🚀 go-pugleaf

On 2017-05-10, Rin Stowleigh <rstow...@nevrhadgmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

It brought back great memories!

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-Toby
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