CREPUSCULUM: X

[CERU]

I'm not upset that people don't like the blue. But that doesn't mean that I have this "fuck you all I love blue its my favorite color  I painted my walls blue, my skin blue, my world blue" attitude. I just like the way the game looks for now, and maybe (probably) I'll release another seperate version without colors (RGB) will be equal, all at 0 brightness.

I may release this version after C2. But there wont be a whole new project thread again, because I wont have changed antyhing but the colors.

 

[Hevendor]

I'm not going to play either way since I don't like horror games (and that's a purely personal choice), but:

With the blue. I like the colorscheme I chose. Colorscheme does not affect the gameplay in anyway. I do not make games for you Despain.

Why bother asking for opinions if all you do is shrug them off as worthless? Not everyone here is an incompetent fool that will bow down to your rather abhorrent color scheming and play the game anyway.

Dark is good. Too dark is bad. You apparently tried to fix it, good. Now the game is TOO BLUE, which is bad. Being a bad thing, you should address this NOW, not LATER. I understand following your design vision and producing a game you'd like, but unless you intend this game to be played by no one, I'd listen to the majority of people (not a minority as you seem to think) saying that it's TOO DARK and TOO BLUE and FIX IT. You can't be arsed fixing something that makes your game worse? Why should we be arsed playing it then? Why are you going to waste your time releasing a blue chapter when NO ONE IS GOING TO BLOODY PLAY IT UNLESS YOU TONE DOWN THE FUCKING BLUE ASDASDASDASDASDASDASASDASDASDAS

 

[CERU]

Okaaaaay. Okaaaaay. I'll seeeee what I cannn dooooooooooo.

I'm going to be a little bitch and still release the Deep version as blue, but I'll change the Lite version to ... not blue. This might push it back past may 1st though.

Honestly, no one told me it was too blue until just recently, or at least, I don't remember it. x.o; But I'll see what I can do. I'm sorry I've been so stubborn.

 

[Skyla Doragono]

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I give up.  Don't PM me or anyone else bawing for help next time someone flames you to hell.

 

[Reives]

Okay guys, I think everybody got their point across, so let's not keep dragging this on here. Everybody have their own preferences, the author and critics alike. It is ultimately up to the author to determine whether or not to take in the critics' suggestions. If an opinion is way out of bound for the author's own preferences, then let the author sort it out, since he has the main saying.

In the end, if people don't like something, they won't play it. So to those who like it and are determined to keep it; sure. And to those who don't like it and already gave out suggestions about it; let nature sort it out from now on. No need to keep up the fuss. :smile:

 

[CERU]

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I give up.  Don't PM me or anyone else bawing for help next time someone flames you to hell.

I'm changing it. x.o; I'm changing it. x.x.; Not all of it, but the Lite version will not be blue.

I've go the picture that the colors are pretty unpopular. You probably wont play it, but the Lite version will address the view that blue sucks.

 

[Hevendor]

Okaaaaay. Okaaaaay. I'll seeeee what I cannn dooooooooooo.

I'm going to be a little bitch and still release the Deep version as blue, but I'll change the Lite version to ... not blue. This might push it back past may 1st though.

Thank you. That will be all.

Atemu posted 6 seconds after you.

 

[CERU]

Okaaaaay. Okaaaaay. I'll seeeee what I cannn dooooooooooo.

I'm going to be a little bitch and still release the Deep version as blue, but I'll change the Lite version to ... not blue. This might push it back past may 1st though.

Thank you. That will be all.

Atemu posted 6 seconds after you.

Sorry for the doublepost. :x
I realized that.

Voila

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Don't double post
~ fgfjhgffdas

 

[Luminier]

I think we can all see now why you hide behind the darkness, and the fkgfelkjgwfe blue. Your zombies look like utter shit, and you tilesets are ugly, and out of place. Way to try to disguise the crap, chum!

 

[CERU]

I think we can all see now why you hide behind the darkness, and the fkgfelkjgwfe blue. Your zombies look like utter shit, and you tilesets are ugly, and out of place. Way to try to disguise the crap, chum!

OKAY. THANK YOU.

 

[Despain]

Feedback is trolling. - CERU, 2008

 

[CERU]

Feedback is trolling. - CERU, 2008

SORRY.

 

[Skyla Doragono]

I think we can all see now why you hide behind the darkness, and the fkgfelkjgwfe blue. Your zombies look like utter shit, and you tilesets are ugly, and out of place. Way to try to disguise the crap, chum!

Didn't you get the memo? You and Despain are done trolling.

Actually, while blunt, that is feedback, and I would have said the same thing if Lummy hadn't beaten me to it.

Yikes.  o_o

 

[CERU]

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Sorry. I'm sorry that I can't make any of you happy.

 

[Posmic]

http://www.rmxp.org/forums/index.php?topic=45827.0

they really are horibble looking <_<

Marscapone, that's not very constructive.  :neutral:

http://www.rmxp.org/forums/index.php?topic=37597.30

Your zombies look like utter shit, and you tilesets are ugly, and out of place. Way to try to disguise the crap, chum!

 

[Despain]

It was, if you learn to read it beyond face value. I don't want to do this since I know that it's going to be completely ignored, but sometimes it has to be done.

I think we can all see now why you hide behind the darkness, and the fkgfelkjgwfe blue.

Now that you've shown us what it looks like without the screen tint, it's evident that you were using the insane amounts of blue in order to cover some things up.

Your zombies look like utter shit, and you tilesets are ugly, and out of place.

Your zombie sprites and tilesets are inconsistent with each other and with the hero sprite. Pick one style and stick with it. Inconsistency is graphics is one of the biggest turn-offs in an RPG Maker game, and your game seems to be a really good example of inconsistency taken to the extreme. For example, try putting one of your zombies and your hero next to each other, and the differences are clearly evident.

Way to try to disguise the crap, chum!

It seems as though you were aware of these problems and tried to hide them under the blue overlay. Unfortunately this is a very sloppy and lazy method, and it would be more beneficial to you and your project if you tried to work more with the graphics themselves rather than making use of cheap tricks.

 

[CERU]

Okay, well, the police station and subway were designed for the blue, so ... I'm sorry if they don't look so hot.

I did not think my graphics looked bad however, But I felt the colorscheme unified them.

It was never a cover up. I just thought it looked good.

 

[holloway]

If you'd listened to people in July 2007, you might have a good game on your hands now. Your pigheadedness has pretty much destroyed this game.

Learn from it.

 

[CERU]

Crepusculum in 2007 was successful.

And oh look. What's this. Why, is this Atemu? SHE SHE SHE (IM SORRY ATEMU IM SORRY) has something very bad to say about my horrible blue game right?

Wow, this got moved over quick.

Anyway, this does seem cool.  I'm not big on horror games, but I'd give this a shot.  Looking forward to a demo.

Well thats interesting.

Well now, let me quote some people who have played the game.

Thank you. How far are you?

I'm inside the police station right now.
Again well done for making this ^_^

You've created a great game CERU.

It was Reives? I still love it. I keep going back to play it still even though I know the game inside and out.

^_^ this is a great game well done ^^ I love its style and I love the fact is a survial horror xD.

Anyway, this game was awesome CERU. It's very cool to see a complete game floating around here. It's pretty inspiring, and now I want to go finish the intro to my game.

Spoiler: My only gripes about this game...

I do, however, think that it would have been cooler if there was a little more character development (and maybe another boss fight or two, but that matters less to me than the characters). As much as I loved the game, I felt as if, by the end, I didn't really know the characters all that well. Chris and Ellie were still very much mysteries by the end, and we never find out why the hell they're even in Black River in the first place. Also, Alexis is still a bit of a mystery to me... Alot of the time it seems like she's just there to say "Oh... my... god!" or something along those lines, and would be nice if she talked a little about her life before Black River at some point. (though maybe this is covered in the A rank ending? I'm not sure since I haven't gotten it) Anyway, just my humble opinion. Other than the lack of character development, this was a really fun game to play. All the puzzles were fairly well done, and I LOVED the atmosphere.

CERU, let me just say it was worth the wait. I love it, and I can't wait to see what else you come up with! ^_^

I love the music: it's very eerie. And I admit, you've certainly managed to make it spooky (which is quite difficult to do with the RTP style, lemme tell you).

Although this post does have a secondary purpose: I'm stuck. I'm in the police station, so to anyone reading this who isn't there yet, don't look in my spoiler :-x

Spoiler

I'm in the police station, on the third floor. I've just finished the puzzle where one finds the 3rd floor key and I've gone into the Chief's room, but I don't quite understand the hint paper: "The Missing Files, left to right?" Any hint as to what I do next?

Damn This game freaked me out when I started. I went in this room and these shadow things were following me. Im at the part where this dog chases you at the park. I dunno how to kill him X_X. I like this game alot! :thumb:

I finished the game! Thanks so much for your help, CERU! ^^

That was a really fun game, I really really enjoyed it, and that's saying a lot because I normally don't like playing horror survival games. I'm very easily scared and I jumped more than once playing this game. XD The puzzles were nicely done and not too difficult to solve.

I'm not too sure what exactly happened at the end of the game... but using all the notes and pages to develop the back story and what's actually happening in the game was a nice add and I'd say it was effective enough.

By the way, I scored a Rank D, hahaha XD;;; Hey, it's still passing, right? ;_; Too bad I didn't get to unlock any of the extra cutscenes. Maybe I'll replay it to get a higher rank but right now I think my eyes are a little sore at all the dark tones, so I'll give it a try another time.

I've been waiting for this some time now!
I downloaded the game as an .exe file and it worked just fine for me.

The game is really nice!You've done some great work on it!
I like the dark atmosphere this game has,
it gives it a very spooky horror feel.
And this proves that a horror game can be made in RMXP
if the whole thing is done right.
It turns out that dodging enemies is pretty fun.
But if the zombies surround you,it's game over!
I actually liked that.It's more realistic that way.
In conclusion,major kudos CERU!

And there were some moments that really scared me!
I'd be more specific about the scenes,
but I can't find the spoiler tag anywhere so,
it'll have to wait.Maybe I'll give a more detailed review
when I finish the game!

WHATS FUNNY IS I CANT FIND ANY NEGATIVE COMMENTS ON THE RELEASE OF THE ORIGINAL GAME.

For those of you who don't remember, before the academy section was reworked, there was some sort of a assignment to make a horror game. After the results of the the assignment, Rye, I believe it was, was disappointed with the etnries because they did not reach the same level of quality I reached with the original Crepusculum, pertaining to the atmosphere.

So, it is not as if no one has ever considered playing Crepusculum because it is oh-so-dark and oh-so-blue. Many people enjoyed the original game. For those of you who feel that is too dark, there will be a lighter option. For those of you who feel it is too blue don't play it.

 

[Despain]

WHATS FUNNY IS I CANT FIND ANY NEGATIVE COMMENTS ON THE RELEASE OF THE ORIGINAL GAME.

Nobody gave a shit about the original game. Of all those posts that you quoted, only one of them is an active member who I know and respect. I'm pretty sure I never made a single reply to it, or else I would have said something negative.

We have higher standards now than this forum did back then.

Stop bitching, suck it up, and accept the fact that your game isn't flawless. Otherwise you're looking at a warn and possibly a temporary ban. Being able to accept criticism is an important part of being a member here.