@binas: I don't think 3D would make Aveyond "lose its feel". It's just gonna be different.

@Quest: Not everyone likes 3D, and once again, 3D is super-expensive and hard to make If you're only doing low-quality, basic 3D renders that don't look nice, it's just gonna hurt Amaranth Games.

Unless, I dunno, a group of people who are great in 3D happen to have loads of free time and love Aveyond enough is willing to work for super cheap or free

Since Amanda owns RMXP, she has plenty of 2D art to use and edit.

Amanda owns RMXP?
You mean she bought it, right? Last time, I checked Enterbrain owns it.

She bought it is what i meant.

RMXP resources cannot be used in any non-Enterbrain maker. If we move away from RPG Maker, we'd have to use entirely new art.

I mean like adapt the RMXP to fit which ever one is used. For example, adapting RMXP art for RMVX/ACE.

And? Your point being? RMVX/Ace is still Enterbrain's and still cannot be ported to other platforms, HERP DERP What shaz is saying is that Amanda's not using Enterbrain's RPG Maker anymore due to its limitations. She isn't allowed to use the RMXP resources for the new game engine!

Yes, you CAN adapt resources for one RPG Maker to be used in another, if you legally own both makers. But you cannot user resources from ANY RPG Maker in a non-RPG Maker game engine, even if you edit them.

If the next Aveyond does not use RPG Maker, everything will have to be created from scratch, or maybe whatever we go with will already have its own resources that can be used. Or Amanda may choose to stick with the same style and use resources that were created (not RTP) for the existing Aveyond games, and add to those.

I suspect it'll be a few months before we find out.

Yea we should just wait. We should start wondering who the characters maybe because the poll for to have old ones come back has brought a thumbs up (as in more people wanted to see the old faces again).

That doesn't necessarily mean Amanda will use old characters.

At this point, it's silly to try to wonder what's going to be in the game, since it could be anything.

So many of the people in the "bring back oldies" scream Uma and Nox. I still boggle over this.

Why do people like them so much? Nox stands there and blathers about Darkthrop Prophecy all the time. Uma is only there to say "OH NO YOU DIDN'T" to Nox and say helpful quest-related stuff They're flatter than AV1-era Te'ijal and Galahad, and THEY were flat then too.

And I LOL at the poor, unsuspecting crowds who are still not aware that Mel and Edward are not the canon couple

Then again, Aveyonds have always been kinda troll-y with the canon pairings. The pairing hints ain't hints, they're giant freaking clubs that whack me in the face throughout the game... then Surprise! The canon totally swings the other direction. Yay?

That's it! Pairings! I can't wait to see how romance plays out in Aveyond 4. Will Amanda keep up this fan-trolling? Or will she finally write a canon couple that the fans actually like?

Speaking of pairings, i would totally respectfully request a slapslapkiss pairing hehe...

Yeah, MAYBE that would work this time. Cuz last time slap-slap-kiss didn't work (Lars/Rhen).

I thought LarsxRhen was slapslapslap XD

Lars/Rhen is kick-wedge-punch-hit-slap-yank on the tongue-bite-kiss.

On the bring back oldies side of things, I don't particularly care, so long as Te'ijal and Galahad show up as NPCs. I love them to death and it's great to know they'll always show up, no matter how small the role. I didn't really care for Uma and Nox much, but if they returned we could get more of their personalities and that might change my mind.

It'd be nice to have a canon couple the fans actually like, but since it doesn't affect much (so long as the other pairing is at least an option), I for one don't care either way.

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I always thought of Rhen/Lars as slapslapslapkissslapslapslapslapslapkissslapslapslapslap

it's there, but long intervals in between XD

Yeeeaaahh, hopefully they come back as somewhat quest-related so we can see some sort of meaningful conversation going on. I'm still sort of bitter over canon Uma and Nox and the more the fans squee about them the more irritated I become

About pairings... Can we have the canon ACTUALLY being pointed out as being canon in the ending? I found out about Ed/Stella only by asking Amanda personally. Don't really want to spam her with over-excited fansquee-ing questions.

Right. I haven't been on the forums much, so I haven't really noticed much squee-ing.

Oh, that would be helpful! Instead of confusion and complications. But then again, if it's not that clear, that means it's not very important which is canon, after all. I would assume.

I just hope in the new Aveyond there will be more character interaction and more conversations, instead of just giving gifts... it's kinda dull and gets boring at some point, especially in DP you had to give all your gifts at once. Oh, also hoping for a RhenxLars-like pair with lots of teasings and fights XD of course some moments when the pair gets along well, but that rarely would happen.

Well a fighting arena would be good as well (like in AV2).