Final Fantasy Time and Again

[Mahlzeit]

Divx is really important! It should be on every computer with Windows XP!

[Azrael23]

Just updated the site, if anyone is interested
ff.kgne.net

[Mahlzeit]

I think I knew! What version is now updatet?

[~Jack~]

Azrael hat nicht das Spiel sondern die Seite geupdatet. Nur mal so als Info.

[Azrael23]

well i tried bablefish to try to traslate that... lol but it didnt come out quite right, im sorry but i didnt understand what you were trying to say.

[~Jack~]

I just told Mahlzeit, that you only updated the site because he thought you had updated the demo.

[Mahlzeit]

I knew that. I mean the Divx not the game! Is the game allready online?

[Man of Silence]

Hi everyone!
I don't want be bad but i hate FF!
But for Fans it's Really a good Game!

mfg MOS

[Azrael23]

ahh ok, thanks. Well soon we should be putting a new demo out. We have been working on the new demo for over 2 months now, and it will include some minigames and sidequests, and control over the airship.

[Mahlzeit]

Aha, and how big will it be?

[Azrael23]

ummm well... big... don't know exactly how big, Im planning on making some cut scences using 3dstudio max and other programs, so the high end version will probably fit a disk. lol

[Mahlzeit]

And must I buy it or what?

[Azrael23]

oh lol no no, of course not, we aren't going to sell the game at all

[Laguna the Immortal]

by the way it isn`t allowed to sell rpg maker 2000 games so i don`t think that anybody is going to do that *gg* and it would be a long way from america to germany so it would`t make sense
but i can`t found the video... the new page only shows a text and so on... need help

[Don Cuan]

@Laguna
I guess that there are no videos which you can download seperately from the site, except for a music video which doesn't seem to belong to their game (since it is from FF9, while their characters are from FF4 - but I havent viewed it yet, so it's just premise).

@Azrael
Unfortunately, I could not find the time to fully test your game, although it's already saved on my hard disk. But since I already watched the introduction movies I can judge that the length and quality don't really justify the large amount of space consumed by them. Therefore, releasing a "lite" version was a reasonable choice.
But BTW, what kind of disk should the entire game fill? A 3.5'' or an entire hard disk? I don't mean to offend you, but you should now what I want to tell you

[~Jack~]

I think Azrael means with disk the size of a cd. Anything else would be crazy don't you think?

[Azrael23]

lol yes I meant a cd disk.

[Don Cuan]

I think Azrael means with disk the size of a cd. Anything else would be crazy don't you think?

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Indeed... See below.

lol yes I meant a cd disk.

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I almost thought that, but I was aware to see an even larger amount of data for the final version. Luckily, I have access to a computer with a DSL connection
I think I'll try the game this evening, but it already looks good.

But let me remark one thing: The screenshots on your website, except for the frist one, don't match the thumbnails from which they are linked to


EDIT:
I have only played until Niveah yet, but I think I can already give my general opinion.
Although the graphics look rather aged (probably since they are from 1991 ), they don't lower your game's overall quality. Instead, they make the game even more enjoyable for someone who already played FF before part 7 (unfortunately the first one of the series released in Europe), as they manage to give the whole game a kind of charm which would be unattainable if you used other chipsets. The battle system, which also follows this nostalgic trend, adds to the athmosphere of old school FF too.
However, there are also points I have to criticize. Unfortunately, Time and Again seems to make the same mistakes as most of the FFs. The way some characters (especially NPCs) behave tends to be unbelievable or following clichés (e.g. Drake in the airship, who almost threatens Azrael, but thanks her a second later for letting him enjoy eating - IMO a ridiculous behaviour). Since I haven't seen everything, I can't predict whether this continues during the game and how much it may distract from the further game.
And the openig movie of the standard version could have been a lot smaller if you had replaced it by a series of pictures or lowered the framerate (since the movie ony consists of still frames)

But all in all, my impression was very positive. I think I will continue playing this weekend.

[Mahlzeit]

On a CD you can place 700 MB! When it will be bigger, you must put it on a DVD, but it will expensive... And the (Porto...) Or am I worng?

[Laguna the Immortal]

in the past there were of course some other maker team`s trying to put the game on a cd and send ist to other interested gamers but they all have stopped to think about this way and i don`t think many people like to get it this way...it`s too complicated

@Mahlzeit: *gg* was ein englisch...