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From: Xocyll
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 12:13

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Dimensional Traveler <dtr...@sonic.net> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>I played the first game in the series and quickly quit playing it.  My 
>issue wasn't the graphics, it was the design philosophy.  I quickly 
>realized that the whole game was designed such that the player could 
>only keep playing if they followed a _very_ exact set of steps.  If you 
>went even slightly out of sequence and, say, used one too many torches 
>too soon, you were f*cked.  Didn't search for and find _this_ secret 
>door before _that_ secret door, you were f*cked.  Etc.
>
>I brought this up on the developer's forum and got massively flamed BY 
>THE DEVELOPER for "not understanding what a real old school RPG really 
>was" and the like.  He clearly had far too much of his ego tied up in 
>the project in all the wrong ways and I've never looked at their stuff 
>since.

Wow, so he studied in the Derek Smart school of game design.
Did he happen to mention being a member of Mensa?

Xocyll

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