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Article #697753Re: Mid-month Ramble - April 2017
From: Toby Newman
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 09:16
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 09:16
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On 2017-05-09, Rin Stowleigh <rstow...@nevrhadgmail.com> wrote: > 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. Brilliant. -- -Toby Add the word afiduluminag to the subject to circumvent my email filters.
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