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Article #697751Re: Mid-month Ramble - April 2017
From: Justisaur
Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 15:33
Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 15:33
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On 5/9/2017 6:16 AM, Mike S. wrote: > On Mon, 8 May 2017 22:13:59 +0000 (UTC), rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca > (Ross Ridge) wrote: > >> I don't think I played it for more than a half-hour, so I'm not sure >> if my experience is indicative. It's probably not as hard as Wizardry >> 4 overall but the difficulty is different. Asylum is basically a text >> adventure game with graphics, so it's all about figuring what you need >> to type rather than hoping the random number generator will go your way. >> >> Ross Ridge > > I used to play a lot of text adventures, with and without graphics, > and I found them all difficult. I am very bad at puzzle solving. I > have no idea why I like a genre that I am bad at but I do. Thank god > for hint books. > Is anyone actually *good* at guessing whatever exact bit of text some text adventure game wants? - Justisaur
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