Re: [SWCollect] My curiosity is getting to me... (an OT extra)
Oh, what a shame... You see, recently I tried to come up with a good 1st person RPG that had LAN (either by TCP/IP or IPX) support so I could play with my stepson over our home network. There are _no_, I repeat, absolutely _no_ 1st person RPGs with LAN support whatsoever, with the exception of Elder Scrolls: Battlespire, and that one has a severe flaw: no chance of saving the game before you finish one entire level (we took 2 hours to try to finish the first level, and when we were about 80% there, the game crashed on the computer that was playing the server). So, many 1st person RPG either a) had advertised multiplayer support but never implemented it (Descent to Undermountain) b) had net support but no lan support (Yserbius) c) have nice LAN support but the RPG elements were completely gone (Legends of Might Magic) I'd say there's something really important missing in the RPG world... :( Pedro R. Quaresma [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] So long, and thanks for all the fish Karl Kuras [EMAIL PROTECTED] 31/10/01 11:04 Solicita-se resposta a swcollect Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A/C: Ref: cc: Assunto: Re: [SWCollect] My curiosity is getting to me... (an OT extra) Now I just wonder if those advantages are easy to spot or not. I know that at least chars run slower with plate mail than with leather armor, etc. There are a few minor differences, but the first person perspective does make targeting that much more of a factor that can't be regulated with stats. Trust me... it's really just another squad based FPS with midevil textures... nothing more... here's a review that does a wonderful job of summing it all up: http://pc.ign.com/reviews/14377.html Karl Kuras Visit Our House, the online comic strip! http://ourhouse.trantornator.com -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/ http://www.salvador-caetano.pt http://www.globalshop.pt -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/
Re: [SWCollect] My curiosity is getting to me... (an OT extra)
So, many 1st person RPG either a) had advertised multiplayer support but never implemented it (Descent to Undermountain) b) had net support but no lan support (Yserbius) c) have nice LAN support but the RPG elements were completely gone (Legends of Might Magic) I'd say there's something really important missing in the RPG world... :( It's a shame that the first person RPG hasn't found a better presence for those of us who just don't have the time or interest to live in a MMORPG. At least there are still the Bioware 3rd Person games, like Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale which deliver a fairly competent multiplayer lan game... unfortunately they are all just big adventures and don't give you the ability to play small self contained stories which can be played in an afternoon (which was one of the initial promises of Legends of MM) Karl Kuras Visit Our House, the online comic strip! http://ourhouse.trantornator.com -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/
Re: [SWCollect] Every collector's nightmare
Jim, I had a bunch of them in the past but they sold. I think they went for only $10 each. In fact, didn't you buy one from me? I don't recall. Chris P.S. I'm still cringing over the thought of an angry spouse approaching the classics bookcase with evil intent... No, not my sealed Leather Goddesses, Pirates!, Circuit's Edge, or Hero's Quest! (Classics is a subjective term as many of mine are not very popular games, or even expensive). Jim Leonard wrote: Well, actually I can think of some nightmares that come before this one, in order: 1. Fire 2. Flooding 3. Theft or accidental loss 4. Discovering your originals are fakes or counterfeit 5. Auction/trade gone horribly, horribly wrong ..but I experienced #6 this weekend, and I thought I'd share it with you. I've been married for 7 years (I'm 30), but dated my wife for 4 years before that, so I'd like to think that I know her really well. I do, actually, which is why I could tell something was wrong this weekend. It turns out that she was feeling neglected, and we started fighting. The fight lasted, on and off, for about 3 hours, with me in the basement with all my computers and stuff on the couch and her in the bedroom. Now before I continue, I'd like to iterate that the fight was pretty much *my fault* and *I was indeed a massive jerk* and *fully deserved what I am about to describe to you*. My wife did NOT put me up to writing that; rather, I wanted to state it because I don't want any of you to feel differently about my wife: She is a very kind and loving wife and mother, and I owe much of my success in life and our wonderful children to her. I was solely responsible for the fight; I badgered her, I was a jerk, and I deserved the consequences. Now, with that out of the way, here's what happened: She didn't want the fight to end with us hating each other seperated by 2 floors, so she came down and tried to work things out. I had been stoked to a boil by that point and had no intention of working things out, at least at that time of the night. She tried to get me to listen, to work things out, to compromise -- but I didn't want anything to do with it. So to get me to react, to do *anything*, she walked over to one of my shelves, grabbed a box, and ripped it completely asunder. So what did she grab? Not one of the 95%-of-my-collection near-meaningless titles, but instead she had the incredible luck of grabbing Countdown (Access, 1990), NOT the Slash release. It's no Suspended mask or Starcross saucer, but I spent 6 months checking ebay listings to find a non-Slash original of this, and paid a little bit more what I thought it was worth because I wanted to a complete Access adventure series (Martian Memorandum, Mean Streets, Countdown, and Amazon). It had nostalgic worth, time-investment worth, and financial worth to me. Well, that pretty much ended the fight. I stopped being a complete jerk and we made up. The moral of the story is: Your family is always more important than your collection -- which should be common sense anyway :-) Anyone got a Countdown they'd be willing to sell or trade? ;-) -- http://www.MobyGames.com/ The world's most comprehensive gaming database project. -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/ -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/