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Spalls Hurgenson  <spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>* Ultima VII The Black Gate (replay)
...
>(But at least
>this time I didn't have to worry about the dreaded "key bug", where
>keys disappeared into the ether; in 1992, I got to the very end of the
>game only to discover the key to the titular black gate had vanished,
>forcing me to restart the game. Ouch.)

Both times I played Ultima VII I couldn't finish it because I made
the mistake of flying over the final dungeon in the magic carpet which
triggered locking a door that was supposed to lock you in the dungeon.

Which brings up my big problem with the game, by using one scale for
everything they made the world feel ridiculously small.  In Ultima IV
and V travelling from one city to another in Britania was an adventure
itself, in Ultima VII (and to a lesser extent Ultima VI) travelling
to neighbouring city was like crossing the street.  At least Ultima VI
didn't cram the dungeons on the same map as everything else.

>* Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance (replay)
...
>It's the campaign, you see; it's rubbish. Too many of the missions are
>focused on propelling the story forward rather than just launching a
>mess of enemy fighters at you and letting you swat them out of the sky
>like the annoying bugs they are. The worst are the ones that have you
>bumble about in your family's star-freighter; the ship is slow, clumsy
>and under-powered and the missions are tedium defined. I struggle to
>fly the campaign, and rarely do I get past the halfway mark before I
>give it up.

I've never gotten far X-Wing Alliance though it's more just because I'm
not that good at the X-Wing games.  I always reach a point where some
mission just becomes too difficult.  There was one mission during the
prologue where you're piloting that star-freighter that I had a lot of
problems with as I recall.

					Ridge Ridge

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