Forum Overview :: Cleve Blakemore's Grimoire
 
There are certain things it does better than any other game. by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/04/2017, 11:45pm PDT
I'll preface this by saying that I've been making a CRPG for the last five years in a text adventure language. I'm probably the one guy on earth for whom Grimoire is a giant technological step up. I'm going to compliment it and note some things that can be improved.

The feeling that I had been trying to get back to, in creating a CRPG, is that of the first time I played the Bard's Tale. The game I am making doesn't do it: I have graphics depicting the "room" the player is in, whereas Bard's Tale and Grimoire have 3D views. And in this, after a half hour of play, Grimoire is gorgeous. Codex folks trashed the art from the demos, but the people doing that just don't like the art style (or dislike a million other things over 23 years -- ed.) It is absolutely beautiful. When you get to a wall in the first maze and try to go forward you get a little "bump" giving distinct feedback that, hey, you are at a wall. That first area looks like something out of a fever dream and looks good doing it. Cleve gives three small pieces of text to read to set the scene of "you don't know who you are or where you are." Compared to the new Torment game, which took an excruciatingly look time to present the same and had some really poor writing, Grimoire is reserved and subtle.

It's not crashed on me yet, but I am also not trying to crash it, if that makes any sense. Like a lot of you, I have been around computers long enough to know what they do and don't do well. I've also been subconsciously trying to not crash an RPG for five years so that I can continue to write mine. I'm not doing anything with it that I think is out of the expected and ordinary. Games need exploratory testing, sure, and the reports indicate that the game is getting it now, but it's run fine for me.

I don't like the music. Been playing it with my system volume on mute so far.

And the way you add characters to a party is... well, it's unlike anything else I've ever seen. He wasn't kidding when he was talking about the game not holding your hand. But there's something about this game that, while in desperate need of a manual, isn't illogical to me so far. Every time I've wondered how to do something that a manual would explain, I've thought about it, tried to think how I would implement it and worked backwards from there. I've "thought" more in this game so far than most of the others I have played lately.

I just got to the first town and maybe everything falls apart after that. I don't know. But I'm definitely intrigued.


ICJ
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It's out. NT by MM 08/04/2017, 8:12am PDT NEW
    Unbelievable. Good for him. by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/04/2017, 9:14am PDT NEW
        I heard it crashes a lot, I'm waiting a week to see how common a problem it is NT by before buying now or holding off. 08/04/2017, 5:03pm PDT NEW
            Didn't crash on me at all. NT by Sycamore 08/05/2017, 10:46pm PDT NEW
    What the Christ did he do to brokenforum? by Glenn from Habbo 08/04/2017, 2:43pm PDT NEW
        'mind break' describes these guys so perfectly. by Worm 08/04/2017, 4:41pm PDT NEW
            They have to try to shame others for it and it's sad. by Glenn from Habbo 08/04/2017, 9:32pm PDT NEW
                Those fat fucks are the biggest hypocrites on the internet. by Mysterio Lollerson 08/04/2017, 9:36pm PDT NEW
                    The best decision you can make now is pissing these guys off. by Worm 08/05/2017, 9:34am PDT NEW
                        Quartertothree has a good discussion of it going. by Mysterio 08/05/2017, 9:58am PDT NEW
                            Still full of idiots by Oom Shnibble 08/07/2017, 5:23am PDT NEW
                They are evangelical christians minus the jesus by atheist church ladies 08/05/2017, 6:15pm PDT NEW
            IF YOU ARE AS FAMILIAR WITH "HENTAI" AS I AM by - Worm "Thought Leader" 08/05/2017, 1:25pm PDT NEW
                Speaking of getting so assfucked you can't stop shitting yourself. by Worm 08/05/2017, 3:40pm PDT NEW
                    U MAD?! NT by Every Worm post these days 08/05/2017, 4:00pm PDT NEW
                        Yeah, someone's ass being abuse to the point of incontinence implies anger, uhuh by Worm 08/05/2017, 4:58pm PDT NEW
                            It's just funny I know all of these terms relating to "hentai" by ??orm "Thought Leader 08/05/2017, 5:17pm PDT NEW
                                Yeah wow he's got me here, I spilled seed to anime girls, time to leave the site NT by Worm 08/05/2017, 5:21pm PDT NEW
                                    Maybe it IS time you left the site, champ. by Worm, Thought Leader 08/05/2017, 10:07pm PDT NEW
                                        It's definitely time you leave NT by pull the trigger, champ 08/05/2017, 10:41pm PDT NEW
                                            Can't we just get back to talking about how fat pinback is? Have you seen his NT by twitch channel? That man is fat. 08/06/2017, 12:22am PDT NEW
                                                Fit and healthy anon posting to old video game site, everyone NT by believes this 08/06/2017, 9:46am PDT NEW
                                                He's not that big, though he is a grown man by Vested Id 08/06/2017, 2:01pm PDT NEW
                Fart N/T NT by - Thought Leader "Thought Leader" 08/05/2017, 5:17pm PDT NEW
        There is one guy over there calmly explaining why he bought the game. by Glenn from Habbo 08/05/2017, 9:10am PDT NEW
        The Triumph of Tom Chick by Mysterio Lollerson 08/06/2017, 10:09am PDT NEW
            Why focus on his moral failings? His incompetence is funny enough. by skip 08/06/2017, 12:57pm PDT NEW
                A niche game? Oh no! Find the pearls! NT by Mysterio 08/06/2017, 1:24pm PDT NEW
                Can we make reddit redirect to a paper bag for you two to breathe into? by You hysterical faggots. 08/06/2017, 1:55pm PDT NEW
                    Honestly didn't get it. Try again NT by Mysterio Lollerson 08/06/2017, 3:57pm PDT NEW
                        Honestly is the alt-right's literally. NT by You hysterical faggots. 08/06/2017, 4:13pm PDT NEW
                    Re: Can we make reddit redirect to a paper bag for you two to breathe into? by Mysterio Lollerson 08/06/2017, 6:22pm PDT NEW
                        I thought my post was pretty good until I saw it as six all-caps proper nouns. by You hysterical faggots. 08/06/2017, 6:55pm PDT NEW
                            Fair enough. NT by Mysterio Lollerson 08/06/2017, 7:33pm PDT NEW
                Re: Why focus on his moral failings? His incompetence is funny enough. by pull the trigger, champ 08/06/2017, 4:36pm PDT NEW
        Sure is a lot of recreational outrage in this thread about recreational outrage. NT by Mysterioso 08/06/2017, 12:55pm PDT NEW
            Start a new thread about something. by This is Chris's Blood 08/06/2017, 1:49pm PDT NEW
    In 2017 RPGCodex too can be thrilled and disappointed by their own god-emperor NT by skip 08/04/2017, 7:49pm PDT NEW
    Pinback is going to stream it tomorrow. 7AM Central time. by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/04/2017, 9:13pm PDT NEW
        I watched this and was really surprised by how fat he is. NT by That man sure is fat. 08/05/2017, 4:55pm PDT NEW
            I just saw this. Very hurtful. NT by pinback 12/12/2019, 7:12pm PST NEW
                Or, possibly, I posted it. In either case, very hurtful. NT by pinback 12/12/2019, 7:13pm PST NEW
    There are certain things it does better than any other game. by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/04/2017, 11:45pm PDT NEW
    7 BUCKS ON GOG NT by THAT LYING FUCK 12/12/2019, 6:01pm PST NEW
 
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