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From: nad@tegra.COM (Nancy Durgin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Wizardry: - DONT BUY IT!!!
Message-ID: <2238@joker.tegra.COM>
Date: 5 Apr 91 21:08:02 GMT
References: <8410@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: nad@joker.UUCP (Nancy Durgin)
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In article <8410@crash.cts.com> uzun@pnet01.cts.com (Roger Uzun) writes:
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>I agree about much of the user interface criticism, but I finished BANE
>and the basic game rules, story and depth are all excellent.
>It is near or at the top of all fantasy role playing games I have
>played, better than Bards Tale, Might & Magic II, even Dungeon Master
>and Chaos Strikes back in many ways.  
>True the graphics and sounds are pretty lame, and the user interface is
>awkward, but the basic gameplay and gaming rules are superb.
>-Roger
>

I agree with Roger...  I think the playability (in terms of plot, rules,
etc) of Bane far outweighs any user interface issues.  And I consider
the quality of sound and graphics to be pretty much a non-issue (I found
them less embarrassing than the graphics in CURSE OF THE AZURE BONDS,
anyway...). 

As for the user interface, I found the keyboard interface to be quite
usable.  Perhaps the person who flamed the interface was trying to use the
keyboard without setting the configuration to 'keyboard' instead of
'mouse'? If you try that, it is indeed quite bizarre.... 

I suppose one should consider that I played it on a 3000, installed on
the hard disk.  It could be that I was spared some annoyances with disk
access and general speed of animations that others are complaining
about? Certainly swapping 5 floppies would have to get tedious. 

Anyway, at least if you have a hard disk and are playing on an
accelerated system, I would highly recommend this game.... 

         Nancy


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