Has anyone fought for high resolution in Flare yet? I know Clint Bellanger did Wandercall / ~'FlareHD'. Do we have any experience ~'in house' or am I flying into this blind and hoping that Dorkster can tell myself how to ~'not suck so bad'(XD) at using the Flare engine to try and increase the pixel density / minimum resolution by 4. From 640 x 480 into (hopefully) 2,560 x 1,920 with 128 x 128 icons (splitting the pixels by 4 to make the old assets still work / look the same but be able to bit by bit add in new higher resolution art assets / icons).

I think Hades looks okay, nothing to crazy but not horrible. For myself it comes off a bit bland / run of the mill with some wacky colours and anime / 'bad modern western themes' / tones where it pulls out of reality / makes bad logic in a few spots. 5-6/10 +1 for gameplay; so without thinking 7/10 but with big brain mode 5/10 so 6/10 or 3/5 stars. Not bad but far from great.

@Paul Wortmann What elements of your favourite RPGs do you like and what elements of them do you not like / wish were done better and in what specific way(s)? Do you have a wish list of gameplay expectations / desires / a wish list for a game made in the Flare Engine? If so could you tell how all of that could look like for a player's experience potentially?

@MedicineStorm
"RE: pandering & contrived - ah, pandering to sexualized content. Yes, ok... however, you lost me about halfway through the paragraph here. What does the historical rape and torture have to do with pandering or "contrived worlds"?"

Contrived is a powerful world; it can be used to show where a deep fundamental lie is hiding; yet only if one knows what a deeper and more powerful truth is. Or at least try to understand a deeper understanding than what constructs many superficial structures of convenience. Of which that ultimately when pressed to serve in the trenches of hell, crumble like egg shells to an iron fist. Yet truth like a diamond is made more clear under pressure. It becomes crystal clear under absolute pressure and or perhaps even sheer adversity. So many people crumble when put in the vice of adversity; even people who may look strong on the outside. Yet a only a few out of dozens are turned into diamond on the inside and break the vice of adversity. Even those who look weak on the outside may become the most capable of people when transformed under the absolute pressure of the vice of adversity. This is the potential of character.

So, it is important to understand history to understand fiction, it is also important to understand fiction to understand history to see who is probably full of B.S.. You can't detect a lie if you can't tell a ~'good' / believable lie. Sometimes people would rather believe a perfect lie than to believe an ugly truth; because HUMANITY. Truth is stranger than fiction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWmhRSAcWkI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changeling your baby did not die, a changeling took it and you don't have to bare the soul crushing reality of being a failed parent in a brutal world because 'actually' the baby is living but away from people in a secret fairly land... Verses, yeah your baby died at 3 months in and we don't know why and that is in fact your dead baby you have to bury and not a transformed log to look like a dead baby. You can see the abject brutal emotional trauma that our world is based upon if a person takes on responsibility for their actions and of everyone else around them; it is not 'fair' but if you want unreasonable results you must become an unreasonable person in at least terms of willpower. So in fiction if it is used as an escape / coping mechanism than its' world is a lie to hide an ugly truth and or sets of ugly truths and is fundamentally at its core morally bankrupt and unable to strike at the heart of hearts of people. For at the very foundation of the typical contrived fictional world is the forfeit of the headwaters of 'the ability of humanity to conquer pure evil' and or being within a state of nigh perpetual existence of moral defeat of the self in being not 'worthy to bear the existential weight of the fire of god' / a deliberate moral refusal to stop participating in the 'lie' and stop being a loser and in real life become something apart of something greater than yourself (something like that). You can't put the deep / moving experiences of your ~'soul' / life into something if you have no deep / moving experiences within your ~'soul' / life. Losers can't win because they are unable to sacrifice properly. Also and or they do not take the necessary, significant and non-trivial steps to willingly overcome adversity. Instead losers are found waiting for adversity to bite them in the ass at 3 AM drunk off their over self-pitty and uselessness in the arena of life; and then the losers blame anyone and anything but themselves. So because of this I find it necessary to tell of the abject horrors of real life to better understand the beast of reality without a coping mechanism; like a spiritual 'changeling' / belief in a perfect / convenient lie to throw off the sacrifices necessary to properly become responsible in my own life. That is so that when I go to craft a hopefully transformative challenge (so hard that one is never the same again when they are 'victorious') I know what the hell I am doing; and not wasting everyone's time and hope. How can one describe a rainbow if one is blind? How can one describe what pizza tastes like without having taste? How can I give a fictional world that is ultimately an illusion based upon real life with real people participating, the ability to host real intrigue and real challenge? How can I 'play god' without being a massive failure or at least make something worth people's time and hope and is worth playing if I am without being knowledgeable of real life intrigue and moreover real life difficulty / adversity? That is why historical rape and torture have *everything* to do with pandering or "contrived worlds". This is because they are some of the ugliest truths in life and some of the worst horrors of known existence within our shared human experience hosted via reality; and if I cannot stand up to the objective realities of life nor can my life's work of my shared dreams.