Point and click adventures were a good part of my childhood when I was about four, five, and maybe even when I was six (on my sixth birthday, I got pokemon blue version along with a GBC, so I don't know how often I played computer games after that, though I know I still played them a bit).

Another one, for the iTouch/iPhone is 1112 or something like that. The lite version I played was pretty good, but I don't want to pay 7 dollars for each installment in a point-and-click game with limited replay value when I could get the Oregon Trail for 6 dollars.

The guild system created such a hodgepodge that all niche games like Dragon Warrior got lost in the shuffle. And they have stayed lost ever since.

I mean the guild system has the capability to create a community out of the regular players. But that's absolutely not the way to get more players. The majority of our player base used to be new users; generally people who had never even heard of Dragon Warrior before and would just find the game by browsing games live.

SilkWizard wrote:

Meh. Good riddance. 99.9% of the "Dragon Warrior" games were made by lazy developers who saw the success of DWO and decided to use the DW tileset for their crappy RPG.

I suppose they figured that given how popular DWO was at the time, just calling their game "Dragon Warrior" would attract hordes of players. Sadly, they were right.

Someone needs to learn a little lesson in humility, much? :)

From what I've played SoE was quite a good Dragon Warrior game, better than the last good version of DWO, even.

Frankly, DWO was only good because it was unique at the time, it still had tons of annoying (and in some cases show-stopping) bugs and could only keep you entertained for maybe a week of play.

It could have been a whole lot better if you would have released a real update to it, but by the time you released the half-assed 1.9 "update" the competition was already outclassing you.

You can't really judge your own game against other games without bias, so stop thinking you can, thanks.

SilkWizard wrote:

The rest were tileset rips, and calling those games "Dragon Warrior" is an insult to the source material.

I ripped all the turfs from DW3 myself. Do I win? Not that I have a finished project or anything.

I hate to double-post, but I just felt I had to back up Silk's declarations of "tileset rips" and games that make him sick to his stomach. Some more in-depth:

Dragon Warrior Quest - Sure, the game kept expanding, but not in the way it should have. As the game world itself got larger and larger, features that were left out at the beginning stayed out, such as parties, multi-monster battles, and a complete menu system. The mixing-in of SNES, GBC, and PSX sprites didn't help either.

Shadows of Erdrick - For better or worse (I'll get into that in a second), SoE may be one of the most time-consuming games on BYOND. The endless amounts of quests and the lack of an as-yet-reachable level cap make for hours and days of weeks of gameplay. Unfortunately, you'll be grinding countless hours to gain a single level. I've made it to level 22 on the game, and I don't think I have the patience to go again. Compound that with the fact that at any given time in the game, any enemies that give you halfway-decent experience (which isn't saying much) can fry you in one round of battle if you're unlucky. About the only way to circumvent this is to get someone of a higher level to train you; unfortunately, there is rarely someone around who is willing to help. And did I mention the horribly mismatched graphics?

Hero's Destiny - What is "Pysche"? Shame I have to see that typo every single time I get into a random encounter. The monster sprites are a little blurry, which leads me to believe they were taken from JPEGs. I probably spent about 30 minutes on this game before I was completely turned off. Oh, and the DWO 1.90 introductory scene blows this game's away by a longshot.

That's all I can think of for now. Dragon Warrior Monsters Adventure had a few of the complaints of some of the above games, but it was pretty addictive for a while. And, as its hub page says, Dragon Warrior Legacy is the best DBZ game on byond, so there's no knocking that.

Douche bag much Silkwizard? This thread was supposed to be about the failing internal games and communities, not whining about something you didn't find appropriate or cutting someone down. Way to make the thread into a total dump.

I never liked Dragon Warrior Online, it lagged like a mofo.

I've been on BYOND long enough to just know SilkWizard is just out of line as much as I was with my comment. Why the hell did this thread have to turn into what it was?