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Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN JUNE 2017?

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From: Xocyll
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2017 11:15
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Mike S. <Mik...@nowhere.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the
porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>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.

On the flip side though, if you were the designer of the dungeon and
trying to keep out all those pesky adventurers there to steal your stuff
and/or kill you, wouldn't you pull out all the stops and use every trick
in the book to stop them?

We really do need to get a proper modern remake of Dungeon Keeper (not a
blatant micro-transaction store masquerading as a game.)

Xocyll
-- 
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of 
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably, 
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So 
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr 
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