I think DQ4 Rennisance would be much better if Nara wasn't fucking Miss Cleo! That alone almost made me close the game in disgust. Sure, she's a useless character, but you don't have to transform her into some scam artist who makes you call random men at the other end of the 900 number.
That must be the single worst reason to hate something, ever, in the history of man. You haven't even played the game for five minutes, and yet you still managed to form an opinion about it. Never mind how it's the result of over a year's worth of planning, programming, and debugging (and it's still not even 1/6th finished), has several custom non-standard gameplay add-ons, and features lots of original music and character designs. No, you just decided it sucked because of an insignificant little joke in the prologue. It would be like saying Final Fantasy 7 is not worth your time because while escaping Reactor No. 1, Jessie's leg gets stuck on something and you have to free her, which you think is Square's way of saying women are more or less useless and always get in the way of important operations. Judging a book by its first chapter is every bit as shallow as judging it by its cover.
I apologize if I'm coming off as a little too angry, but I take insults to DW4:R much more seriously than insults to Foo-La-La. Foo-La-La took days to complete. DW4:R was started in October 2003 and is still nowhere near finished. I can see when my welcome is worn out. But this kind of shit just rolls off my back by now, because I must have been banned or forced off of dozens of message boards in the past.
]]>He should be banned from using flash simply based on the fact he decided to let it continue for like 5 minutes. Filling that gap with the same goddamn trash shown a minute ago didn't help.
so subtle...
I have to disagree with you here Indogutsu, he did NOT say it best. at first, he didn't use any arguments AT ALL in his post. The only thing remotely close to one is 'that the song isn't funny'. Of course, he didn't say WHY it wasn't funny..
And second: it's not a bad animutation. Sure, it's not much of a movie. Sure, the program it's made in isn't made for movies at all, but for RPG's (and the rpg's made in it aren't that good anyway, but that aside). But the stuff Neil made wasn't good as a movie too. Just look at the 'prototype' for animutations, hyakugojyuuichi. You can't say Cicireiga showed any animation talent in there. What it DID have was random appereances of pop-culture things, photoshopped images, and fake lyrics. that's why it was cool. And that's why foo-la-la is cool too.
Third, the song isn't that bad. I actually have it as a ringtone right now, but that's because it was the only decent .wav file sitting on my comp.
Conclusion: Foo-la-la isn't the best animutation ever made, but i enjoyed it. 7 out of 10.
]]>I think DQ4 Rennisance would be much better if Nara wasn't fucking Miss Cleo! That alone almost made me close the game in disgust. Sure, she's a useless character, but you don't have to transform her into some scam artist who makes you call random men at the other end of the 900 number.
]]>As for Foo-La-La, I thank Quietust and Dwedit very much for their efforts, but I think Misteroo said it best (as much as it pains me to say it). The movie was never meant to be a serious fanimutation, it was just some dumb little thing I whipped up in a couple of days, using a program that wasn't designed to make movies to begin with, just so I could show my friends on another message board that said program can be used for something else. I mean, LOOK at it. It's a fanimutation without any animation. It's a fut.
Still, if you want to put it on Albinoblacksheep or even Newgrounds, be my guest. I'm not expecting Foo-La-La to get a cult following, or even be liked by fewer than half the people who watch it, or even SURVIVE. It's something I made for fun, not fame or prestige, and thus I invested a minimal amount of creativity into it. Now "Dragon Warrior IV: Renaissance," THAT'S my pride and joy.
]]>I added the background music to the preloader (much harder to do than it sounds!), took out the seekbar/preloader bar, replaced it with a smaller seekbar that only appears when you mouseover the bottom of the movie. Also fixed the simpsons quotes at the end. Added sound effects to the buttons, and fixed the preloader play button. Didn't touch the movie content itself at all, I wonder if I should export everything as lossless or not. It might waste 400k or so, but there would be no jpeg artifacts.
Recommended to display the flash movie at 640x480. I think it is now in good enough shape to be set loose onto Newgrounds, where it will promptly be blammed. If not NG, I'm sure Albinoblacksheep will be happy to hotlink it, and give millions of people the impression that he created the content.
6 minutes long and 4 megs in size.
HTML: (forces 640x480) http://omega.cs.iit.edu/~dwedit/foolala/foolala3.html
SWF: (to download it) http://omega.cs.iit.edu/~dwedit/foolala/foolala3.swf
I'll go show it to Misteroo, although doing so might get me banned from Disaster Labs's forum. I'm sure the ban list will go away the next time the board (phpbb with copyright date 2002) gets hacked again.
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I threw on the preloader seek bar thingy, and replaced the old preloader with a Stop.
(removed file... uploading yet another foolala...)
]]>Hey, can you send me the .fla file? I could throw on my seekbar thingy with subtitles, or at least fix the preloader/add the music. Go upload it somewhere and email/pm me the link.
]]>Known issues:
* The preloader doesn't work properly (bargraph doesn't animate, probably because I did something wrong)
* The "play the movie" button doesn't display correctly when not hovering over it (though the 'hover' image is nearly identical and uses the same parameters)
* The sound clips at the end have some cutoff problems.
* It's a bit large
Kindly refrain from linking to said SWF directly from qmt.ath.cx, since its bandwidth is somewhat limited.
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