25th January 2004, 7:48 PM
Quote:LL and I also turned it off after finding out about it, but it took us longer to find out about it I think. It's just not obvious that that's what "hint mode" does. It SHOULD be, all things considering, but too many games before Prime considered in-game tutorials on how to do things as you came across them to be "hint mode" so I just left it on assuming this game was the same way. I just assumed the global scanning was just part of the game up until I was informed that WAS the hint mode. Unfortunatly that was AFTER I beat the game. Fortunatly, I rushed through rather quickly anyway and it seems the hint mode is based on a timer, so most of the time I was figuring out where to go on my own, and when the hint mode did pop in it just told me to go where I was already heading, or meantioning a nearby room with a save spot in it. While I really HATE that Retro didn't either set it as defaulted to off, or better yet, explain what exactly it was, I'm glad the hint mode ended up not really spoiling anything.
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You really HATE that they didn't make the option more obvious. It's unfortunate that you had to play through the game with it on. It is fortunate that you went fast, because it didn't actually help much. Horribly enough (you imply with words) you only found out which option it was AFTER beating it...
Erm, this is pretty straightforward here folks... if that isn't an angry rant, nothing is.
If you aren't angry why use so many very negative terms about it being on? You sound really annoyed that you had to play with it on when (you imply) the game would be so much better and more fun with it off... I just don't get that...
But that whole post (like several you've done like that before) sounds, to me, somewhat outraged that you played with it on when the game would be SOOOO much better with it off. It makes no sense at all.
But that's your opinion. You must really love getting lost with no idea where to go in games, I guess... But going back and acting your statements didn't mean what they so clearly did? Now that's just stupid.