Personally I prefer less technical rpgs since they alow you to get into the game more emotionally instead of just sitting there cooly calculating the odds. I'm wondering if the thing is flexible to allow me to set up hearts or something to indicate health and get rid of all the numbers like in the Zelda games.
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that's an intriguing approach. you'd probably want to be able to remove the green health bar from opponents, too, and change it to a certain number of hits (with a certain weapon). anyone play the old NES game "Crystalis"? Sounds remotely similar. (kinda humours how much we plug our games without even dropping hints of storyline :))
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Ogre Battle is one of my favourite games. I haven't played OB64, but I hear it's quite good.
Sorry to be away from this conversation. By technical rpgs I mean anything where the artifacts consist of a set of numbers that tell you its abilities against various kinds of armor and creatures and what its chances of doing whatever it does are. Anything where your health and that of any opponents is not a bunch of numbers. Oh never mind that definition. A non-technical rpg for me has NO numbers, except your money of course. The Zelda games, particularly A Link to the Past are a perfect example. Unfortunately the last I checked Coldstone cranked out turn-based games which I find get rather boring sooner that others.
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Well, as it would appear now, ColdStone is going to be a fully live-action game, where the real issue is "can we pull off turn based games?" But I understand what you're getting at (I think). Zelda is a prime example of a less "impersonal" RPG, but underneath those hearts and that pretty green magic meter are still just the same numbers being stacked up against each other: weapon hit chance vs. armor class vs. amount of life, etc, etc.
So, I guess the real question is whether or not ColdStone will allow for a graphical representation of those statistics. From all the screenshots / progress logs I've seen, it looks like the interface will be based more on numbers. But, it's still too early to tell, and I have a feeling that someone will find a work-around for almost every problem we could think, so hope is not lost for the user friendly RPG. 
Best of luck to ya though.
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Spiffy! I understand that there are numbers underneath Zelda, but for the most part artifacts tend to allow you to swim or go some place or lift something instead of increasing a certain stat by a certain number of points. I want to make a Coldstone game like that.
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So, I guess the real question is whether or not ColdStone will allow for a graphical representation of those statistics. From all the screenshots / progress logs I've seen, it looks like the interface will be based more on numbers. But, it's still too early to tell, and I have a feeling that someone will find a work-around for almost every problem we could think, so hope is not lost for the user friendly RPG.:)
Best of luck to ya though.
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Don't make any assumptions about the interface from the pictures you see on ASW.com. Really, all RPGs have stats so in a way all RPGs are based on numbers.
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