Barter Empire

Well alright so this game is a bunch of good but their is one major issue, the resolution, when you start the game its in a little screen, while its possible to read, after all its about the size of a Nintendo Gameboy Advanced Screen so its possible to read, its hard, the fact that you cannot adjust the screen size or the resolution is major down for me, but like I said for the rest its a pretty good game, but its a tad confusing, it takes a fair amount of trial and error to figure out how stuff work, but when you figure it out all seem pretty good. Anyhow I'd say it need to be updated with a Option Menu, like most game even the old SNES ones to some level, and that Menu need a Graphic option to allow to change resolution, now I did find its possible to turn the game to full screen, but the issue is when you do that it stretch the image and thus isn't the best of options. So yea, once that issue will be corrected this game is going to be golden, well from what I have seen up to now anyway. I still recommend the game, but people with poor sight might want to avoid it for now.

I want to like Barter Empire as it has all the elements of a great game. It has nice mapping, a large range of equipable items and a robust gathering/mining and crafting system. Unfortunately, the game is let down by some questionable design decisions that make it unplayable. The first and by far the most detrimental would be the enemy battlers. They are google images of animals that are three times the size of the heroes and come as quite a shock after seeing the level of detail in the mapping. If you were to change them to the RTP battlers I would immediately recommend the title. It is that bad and interestingly there are no screenshots of them on the store page. I wonder why? The next would be the style of the portraits. The realistic facesets clash with the rest of the assests and just look unprofessional. I want to focus on the story and dialogue, but I'm just distracted by these ugly pictures. The RTP facesets are far better. The last would be the gathering animations. In general all of the resource gathering wastes your time. The huge "Ore Mined" picture is nice, the first time. When collecting a resource takes 10 seconds it becomes tiring. I would recommend three sound effects followed by a dialogue box. That's all the player wants and expects. By all means put the fancy pictures up for the first time the player performs them, but they add nothing to the game after that. I want to play more as I enjoy resource gathering and crafting. I can look past the early combat being boring (standard attack to win) and some of the dialogue falling flat. There are also some troll moves by the developer (sword guy) that annoyed me but they add character and charm. The enemy battlers are terrible and are the weirdest design choice I have ever seen in an RPGMaker game. I just don't understand...

i've played better flash games, i've played games that use the rpg-maker, for free, that i would rather have donated to than have bought this.

good game but feals incompleat somehow not worth the cost to buy and plenty of bugs that will make geting to the spots in game that ur after. it also meantins in game somthing but never gives a explanation as to what it is... and the east invasion part we dont get to join in in that from west point of view 1 map is big but only has 1 main 1 side quest wast of space 6/10 grafics 7/10 story 9/10 for the idea of barter empire but right now it fails to reach that by geting a 6/10

I thouht this was a simple farming game with some mining and hunting, but, it is not. In fact there are all kinds of Luciferion symbols and characters in this game. Vampires? really? The image of the old stranger, though it only shows the head and shoulders, appears to be naked. What is with that? The music is too loud and cannot be turned off, I had to turn off my speakers. I am removing this game from my computer. It appears to me to be an attempt by some Satanic cult to gain access to me and mine. I do not recommend this game, in fact I would stay away from it.

Great game!

i think the game is quite fun for the price. it has a lot of stuff to do and reminds me a bit of harvest moon with combat. if your into "gameboy" style rpgs this one is worth a try for the price!

Had high hopes for the start of the game but it ended up kind of slow

Talked to Jason Bought Gift for His Mother Didnt Wanted to Marry him. He Never Talks to me Again Would buy gift again 9/11

The first and last RPGMaker game I'll ever buy.