In article <cnve8n022ib.TakeThisOut@news2.newsguy.com>,
"chainbreaker" <noone.TakeThisOut@nowhere.com> wrote:
>Mike wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 07:43:42 -0500, "chainbreaker" <noone.TakeThisOut@nowhere.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> And I thought I detected a bit of annoyance that no one had answered
>>> you,
>>
>> Oh I was definitely annoyed, but not at anyone here. I hate
>> lever\button\pressure plate puzzles. They are so boring and they give
>> me no satisfaction if I solve them. Flipping levers and pushing
>> buttons is not something I want to spend any time doing in an RPG.
>
>
>I'm with you on that--maybe it's homage to Zork?
>
>Anyway, the "new" Bard's Tale has (at least) one of those lever
>"puzzles"--although it's not really a puzzle. But it still put me in
>aggravation mode, and not long thereafter I became annoyed enough with the
>game to chuck it.
>
Heh, even more annoying is needing a piece of information to
solve a puzzle but the clue was printed in the book that
came in the original box and didn't copied to the on-line
manual.
/BAH
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