🚀 go-pugleaf

baylor@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Baylor) writes:

>In article <718437662.0@selene.FidoNet.Org> Brian.Wehrle@f99.n121.z1.Fid
Net.Org (Brian Wehrle) writes:
>>Hey, ya' know I think Eob was the worst game I've ever played..
>>Yet Pool of Radiance was one of the best ever.
>>Huh.  Well, I'd like the game to be more of an ultima format...looking 
own

>	Am I correct in assuming everyone loved the Ultima format?
>	Me personally, I can't stand it - it was too complex, mouse or no,
>and I couldn't do anything. I don't want to have to read a tome of 
>instructions before i can enjoy a game.
>	For me, it wasn't intuitive, it was just confusing. Maybe i'm just
>not game-minded, but i couldn't get into the game because of it's interf
ce.
>							- baylor
>ps - this isn't an IBM specific question - how neat
..
Hmm... I don't think Brian was referring to the clumsy, confusing
which-button-does-what interface of Ultima7, just the quasi-isometric view
where you look down on the characters.  This is surprisingly easy to do
(see my icons.arj demo; now about 5x faster with xlib03) and looks great!

-->Vputz