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Article #720326Re: A New Old-School RPG
From: PW
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 18:09
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 18:09
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On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 07:13:32 -0500, Xocyll <Xoc...@gmx.com> wrote: >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 Hah! I remember those days!
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