New To RPG Games

chainbreaker wrote:
> Nostromo wrote:
>>> 1) In Oblivion the half dozen major cities are already open to you
>>> but you have to get to the other hundreds of places "the hard way
>>> first". 2) In Gothic you have to find a teleporter stone before you
>>> can teleport "which is not always in an obvious place (some are easy
>>> to miss)".
>>>
>>> I don't see finding some hidden thing as "earning the privilege".
>> The mechanism justifies the means - it makes sense (in a magic world
>> sort of way), whereas Ob just throws the entire problem aside with a
>> time dilation engine solution which ignores anything that might
>> happen in between. You tell me which is more 'realistic' &
>> self-consistent?
>
> I can tell you which is potentially a helluva lot less aggravating,
> especially for a CRPG newb.
>
> I think even you'll have to admit that G3 includes if not the modern version
> of "pixel hunts" something very closely approaching them.

Huh? Whatchu talkin bout Willis???

Walking to the next location (which are not that far apart really),
stopping to smell the roses & get caught up in side-quests & whatnot (if
you want) are aspects that make the teleporter stones meaningful & feel
like you *earned* getting them, not to mention that the continuity &
self-consistency of the world design isn't lost as a result. I have NFI
which parts of G3 you think are a grind or designed to kill time or give
you RSI...how much of the game have you played again?

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Nostromo

Nostromo wrote:
> Huh? Whatchu talkin bout Willis???
>
> Walking to the next location (which are not that far apart really),
> stopping to smell the roses & get caught up in side-quests & whatnot
> (if you want) are aspects that make the teleporter stones meaningful
> & feel like you *earned* getting them, not to mention that the
> continuity & self-consistency of the world design isn't lost as a
> result. I have NFI which parts of G3 you think are a grind or
> designed to kill time or give you RSI...how much of the game have you
> played again?

I admittedly haven't played all that much--got hooked up on NWN2. Let me
withdraw that until I play it enough to either confirm/deny.

In the meantime, I got to thinking about the last CRPG I played that had
what amounted to *real* pixle hunts--as I remember, it was Wizards and
Warriors, I think.

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chainbreaker