06-30-2011, 12:42 AM
i really dislike the sierra adventure games outside of looking at them as amusing oddities or mishaps of game design because of their dumb dumb dumb difficulty. it's not just because it's difficult, it's because the way they tended to make their games difficult was stupid
"do some unintuitive esoteric task at an arbitrarily specified point, or else after an hour of gameplay you'll find out you were screwed and need to redo all of that, also when you get screwed it might not be obvious how to fix it"
it's like the adventure game equivalent of platformers that put random death pits in such a way as to be impossible to avoid without having the ability to see into the future
i kind of like some of the art and writing in space quest though
"do some unintuitive esoteric task at an arbitrarily specified point, or else after an hour of gameplay you'll find out you were screwed and need to redo all of that, also when you get screwed it might not be obvious how to fix it"
it's like the adventure game equivalent of platformers that put random death pits in such a way as to be impossible to avoid without having the ability to see into the future
i kind of like some of the art and writing in space quest though