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[Beggar]

 

[fork]

That dialog window design is such a joke. How can you play the game like that?

 

[Don Peste]

 

[Nifft Batuff]

That dialog window design is such a joke. How can you play the game like that?

The dialog screen of every IE or IE-like game is a joke, with the exception of Disco.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

Star Wars:

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boss key

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key

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[fork]

That dialog window design is such a joke. How can you play the game like that?

The dialog screen of every IE or IE-like game is a joke, with the exception of Disco.

PS:T's original dialog window is perfectly fine, and it's great with widescreen mod and ghostdog's UI mod. The EE is an abomination though, so much wasted space for this ugly useless 'design' to both sides.

 

[octavius]

Currently RTFM of Arcanum and playing around with character generation.
So many possibilities...this one is tempting for the lulz.

 

[deem]

Dark Souls 3 pt 5

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[Crane]

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[Malamert]

This is Heaven.

 

[fork]

I see you're busy on the right there. Ah, what a life, huh? Gratz.

 

[potatojohn]

This is the most fun I've had in a while

 

[spekkio]

Ring of Red (PS2)

It's one these "old but gold" ones. Japtactical, effectively combining TB & RT elements.

No grinding / side missions, no healing items, just tweaking your pilots and crew:

And great tactical combat. But let's face it - since you're always outnumbered and outgunned, using MAXX attacks effectively is a must...

a) close range:

b) middle range:

c) long range:

And what are all these switches and gauges you may ask? Well, it's quite simple really...

Anyway, it's all about killing enemy dudes and keeping your BROs alive:

Mission 9 was insane: eight units of our proud Japan-German-USA axis against 20 filthy commies...

 

[Baron Dupek]

Brandish - Dark Revenant (PSP)

Beat main quest line, did short break before starting this new, exclusive to PSP version, special post-game mode where you control Dela, Ares' arch-nemesis.
That short pause took me almost 3 years... oh well, better finish it now.

Took me a little more than a week, usually 1 floor per day and some more, unless you stumble upon some really nasty puzzle. Like this maze with switches that push pillars elsewhere - camera didn't help me here, that's for sure.

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around elves
watch yourselves

 

[rusty_shackleford]

That dialog window design is such a joke. How can you play the game like that?

the EEs really didn't have much to go with, with regards to art:

Just stretching it would have been terrible, it was designed for 4:3 screens not 16:9 at much larger resolutions/size.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

That dialog window design is such a joke. How can you play the game like that?

the EEs really didn't have much to go with, with regards to art:

Just stretching it would have been terrible, it was designed for 4:3 screens not 16:9 at much larger resolutions/size.

I don't know art, but text readability improves when the text line length is not too big. This is the reason why you cannot just increase the width of the text area to cover the horizontal spread of a wide screen display just because you have free space to do it. This is also the reason why, for larger areas, the text layout is usually structured in columns

Furthermore, keeping the height of the text area small, as in the text box of IE and IE-like games, is a bad idea, in particular if the game has a lot of text to read. This layout is one of the worst for text readability, what was barely optimized for a game in a 4:3 screen it is not automatically the best solution for a wide screen. But I guess people just copy over and over the work of other people without really thinking about it (by the way, this issue is even worse in JRPG text dialogs...).

This is the reason why I think that the text layout of Disco Elysium is a better solution. (At least Disco's devs thought with their heads, in this case):

 

[rusty_shackleford]

This is the reason why I think that the text layout of Disco Elysium is a better solution. (At least Disco's devs thought with their heads):

 

[Nifft Batuff]

This is the reason why I think that the text layout of Disco Elysium is a better solution. (At least Disco's devs thought with their heads):

Yes, you right. Shadowrun did the right thing, before Disco.

 

[JarlFrank]

This is the reason why I think that the text layout of Disco Elysium is a better solution. (At least Disco's devs thought with their heads):

Yes, you right. Shadowrun did the right thing, before Disco.

Another proof that Pillows of Eternity was just blind cargo cultism that missed the point, copying IE conventions without thinking about them.

 

[Wunderbar]

Drakensang The Dark Eye had a dialogue box in the right side of the screen before it was cool.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

This is the reason why I think that the text layout of Disco Elysium is a better solution. (At least Disco's devs thought with their heads):

Yes, you right. Shadowrun did the right thing, before Disco.

Another proof that Pillows of Eternity was just blind cargo cultism that missed the point, copying IE conventions without thinking about them.

Not just them, but any that copied the IE-style dialogue box without understanding why it made sense on smaller 4:3 monitors. They're definitely not the only offender.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Drakensang The Dark Eye had a dialogue box in the right side of the screen before it was cool.

Too lazy to go look it up, but I'm pretty sure NWN did too.

 

[JarlFrank]

This is the reason why I think that the text layout of Disco Elysium is a better solution. (At least Disco's devs thought with their heads):

Yes, you right. Shadowrun did the right thing, before Disco.

Another proof that Pillows of Eternity was just blind cargo cultism that missed the point, copying IE conventions without thinking about them.

Not just them, but any that copied the IE-style dialogue box without understanding why it made sense on smaller 4:3 monitors. They're definitely not the only offender.

A game that I enjoy playing but where I absolutely hate the way dialogue is presented is Star Traders: Frontiers. Utterly horrible:

Fully stretched along the middle of the screen at widescreen resolutions. When you get longer paragraphs of text, it's really bad to read.

 

[JarlFrank]

Drakensang The Dark Eye had a dialogue box in the right side of the screen before it was cool.

Too lazy to go look it up, but I'm pretty sure NWN did too.

NWN had a freely moveable dialogue window:

It worked better at lower resolutions:

 

[Alienman]

"Take off your dress"

What mod are you playing?

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