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Re: Roberta Williams is a FRAUD

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From: Matthew Murray
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 00:00
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On Wed, 4 Mar 1998 thya...@sol.com.br wrote:

> > >You have picked one of the MOST LOGICAL puzzles in the game to knock!
> > >There is at least one cut scene between the vizier and the genie where
> > >the lamp is in foreground on the desk. 'Course, if you weren't paying
> > >attention.....
> 
> >>>>>>>>> Quite frankly, if Mrs. Williams had put an enormous arrow pointing
> to the right lamp or got a song called "Get the one on the left" to play
> during that part of the game, I'd still have to say KQ6 is a badly designed
> game. Why? Because, as Lucas Arts well know, you DON'T allow the player into a
> dead end. Never. How do you avoid that kind of situation? With tight, clever
> designing. Period. And no one is supposed to pay attention to every single
> detail in cutscenes. I wasn't paying attention? Could it be because I was
> bored to death?

	I agree, but I >do< feel that some of LucasArts' games would be
improved if there was a greater possibility of failure.

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From: Matthew Murray <mmu...@cc.wwu.edu>
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Date: 1998/03/04
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