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Re: what is the deepest or most complicated rpg?!

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From: Knight37
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 15:56
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It's elementary, my dear "Brian H."
<bh1234...@nospam.please.ismart.net>: 

> 
> "Werner Arend" <de...@unknown.host.de> wrote in message
> news:3D62189C.4050700@unknown.host.de...
>>
>> deep = complicated game mechanics (this is a bad thing): Wizardry 8
>>
> 
> Wiz 8 is complicated? Probably it is complicated for someone.  But in

How about just complicated compared to other games?

> the beginning of the game your party is all level 1.  How complicated
> to control a level 1 party? 

Hell, even making a good level 1 party takes considerable knowledge and 
effort unless you go with the default party.

> And then there are tons of "automatic"
> options, like auto-targeting enemies, auto-retarget-single target
> spells, and auto-increase-your-skills-when-you-use-them,
> auto-notify-you-if-monsters-or-items-scatter-around.... I would say
> that the user interface is a state of art.

The UI is excellent. However, compared to other games, the mechanics are 
complicated.

-- 

Knight37

I know what you're thinking, because I've been thinking the same thing. 
Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here. Why oh why didn't I 
take the blue pill?
-- Cypher, "The Matrix"
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