell what is the worst and the
best cinematic and why.
Question 8: Atmosphere - What do you think about the atmosphere
of the campaign? Too funny? Too sad? Tell what increases and
decreases the atmosphere? Why?
Question 9: Abilities/Spells - What do you think about
characters' spells? Are they balanced? Does they have good
enough effects?
Question 10: Items - Are the items interesting? Are they unique?
Are there too much items? What should be changed?
All things consired, how would you describe your playing
experience at the campaign?
Would you recommend this campaign to your friends?
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Re: Questionnaire Info
By: Skasian Date: November 10, 2011, 3:24 am
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1: Poor
2: Fair
3: Average
4: Good
5: Excellent
[quote]Question 1: Story - What do you think about the story? Is
it too confusing? Too simple? What is the best and the worst
part in the story. Why?[/quote]
TCO presents a storyline which is unpredictable in a good way.
However it is hard to judge the story purely because they story
is incomplete and with plot twists and what-not, what we know of
it is currently open-ended. I think the story has a great
background and a lot of potential. In terms of how it's written,
I'd say it could be done much better. Not your fault in
particular, but not everyone can write a best-selling
novel/movie. ;)
The best part is the mystery behind what is going on. Bit of
suspense mixed in as well.
Worst part is fradz's lines totally ruining the story for me.
See the next question.
3.5/5
[quote]Question 2: Characters - What do you think about
characters? Are they boring? Are they interesting? Who is your
favorite character? What character you didn't liked.
Why?[/quote]
There's a good mix of characters in there but by far Fradz comes
off a way too immature and does not fit in at all, especially to
the image of a dragon slayer. For the reader, it's hard to
believe that someone with the mental capacity of a 5 year old
and acts like it could contribute so much to the war and be
regarded as a dragon slayer. It's ok for a character to be
different, but he was just way too over the top.
Galeoth has some good lines written into the dialogue and
impressed me at times and would have to be one of the better
characters with a believable story and few flaws. The
bone-dragon boss in Chp. 6. has a section of dialogue which
impressed me greatly (I cannot recall exactly what) but it was
by far the best written work in this game, so kudos to whoever
wrote that boss.
Fradz's is definitely the weakest link here by far and is the
reason for the low score.
2/5
[quote]Question 3: Game play - What do you think about the game
play. Is it boring? Is the campaign too repetitive? Is there too
much killing? What is the best side of game play and what is the
worst. Why?[/quote]
The gameplay is quite fun especially the first and second times
through. The first time because everything is new, the second
time because you are able to get in some good items and fight
the harder bosses. Subsequent play-throughs however tend to get
a bit tedious and repetitive. Perhaps reducing the required
play-throughs to experience the game would be a good change.
(Currently it would be around 5 times at NORMAL difficulty -
mainly cause of gold).
In a campaign called based on Dragon Slayers and a game engine
called Warcraft, it's very hard to steer away from 'Too much
killing'. Therefore I wouldn't worry about that.
Unique bosses and making awesome items is the highlight here.
The worst would be all the bugs, especially running into one
that makes the game crash or unplayable for whatever reason.
Otherwise finding out 5 chapters in that you forgot to pick up 1
item back in an earlier chapter needed for an item is very
frustrating as well.
Apart from that the bugs let down the gameplay.
3.5/5
[quote]Question 4: Bosses - What do you think about the bosses
at the campaign? Too hard? Too easy? Please tell me what is your
favorite boss and what is the worst boss? Why?[/quote]
Bosses are great and nice, although they tend to get a bit
similar after a few chapters. Difficulty-wise, there is a
significant jump in difficulty between bosses from chapter 5 to
6, in that chapter 6 is suddenly extremely hard compared to all
the previous chapters.
Worst boss are the ones that are buggy. Best one want probably
doom lord as it wasn't a boring arena and the run at the end was
a good idea. Try and avoid being too repetitive in design.
4/5
[quote]Question 5: Music/sound - What do you think about the
musics at the campaign? Are they bad? Are they good? What is the
best and the worst music at the campaign?[/quote]
Best music was final-fantasy cause the series is awesome
(obvious bias here!). Worst part of the music is where you are
doing something or walking along the border of 2 areas and the
music is switching every second and sounds retarded (not sure
you can fix that though).
Aside from that, if you could get voice actors that's an instant
6/5 :D
4.5/5
[quote]Question 6: Diffculty - What is your opinion about the
difficulty. Is it too hard? Too easy? Which parts of the
campaigns were not balanced, what are they, and why?[/quote]
As stated previously, the transition into chapter 6 presented
the most difficult task. Otherwise the game itself isn't too
hard.
As there is no separate section for Puzzles/Minigames I'm going
to mention this here. The puzzles in general are too difficult
ONLY because they lack any form of instruction! A simple message
that will repeat itself upon reentry to the puzzle or even
adding it into OPTIONAL QUESTS would do wonders. As an example,
the level puzzle on the first stage you need to add to 8. But
there either was no message describing this puzzle or I easily
missed it as text only appears once. Without this hint the
puzzle is impossible. Instances like this force the players into
the position where they get frustrated and want to quit. A
player shouldn't have to search through the forums just to be
able to play this game, IMO that is poor game design.
[spoiler]Solution:
Put the puzzle in a separate 'region'. Add a trigger - that upon
entry, display informative text to the player. (repeatable, so
upon re-entry the text would display again should they miss it).
[/spoiler]
[br]
As for balance it has been mentioned time and time again that
the gold is an issue. Put simple there is a lack of gold in the
game. This needs to be improved however you wish, but the
overall gold in each play-through needs to be increased.
3/5
[quote]Question 7: Cinematics - What do you think about the
cinematics? Too long? Too much? Too boring? Tell what is the
worst and the best cinematic and why.[/quote]
As said time and time again, the text speed needs to speed up by
at least 30%. I hope you are not using WC3's default auto-timer
as it is quite slow. Cinematics are ok, nothing special. Some
are a bit boring due to the dialogue and the numerous spelling
and grammatical mistakes.
Animations are a bit........... unusual. Such as Fradz dancing
around with his swords flailing for no apparent reason.
2.5/5
[quote]Question 8: Atmosphere - What do you think about the
atmosphere of the campaign? Too funny? Too sad? Tell what
increases and decreases the atmosphere? Why?[/quote]
My opinion is it's too lame. Attempts to be funny are
unfortunately met with an eerie silence in my head.
The other gripe I have, is that the story itself is a 'serious'
atmosphere I find, while the characters and dialogue are
targeting a 'funny' atmosphere. There's a huge contradiction
between the two and unfortunately in this campaign, they mix
badly.
An upside is the 'epic' atmosphere is nice. (Castles :)).
3/5
[quote]Question 9: Abilities/Spells - What do you think about
characters' spells? Are they balanced? Does they have good
enough effects?[/quote]
Some spells are clearly more overpowered in this genre then
others. An example would be Fradz's Teleport Strike ultimate
skill. Since the game is based heavily on boss fights, it is so
easy to just use that spell and hit a boss 12 times doing a
stupidly large amount of damage to it. Run around in circles,
wait for the cooldown and do it again since you're invunerable
during the duration of the slashes. This methods makes it almost
impossible to lose boss fights.
AOE spells on the other hand are for this reason underpowered
when compared against single-target spells. Since regular creeps
or even mass spawned creeps from bosses don't pose any real
threat in this game, AOE does not really have a large impact as
it could. Most of the boss fights your AOE is really only
hitting 1 thing (the boss) and it's a waste. (If you've played
DotA or similar games you'd understand very well the reasoning
I'm getting to here).
The concept of combat kings carrying through the levels and the
large array of skills do save this category so I'll give it:
4/5
[quote]Question 10: Items - Are the items interesting? Are they
unique? Are there too much items? What should be changed?
[/quote]
Too many items is not a bad thing. It at the very least, gives
the player a choice of how he/she wants to build their
characters. There is definitely uniqueness in some of the items.
This is probably the sole category which saves this game from
failing like many other SRPG's. It is also the reason why I
still play it as I want to try all the items.
Although it is bothersome how some items are bugged and don't
work :(
5/5
[quote]All things considered, how would you describe your
playing experience at the campaign?[/quote]
Summary:
[list]
[li]Story: 3.5/5[/li]
[li]Characters: 2/5[/li]
[li]Gameplay: 3.5/5[/li]
[li]Bosses: 4/5[/li]
[li]Music/Sounds: 4.5[/li]
[li]Difficulty: 3/5[/li]
[li]Cinematics: 2.5/5[/li]
[li]Atmosphere: 3/5[/li]
[li]Abilities/Spells: 4/5[/li]
[li]Items: 5/5[/li]
[/list]
Overall: 3/5
Overall, I enjoyed playing TCO and the main reason why I've
stayed around is that I see a lot of potential with this
campaign. Whether or not Aero is able to execute it, we'll have
to wait to see.
[quote]Would you recommend this campaign to your
friends?[/quote]
STRONG NO. I have a reputation to uphold and the WORST thing you
can do when recommending a game/product (or anything else in
real life) to a friend is that product turning out to be a dud.
In this case there are 2 major reasons why I would NOT suggest
this game:
[list type=decimal]
[li]The game is far too buggy to be enjoyed by someone who only
wants to play it and not wait around until it is fully complete.
Too many bugs = no fun. Selling something that is
unfinished/buggy is a horrible idea and thus I will not be
recommending this game at the moment. HOWEVER should these bugs
be addressed I would have no hesitation to refer my friends to
play this awesome game as it is by far one of the better SRPG's
made for WC3. :)[/li]
[li]The game is suited for a NICHE audience. Firstly, there is a
learning curve to this game and it is steeper then most other
games. As an example my girlfriend wanted to play this but it's
far too complex and she wouldn't bother to learn it. I can
totally understand this point of view and there is little you
can do to fix this as it is the genre of the game thus only
suited towards certain players. The second point of this
category is the game is focused around 'Give-up' and playing the
same story through again and again. A random figure like 90%
wouldn't be too far off to say that most players will not play
the same storyline through again unless something else in the
game is really attractive. It would only be worth referring
players that are interested in playing the same thing over and
over again and these players are few and far. This is the same
reason as why since the mid 1990's, the gaming industry has been
moving away from indepth storylines and great single player
campaigns and into multiplayer games as people change everytime,
whereas something preprogrammed will always be the same (take
Team Fortress 2 for example, it doesn't even have a single
player campaign/story element to it).[/li]
[/list]
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Re: Questionnaire Info
By: Blackdoom59 Date: November 15, 2011, 9:38 am
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[quote]Aside from that, if you could get voice actors that's an
instant 6/5:D[/quote]
That will come later , my fellow friend :D .We need to find a
lot of guys with good english accents , and we I'm preety sure
Aero will do that at the end of the beta , or at the final
version :D.
Go here:
HTML http://www.tcocampaign.com/index.php?topic=847.0
HTML http://www.tcocampaign.com/index.php?topic=847.0
To see the thread(Wich will be avaible once again when Aero
decides to) and Aero's Take for custom voices.You can alsoo send
me some of your takes , if you are free ;).
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Re: Questionnaire Info
By: Blackdoom59 Date: November 15, 2011, 9:44 am
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Beware of my black answers 0_o
[quote]Question 1: Story - What do you think about the story? Is
it too confusing? Too simple? What is the best and the worst
part in the story. Why?
[glow=black,2,300]The story is preety good , somehow unique.A
lot of secrets that are just making you wish more and more
;).Sometimes , the characters are WAY TO silent.4 example when
you listen to Kaza boss or Talloon (even the drunken rezident) ,
they just listen ,and don't say a single word.[/glow]
4/5
Question 2: Characters - What do you think about characters? Are
they boring? Are they interesting? Who is your favorite
character? What character you didn't liked. Why?
[glow=black3,300]The characters are good , yet not always
unique.It's easy for a player to discover the main temperament
for Phodom and Fradz , but Galeoth always seems to be like
Phodom.Firstly, I was thinking he was greedy or something but
meh.My favorite character would be Phodom , from the first
chapter he started to take a place in my heart :D.I don't like
Galeoth , too obsessive , and preety much Anti-Fradz.[/glow]
3.5/5
Question 3: Game play - What do you think about the game play.
Is it boring? Is the campaign too repetive? Is there too much
killing? What is the best side of game play and what is the
worst. Why?
[glow=black,4,300]The game play is preety basic.Not boring ,
because of the steal option , and some hard spells you have to
evade.The campaing is preety much repetitive and yes, too much
killing , like in ch2 the scorpions and momos , or in ch5 the
wolves and turtles.[/glow]
2/5
Question 4: Bosses - What do you think about the bosses at the
campaign? Too hard? Too easy? Please tell me what is your
favorite boss and what is the worst boss? Why?
[glow=black,5,300]THEY ARE AWESOME!Sometimes too hard ,
sometimes too easy , usualy , they're perfect.My favorite boss
would be the fishthern , because first time I played the
campaign , I lost 10 lives to him(in my time , boss points were
usefull only for lives).The worst boss is the dragon spirit in
ch4 , I HATE HIM X(
He always gets in the way with so many colorfull and diffrent
spells.[/glow]
5/5
Question 5: Music/sound - What do you think about the musics at
the campaign? Are they bad? Are they good? What is the best and
the worst music at the campaign?
[glow=black,6,300]The timing is always good , the music makes
the campaing better with 30%.They always feet.The best music was
when you're near the mountains , I just love it :D.The worst
music would be when you're in a cave , too...scary 0_o[/glow]
5/5
Question 6: Diffculty - What is your opinion about the
difficulty. Is it too hard? Too easy? Which parts of the
campaigns were not balanced, what are they, and why?
[glow=black,7,300]The campaing is balanced.[/glow]
5/5
Question 7: Cinematics - What do you think about the cinematics?
Too long? Too much? Too boring? Tell what is the worst and the
best cinematic and why.
[glow=black,8,300]I like that you can skip the cinematics.The
cinematics are very good , some gramar mistakes tought.They
sometime get booring.The best cinematic was THE ARCHER =))).The
worst was the hunter and fradz on a short mountainpath , it was
way to long , a little funny tought[/glow]
3/5
Question 8: Atmosphere - What do you think about the atmosphere
of the campaign? Too funny? Too sad? Tell what increases and
decreases the atmosphere? Why?
[glow=black,9,300]The atmosphere is usualy good , but sometimes
only on extremes.I mean EXTREMLY sad or EXTREMLY funny.[/glow]
4.5/5
Question 9: Abilities/Spells - What do you think about
characters' spells? Are they balanced? Does they have good
enough effects?
[glow=black,0,300]The spells are perfect[/glow]
5/5
Question 10: Items - Are the items interesting? Are they unique?
Are there too much items? What should be changed?
[glow=black,0,900]Items are perfect[/glow]
5/5
All things consired, how would you describe your playing
experience at the campaign?
I'm to lazy to calculate , but I guess 4/5
Would you recommend this campaign to your friends?[/quote]
Yes ,I did.But for most of them , it's too hard or complicated
:\.Meh.
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Re: Questionnaire Info
By: Blackdoom59 Date: November 15, 2011, 10:13 am
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[quote author=DD Canada link=topic=969.msg5477#msg5477
date=1321372708]
Hello,
[quote author=Blackdoom59 link=topic=969.msg5475#msg5475
date=1321371508]That will come later , my fellow friend :D .We
need to find a lot of guys with good english accents , and we
I'm preety sure Aero will do that at the end of the beta , or at
the final version :D.
Go here:
HTML http://www.tcocampaign.com/index.php?topic=847.0
HTML http://www.tcocampaign.com/index.php?topic=847.0
To see the thread(Wich will be avaible once again when Aero
decides to) and Aero's Take for custom voices.You can alsoo send
me some of your takes , if you are free ;).[/quote]
I have a pretty convincing English accent when I have a cold -
One may wonder why, though.
Why should we send voice-acting takes to you? Hmm... A-ha, a
file-sharing network:
Normal player --> Black --> Aero
So Black judges all the entries sent before they're taken to
Aero... Mm-mm, I can already imagine a situation:
[quote]An entry from Chimto.
"F*ck him, that take is probably all but crap. Rejected."
An entry from DD Canada.
"Oh that Canadian who doesn't even dare to say f*ck in the open.
His take must be pussy-like. Rejected."[/quote]
...No insulting here, I was just imagining how things could be.
:p
[/quote]
OMG I LAUGHT SO HARD AT THAT :)).
But seriously , you're going to hell cuz you actualy WRITED
that.
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Re: Questionnaire Info
By: Blackdoom59 Date: November 15, 2011, 12:00 pm
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[quote author=DD Canada link=topic=969.msg5479#msg5479
date=1321376928]
Hello,
[quote author=Blackdoom59 link=topic=969.msg5478#msg5478
date=1321373591]
OMG I LAUGHT SO HARD AT THAT :)).
But seriously , you're going to hell cuz you actualy WRITED
that.
[/quote]
Bleh, I knew you would; it was unevitable. ;p
Also, if anyone, it's my post that is going to Hell. Or taken
back to the Den before anyone else sees it.
[/quote]
Sooo , will you send me your take :>???
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Re: Questionnaire Info
By: Blackdoom59 Date: November 15, 2011, 1:39 pm
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[quote author=DD Canada link=topic=969.msg5481#msg5481
date=1321380806]
Hello,
[quote author=Blackdoom59 link=topic=969.msg5480#msg5480
date=1321380059]
Sooo , will you send me your take :>???[/quote]
No... I don't have anything that would record my voice. Or wait,
sorry I just recalled, hah: My awesome mobile phone. Nah, on
second thought it sucks on recording voice (maybe).
Also, what would I voiceact if I was to?
[/quote]
Idk , I imagine you as...hmmm...John!THat guy with his ultimate
love!
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Re: Questionnaire Info
By: Aeroblyctos Date: November 16, 2011, 5:05 am
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Okay wait a sec guys I'm now updating this section.
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Re: Questionnaire Info
By: Blackdoom59 Date: November 16, 2011, 9:30 am
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[quote author=DD Canada link=topic=969.msg5484#msg5484
date=1321387273]
Hello,
[quote author=Blackdoom59 link=topic=969.msg5483#msg5483
date=1321385986]
Idk , I imagine you as...hmmm...John!THat guy with his ultimate
love![/quote]
No-no-no, anything that is related to love can be counted off
from me - It's a road full of losses and pain.
The benefit is absolutely minimum at the cost of
self-confidence.
[/quote]
Not that kind of love man , that kind of love sucks.Ultimate
love for stealing souls MWHAHHAHA.See , you can do it better :)
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Re: Questionnaire Info
By: Blackdoom59 Date: November 16, 2011, 11:37 am
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[quote author=DD Canada link=topic=969.msg5491#msg5491
date=1321461054]
Hello,
[quote author=Blackdoom59 link=topic=969.msg5489#msg5489
date=1321457417]
Not that kind of love man , that kind of love sucks.Ultimate
love for stealing souls MWHAHHAHA.See , you can do it better
:)[/quote]
Leave the soul-stealing to Arthas' Frostmourne; and besides, I
meant any kind of loving. Be it love-loving, loving to do things
or anything, forget it. Instead, hoist the col- I mean liking.
:)
"I like doing X and Y" and so forth.
[/quote]
Someday, I will officialy burn the Den -.-'
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