>Neil K. Guy (neilg@kits.sfu.ca) wrote:
>: Over the past few weeks I've downloaded three or four free or
>: shareware games from ftp.gmd.de. And have been very disappointed by
>: all of them. Why? Because all of them killed my character without any
>: real warning after a handful of turns.
>Could you be a bit more specific, even if it means including spoiler
>warnings?
Hm. Well, I could of course. The reason I didn't in my original post
is that I wouldn't to come across like I was specifically attacking
the authors of the three games I was going to cite. I dunno. Wonder if
they'd mind. :)
>The game warns you that it's hostile territory in the room description, and
>the player can always use the "UNDO" command, so it doesn't strike me as
>being unfair.
Yeah, but I *don't like* being killed, is what I'm griping I suppose.
I just don't enjoy suddenly reading a gruesome description of my
character's gory death after I've walked through a doorway or
somesuch, undo or no undo. I don't find it heightens the tension or
anything - the sheer arbitrariness of it grates.
- Neil K. (whine whine)
-- 49N 16' 123W 7' / Vancouver, BC, Canada / n_k_guy@sfu.ca