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Article #698064Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN JUNE 2017?
From: Xocyll
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2017 11:17
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2017 11:17
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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 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. Didn't the UU games have the best of both worlds? an automap that let you write notes on the map? 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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