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Article #720327Re: A New Old-School RPG
From: Dimensional Traveler
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 04:11
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 04:11
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On 2/8/2014 4:13 AM, Xocyll 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? > I don't remember. It was years ago and I didn't have any incentive to remember anything beyond "He's an ass" and "Don't buy his games." -- The 'Enterprise' crew in the 2009 Star Trek are adrenaline addicted, hyper-active teenagers with ADD whose Ritalin got replaced with methamphetamine, displaying a level of discipline that a Somali pirate wouldn't tolerate.
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X-Received: by 10.152.216.35 with SMTP id on3mr15499049lac.6.1392701894308; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:38:14 -0800 (PST) Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!le8ni16121lbc.0!nntp.google.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!85.12.40.138.MISMATCH!xlned.com!feeder5.xlned.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!rt.uk.eu.org!xmission!news.alt.net!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!novia!posts.news.sonic.net!nnrp1.nntp.sonic.net!not-for-mail Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 20:11:57 -0800 From: Dimensional Traveler <dtr...@sonic.net> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg Subject: Re: A New Old-School RPG References: <52f1a93b$0$1181$c3e8da3$50776f34@news.astraweb.com> <r9g4f9934secdj5t3d4a4o3shpnv2tsd83@4ax.com> <iuj4f9dfjaq83a98ok3mqpsn49mds26ad6@4ax.com> <1257f99k9fq80rpsevkifjd20g98m4edn3@4ax.com> <52f3d234$0$17161$c3e8da3$dd9697d2@news.astraweb.com> <1ns9f95gcertomr0ubi4cruhmped77fvq5@4ax.com> <52f5af2a$0$52820$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> <4o7cf99htbist9036a4bfqq10q9u89sdcn@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <4o7cf99htbist9036a4bfqq10q9u89sdcn@4ax.com> Lines: 30 Message-ID: <52f7000f$0$52776$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> Organization: Sonic.Net NNTP-Posting-Date: 09 Feb 2014 04:12:00 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 4c2ffc8c.news.sonic.net X-Trace: DXC=f3OT=BL=2M<>`oL3C<JMB3m4K\QM1CV^01OYf0H`?;X13dfEj7Nlm`6CCd9<aL]eO8hZDMXSFCBg8 X-Complaints-To: ab...@sonic.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit