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Article #720330Re: A New Old-School RPG
From: Justisaur
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:18
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:18
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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. - Justisaur
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