Hey I still play the game and have gotten a few things I have a character that has successfully stayed alive for about 80 game days now but he's stuck since there isn't any food or water for miles where I am and there is a high risk of dying if I try to rest. I might try again though. Niall ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zachary Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 2:48 AM Subject: [Audyssey] An appreciation for Fallthru
> Hiya, > Off and on over the past year or so, I've been working at playing > through an old DOS game which Michael reviewed in Issue 1 of Audyssey. > I've not come anywhere close to beating it, and don't want to really. > I've yet to really make it much of anywhere--true, I've gotten fairly rich > and found a few rather amazing places, but haven't yet found any real > direction. I don't mind this in the least. > One thing I love about this game, which I haven't found anywhere else, > is a sense of a world with unlimited places to explore. There is this odd > sense that if I just keep going in a direction somewhere I'll find > something interesting, or run into a new town, or a new inn, or a new > place where I can appreciate the depth of detail that's offered here. > I've never before encountered a sense like the following: > When the character in Fallthru travels from town to town over roads, it > seems like he's really traveling somewhere. I get this odd sense that, > wow, that really did take three days! (That's game time, of course.) > Since I haven't really scratched the surface of this game yet, I have to > wonder what it'll be like if I keep going. > I know this game isn't for everyone. It's tedious and hard to get > anywhere sometimes because you're constantly trying to stay alive. There > are so many places to go that it is hard to choose. I find myself setting > out long term goals for spots I want to see and realizing, a few days and > some food later, that I really should've reconsidered. No other game has > quite given me this feeling. > I'm just curious, therefore, if anybody on this list still plays the > game? If so, does it stay this engrossing all the way through? No, don't > answer that. I want to find out for myself. > All the best, > Zack. > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can > visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
