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Article #709916Re: Daggerfall now FREE
From: Justisaur
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:01
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:01
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On Jul 10, 6:33 am, Memnoch <mem...@nospampleaseimbritish.ntlworld.com> wrote: > On 10 Jul 2009 13:16:13 GMT, Gandalf Parker > > <gan...@the.dead.ISP.of.Community.net> wrote: > >"Jason" <ricky...@netspace.net> contributed wisdom to > >news:XdGdnWto-Lses...@netspace.net.au: > > >> I remember playing Daggerfall and probably wanting to like it alot > >> more than I actually did. Those dungeons were incredibly confusing, > >> and the game seemed almost too big in such a way that it felt a bit > >> lifeless and cumbersome. I really liked the ambition of it though. > > >Yeah that was mostly my take also. > > >But I was very disappointed that later games in the series dropped what I > >considered to be some of the best features of Daggerfall. Particularly when > >improving on them would have been so easy. > > The random dungeons were poor but the hand crafted ones were great. I remember > the eery sound effects and sombre music. I've heard a lot of those sound > effects in a many TV movies and shows down the years. The door creaking open > is a favourite one along with that high pitched wail like crying out effect. That door creaking noise sets my teeth on edge when I hear it in movies, how much trouble would it be to actually record a different creak once in awhile? I actually heard it (far over-used) in a much earlier game, don't remember the name but it was one of those early point and click adventure/puzzle games that was only on the mac, I assume that's where it's from but don't know. - Justisaur
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!y17g2000yqn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Justisaur <just...@gmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg Subject: Re: Daggerfall now FREE Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:01:33 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 37 Message-ID: <85219f9a-785a-444d-86a5-f51958a3bd2f@y17g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> References: <kZqdnaoWeuC-4MvXnZ2dnUVZ_sCdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <XdGdnWto-Lses8rXnZ2dnUVZ_ridnZ2d@netspace.net.au> <Xns9C443FC8EA82Dgandalfparker@199.245.68.61> <8mge5516e2d23cd8j50aq0hmb4dbgif8fq@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.114.3.80 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1247234493 26682 127.0.0.1 (10 Jul 2009 14:01:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups...@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:01:33 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups...@google.com Injection-Info: y17g2000yqn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.114.3.80; posting-account=pMQ1_AoAAAAnPWeFKkJSWouWHRfaI1a4 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit