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Article #583696Re: Kohan Ahriman's Gift
From: Tom Meyer
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 22:32
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 22:32
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I'd like to know why some people top-post! I know, I know, I'm top-posting now, but that's because this thread would be way too confusing if I bottom-posted now. I always figured that they made expansion packs hard because they know only the more diehard players of a particular game will buy the expansion. Tom "Forge" <ForgeRaw...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:MPG.16f2bb9df6d28e10989ace@supernews.one.net... > Amen! > > I'd like to know why it's an unwritten rule to make an expansion pack ungodly > difficult. Why is that? > > That's the reason I don't buy them,,,,, invariably, they are unbeatable. > Stupid. > > In article <Fx5i8.78875$TV4.13...@typhoon.tampabay.rr.com>, > its...@hotmail.com says... > > Well, I am about to give up on this one. I had played and enjoyed the > > original Kohan thru to the end. Challenging for me even on easy but doable. > > I struggled with mission two on this one and finally got to mission 3 which > > I have tried a number of times. This is on easy! I really like the game > > system, has a lot of potential for other uses. They just made the missions > > way too tough. I even went to the Kohan.net site and most of those folks are > > into MP but they even admit that many of the missions are tough. Designers > > need to remember that not all players are experts and give the rest of us a > > chance to have a challenge but still win. There are too many fun games out > > there to beat your head against the wall all the time. > > > > If we are going to get more computer game players, we need to at least find > > a way to have real differences in levels of difficulty. The games are > > getting so complex, that it is tough for an experienced player yet again a > > newbie. > > > > Harry > > > > > >
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