1st June 2007, 12:26 PM
Haha, lemme guess. Poison takes effect all the time and will eventually kill you outright? I love it! Don't get me wrong, the old school challenge I love, but the old school annoyances weren't really "challenges" so much as just time consuming. By that, I mean grinding. That's not "hard", just takes a while. That's not the sort of "challenge" I like. One of the nice things about modern RPGs and their experience is they balanced the fine art of leveling so that if you just don't run away from any encounters and fully explore places, you should always be at a level that allows you to continue onward.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)