Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes now semi-Accessible.
Hi Orin. I'm stil slightly concerned about text labling of buttons and the combat timer in this game, though if the admin is being so helpful these issues can indeed be fixed. I've had a look at it and the tabs are indeed findable with Hal, though as to other aspects of the game, I've mainly been playing Eamon so haven't had time to try much out yet. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Orin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 2:56 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes now semi-Accessible. Hi all, The domain of heroes admin responded to me today. In adition, he labled the tabs. I'm now level 7. I've done quite a few quests and each faction does indeed have their own story. My first character got the Legion automatticly which is an evil faction, but on my second character I may choose the brootherhood. Also I think I've taken an area over from another faction and gained 1 VXP for it. Might try it in school tomorrow and see if it lives up to it's name an MMO for working people. For those of you who use twitter, when you play you can have DoH post notifications of quests you complete, rare objects you've found, etc. Also, to give feedback, Arron said we can contact him at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just wanted to let people who were interested know, weather you like the plot or battle system. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes now semi-Accessible.
Yeah, he said Just keep sending the feedback. On Dec 9, 2008, at 8:47 AM, dark wrote: Hi Orin. I'm stil slightly concerned about text labling of buttons and the combat timer in this game, though if the admin is being so helpful these issues can indeed be fixed. I've had a look at it and the tabs are indeed findable with Hal, though as to other aspects of the game, I've mainly been playing Eamon so haven't had time to try much out yet. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Orin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 2:56 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes now semi-Accessible. Hi all, The domain of heroes admin responded to me today. In adition, he labled the tabs. I'm now level 7. I've done quite a few quests and each faction does indeed have their own story. My first character got the Legion automatticly which is an evil faction, but on my second character I may choose the brootherhood. Also I think I've taken an area over from another faction and gained 1 VXP for it. Might try it in school tomorrow and see if it lives up to it's name an MMO for working people. For those of you who use twitter, when you play you can have DoH post notifications of quests you complete, rare objects you've found, etc. Also, to give feedback, Arron said we can contact him at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just wanted to let people who were interested know, weather you like the plot or battle system. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes
Lands of hope actually has something to be desired where writing is concerned. Its an ok game for a while, but the random item generation system is rather odd, and the quests are all pretty much kill this or bring me this item. No delivery quests, though you get the ocasional dungeon exploration quest for whatever that's worth. Its kind of entertaining for a while, but overall it just becomes tedius as do most number crunch rpg's, even if you hide said number crunching behind a half-assed plot and hundreds of essentially the same quest with different dialogue. -- From: Orin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 12:27 PM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes Lands of Hope seems pretty good writing quality and it appears to be graphical. It takes a lot of getting used to but when I play next time I'm determined at least to get out of the estate. On Dec 7, 2008, at 1:29 PM, dark wrote: While I agree that practically you'd have to have a very decent sort of webmaster to do that, - in fairness if they'd actually been obeying their net conventions there should have been alt text there anyway. Sryth has a few images, particularly associated with functions, and you know Kingdom of loathing is packed with them, but both of those games are fine simply because people have been doing what they should. It might just be my boardom with the majority of standard form rpg's talking, but it does actually seem that for a heck of a lot of games, the more time spent on flashy images and graphics and an inconvenient user interface, the worse the writing and story. though of course there are exceptions like age of fable. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Shadow Dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 6:21 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes I agree the game could definitely use some labelling. I don't know thatit'll actually happen though, given the amount of graphical content and immages. Will probably be another case of lands of hope, where the ridiculous amount of immages would make going back through and labelling everything a truly massive and rather unfeesable project. But I suppose we'll see. -- From: dark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 11:17 AM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes Hmmm, I could find nothing that points to the tabs at all, no lables, nada. that's what was so frustrating really, and why I say the game needs mega labling doing. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Shadow Dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes Actually the tabs are accessible with jaws. Hence why I said I couldn't find any kind of link to bring up item descriptions or the like. They're not exactly accessible, since they aren't labeled, but you can get to them with a little trial and error, with jaws at least it's a matter of memorizing 2 or 3 arrow key presses depending on what tab you're trying to access. and yeah, as for battle, I can't see really anything to do there accept sit and let wave after wave of monsters come to you. I have trouble believing that's all there is to it, but that's all I can find as of now. Anyway, it seems to be another case of no real plot anyway. They claim 3 different storylines, but all I've really seen so far are the classic kill this and take this here quests. Perhaps I'll try a little longer, but the games starting to become rather annoying. -- From: dark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 9:09 AM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes As I said Shaddow dragon, all the items and such are on screen hot spots with no lables, thus unfindable. i don't know if there are better descriptions in the inventory tab, sinse again, the tabs seem to be completely unlabled graphical hot spots. i think it's possible to basically wander around the game and sit around in a dungeon until you either beat up some monsters or get kicked out, and to do quests just using the main map view and text boxes, but not having the inventory tab is a pest, also the pvp actually sounded interesting in this game, but from the description seemed very graphically nasty. If you can get the people in charge to do some serious text labeling (particularly of tabs), please let me know. Beware the grue! Dark. I recently fixed a lot of internet explorer's display functions, and will actually try lands of hope again just to see how things work out
Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes
does it work ok on mac with safari? On 6 Dec 2008, at 23:57, Orin wrote: Hi all, Well, it's yet another browser RPG. And it really is an RPG. It's got pretty good story too. What I also like about this is that it has a nice battle system, where in a dungeon you fight hoards of monsters until you leave the battle or die, so I gained about 2 levels without really loosing much health. More things I like about it? The fact that the help files are detailed and when getting help for skills, it says very high malee attack, instead of a malee attack that does X It also has an accessible map. The only disadvantage that I see so far right now is in the quest description when you receive a quest, you have the oppertunity to jump back to the questgivers location to complete the quest. That's not accessible because the main links, logout, the different tabs as they call them we don't know which tab we're on, isn't labled. All it says is clear, however I have managed to complete the first quest because the action menu is accessible talking to NPCs, shopping, etc. I'll be signing up to the forums in a bit to inform Arren, the developer, about these issues, and hopefully he'd be so nice as to fix them. I think if this game does become fully accessible it'll be just as good as Sryth is. The link is http://www.domainofheroes.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes
As I said Shaddow dragon, all the items and such are on screen hot spots with no lables, thus unfindable. i don't know if there are better descriptions in the inventory tab, sinse again, the tabs seem to be completely unlabled graphical hot spots. i think it's possible to basically wander around the game and sit around in a dungeon until you either beat up some monsters or get kicked out, and to do quests just using the main map view and text boxes, but not having the inventory tab is a pest, also the pvp actually sounded interesting in this game, but from the description seemed very graphically nasty. If you can get the people in charge to do some serious text labeling (particularly of tabs), please let me know. Beware the grue! Dark. I recently fixed a lot of internet explorer's display functions, and will actually try lands of hope again just to see how things work out. - Original Message - From: Shadow Dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 4:03 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes Well, after a bit of testing with jaws, I've come to the conclusion that, with jaws at least, this game is about as accessible as Lands of Hope. That is, it takes a bit of adapting and it can be tough to navigate, but its dooable. But I have to say its not all its cracked up to be. Battle entails simply selecting an action and then just sitting there while your character kills wave after wave of monsters. Not exactly what I'd call entertaining. The quests do look well thought out, and I'll have to look into the story more, but so far its not exactly impressive. One thing I still can't figure out is how, if at all, you can examine items. There doesn't even seem to be a mouseover thing to bring up a description with stats and such, so equipment seems to be guesswork, which I really don't like. Anyway, I'll play around with it a little more and see what I come up with, but it doesn't really look promising. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes
Actually the tabs are accessible with jaws. Hence why I said I couldn't find any kind of link to bring up item descriptions or the like. They're not exactly accessible, since they aren't labeled, but you can get to them with a little trial and error, with jaws at least it's a matter of memorizing 2 or 3 arrow key presses depending on what tab you're trying to access. and yeah, as for battle, I can't see really anything to do there accept sit and let wave after wave of monsters come to you. I have trouble believing that's all there is to it, but that's all I can find as of now. Anyway, it seems to be another case of no real plot anyway. They claim 3 different storylines, but all I've really seen so far are the classic kill this and take this here quests. Perhaps I'll try a little longer, but the games starting to become rather annoying. -- From: dark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 9:09 AM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes As I said Shaddow dragon, all the items and such are on screen hot spots with no lables, thus unfindable. i don't know if there are better descriptions in the inventory tab, sinse again, the tabs seem to be completely unlabled graphical hot spots. i think it's possible to basically wander around the game and sit around in a dungeon until you either beat up some monsters or get kicked out, and to do quests just using the main map view and text boxes, but not having the inventory tab is a pest, also the pvp actually sounded interesting in this game, but from the description seemed very graphically nasty. If you can get the people in charge to do some serious text labeling (particularly of tabs), please let me know. Beware the grue! Dark. I recently fixed a lot of internet explorer's display functions, and will actually try lands of hope again just to see how things work out. - Original Message - From: Shadow Dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 4:03 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes Well, after a bit of testing with jaws, I've come to the conclusion that, with jaws at least, this game is about as accessible as Lands of Hope. That is, it takes a bit of adapting and it can be tough to navigate, but its dooable. But I have to say its not all its cracked up to be. Battle entails simply selecting an action and then just sitting there while your character kills wave after wave of monsters. Not exactly what I'd call entertaining. The quests do look well thought out, and I'll have to look into the story more, but so far its not exactly impressive. One thing I still can't figure out is how, if at all, you can examine items. There doesn't even seem to be a mouseover thing to bring up a description with stats and such, so equipment seems to be guesswork, which I really don't like. Anyway, I'll play around with it a little more and see what I come up with, but it doesn't really look promising. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes
Hmmm, I could find nothing that points to the tabs at all, no lables, nada. that's what was so frustrating really, and why I say the game needs mega labling doing. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Shadow Dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes Actually the tabs are accessible with jaws. Hence why I said I couldn't find any kind of link to bring up item descriptions or the like. They're not exactly accessible, since they aren't labeled, but you can get to them with a little trial and error, with jaws at least it's a matter of memorizing 2 or 3 arrow key presses depending on what tab you're trying to access. and yeah, as for battle, I can't see really anything to do there accept sit and let wave after wave of monsters come to you. I have trouble believing that's all there is to it, but that's all I can find as of now. Anyway, it seems to be another case of no real plot anyway. They claim 3 different storylines, but all I've really seen so far are the classic kill this and take this here quests. Perhaps I'll try a little longer, but the games starting to become rather annoying. -- From: dark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 9:09 AM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes As I said Shaddow dragon, all the items and such are on screen hot spots with no lables, thus unfindable. i don't know if there are better descriptions in the inventory tab, sinse again, the tabs seem to be completely unlabled graphical hot spots. i think it's possible to basically wander around the game and sit around in a dungeon until you either beat up some monsters or get kicked out, and to do quests just using the main map view and text boxes, but not having the inventory tab is a pest, also the pvp actually sounded interesting in this game, but from the description seemed very graphically nasty. If you can get the people in charge to do some serious text labeling (particularly of tabs), please let me know. Beware the grue! Dark. I recently fixed a lot of internet explorer's display functions, and will actually try lands of hope again just to see how things work out. - Original Message - From: Shadow Dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 4:03 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes Well, after a bit of testing with jaws, I've come to the conclusion that, with jaws at least, this game is about as accessible as Lands of Hope. That is, it takes a bit of adapting and it can be tough to navigate, but its dooable. But I have to say its not all its cracked up to be. Battle entails simply selecting an action and then just sitting there while your character kills wave after wave of monsters. Not exactly what I'd call entertaining. The quests do look well thought out, and I'll have to look into the story more, but so far its not exactly impressive. One thing I still can't figure out is how, if at all, you can examine items. There doesn't even seem to be a mouseover thing to bring up a description with stats and such, so equipment seems to be guesswork, which I really don't like. Anyway, I'll play around with it a little more and see what I come up with, but it doesn't really look promising. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You
Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes
I agree the game could definitely use some labelling. I don't know thatit'll actually happen though, given the amount of graphical content and immages. Will probably be another case of lands of hope, where the ridiculous amount of immages would make going back through and labelling everything a truly massive and rather unfeesable project. But I suppose we'll see. -- From: dark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 11:17 AM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes Hmmm, I could find nothing that points to the tabs at all, no lables, nada. that's what was so frustrating really, and why I say the game needs mega labling doing. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Shadow Dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes Actually the tabs are accessible with jaws. Hence why I said I couldn't find any kind of link to bring up item descriptions or the like. They're not exactly accessible, since they aren't labeled, but you can get to them with a little trial and error, with jaws at least it's a matter of memorizing 2 or 3 arrow key presses depending on what tab you're trying to access. and yeah, as for battle, I can't see really anything to do there accept sit and let wave after wave of monsters come to you. I have trouble believing that's all there is to it, but that's all I can find as of now. Anyway, it seems to be another case of no real plot anyway. They claim 3 different storylines, but all I've really seen so far are the classic kill this and take this here quests. Perhaps I'll try a little longer, but the games starting to become rather annoying. -- From: dark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 9:09 AM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes As I said Shaddow dragon, all the items and such are on screen hot spots with no lables, thus unfindable. i don't know if there are better descriptions in the inventory tab, sinse again, the tabs seem to be completely unlabled graphical hot spots. i think it's possible to basically wander around the game and sit around in a dungeon until you either beat up some monsters or get kicked out, and to do quests just using the main map view and text boxes, but not having the inventory tab is a pest, also the pvp actually sounded interesting in this game, but from the description seemed very graphically nasty. If you can get the people in charge to do some serious text labeling (particularly of tabs), please let me know. Beware the grue! Dark. I recently fixed a lot of internet explorer's display functions, and will actually try lands of hope again just to see how things work out. - Original Message - From: Shadow Dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 4:03 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes Well, after a bit of testing with jaws, I've come to the conclusion that, with jaws at least, this game is about as accessible as Lands of Hope. That is, it takes a bit of adapting and it can be tough to navigate, but its dooable. But I have to say its not all its cracked up to be. Battle entails simply selecting an action and then just sitting there while your character kills wave after wave of monsters. Not exactly what I'd call entertaining. The quests do look well thought out, and I'll have to look into the story more, but so far its not exactly impressive. One thing I still can't figure out is how, if at all, you can examine items. There doesn't even seem to be a mouseover thing to bring up a description with stats and such, so equipment seems to be guesswork, which I really don't like. Anyway, I'll play around with it a little more and see what I come up with, but it doesn't really look promising. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL
Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes
While I agree that practically you'd have to have a very decent sort of webmaster to do that, - in fairness if they'd actually been obeying their net conventions there should have been alt text there anyway. Sryth has a few images, particularly associated with functions, and you know Kingdom of loathing is packed with them, but both of those games are fine simply because people have been doing what they should. It might just be my boardom with the majority of standard form rpg's talking, but it does actually seem that for a heck of a lot of games, the more time spent on flashy images and graphics and an inconvenient user interface, the worse the writing and story. though of course there are exceptions like age of fable. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Shadow Dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 6:21 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes I agree the game could definitely use some labelling. I don't know thatit'll actually happen though, given the amount of graphical content and immages. Will probably be another case of lands of hope, where the ridiculous amount of immages would make going back through and labelling everything a truly massive and rather unfeesable project. But I suppose we'll see. -- From: dark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 11:17 AM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes Hmmm, I could find nothing that points to the tabs at all, no lables, nada. that's what was so frustrating really, and why I say the game needs mega labling doing. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Shadow Dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes Actually the tabs are accessible with jaws. Hence why I said I couldn't find any kind of link to bring up item descriptions or the like. They're not exactly accessible, since they aren't labeled, but you can get to them with a little trial and error, with jaws at least it's a matter of memorizing 2 or 3 arrow key presses depending on what tab you're trying to access. and yeah, as for battle, I can't see really anything to do there accept sit and let wave after wave of monsters come to you. I have trouble believing that's all there is to it, but that's all I can find as of now. Anyway, it seems to be another case of no real plot anyway. They claim 3 different storylines, but all I've really seen so far are the classic kill this and take this here quests. Perhaps I'll try a little longer, but the games starting to become rather annoying. -- From: dark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 9:09 AM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes As I said Shaddow dragon, all the items and such are on screen hot spots with no lables, thus unfindable. i don't know if there are better descriptions in the inventory tab, sinse again, the tabs seem to be completely unlabled graphical hot spots. i think it's possible to basically wander around the game and sit around in a dungeon until you either beat up some monsters or get kicked out, and to do quests just using the main map view and text boxes, but not having the inventory tab is a pest, also the pvp actually sounded interesting in this game, but from the description seemed very graphically nasty. If you can get the people in charge to do some serious text labeling (particularly of tabs), please let me know. Beware the grue! Dark. I recently fixed a lot of internet explorer's display functions, and will actually try lands of hope again just to see how things work out. - Original Message - From: Shadow Dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 4:03 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes Well, after a bit of testing with jaws, I've come to the conclusion that, with jaws at least, this game is about as accessible as Lands of Hope. That is, it takes a bit of adapting and it can be tough to navigate, but its dooable. But I have to say its not all its cracked up to be. Battle entails simply selecting an action and then just sitting there while your character kills wave after wave of monsters. Not exactly what I'd call entertaining. The quests do look well thought out, and I'll have to look into the story more, but so far its not exactly impressive. One thing I still can't figure out is how, if at all, you can examine items. There doesn't even seem to be a mouseover thing to bring up a description with stats and such, so equipment seems to be guesswork, which I really don't like. Anyway, I'll play around with it a little more and see
Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes
Lands of Hope seems pretty good writing quality and it appears to be graphical. It takes a lot of getting used to but when I play next time I'm determined at least to get out of the estate. On Dec 7, 2008, at 1:29 PM, dark wrote: While I agree that practically you'd have to have a very decent sort of webmaster to do that, - in fairness if they'd actually been obeying their net conventions there should have been alt text there anyway. Sryth has a few images, particularly associated with functions, and you know Kingdom of loathing is packed with them, but both of those games are fine simply because people have been doing what they should. It might just be my boardom with the majority of standard form rpg's talking, but it does actually seem that for a heck of a lot of games, the more time spent on flashy images and graphics and an inconvenient user interface, the worse the writing and story. though of course there are exceptions like age of fable. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Shadow Dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 6:21 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes I agree the game could definitely use some labelling. I don't know thatit'll actually happen though, given the amount of graphical content and immages. Will probably be another case of lands of hope, where the ridiculous amount of immages would make going back through and labelling everything a truly massive and rather unfeesable project. But I suppose we'll see. -- From: dark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 11:17 AM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes Hmmm, I could find nothing that points to the tabs at all, no lables, nada. that's what was so frustrating really, and why I say the game needs mega labling doing. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Shadow Dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes Actually the tabs are accessible with jaws. Hence why I said I couldn't find any kind of link to bring up item descriptions or the like. They're not exactly accessible, since they aren't labeled, but you can get to them with a little trial and error, with jaws at least it's a matter of memorizing 2 or 3 arrow key presses depending on what tab you're trying to access. and yeah, as for battle, I can't see really anything to do there accept sit and let wave after wave of monsters come to you. I have trouble believing that's all there is to it, but that's all I can find as of now. Anyway, it seems to be another case of no real plot anyway. They claim 3 different storylines, but all I've really seen so far are the classic kill this and take this here quests. Perhaps I'll try a little longer, but the games starting to become rather annoying. -- From: dark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 9:09 AM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes As I said Shaddow dragon, all the items and such are on screen hot spots with no lables, thus unfindable. i don't know if there are better descriptions in the inventory tab, sinse again, the tabs seem to be completely unlabled graphical hot spots. i think it's possible to basically wander around the game and sit around in a dungeon until you either beat up some monsters or get kicked out, and to do quests just using the main map view and text boxes, but not having the inventory tab is a pest, also the pvp actually sounded interesting in this game, but from the description seemed very graphically nasty. If you can get the people in charge to do some serious text labeling (particularly of tabs), please let me know. Beware the grue! Dark. I recently fixed a lot of internet explorer's display functions, and will actually try lands of hope again just to see how things work out. - Original Message - From: Shadow Dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 4:03 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes Well, after a bit of testing with jaws, I've come to the conclusion that, with jaws at least, this game is about as accessible as Lands of Hope. That is, it takes a bit of adapting and it can be tough to navigate, but its dooable. But I have to say its not all its cracked up to be. Battle entails simply selecting an action and then just sitting there while your character kills wave after wave of monsters. Not exactly what I'd call entertaining. The quests do look well thought out, and I'll have to look into the story more, but so far its not exactly impressive
Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes
You definitely won't get any argument from me. Unfortunately it seems like webmasters are getting lazier and lazier these days. Shame most text rpg's of this sort couldn't have started as KoL did, where everything was labelled from the start. Of course on the other hand, there's only so much you can do with labelling, especially when it comes to animation and meters and the like. I'm not really sure what you mean about age of fable being the exception though, it doesn't really have any flashy immages and the like that I know of, doesn't even have a combat system.Its pretty much like a choose your own adventure book governed strictly by stat tests. -- From: dark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 11:29 AM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes While I agree that practically you'd have to have a very decent sort of webmaster to do that, - in fairness if they'd actually been obeying their net conventions there should have been alt text there anyway. Sryth has a few images, particularly associated with functions, and you know Kingdom of loathing is packed with them, but both of those games are fine simply because people have been doing what they should. It might just be my boardom with the majority of standard form rpg's talking, but it does actually seem that for a heck of a lot of games, the more time spent on flashy images and graphics and an inconvenient user interface, the worse the writing and story. though of course there are exceptions like age of fable. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Shadow Dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 6:21 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes I agree the game could definitely use some labelling. I don't know thatit'll actually happen though, given the amount of graphical content and immages. Will probably be another case of lands of hope, where the ridiculous amount of immages would make going back through and labelling everything a truly massive and rather unfeesable project. But I suppose we'll see. -- From: dark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 11:17 AM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes Hmmm, I could find nothing that points to the tabs at all, no lables, nada. that's what was so frustrating really, and why I say the game needs mega labling doing. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Shadow Dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes Actually the tabs are accessible with jaws. Hence why I said I couldn't find any kind of link to bring up item descriptions or the like. They're not exactly accessible, since they aren't labeled, but you can get to them with a little trial and error, with jaws at least it's a matter of memorizing 2 or 3 arrow key presses depending on what tab you're trying to access. and yeah, as for battle, I can't see really anything to do there accept sit and let wave after wave of monsters come to you. I have trouble believing that's all there is to it, but that's all I can find as of now. Anyway, it seems to be another case of no real plot anyway. They claim 3 different storylines, but all I've really seen so far are the classic kill this and take this here quests. Perhaps I'll try a little longer, but the games starting to become rather annoying. -- From: dark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 9:09 AM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes As I said Shaddow dragon, all the items and such are on screen hot spots with no lables, thus unfindable. i don't know if there are better descriptions in the inventory tab, sinse again, the tabs seem to be completely unlabled graphical hot spots. i think it's possible to basically wander around the game and sit around in a dungeon until you either beat up some monsters or get kicked out, and to do quests just using the main map view and text boxes, but not having the inventory tab is a pest, also the pvp actually sounded interesting in this game, but from the description seemed very graphically nasty. If you can get the people in charge to do some serious text labeling (particularly of tabs), please let me know. Beware the grue! Dark. I recently fixed a lot of internet explorer's display functions, and will actually try lands of hope again just to see how things work out. - Original Message - From: Shadow Dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 4:03 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Domain
Re: [Audyssey] Domain of Heroes
Hi Orin. I've just signed up, am waiting for my mail and reading the docs. It strikes me as the sort of thing which could be either really good or incredibly tedious depending upon A, the quality of the writing, and B, the complications with navigating the pages, usually these tend to go together in my experience, sinse the flashier the game, the worse the writing, and the harder to navigate, Sryth of course being King in all these areas. I like the idea of reducing the micro management aspects to let you concentrate on other things, but as I said I'll wait and see. Beware the Grue! Dark. - --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
