GoldenGoblinI: Hello everybody! I've been working on my new RPG title, Dragonic Overlords for almost 3 years now on and off.

Shmacky-McNuts: I play ascii games, graphics be damned over good mechanics.

What I meant; The gameplay has DnD graphics, but moves into a clunky tile system. Baldurs gate and that lineup has no tiles at all. Which is better. But if yer new and dont have that skill to make it that, then a hex is slightly less clunky visually.

Hex is more complex. But gives a really good feel for strategy.

GoldenGoblinI: Thanks for your input, That is the main reason I'm here atm is trying to get some feedback on the good and the bad. I was thinking of changing the battle scheme to hex grid, I might do that. Keep in mind I'm not after top notch graphics I'm after the old school feel and story, with lots to do, many quests, pretty much just a very long game, with not much hand holding. I realize not everyone likes old school ultima toee style graphics.

SultanOfSuave: Have you considered not muting the music track when spoken dialogue is occurring, but instead only lowering it slightly? Much immersion can be removed when suddenly one is taken from cosy tavern or eerie cave into abrupt disquietude.

Cavalary: What I can say after that video is that the dialogues are really jarring, taking up all the screen like that, even more so when it's just a line from the NPC without responses available. It'd be much better the way it was done in the old school RPGs you seem to be aiming for, having it all in a textbox in the lower part of the screen, maybe with the option to expand when desired. And the text appearing gradually instead of all at once is also unnecessary, and may bother some who want to skip through, or even more so when you end up repeating dialogues. And in this kind of game I'd have done without voice acting, and while I guess it was quite some effort to voice everything, the voices really don't fit with the images that show up. At all. And there's also what was already mentioned, that the music stops then. Even making it fade, as suggested, seems wrong to me, the basic music/speech/effects volume settings should be there for the player to choose the balance between them.
As for combat, too little, and too dark, to get much of an impression, but what struck me as odd and possibly getting tedious as you play was the need to choose end turn at the end of combat to have it actually end. And, same as with the dialogues, that menu showing up there is odd, would seem... normal to me to have a fixed area of the screen where it's displayed at all times, with available options changing as appropriate.

Cavalary: What I can say after that video is that the dialogues are really jarring, taking up all the screen like that, even more so when it's just a line from the NPC without responses available. It'd be much better the way it was done in the old school RPGs you seem to be aiming for, having it all in a textbox in the lower part of the screen, maybe with the option to expand when desired. And the text appearing gradually instead of all at once is also unnecessary, and may bother some who want to skip through, or even more so when you end up repeating dialogues. And in this kind of game I'd have done without voice acting, and while I guess it was quite some effort to voice everything, the voices really don't fit with the images that show up. At all. And there's also what was already mentioned, that the music stops then. Even making it fade, as suggested, seems wrong to me, the basic music/speech/effects volume settings should be there for the player to choose the balance between them.
As for combat, too little, and too dark, to get much of an impression, but what struck me as odd and possibly getting tedious as you play was the need to choose end turn at the end of combat to have it actually end. And, same as with the dialogues, that menu showing up there is odd, would seem... normal to me to have a fixed area of the screen where it's displayed at all times, with available options changing as appropriate.

GoldenGoblinI: What do you think of this? I also stopped the sound from stopping during conversations.

https://ibb.co/HpxcHm4

Cavalary: Oh, much better. I'd still go for the old school fixed textbox, but if you don't want to do that, or can't with how you already set up the rest of the UI, it's a huge improvement.