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Darkness Beyond Time - Dead Project Discussion / Re: Crimson Echoes leaked

« on: February 28, 2013, 01:36:53 am »

Hahahaha. You know, it's funny; I'm also this guy.

And thanks. I guess you're right. I should be doing homework right now at 5:46am instead of worrying about this anyway.

You sir are a man after my own heart. And I salute you. 

(so after definitely not looking for or playing the CE beta for fear of awakening the SE guardians that sleep beneath, I have to conclude that it IS better than FoE. Mayhap I have a different opinion that some others here, who seem to have been slighted by the FoE creators, but I didn't feel that FoE was all that disrespectful to the CE guys. Though at this point I fear I must withdraw from that argument, because it almost sounds like a family feud I'm best not involved in. When I first definitely didn't find or play it, the posts on the various sites definitely not linked to it all seemed grateful and thankful for the original team's sweat, blood and tears)

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Darkness Beyond Time - Dead Project Discussion / Re: Crimson Echoes leaked

« on: February 28, 2013, 01:11:33 am »

And yes, no mention is made in the introduction of the Crimson Echoes team, despite the majority of the game having been left the same...

Actually, in FoE, if you start a "new game" rather than "new game +", the authors mention that Zeality and the rest of the original team wrote the bulk of this. All the new authors did was a fair bit of cleanup to make it fully playable, and add the multiple endings back in. I was kinda weirded out at first too  , believe me, because I remember the earlier versions had a big "thank you" to the original team for all their hard work at the beginning.

It's only that the latest versions have the save slots full of max level characters, so if you don't clear them and start a new game, you don't see the intro message.

Speaking of, huge huge thanks to the original team from me as well- I played through the beta before it got taken down, and loved every minute of it. Thanks for all your hard work, and I'm sorry that you weren't able to completely finish. Even so, we still got a cut diamond that had yet to be polished, nevertheless retaining its beauty. As opposed to a glistening, sparkling official release, such as the original two games.

The only other change which I noticed in my short time with FoE was a return to the terms of the original north american release such as "shadow" instead of "dark". The person behind this project is obviously a narrow-minded, ignorant, uncultured north-american who shows respect neither for the spirit of the original japanese text and the quality of the original game, nor for the work of the CE-team.

 , I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not... the only way to REALLY make sure we're not uneducated foreign devils from North America, would be to just have all games in their original languages from now on. That's the only way that the infidel languages will not pervert the true messages within our holy texts. Everything in Japanese from now on!

Or better yet, perhaps we should put everything in the original traditional Chinese characters that the Japanese characters are nearly identical to, and the language is based on...
   

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Articles / Re: Apostasy From Nature

« on: February 26, 2013, 08:45:39 pm »

Lord J Esq., I really think you have hit the nail on the proverbial head. I really don't like the fact that some people have to try and shoehorn their beliefs onto some one Else's work. Just take a look at The Lord Of The Rings, so many people try to make it into what THEY want it to say, rather than letting it have its own voice. And yeah, I'm christian, but I don't agree with most followers views about the world. We seem to have a hard enough time defending the games just on quality alone, do we have to ruin it for those who may be interested in this series?

Couldn't have said it better than J Esq. and Jamesexia. I'm Christian as well. The Church leadership is a collection including some people who, when removed for long enough from those they lead, tend to see the church as a tool for their own personal gain, rather than a responsibility from God to shepherd and nurture. This is true of any leadership we've seen throughout history, religious or not. They want what they can't have, and when given absolute power, are corrupted absolutely.

Tl;dr? People suck. Nobody is exempt.

A pastor I met when travelling told me once that he followed Jesus, not necessarily the Church leadership positions (save for the only one that actually matters, how we're redeemed from sin).



For further reference, watch South Park's "scrotie mcboogerballs", a good example of people reading their own ideas into something where they were not intended.