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Evil Islands-WTF is wrong with these people?

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From: Thrasher
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 08:32
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Do they think players enjoy saving and loading ad infintum? These
fucks have actually resorted to the 1989 style "puzzle" missions where
you have to find out the trick to solving a mission by endless trial
and error. I can't fucking believe this. I really can't.

To add insult to injury the routine crtitical hits for 5x damage that
NPCs get means that you have to reload at least once every single
goddamn combat. Kill 4 out of 5 enemies and your guys are still in
pretty good shape, so you think the fighst going well, right? Oops,
critical hit on your tank who has the best armor money can buy from
head to toe. He's dead, Jim. Time to bring up the reload screen.
Again. And you can't even safely save games in the middle of the fight
because they stor the next round's results in the save game. Which
could be a critical hit that will kill one of your characters. Each
and every time you load that save game. 

Anmd what's up with the fucking magic system? It sure seems to work
well for the NPCs but it seems to be a complete waste of time for me.
I won't even get into how absurd it is to have characters regen so
fast that they can go from almost dead to full health in 15 or 20
seconds just standing there. If anybody cares to defend this combat
system on the grounds that it's "realistic" then I'd like to hear an
explanation for that...

I LOVE roleplaying games that have detailed and realistic tactical
combat. I HATE the combat in Evil Islands. I don't know who in the
hell they thought they were making this game for, but it wasn't me.

Yeth? Yeth, Yeth.

That's the lisping homosexual protagonist in Evil Islnad being given
an instrauction...

I wonder if the developers of this game realized how appropriate it
was going to be when the bitchy gay main character whines "This is
BORING!" during fights...

By the way, if anybody cares to defend the presence of so many overtly
gay men in this game (that "Official" from the other island wasn't too
obvious was he?) on the basis that they are promoting diversifcation,
mayhap you can explain why every human in the game is white?

After the Boyscout incident gays are pretty low on my priority list
for tolerance. I want proportional representation for ethnic
minorities, people who speak English as a second language, handicapped
people, stupid people and ignorant people before I'll even consider
the proposition that gay characters belong in computer games. And even
then, I shouldn't be forced to PLAY a gay person. It's a ROLEPLAYING
game, we are supposed to be able to RELATE to the character we are
playing, ya know? Guess what, game developers? Most of your customers
aren't gay!
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