tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post7853263749354348285..comments2024-03-28T15:25:30.216-04:00Comments on The CRPG Addict: Die Odysee: A Journey of a Thousand MilesCRPG Addicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-13949501418719508212023-01-10T10:47:47.817-05:002023-01-10T10:47:47.817-05:00The party is attacked by sodium, flerovium, and be...<i>The party is attacked by sodium, flerovium, and belarium.</i><br /><br />Nice. Watch out for the oganesson!<br /><br />It blows my mind that there's a wiki for periodic table fanfiction, basically -- fan-created imaginary elements. It's Rule 34a, I guess, or an isotope of Rule 34.PK Thunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14416777230563913195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-30716908296906816482023-01-09T19:43:42.760-05:002023-01-09T19:43:42.760-05:00Regarding your recent addendum: Quite understandab...Regarding your recent addendum: Quite understandable. In the meantime, I'll post what I wrote you here in case anyone wants to try the game.<br /><br />Checked the manual and tested a bit with the default party. My findings:<br /><br /> - Exhaustion (Erschöpfung)<br />-> is caused by running around, especially when carying a lot of heavy inventory - how fast (and how much weight you can carry) depends on your Force (Stärke) attribute.<br />-> depletes Health (Gesundheit) = top meter of the three under each character's name on the left; if it sinks to/below zero, the character is shown as "exhausted" (erschöpft"). Not sure how often / when these values update. Suddenly everyone was exhausted.<br /><br />- Health (Gesundheit) <br />-> can be recovered through magic (spell: 'HeilAura' + 'Gesundheit').<br /><br />- Mana <br />-> can be recovered through meditation (ability -> only yourself) or through magic, given by others ('Mana').<br /><br />- Tiredness (Müdigkeit) (in the group values confusingly given as 'Lazyness' (Faulheit)), only visible for each character when going into its 'character window' as a grey-whitish meter partly obstructed by the word "Müdigkeit" itself, not as a number as far as I can see.<br />-> increases when using abilities; if too tired, you can't use an ability anymore.<br />-> can be reduced through sleeping / time passing (holding left mouse click on the clock) - a couple hours reduce it significantly (theoretically also through magic (Schlaf), but didn't seem to work for me).<br /><br />So it seems when your characters get exhausted / lose their health, you need to build it up again through magic. To recover the mana lost, you need to meditate (or receive mana through magic from someone else). If you meditate 2-3 times, you become (too) tired and need to rest a couple hours.<br />That would also indicate it's recommendable to have at least one character with high (max) mana and a lot of points in the ability 'meditate', to serve as 'healer', at least at the start. E.g. Pheres in the default party,<br /><br />Haven't tested more in detail, e.g. if and how it's possible to direct the effect of a spell only to a specific team member or what the number of "Zauber" (below character portrait on the right) means - numbers of different spells that person can perform?<br /><br />A warning: (right-)clicking once too much can drop and thus apparently permanently lose an inventory item.<br /><br />In inventory, left-click is to use an item (putting it on in case of wearables, automatically exchanged against the currently worn). Food and drink items can usually be used several times before they're depleted (maybe shown in their statistics window).<br /><br />Right-click shows the item's statistics, a further click opens two options: a left-click then allows you to move the item to another team member while another right-click drops the item. So an unintentional double right-click when moving inventory around, e.g. because you think the first one wasn't registered, can lead to loss of the same (and maybe to a potential walking dead situation?).Buscanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-33447357436485355452022-11-27T08:46:35.760-05:002022-11-27T08:46:35.760-05:00There is a certain segment of English society that...There is a certain segment of English society that worships the Second World War, and Vera Lynn has become something of a talisman for those people.thekelvingreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01928260185408072124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-67777687875504934222022-11-26T15:37:16.049-05:002022-11-26T15:37:16.049-05:00Or just "Before you free Helena ..."Or just "Before you free Helena ..."schmumplnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-84849522107939404732022-11-26T15:16:26.246-05:002022-11-26T15:16:26.246-05:00I don't think the Amiga can handle Ascii-codes...I don't think the Amiga can handle Ascii-codes; Regarding umlauts you may have to switch to a German keyboard layout. If you do: the ö is where : and ; are located on an American keyboard; ä is right next to ö (where " and ' are on an American layout); and ü is right above those two , next to the p (where { and [ would be on an American setup). Hope that helps.El despertandohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12760941024574852525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-45435877523358519532022-11-26T14:59:23.986-05:002022-11-26T14:59:23.986-05:00"Until you free Helena, she will look like my..."Until you free Helena, she will look like my wife" is probably better translated to "When you someday free Helena ...". "Bis" can mean both "until" and "when someday".schmumplnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-36683761943333956732022-11-26T09:56:18.992-05:002022-11-26T09:56:18.992-05:00It's a DOS game, the box is probably "the...It's a DOS game, the box is probably "the entire screen"Reiskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09444824451578560746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-80877481991233583502022-11-26T02:34:56.020-05:002022-11-26T02:34:56.020-05:00Sorry, edit: "character's appearance"...Sorry, edit: "character's appearance" the quote was intended to say.Buscanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-55684548453698607152022-11-26T02:32:19.168-05:002022-11-26T02:32:19.168-05:00"It thus appears that you have to try keyword..."It thus appears that you have to try keywords based on the character'searnce as well as the dialogue."<br /><br />Maybe you should try asking Antokles about his fancy futuristic "Shirt" / "Hemd"? ;-)<br /><br />And Daphne, besides her artificially added 'veil', about her dress - apparently also added, to keep the game marketable to the general public, I assume. Or maybe someone had already modified the source.Buscanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-38448805446242219052022-11-25T17:51:02.403-05:002022-11-25T17:51:02.403-05:00There's a "calculator" class in Fina...There's a "calculator" class in Final Fantasy tactics, they're basically math mages.Man of Stonenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-4698320988365918282022-11-25T16:24:51.519-05:002022-11-25T16:24:51.519-05:00I read or watched a biopic on Vera Lynn, I think a...I read or watched a biopic on Vera Lynn, I think a few months ago. I had only vaguely heard her name before, although I'm familiar with her hit songs. This one said that she became practically revered in England, and other Western European countries. Apparently a much bigger deal than I previously knew.Corey Colehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16772474266362396768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-67366481359438085612022-11-25T14:53:10.558-05:002022-11-25T14:53:10.558-05:00But can you make a titan mermaid? And is this the ...But can you make a titan mermaid? And is this the first (and last) game to offer mathematician as a class?Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12184390528952633384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-62965295507220245562022-11-25T10:49:00.282-05:002022-11-25T10:49:00.282-05:00I stand corrected, and here I thought the weird th...I stand corrected, and here I thought the weird thing about it was that there were alchemists at all during Odysseus's time...MorpheusKitamihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16591271981112642781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-40833029419843200212022-11-25T08:27:52.161-05:002022-11-25T08:27:52.161-05:00It's so heartwarming when people offer assista...<i>It's so heartwarming when people offer assistance like this. Otherwise, I might have been forced to abandon this game whose own author feels is so "well, bad" that he's sorry "for the kid that maybe got this as his only birthday present."</i><br /><br />"And on a related note, have I mentioned that Brutus is an honorable man?"PK Thunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14416777230563913195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-67014162123036826752022-11-24T23:09:31.165-05:002022-11-24T23:09:31.165-05:00You probably already tried this, but supposedly &q...You probably already tried this, but supposedly "alt-k" followed by a/o/u gives ä/ö/ü; alt-s gives ß.It may also be possible to change the keyboard layout if the emulator lets you run "Prefs".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-44455658331511390812022-11-24T21:13:20.326-05:002022-11-24T21:13:20.326-05:00I did.I did.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-21485542417723471832022-11-24T19:15:38.101-05:002022-11-24T19:15:38.101-05:00Regarding "Götter", have you tried typin...Regarding "Götter", have you tried typing "Goetter"? Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06082985518520258483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-78348778448604559272022-11-24T18:01:39.047-05:002022-11-24T18:01:39.047-05:00I noticed the anachronistic shirt, too. You are no...I noticed the anachronistic shirt, too. You are not alone! :) Abacoshttps://strategywiki.org/wiki/User:Abacos noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-87395562885755935612022-11-24T17:54:26.266-05:002022-11-24T17:54:26.266-05:00And making the bok bigger was not an option ?And making the bok bigger was not an option ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-69514752035607729602022-11-24T16:19:03.242-05:002022-11-24T16:19:03.242-05:00The author probably didn't have the font in a ...The author probably didn't have the font in a smaller size, and scaling a font like that down algorithmically without proper antialiasing would look really awful.stepped pyramidsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-90671822179723109682022-11-24T16:15:19.340-05:002022-11-24T16:15:19.340-05:00I can't get over that screenshot starring a ma...I can't get over that screenshot starring a man in a shirt. It's as anachronistic as a Medieval knight in spacesuit but I guess the majority of players would not notice it. As always there is a suitable xkcd comic for the occasion: https://xkcd.com/771/Vaubannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-47050884979538293352022-11-24T14:37:53.583-05:002022-11-24T14:37:53.583-05:00I agree the alchemist restriction is weird, consid...I agree the alchemist restriction is weird, considering Greek myth has numerous female mystics and spellcasters (in addition to a whole tribe of women who do belt on swords...)Radianthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03866535042372152723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-29272321900503261632022-11-24T13:44:56.515-05:002022-11-24T13:44:56.515-05:00Agreed -- I also immediately thought of the Pink F...Agreed -- I also immediately thought of the Pink Floyd/The Wall link to Vera Lynn. AlphabeticalAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-53366113899269764542022-11-24T13:17:37.280-05:002022-11-24T13:17:37.280-05:00So you'll be playing two games in parallel whe...So you'll be playing two games in parallel where one takes place at the gates of Troy and the other has you playing a character called Troy... . Hmm, an idea for a potential subtitle to a future 'SOTE' entry (ROT-13'd): "Gebl Fgbel". Buscanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-83736902065701941562022-11-24T13:11:59.240-05:002022-11-24T13:11:59.240-05:00I agree that there's a cetain logic, but once ...I agree that there's a cetain logic, but once you allow Erinyes and Amazons and man-eating giants to be friends with Odysseus and hang out with him in a tavern, you've already abandoned their traditional roles. Women of the age likely wouldn't have belted on swords and gone adventuring into deep dungeons anyway. Having crossed that threshold, it seems silly to say that they can't be alchemists or whatever.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.com