Re: What difficultly level do you play one?

On Tue, 09 Jul 2024 12:27:00 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Even back-in-the-day I disliked the 'make your own map' requirement of
a lot of adventure and role-playing games. Especially since it
promoted stupidly labyrinthine (and unrealistic) dungeon design whose
sole purpose was to artificially lengthen the game rather than provide
a fun experience.
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When games like "Ultima Underworld" or "Might & Magic III" started
adding automap as a standard feature, I rejoiced. All of a sudden
dungeon crawls could be FUN rather than tedious step-by-step grind
where you had to carefully mark out every step. I could focus on the
ambience and environment rather than have to jump away every step to
scribble some marks on a piece of paper.

I had this huge piece of graph paper with maps of all the dungeon levels
in Ultima III back in the day. It was beautiful. You could hang it as a
piece of mosaic art.

Bard's Tale, not so much.

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Zag

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