https://www.gog.com/#giveaway / https://www.gog.com/en/game/sunblaze >https://www.gog.com/game/cyberpunk_2077_phantom_liberty_goodies_collection
(Well, I was gonna report the Sunblaze giveaway. GOG's 'goodies'
give-aways aren't worth mentioning ;-)
Dammit, Ant! I was gonna report that! Now what will I talk about?
On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 08:37:20 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
Dammit, Ant! I was gonna report that! Now what will I talk about?
LOL!
I am sure you will think of something. :)
On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 01:42:37 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
https://www.gog.com/#giveaway / https://www.gog.com/en/game/sunblaze >https://www.gog.com/game/cyberpunk_2077_phantom_liberty_goodies_collection
Dammit, Ant! I was gonna report that! Now what will I talk about?
(Well, I was gonna report the Sunblaze giveaway. GOG's 'goodies'
give-aways aren't worth mentioning ;-)
On 6/12/2023 11:01 AM, Mike S. wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 08:37:20 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
Dammit, Ant! I was gonna report that! Now what will I talk about?
LOL!
I am sure you will think of something. :)
The ultimate one-up would be to write a game of his own on one of his curbside orphans and then announce it as free to all posters of csipga. :P
On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 08:37:20 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
(Well, I was gonna report the Sunblaze giveaway. GOG's 'goodies'
give-aways aren't worth mentioning ;-)
Well, Ant always gives superior reports. Everything that is free must be mentioned.
He missed "air," though. And I always appreciate a good "as in beer."
Dimensional Traveler <dtr...@sonic.net> wrote:
On 6/12/2023 11:01 AM, Mike S. wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 08:37:20 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
Dammit, Ant! I was gonna report that! Now what will I talk about?
LOL!
I am sure you will think of something. :)
The ultimate one-up would be to write a game of his own on one of his curbside orphans and then announce it as free to all posters of csipga. :Phow about a mod like I did for DOOM 2 back in the 90s? http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/doom2/j2doom/j2doom.html :P Or
maybe Red Alert 1 map as shown in http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/games/ra/us_ra.zip and http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/games/ra/us_ra.txt? :P
On Monday, June 12, 2023 at 3:45:13???PM UTC-7, Ant wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtr...@sonic.net> wrote:
On 6/12/2023 11:01 AM, Mike S. wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 08:37:20 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
Dammit, Ant! I was gonna report that! Now what will I talk about?
LOL!
I am sure you will think of something. :)
The ultimate one-up would be to write a game of his own on one of his curbside orphans and then announce it as free to all posters of csipga. :Phow about a mod like I did for DOOM 2 back in the 90s? http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/doom2/j2doom/j2doom.html :P Or
maybe Red Alert 1 map as shown in http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/games/ra/us_ra.zip and http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/games/ra/us_ra.txt? :P
There's the one I made recently, but yeah, good for maybe 5 minutes.
https://sites.google.com/site/justisaursdd/rspls.
I did a little QA on one of the patches for ToEE if we're going into that.
Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:
On Monday, June 12, 2023 at 3:45:13???PM UTC-7, Ant wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtr...@sonic.net> wrote:
On 6/12/2023 11:01 AM, Mike S. wrote:http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/doom2/j2doom/j2doom.html :P Or
On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 08:37:20 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
Dammit, Ant! I was gonna report that! Now what will I talk about?
LOL!
I am sure you will think of something. :)
The ultimate one-up would be to write a game of his own on one of his
curbside orphans and then announce it as free to all posters of csipga. :P >>> how about a mod like I did for DOOM 2 back in the 90s?
maybe Red Alert 1 map as shown in
http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/games/ra/us_ra.zip and
http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/games/ra/us_ra.txt? :P
There's the one I made recently, but yeah, good for maybe 5 minutes.
https://sites.google.com/site/justisaursdd/rspls.
Haha. Nice! Good job! I'll share it with others like Blue. ;)
I did a little QA on one of the patches for ToEE if we're going into that.
What's ToEE?
On 6/13/2023 6:36 PM, Ant wrote:
Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:
On Monday, June 12, 2023 at 3:45:13???PM UTC-7, Ant wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtr...@sonic.net> wrote:
On 6/12/2023 11:01 AM, Mike S. wrote:how about a mod like I did for DOOM 2 back in the 90s?
On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 08:37:20 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
Dammit, Ant! I was gonna report that! Now what will I talk about? >>>>>>LOL!
I am sure you will think of something. :)
The ultimate one-up would be to write a game of his own on one of his >>>>> curbside orphans and then announce it as free to all posters of csipga. :P
http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/doom2/j2doom/j2doom.html :P Or
maybe Red Alert 1 map as shown in
http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/games/ra/us_ra.zip and
http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/games/ra/us_ra.txt? :P
There's the one I made recently, but yeah, good for maybe 5 minutes.
https://sites.google.com/site/justisaursdd/rspls.
Haha. Nice! Good job! I'll share it with others like Blue. ;)
I did a little QA on one of the patches for ToEE if we're going into that. >>What's ToEE?
Temple of Elemental Evil? A D&D game from _many_ years ago that was an
early example of a COMPLETELY FUBAR buggy release. I think it was the
only game I ever returned, the clerk originally wasn't going to accept
so I asked her if she had a trash can. She pointed at it and I cocked
my arm back to throw the game into. And I would have but she finally >believed I really, REALLY did not want the POS and gave me a refund.
On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:31:27 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 6/13/2023 6:36 PM, Ant wrote:
Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:
On Monday, June 12, 2023 at 3:45:13???PM UTC-7, Ant wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtr...@sonic.net> wrote:
On 6/12/2023 11:01 AM, Mike S. wrote:how about a mod like I did for DOOM 2 back in the 90s?
On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 08:37:20 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
Dammit, Ant! I was gonna report that! Now what will I talk about? >>>>>>>LOL!
I am sure you will think of something. :)
The ultimate one-up would be to write a game of his own on one of his >>>>>> curbside orphans and then announce it as free to all posters of csipga. :P
http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/doom2/j2doom/j2doom.html :P Or
maybe Red Alert 1 map as shown in
http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/games/ra/us_ra.zip and
http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/games/ra/us_ra.txt? :P
There's the one I made recently, but yeah, good for maybe 5 minutes.
https://sites.google.com/site/justisaursdd/rspls.
Haha. Nice! Good job! I'll share it with others like Blue. ;)
I did a little QA on one of the patches for ToEE if we're going into that. >>>What's ToEE?
Temple of Elemental Evil? A D&D game from _many_ years ago that was an >>early example of a COMPLETELY FUBAR buggy release. I think it was the
only game I ever returned, the clerk originally wasn't going to accept
so I asked her if she had a trash can. She pointed at it and I cocked
my arm back to throw the game into. And I would have but she finally >>believed I really, REALLY did not want the POS and gave me a refund.
I didn't think TOEE was /that/ bad (and by-and-large it got average
reviews) but it was fairly mediocre and - as mentioned - suffered from
more than its usual share of bugs.
But I think "Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor" was worse, just
because it would DELETE YOUR WINDOWS INSTALLATION if you uninstalled
it. Even though intellectually I know that bug was fixed, to this day
I refuse to install that game on anything but an emulator.
On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:31:27 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 6/13/2023 6:36 PM, Ant wrote:
Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:
On Monday, June 12, 2023 at 3:45:13???PM UTC-7, Ant wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtr...@sonic.net> wrote:
On 6/12/2023 11:01 AM, Mike S. wrote:how about a mod like I did for DOOM 2 back in the 90s?
On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 08:37:20 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
Dammit, Ant! I was gonna report that! Now what will I talk about? >>>>>>>LOL!
I am sure you will think of something. :)
The ultimate one-up would be to write a game of his own on one of his >>>>>> curbside orphans and then announce it as free to all posters of csipga. :P
http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/doom2/j2doom/j2doom.html :P Or
maybe Red Alert 1 map as shown in
http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/games/ra/us_ra.zip and
http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/games/ra/us_ra.txt? :P
There's the one I made recently, but yeah, good for maybe 5 minutes.
https://sites.google.com/site/justisaursdd/rspls.
Haha. Nice! Good job! I'll share it with others like Blue. ;)
I did a little QA on one of the patches for ToEE if we're going into that. >>>What's ToEE?
Temple of Elemental Evil? A D&D game from _many_ years ago that was an
early example of a COMPLETELY FUBAR buggy release. I think it was the
only game I ever returned, the clerk originally wasn't going to accept
so I asked her if she had a trash can. She pointed at it and I cocked
my arm back to throw the game into. And I would have but she finally
believed I really, REALLY did not want the POS and gave me a refund.
I didn't think TOEE was /that/ bad (and by-and-large it got average
reviews) but it was fairly mediocre and - as mentioned - suffered from
more than its usual share of bugs.
But I think "Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor" was worse, just
because it would DELETE YOUR WINDOWS INSTALLATION if you uninstalled
it. Even though intellectually I know that bug was fixed, to this day
I refuse to install that game on anything but an emulator.
I would figure that you would now have a policy of never uninstalling
games. Seems more "Spallsish."
I played through ToEE entirely, after patches. Co8 mods help even more.
Never really got too many bugs. Quirks, sure. Gamebreakers/CTD/etc, no.
On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 10:06:43 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:
I would figure that you would now have a policy of never uninstalling >>games. Seems more "Spallsish."
Oh, no no no. I'm a big uninstaller. Intellectually, I recognize I
have terrabytes of free disk space, but in my heart I'm still
struggling with that first 40MB HDD, where I never had enough space.
As soon as I'm done with a game, it gets pulled. There are a handful
of exceptions - games like Doom, or Eurotruck Sim - but generally,
it's game done, game be gone.
On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 16:25:08 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 10:06:43 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:
I would figure that you would now have a policy of never uninstalling >>games. Seems more "Spallsish."
Oh, no no no. I'm a big uninstaller. Intellectually, I recognize I
have terrabytes of free disk space, but in my heart I'm still
struggling with that first 40MB HDD, where I never had enough space.
As soon as I'm done with a game, it gets pulled. There are a handful
of exceptions - games like Doom, or Eurotruck Sim - but generally,
it's game done, game be gone.
Ha. A 40MB HDD! I remember that. I was thrilled when I got 200MB drive
with my 486DX33.
Decades later, when I put in my first 1 TB drive, it took me a while to
get used to the idea that MB were now basically KB (and GB basically MB) according to my well-trained older standards and instincts. I would
compare a 24GB game from today to Ultima 8's, at the time ridiculous,
24MB and giggle a little. 24_G_B isn't even ridiculous at this point.
It's smallish.
I have everything sitting on a 10TB spinning rust drive. Load times don't bother me. Sometimes, perhaps yearly, I clean stuff up. You never know
when an uninstall is going to blow away your entire C: drive like Myth Drannor did.
But I think that may be why my game drive is the D: drive, in fact. I
never put games on the OS drive, unless they're really old and insist on being in the "Program Files" directory to work right.
Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 16:25:08 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
Oh, no no no. I'm a big uninstaller. Intellectually, I recognize I
have terrabytes of free disk space, but in my heart I'm still
struggling with that first 40MB HDD, where I never had enough space.
As soon as I'm done with a game, it gets pulled. There are a handful
of exceptions - games like Doom, or Eurotruck Sim - but generally,
it's game done, game be gone.
Ha. A 40MB HDD! I remember that. I was thrilled when I got 200MB drive
with my 486DX33.
Ha! I had a 30 MB HDD in my IBM PS/2 model 30 286 10 Mhz PC as my first >DOS/Windows PC when I was a teen! Also, I bought Stacker software (no >hardware) to double the disk space (only got 50 MB after compressing).
Decades later, when I put in my first 1 TB drive, it took me a while to
get used to the idea that MB were now basically KB (and GB basically MB)
according to my well-trained older standards and instincts. I would
compare a 24GB game from today to Ultima 8's, at the time ridiculous,
24MB and giggle a little. 24_G_B isn't even ridiculous at this point.
It's smallish.
But I think that may be why my game drive is the D: drive, in fact. I
never put games on the OS drive, unless they're really old and insist on
being in the "Program Files" directory to work right.
http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/toys.html for my detailed history. ;)
On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 19:02:26 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 16:25:08 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
Oh, no no no. I'm a big uninstaller. Intellectually, I recognize I
have terrabytes of free disk space, but in my heart I'm still
struggling with that first 40MB HDD, where I never had enough space.
As soon as I'm done with a game, it gets pulled. There are a handful
of exceptions - games like Doom, or Eurotruck Sim - but generally,
it's game done, game be gone.
Ha. A 40MB HDD! I remember that. I was thrilled when I got 200MB drive
with my 486DX33.
Ha! I had a 30 MB HDD in my IBM PS/2 model 30 286 10 Mhz PC as my first >>DOS/Windows PC when I was a teen! Also, I bought Stacker software (no >>hardware) to double the disk space (only got 50 MB after compressing).
I admit. I lied with my initial description above to enhance my point.
I wasn't limited to a 40MB HDD. It was... actually I forget. It was
either 80MB or 120MB. Which, for its time, was actually fairly
capacious. But even with all that space, it wasn't too long before I
started running out of room.
This was, in part, because I kept games installed for much longer than
I do now. Installing from floppy disks was such a PITA that I wanted
to minimize the number of times I did. Nonetheless, I have very clear >memories of having to uninstall dozens of apps and games to make room
for "Ultima VII" in the Spring 1992. It was obvious even then that
80MB (or was it 120MB?) wouldn't cut it anymore.
Decades later, when I put in my first 1 TB drive, it took me a while to
get used to the idea that MB were now basically KB (and GB basically MB) >>> according to my well-trained older standards and instincts. I would
compare a 24GB game from today to Ultima 8's, at the time ridiculous,
24MB and giggle a little. 24_G_B isn't even ridiculous at this point.
It's smallish.
80 to 100GB seems to be the new standard size for games. These seems
partly because many low-end PCs have such small SSDs, but also because
100GB still takes a long time to download; even at 100mbits that's
still at least 2 hours just to download. And some games are larger
than that; MS Flight Sim takes up to 180GB, and technically it's much,
much larger (I recall that there was an unofficial option where fans
made an 'offline patch' for the game that requires several petabytes
of storage ;-)
It was around then that my fetish toward uninstalling completed games
really began to manifest. Fortunately, by then I had also acquired an
Iomega ZIP drive, which greatly eased reinstalls (I imaged most of my >floppy-based games at that time and stashed them all on a handful of
ZIP disks. Those images followed me to CD-R, then DVD-R, and finally
still lurk on some dusty corner on the network drives).
These days I have terabytes of disk-space available, but the 'lessons'
I learned back in the late 80s and 90s still haunt me, and I start
getting antsy if any of my many drives fill up to the halfway mark.
And I still uninstall games and apps as soon as I'm done with them.
But I think that may be why my game drive is the D: drive, in fact. I
never put games on the OS drive, unless they're really old and insist on >>> being in the "Program Files" directory to work right.
My games are on H:\ (fast spinning rust) and X:\ (fast SSD). And a few
more on Q:\ (slow spinning rust for the old games). Oh, and a handful
on O:\ (a slower SSD). Plus a few recalcitrant programs that insist on
being on C:\.
On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:31:27 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 6/13/2023 6:36 PM, Ant wrote:
Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:
On Monday, June 12, 2023 at 3:45:13???PM UTC-7, Ant wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtr...@sonic.net> wrote:
On 6/12/2023 11:01 AM, Mike S. wrote:how about a mod like I did for DOOM 2 back in the 90s?
On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 08:37:20 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
Dammit, Ant! I was gonna report that! Now what will I talk about? >>>>>>>LOL!
I am sure you will think of something. :)
The ultimate one-up would be to write a game of his own on one of his >>>>>> curbside orphans and then announce it as free to all posters of csipga. :P
http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/doom2/j2doom/j2doom.html :P Or
maybe Red Alert 1 map as shown in
http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/games/ra/us_ra.zip and
http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/games/ra/us_ra.txt? :P
There's the one I made recently, but yeah, good for maybe 5 minutes.
https://sites.google.com/site/justisaursdd/rspls.
Haha. Nice! Good job! I'll share it with others like Blue. ;)
I did a little QA on one of the patches for ToEE if we're going into that. >>>What's ToEE?
Temple of Elemental Evil? A D&D game from _many_ years ago that was an >>early example of a COMPLETELY FUBAR buggy release. I think it was the
only game I ever returned, the clerk originally wasn't going to accept
so I asked her if she had a trash can. She pointed at it and I cocked
my arm back to throw the game into. And I would have but she finally >>believed I really, REALLY did not want the POS and gave me a refund.
I didn't think TOEE was /that/ bad (and by-and-large it got average
reviews) but it was fairly mediocre and - as mentioned - suffered from
more than its usual share of bugs.
But I think "Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor" was worse, just
because it would DELETE YOUR WINDOWS INSTALLATION if you uninstalled
it. Even though intellectually I know that bug was fixed, to this day
I refuse to install that game on anything but an emulator.
Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the >entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:
On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:31:27 -0700, Dimensional Traveler >><dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 6/13/2023 6:36 PM, Ant wrote:
Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:
On Monday, June 12, 2023 at 3:45:13???PM UTC-7, Ant wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtr...@sonic.net> wrote:
On 6/12/2023 11:01 AM, Mike S. wrote:how about a mod like I did for DOOM 2 back in the 90s?
On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 08:37:20 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
Dammit, Ant! I was gonna report that! Now what will I talk about? >>>>>>>>LOL!
I am sure you will think of something. :)
The ultimate one-up would be to write a game of his own on one of his >>>>>>> curbside orphans and then announce it as free to all posters of csipga. :P
http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/doom2/j2doom/j2doom.html :P Or >>>>>> maybe Red Alert 1 map as shown in
http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/games/ra/us_ra.zip and
http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/games/ra/us_ra.txt? :P
There's the one I made recently, but yeah, good for maybe 5 minutes.
https://sites.google.com/site/justisaursdd/rspls.
Haha. Nice! Good job! I'll share it with others like Blue. ;)
I did a little QA on one of the patches for ToEE if we're going into that.
What's ToEE?
Temple of Elemental Evil? A D&D game from _many_ years ago that was an >>>early example of a COMPLETELY FUBAR buggy release. I think it was the >>>only game I ever returned, the clerk originally wasn't going to accept
so I asked her if she had a trash can. She pointed at it and I cocked
my arm back to throw the game into. And I would have but she finally >>>believed I really, REALLY did not want the POS and gave me a refund.
I didn't think TOEE was /that/ bad (and by-and-large it got average >>reviews) but it was fairly mediocre and - as mentioned - suffered from
more than its usual share of bugs.
But I think "Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor" was worse, just >>because it would DELETE YOUR WINDOWS INSTALLATION if you uninstalled
it. Even though intellectually I know that bug was fixed, to this day
I refuse to install that game on anything but an emulator.
Never mind the deletion nonsense, the gameplay was abhorrent.
Tiny screen with no zoom out, endless criss-crossing the same areas, and >glacially slow turn based combat made the game excruciating to play.
And that was with a party of one multi-classed char, god only knows how
bad it would have been with an actual party.
On Sat, 17 Jun 2023 08:41:44 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:
Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the >>entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:
On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:31:27 -0700, Dimensional Traveler >>><dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 6/13/2023 6:36 PM, Ant wrote:
Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:
On Monday, June 12, 2023 at 3:45:13???PM UTC-7, Ant wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtr...@sonic.net> wrote:
On 6/12/2023 11:01 AM, Mike S. wrote:how about a mod like I did for DOOM 2 back in the 90s?
On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 08:37:20 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
Dammit, Ant! I was gonna report that! Now what will I talk about? >>>>>>>>>LOL!
I am sure you will think of something. :)
The ultimate one-up would be to write a game of his own on one of his >>>>>>>> curbside orphans and then announce it as free to all posters of csipga. :P
http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/doom2/j2doom/j2doom.html :P Or >>>>>>> maybe Red Alert 1 map as shown in
http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/games/ra/us_ra.zip and
http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/games/ra/us_ra.txt? :P
There's the one I made recently, but yeah, good for maybe 5 minutes. >>>>>
https://sites.google.com/site/justisaursdd/rspls.
Haha. Nice! Good job! I'll share it with others like Blue. ;)
I did a little QA on one of the patches for ToEE if we're going into that.
What's ToEE?
Temple of Elemental Evil? A D&D game from _many_ years ago that was an >>>>early example of a COMPLETELY FUBAR buggy release. I think it was the >>>>only game I ever returned, the clerk originally wasn't going to accept >>>>so I asked her if she had a trash can. She pointed at it and I cocked >>>>my arm back to throw the game into. And I would have but she finally >>>>believed I really, REALLY did not want the POS and gave me a refund.
I didn't think TOEE was /that/ bad (and by-and-large it got average >>>reviews) but it was fairly mediocre and - as mentioned - suffered from >>>more than its usual share of bugs.
But I think "Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor" was worse, just >>>because it would DELETE YOUR WINDOWS INSTALLATION if you uninstalled
it. Even though intellectually I know that bug was fixed, to this day
I refuse to install that game on anything but an emulator.
Never mind the deletion nonsense, the gameplay was abhorrent.
Tiny screen with no zoom out, endless criss-crossing the same areas, and >>glacially slow turn based combat made the game excruciating to play.
And that was with a party of one multi-classed char, god only knows how
bad it would have been with an actual party.
I have surprisingly little memory of the actual gameplay in "Pool of >Radiance: Ruins of Myth-Drannor". I know I played it on release, and
I've made several attempts to play it in the intervening years, but I
recall almost nothing about the game.
It was a top-down party-based RPG; I remember that. It wasn't as
engaging as "Baldur's Gate"; I remember that too (although the
specifics as to why that was have escaped me). Visually, I remember
thinking that it wasn't very impressive, although less-so because of >technical reasons and more because its artistry seemed less skilled.
And it killed your Windows install if you dared remove the game from
your computer. And that's pretty much all that remains in my memory
about the game.
My overall impression was that it was a very sad follow-up to one of
the most beloved CRPGs of PC gaming, and a poor clone to Bioware's
recent opus.
But if you tried to hammer down EXACTLY why I didn't like the game?
I've nothing except the lingering distaste from my initial
playthrough.
Perhaps that's for the best.
Anyway, I'll take your word for the faults with the gameplay.
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