20th March 2006, 4:16 PM
Ryan Wrote:The original Civilization had that protection feature too, where it asked you a question and you had to look up the answer on a specific page of the instruction manual.
I bought the game in a bargain bin several years ago on CD. The copy-protection feature was still intact. Unfortunately, it was just a straight jewel-case game, and there was no manual included, just a single paper insert.
Needless to say, someone somewhere along the line had a hell of a brain fart, as the game is severely restricted unless you manage to guess the answers.
Not quite. KQIV had that. It asked you "what does it say on page 4?". What I'm talking about is pages and pages of LORE you actually have to use to solve puzzles. For example, poetry and knowledge about islands and so on. While travelling, you may see a bunch of symbols on the floor, and you may remember that poem, and using that poem you realize exactly what order you need to step on those tiles so you don't die.
"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)