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markB <m...@netweb.net> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn
spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>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.

And among other things I found this one which says EXACTLY what I was
talking about:

http://basiliskgames.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1137
"I would love to run this thing at my laptop's native screen resolution
(1440 x 900) but am forced to choose between sharp, crisp graphics in a
tiny little window or large fuzzy graphics in full screen."

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