Tales of the Ocean: Sema's Skill Exhibition

[alkafrazin]

The animation isn't bad for a RM2k3 game. Looks like a lot of work was put into it.

I've done some basic RM2k3 event battle systems before, you don't want to try to make a Tales of system with it. You'll wind up spending hours on it to wind up with a giant glitch. Trust me.

For more recent RPG Makers, though, it should be pretty doable, but would take a lot of work, especially for animating skills/hit detection.

[DrolKeegEht]

... It's like someone took Final Fantasy and combined it with a Tales game. I'm not sure if that epic fail-ifying Tales, or awesome-ifying FF.

(No, shut up. I know what you're going to say, and it's something among the lines of "WAAAAH FF IS AWSUM FUK U WAAAAH.")

[SeraphimSwordmaster]

@DrolKeegEht I won't get mad. Final Fantasy hasn't done it for me in ages.

In regards to the battle system, blame RM2k3. It doesn't let you make a Tales-style battle system by default, and when I was making Ocean, I didn't understand how to do a Tales one. I still don't. At All. It's too event-y and clusterfucky. >_>

Still, I finished this a year ago, so I've moved onto (what I hope are) better things since. With some luck, maybe I'll learn for future projects.

[DrolKeegEht]

@SeraphimSwordmaster

Ah, yes. The worst thing in making a game; a clusterfucky game making program. Well, good luck with whatever it is you move on to. Hopefully you can get a non-shitty program.

[SeraphimSwordmaster]

@DrolKeegEht I wouldn't say RM2k3 was a *bad* program, just that it was sort of impossible for a kid who had zero experience with game making to make something technologically outstanding. I suppose it was story and characters that saved my sorry ass when I was starting out, lol.

Still, what I got out of Ocean was experience, and now that I have that, I'm having a much easier time developing my next game (the fact that RMVX is a better program too helps XD).

[gbahole1]

I've heard this song somewhere..

[SeraphimSwordmaster]

It's from Breath of Fire III. I love the music from that game. ^^

[gbahole1]

Oh YEAH! I remember now! With Ryu and rei and everyone else..great game.

[superbuggy222]

Too bad the enemies cant move like that =\ And are you putting a cameo battle in there? 8D

[SeraphimSwordmaster]

Yeah, it's a shame that they can't move. Oh well, at least their Mystic Artes will be animated.

And, yes, there will be a cameo battle. I'll be uploading them in due time.

[superbuggy222]

:3 Yay :3

[nooby197]

hey

did you figure out the problem with my rpg maker 2003? i still cant put in any images....

[SeraphimSwordmaster]

Well, no, because I'm not sure what it is you're asking.

By images, do you mean that you have trouble importing files, or do you mean that the graphics are loading funny or what?

If it's importing images you're having trouble with, try saving them as .GIF files. Be careful, however, as this may ruin their quality, so make an extra copy beforehand just in case.

[nooby197]

can u please help me how to make this?? please! i just got the rpg maker 2003 and i tried to upload these images but it won't let me. please help me!

[SeraphimSwordmaster]

I'll need a bit more information than that to identify what the problem is, but I'll do what I can.

[skiefortress]

Hmm, the animation sure could use some work. The character doesn't move smoothly. But I guess that since you ripped those from Exceed Force, you wouldn't have much leeway. My point still stands though.

Also, you should probably balance your damage. The damage those skills did wasn't really all that different.

[SeraphimSwordmaster]

Yeah, I'm not very good with animating, though I am trying to revamp things to make them look better.

And the reason most of the damage is similar is because I wanted to give the skills different effects as opposed to massively increasing damage, otherwise the old skills just become redundant. For example, White Tornado drains HP, Searing Soar Slash is the anti-air attack, etc.

I just find a lot of RPG's see you end up with a lot of useless skills at the end, and I just wanted to avoid that.

[Nastara]

I'm glad your doing that because every non-action RPG ends up with really useless old skills. Who wants to do Sword Rain and do 50 damage when you can do Sword Rain: Alpha and do 1,000 damage?

[Eleferiona]

Aw, no spoiler skills. I feed on spoilers >_>...

[Arkanent]

This battle theme is from Breath of Fire III, isn't it? Oo

[puppetmastersasori]

Sweet skills. They look great!

[Kaithepkk]

those were some awesome skills man

[zguy2]

semas got some awsome skills!! =D

[SeraphimSwordmaster]

Ah, thanks mate. Much appreciated! ^^!

[XLightThief]

Nice animations and exhibition. ^_^