🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic
Article #583696

Re: Kohan Ahriman's Gift

#583696
From: Tom Meyer
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 22:32
50 lines
2847 bytes
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$TV4.13...@typhoon.tampabay.rr.com>,
> its...@hotmail.com says...
> > Well, I am about to give up on this one. I had played and enjoyed the
> > original Kohan thru to the end. Challenging for me even on easy but
doable.
> > I  struggled with mission two on this one and finally got to mission 3
which
> > I have tried a number of times. This is on easy! I really like the game
> > system, has a lot of potential for other uses. They just made the
missions
> > way too tough. I even went to the Kohan.net site and most of those folks
are
> > into MP but they even admit that many of the missions are tough.
Designers
> > need to remember that not all players are experts and give the rest of
us a
> > chance to have a challenge but still win. There are too many fun games
out
> > there to beat your head against the wall all the time.
> >
> > If we are going to get more computer game players, we need to at least
find
> > a way to have real differences in levels of difficulty. The games are
> > getting so complex, that it is tough for an experienced player yet again
a
> > newbie.
> >
> > Harry
> >
> >
> >
Technical Details
Message-ID: <GZai8.48285$vl.15298602@twister.kc.rr.com>
Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone.socal.rr.com!cyclone3.kc.rr.com!news3.kc.rr.com!twister.kc.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail
References: <Fx5i8.78875$TV4.13093777@typhoon.tampabay.rr.com> <MPG.16f2bb9df6d28e10989ace@supernews.one.net>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone.socal.rr.com!cyclone3.kc.rr.com!news3.kc.rr.com!twister.kc.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: "Tom Meyer" <fake@email.address>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic
References: <Fx5i8.78875$TV4.13093777@typhoon.tampabay.rr.com> <MPG.16f2bb9df6d28e10989ace@supernews.one.net>
Subject: Re: Kohan Ahriman's Gift
Lines: 52
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
Message-ID: <GZai8.48285$vl.15298602@twister.kc.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 16:32:21 -0600
NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.29.39.168
X-Complaints-To: ab...@rr.com
X-Trace: twister.kc.rr.com 1015626726 65.29.39.168 (Fri, 08 Mar 2002 16:32:06 CST)
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 16:32:06 CST
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit