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Article #106207Re: Frontier First Encounters
From: Ross Ridge
Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 19:28
Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 19:28
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Angus <angus@_ANTISPEM_angusm.demon.co.uk> wrote: >Is it me, or is the game rather unforgiving in this respect? I could pay >out for a shield but that would remove half the ship's cargo space. > >I don't know, I think games have got a lot easier than this over the >years and I've grown a lot softer with them. :) Well games have definately gotten easier, but I do recall Frontier: First Encounters having a reputation for being pretty hardcore even at the time. You probably wouldn't have as much trouble going back and playing the original Wing Commander, for example. Ross Ridge -- l/ // Ross Ridge -- The Great HTMU [oo][oo] rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca -()-/()/ http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rridge/ db //
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