That's far too capricious, Tom. Randomly getting killed through no fault of your own isn't fun. It's stupid. There should be a basic amount of guaranteed time to cross those platforms before they disappear. The point of those in the game was to get used to their pattern of appearing and disappearing and then picking your moment to rush across. The original game wouldn't have gained its popularity if people were just arbitrarily killed like that. It was all about actual skill, speed and coordination. There can certainly be randomness in the game but it should be randomness which one can contend with. You might, for instance have monsters show up at different points but have one or two extra weapons around people could collect and keep in order to have them on hand later. Encouraging prudence is fine. Discouraging putting in effort by completely unfairly killing you isn't. If you had the platforms stay in place for, as an example, three seconds plus up to one to three extra seconds, you could count on at least three seconds to rush across. Your decision would then be how early to jump past a given point. If you mis-judged things in that situation, that would at least be reasonable. You would learn to do tings more conservatively next time. Ketting killed because a platform just randomly disappeared before you had the slightest ghost of a chance to make sensible use of it is just not where it's at.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 2:45 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] question about the vanishing platforms in monti > Hi Nicol, > The vanishing platforms are floating metalic platforms that randomly > vanish and reappear in Montezuma's Revenge. They typically appear > hovering over fire pits, large drop offs, lava pits, etc that are to > large to jump across. You need them to cross some areas, but it can be > tricky. > For example, say you are walking and suddenly there is a huge dropoff > between two ledges. You can not jump it, and a platform appears above > you and off to your left. You need to jump up and on to the platform and > cross it before it vanishes again. If it vanishes while you are on it > you will fall to your death. If you can do it in time no problem. If you > can't then it is tough to get across. > As I mentioned earlier they are random. One time they may appear and > last for 8 seconds. Another time appear and vanish in 2 seconds. You > never know when they will appear or vanish on you. > There is another trap in the game that also is random and cycles > allowing you to pass or accidently get nailed by it. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can > visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
