Design Review Poll for First Topic (Finished)

Chose the weapons for sure. That was an impressive list.

Well, I've been looking this over since yesterday and I can't say I feel very strongly about any one category. I don't see anything I myself directly gave input to...but maybe some things I agreed with at least? Darn it...

Anyway, some thoughts on things:
Re: weapons, I think those listed are good suggestions and should be taken into consideration because they aren't really the personalized/vanity type weapons that I imagine those that pledged would add. They're all existing mythical designs, which is kind of a neutral but also specific enough origin to be interesting. I can't imagine anyone putting forward $2000 would ask for Excalibur, Gram,  Durandal, etc etc, given the very likely event that IGA would include those swords anyway, as they are taken from a type of material typical to IGAvania games. It's good that we can point out that we like that he uses mythical designs, at least. If nothing else, that should definitely be said: as always, look to historic culture (and Tolkein!) for weapons!

I also liked the tomes idea. I think that should also be put forward as a suggestion for weapon type, if not specific books.

Re: General, what does "classic menu style" refer to? Also, I'm not sure I agree with official support for PC character mods. I'm down to get a PC version of the game myself, but I just don't know how I would feel about console players feeling like they're missing something significant and playing an inferior version (which would be technically graphically inferior, too, as usual). Perhaps in an official capacity, the PC community could submit mod designs and the community could vote on them for actual inclusion into the game as updates/DLC for all game versions? That would be neat, and in keeping with the involvement we'd had in the past.

Animation: there's a lot of other, specific information on this topic in design suggestions. The things listed here just aren't really strong/specific enough to vote on.

Movement: Kind of the same as animation. I think most of the things would be in the game as it is, and I'd defer to their gameplay vision regardless since we can't really know what's best for things like this subjectively.

Having said all that, I'm probably voting for General, but I'm happy with Castle Design just as well!

If you can make a bullet point line item regarding layout concerns that states the suggestion clearly and in an easy to translate way I will add it.

You can do it, just give it a shot. Instead of making it a suggestion about what not to do, make it a positive suggestion about what you want to see. Such as "Large variety of rooms." I think that telling IGA not to be repetitive is insulting. If you have faith that his biggest castle ever won't be a bunch of copy and paste I would probably just not make a suggestion for something that is already naturally common sense.

Ben Judd made a comment on the BCB about how you can't make a castle without a good set of blue prints, and that's what he had seen the team working on when he had visited them in person. In the Double Fine Devs Play they talked about how they didn't even have a dedicated team specifically for the room layouts and that the programmers and artists layed out a grid and sectioned it off for different locations themes. I would like to believe that IGA is putting everything he has into this castle, and like the shader pics, I expect the backgrounds to blow away any expectations I could have dreamed up on my own.

Wow, there's a whole lot of stuff in every category! I'm not at all familiar with IGAvanias so I don't have a clue what to suggest.

Yeah I agree that they do seem to be focusing on getting the castle right

It seems like the poll is very heavily sided with castle design so I doubt anyone could blame me if I went ahead tonight and put together the poll for it.

I'm at work typing on my phone. I plan on revisiting the castle design threads again to see in anyone has added to the submitted thread. In other words... If anyone has some suggestions for castle design here is your last minute warning to get your ideas out there. I'll edit this post and put in a link to the appropriate thread to do that in.
Thread: Castle Design and Layout
Thread: Miriam should have a Room

"Variety is the spice of life." 

I'm not sure how well that proverb fits in this context...lol.  What do you make of it, XombieMike ?

I just think you could say this to IGA & co. as a clear statement of encouragement.