Article View: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Article #697754Re: Mid-month Ramble - April 2017
From: Rin Stowleigh
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 11:36
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 11:36
40 lines
3601 bytes
3601 bytes
On Wed, 10 May 2017 10:16:56 +0100, Toby Newman <goo...@asktoby.com> wrote: >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. I'm not sure if that's sarcasm or not. :) I don't recall your age, but if you weren't yet into computer games in the early 80's using early floppy drives, that paragraph would seem hard to relate to I'm sure. If you were gaming then, it probably brought back great memories.
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<7lu5hcdgo9hn1eif78vckl0lgokpr3qnc1@4ax.com>Path:
mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!v18ni671ita.0!nntp.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mailReferences:
<l28afcdo8md98u7r3kq97cgv0u98r33cqe@4ax.com> <vg3mvanlmkh.fsf@coffee.modeemi.fi> <oeq90f$1e5m$1@gioia.aioe.org> <fnk1hcd1v2igg6iuuovsn8d6f66q9k6m2n@4ax.com> <oeqqj7$djf$1@gioia.aioe.org> <grf3hcd3iq8e0ia465lgei84tou9tif3d8@4ax.com> <oesn9r$a95$1@dont-email.me> <euu3hc9cjuafqud1ool6rprmd0nir1af36@4ax.com> <slrnoh5mk8.59p.google@asktoby.eternal-september.org>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Received: by 10.129.131.8 with SMTP id t8mr2313571ywf.21.1494416196809; Wed, 10 May 2017 04:36:36 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.157.22.175 with SMTP id c44ls2483554ote.34.gmail; Wed, 10 May 2017 04:36:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.13.242.5 with SMTP id b5mr2421425ywf.78.1494416196102; Wed, 10 May 2017 04:36:36 -0700 (PDT) Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!v18ni671ita.0!nntp.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 06:36:30 -0500 From: Rin Stowleigh <rstow...@nevrhadgmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Mid-month Ramble - April 2017 Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 07:36:38 -0400 Message-ID: <7lu5hcdgo9hn1eif78vckl0lgokpr3qnc1@4ax.com> References: <l28afcdo8md98u7r3kq97cgv0u98r33cqe@4ax.com> <vg3mvanlmkh.fsf@coffee.modeemi.fi> <oeq90f$1e5m$1@gioia.aioe.org> <fnk1hcd1v2igg6iuuovsn8d6f66q9k6m2n@4ax.com> <oeqqj7$djf$1@gioia.aioe.org> <grf3hcd3iq8e0ia465lgei84tou9tif3d8@4ax.com> <oesn9r$a95$1@dont-email.me> <euu3hc9cjuafqud1ool6rprmd0nir1af36@4ax.com> <slrnoh5mk8.59p.google@asktoby.eternal-september.org> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 5.00/32.1171 MIME-Version: 1.0 Lines: 40 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-PfcssciCPMt72pIaWvL8fO32U/PpzBNnACUs72dy7n9CV7RqLIfHT0nNGQNHa9qwK4rNN/Lz7hwh4AT!EiTixY43u8eFYgkRDD5Em6Xd2HARL2G5h7dqIYDFN5JlNbjingdjdjZBI6PQWOk427oh3Hc= X-Complaints-To: ab...@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3055 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit