13th June 2003, 11:24 PM
Perhaps if the fairy had kept her opinion to herself OOT would have been far harder.
It's a bad trend that games are doing all these hinty things. Megaman X5 for instance introduced the most evil reploid ever, Alia! Thanks for freezing me mid-jump to tell me exactly how to find a capsule I wanted to find myself, then releasing me unexpectedly so I drop to my death! She's that annoying friend who talks, and talks...., and talks....
It's one thing to include a built-in training mode to learn how to do things in the game. A training level, where the Alia thing is ONLY done in that level, is a fine idea. I also think it's a great idea to have a small amount of text describing how to use an item. However, in the latter cases I hate it when they don't just describe how to use it, but unusual ways to use it that you should have been forced to figure out! Don't tell me that "the gun can also be used to activate switches" ever again! I want to figure that out myself!
It's a bad trend that games are doing all these hinty things. Megaman X5 for instance introduced the most evil reploid ever, Alia! Thanks for freezing me mid-jump to tell me exactly how to find a capsule I wanted to find myself, then releasing me unexpectedly so I drop to my death! She's that annoying friend who talks, and talks...., and talks....
It's one thing to include a built-in training mode to learn how to do things in the game. A training level, where the Alia thing is ONLY done in that level, is a fine idea. I also think it's a great idea to have a small amount of text describing how to use an item. However, in the latter cases I hate it when they don't just describe how to use it, but unusual ways to use it that you should have been forced to figure out! Don't tell me that "the gun can also be used to activate switches" ever again! I want to figure that out myself!
"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)