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Article #720331Re: A New Old-School RPG
From: markB
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 08:27
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 08:27
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On 2/11/2014 8:18 AM, Justisaur wrote: > On Friday, February 7, 2014 8:14:41 PM UTC-8, Dimensional Traveler > wrote: > >> 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. >> > > Thanks for the review, I will be avoiding those. I'd been thinking > of trying these games for some time, but I hate those kind of stupid > things where you can get stuck easily and are on a railroad. I'm > reminded of so called adventure games, 'pixel pushing', puzzle > games, not the good old RPGs. > > My favorite old school games were somewhat 'sandbox' allowing you to > try to do anything in whatever order - even if it was a really bad > idea. Pool of Radiance and the other Gold Box SSI games, Fallout > (beyond the time limit anyway), Daggerfall, were all like that, and > some of the best. Check out the site and the forums. You'll see that the above opinion sounds like a different game. -mb
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