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Article #697752Re: Mid-month Ramble - April 2017
From: Rin Stowleigh
Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 17:27
Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 17:27
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On Tue, 9 May 2017 08:33:21 -0700, Justisaur <just...@gmail.com> wrote: >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? Doubtful, but the trial and error process was part of the fun, especially watching that disk light activate whenever you stumbled on some combination of text commands that did something different.
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