new here today, been playing the games for a while, on bfg. so not happy with bfg in trying to force you to buy the guides, but i have to admit 6dollars 99... for a great game, is wonderful and i wouldnt be able to play them if they wasnt that price cos im poor and sick and only got so many pennies left at the end of the month for a wonderful treat, which i have to say these games absolutely are!
Okay, the gold... this thing about the gold... you kind of jumped on that bloke who said the game sucked, it doesnt suck. Its avery good game... enjoying it immensly and im playing on hard... but the charactors not dropping gold... well... absolutely not my favourite bit of the game and it really does bug me im sorry to say i know you went for purity above avarice...
but... perhaps you could reconsider? or maybe you could do an addon that could be downloaded from the site so that we could have graded monsters dropping gold? and see how many people want the addon... then you'll know people either prefer or dont prefer to have the gold... if your selling a product doesnt it mean that the customer should have some say? Who knows you may sell more because its more on line with what the customer wants? you wouldnt of lost that blokes custom who said the game wasnt right because there was no gold, and im sure lots of people who try it before they buy it feel the same... custom could be walking out the door without you realising it (or without knowing just how many people bin the game because its not what they can understand or not what they expected or even to difficult without them being able to use it to keep score?)
my personal reasons for asking for the addon to have the monsters drop some gold.. is.. well... For one thing. I use the gold to keep score, always have with rpg's... always will... At the end of the day... when i see a pile of gold in the the gold count area... gives me a sense of accomplishment.
secondly, it isnt easy at first, or even later on to understand which dropped items can or should be sold, and which ones you'll need. You can sell the meat yes, but the meat all except the feline meat does things for you as in getting rid of cold or fatigue, and if you sell it... well... you dont have the back up incase you come across some nasties. Pretty much everything does something, except the 'pretty things' and that noble ring? well... its kind of annoying to have to remember to enable and disable the ring, especially when your running into monsters just outside the door... i died so many times, and i find the ring annoying. Dont get me wrong... it was a good idea, and probably is when your on easy mode... but when your on hard mode, and the monsters arent dropping gold, and you've walked outside the shop and died yet again, or walked into a nest of monsters and your dying and using up regeneration stuff all the time (which you have to buy by the way - with funds from things you sell...) just because of a ring that you forgot to take off? well... not fun... very not fun...
And thirdly... gold... listen to the sound the word makes... theres something exciting about the word 'gold' for us very poor blokes who dont have a thing thats made out of gold, pure or other wise... just that one word on the screen brightens up my minute, and my day... cos i know i'll never get none... but thats okay, your wonderful charactors can get me some... or... i hope they should be able to, i really would like an add on where they can, maybe drop two gold every second dragonfly wing? or 100 gold every zombie/skeleton sheild or something, and dragons should definately drop a boat load of gold... after all... what do dragons do all day before the knights and ladies and sneaky beggers sneaking around get there... they guard huge MASSIVE piles of gold and jewels (a few sparkly things such as diamonds and rubies and things will please the ladies... and the gold? pretty much pleases the blokes, and any ladies who don't like to haggle and sell stuff at a shop...)
oh and about the dinosaurs? MEGA BRILLIANT!!!!! LOVE Dinosaurs!!!! and can we have more? and can we have dino teeth? Us barbarian hero's got to have a choker/necklace/collar thingy made out of them to ward off the undead... cos you know they always go for the throat.
So heartfelt pleas... please Ma'am/Sirs/Misses/Mrs/Masters whoever, can we have a gold addon where things drop gold, i'd be forever truely grateful if you could, the addon to get given gold isnt quite the same thing
Well done for such a great game! and i just bought the second one which i am looking forwards too but i cant start until i've beaten the genii... if i could only find and beat this jinn thingy (spent all last night on it and all day today and still havent found the flaming genii bloke, and i still cant get in that odd little room with the two standing things and boy do i wish the maps had coloured arrows, this way to the pit of dispair- im here already - this way to the jinn- and i need a gin and tonic - and this way to the room on screen that you cant get in but should be able to get in...) add a boat load of gold for beating him and the other big monsters and this game would be perfection!
have a great day ladies and gents, keep up the good work and hurry up with the next one cos millenium two will only take me about a week or two!
Kit (from the uk)
and i really appreciate the art in your games, they are very pretty scenes, the elder lion could of done with a bit of work, more white frosted and maybe a different colour on the jewel, was you constrained by size on pictures?
