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Raymond Pat <rpha...@polymail.calpoly.edu> wrote in article
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> thya...@sol.com.br wrote:
> 
> >   How could such a bad game designer become famous?
> >   Let's face it: the woman hasn't got one single good game in her
curriculum!
> 
> That's YOUR opinion.  The Colonel's Bequest is own of the best games
ever, in fact
> I daresay it's better than ANY of the Monkey Island series.  I was never
so
> frightened and so enthralled at the little nuances in the game...from
stublimg
> into bodies, finding crime scenes, spying on people, finding new secret
passages.
> It was SO thrilling.  The only gripe is that it's too hard.
This sounds good, I will have to look for this one.
 
> >   First, the dreadful King's Quest game: KQ6 was the most infuriating
gaming
> > experience ever. In that stupid game you could screw things up just by
not
> > entering the right screen at the right time !!  
> Isn't that more of your own incompetency?  
> >   For God's sake, Sierra, get rid of the imbecile - the design in her
games
> > are the ultimate proof of what you can achieve with a careful
combination of
> > laziness and complete lack of any visible talents.
> 
> This is stupid.  I'm SURE you haven't playedeven HALf os Roberta
Williams' games,
> and here you are dissing her as if she was your whore.  WTF?You described
only 2
> games of hers you had gripes with.  Sure, Phantasmagoria was a big step
down (so
> was KQ7), but not everyone does something great all the time....ahem,
Lord British
> (UO and U8 are complete disasters). Have you played ANY of her earlier
works?
> Have you tried Time Zone?  It came out in 1981, and it was TOUGH.  Very
> challenging IMHO.  She really did a good job there, and I think that game
is on
> par with any of Infocom's best.You might not be alone, but the opinion
you arrive
> with is so uninformed and unresearched that it does not give weight to
your
> argument.  Sure I think her works are getting worse, but dismissing her
like this
> is very insulting, to her AND to readers who enjoyed her past works.

I agree with you totally. Sierra and Roberta Williams games may have gone
downhill in recent years, but she/they have given much enjoyment  over the
years and have advanced adventures in general. I have heard all about Time
Zone when it came, and it is supposed to be huge. Do you know what it was
released (was it just Apple2) on and where you might be able to get a copy.
Sorry about cutting out parts of your message.

steve...@eclipse.co.uk