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Article #698063Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN JUNE 2017?
From: Mike S.
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2017 19:55
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2017 19:55
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On Thu, 6 Jul 2017 17:34:12 +0000 (UTC), rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge) wrote: >Yah, that's the one big problem with going back the older dungeon crawlers >like Might and Magic I, no automap. If I were replaying it today, I'd >probably just cheat and use maps from the Internet. (Even back in the >day after I completely mapped out a level in the Bard's Tale games I'd >use a program I wrote to print out a map of the level generated from >game's data files.) In my experience, automaps in old RPGs, especially really old RPGs, are very basic. Too basic for my tastes. I'm looking at you Gold Box games! I rarely used them and opted to just draw them out myself on graph paper. These days however, I map out games that require it with software. The software I use even has built in support for some games so you can see your character moving on the map as you move around in-game. Cool feature. With that said, some games automaps were better then anything I could do by hand so I used the in-game automap instead in those games. Anvil of Dawn, Lands of Lore and Ultima Underworld 1 and 2 comes to mind as games with excellent automaps.
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