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On Fri, 07 Jul 2017 09:52:02 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:

>The worst was the games that spun you around to purposefully disorient
>you. It was such obvious padding and absolutely no fun.

Oh boy you should try the Bard's Tale 2 to see this feature at its
absolute worst! In one of the game's castles, you end up in an area
with spinners, darkness squares, and spell fizzle squares all at the
same time. It was at that exact moment that I said, fuck this, I am
done with Bard's Tale 2. When I told Ross in my other post that this
game had way too much of this crap, I wasn't joking. No other old
school RPG I have ever played hit me with all of those negative
conditions at the same damn time.

> It didn't help
>that the games had such short draw distance (three tiles for Bards
>Tale, MM1 and Dragon Wars) and the limited graphics capabilities of
>the time meant that all the dungeons were a maze of twisty corridors,
>all alike. Given the memory limitations, it's understandable that the
>earliest games didn't come with an automap, but it baffles me that
>later titles - even modern titles! - don't include this basic feature.
>I've never met /anyone/ who really enjoyed the mazes or the
>requirement to hand-draw the maps to get through these sorts of games.

I like mapping out games myself. I tried using someone else's maps
once when I was replaying Eye of the Beholder. I wasn't enjoying it.
These days, however, I use software. But I have no problems using the
in-game automap if it does not suck. I just don't like using someone
else's already completed map that I found online.