I'dd add something common in some good isometric games like HoH or Phantom Club: a 'monotone' map where most screens look similar and where it's easy to lose your way.
Hence I prefer games like Knight Lore or Alien 8.
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Juan F. Ramirez
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Where Time Stood Still - that bloody swamp with the tentacled creatures, I always lost any two of Dirk, Gloria or Clive in there.
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Fighter Pilot (1) - Real F-15 has a single gun placed on wing root, not dual guns.
Fighter Pilot (2) - Invisible mountains.
Fighter Pilot (2) - Invisible mountains.
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Atic Atac - Aimlessly walking from room to room is really quite boring. I never what all the fuss was about.
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1 - R-Type - failure to explore diplomatic avenues with the Bydo
2 - Ikari warriors - the instructions don't say how to pronounce it, even though we all know it's 'ik-ar-ee'
2 - Ikari warriors - the instructions don't say how to pronounce it, even though we all know it's 'ik-ar-ee'
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Yep, I never really enjoyed any of those games either. I suppose Firelord was slightly better with it's little game when you entered a building, but even so it was all about wandering about looking for stuff. Yawnsville
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I think Atic Atac is the exception. Despite it being on multiple floors - or perhaps it's because each floor feels a bit different - I learned the map quite quickly. I found after about 3 goes I could find my way around the house with just a mental map.
Sabre Wulf I'd say less so, though I found the mountains give you an idea of where you are.
Robin of the Wood is a complete bast, everything looking very similar and a wrap-around map - aaargh..!
Firelord is just a tad too big IMO. I think Starquake is the same size but somehow I found the teleports a bit easier to figure out.
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Juan F. Ramirez
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At least in real life you don't keep having your stuff nicked...Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Thu Dec 23, 2021 3:06 pmBut I think is the good point of this game: you're in a dense forest and everything looks similar, so it's easy to get lost.
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It's not just the size of the map but how convoluted it is.
In Atic Atac, the only thing that'll stop you from leaving a location by a particular exit is if the door is locked. There are only a few keys and finding most of them isn't that hard.
Sabre Wulf, on the other hand, often requires a lengthy detour via several other screens just to get to a place that you can already see on your current screen. Even though the map isn't that much bigger, and there are no locked exits, it's a much harder game to traverse on account of that.
In Atic Atac, the only thing that'll stop you from leaving a location by a particular exit is if the door is locked. There are only a few keys and finding most of them isn't that hard.
Sabre Wulf, on the other hand, often requires a lengthy detour via several other screens just to get to a place that you can already see on your current screen. Even though the map isn't that much bigger, and there are no locked exits, it's a much harder game to traverse on account of that.
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Cobra - I've tried to get into it but it seems to be absolutely terrible.
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bluespikey
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Academy - All I want to do is add a few mores flares to my vehicle, and take some missiles away to compensate, but I've got to go through the entire UI redesign each time.
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MatGubbins
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Amourite - You can only fire one.. poxy... slowly.... bouncing..... bomb...... at....... a........ time
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That and the fact that the game is rubbish.MatGubbins wrote: ↑Tue Dec 28, 2021 9:45 pm Amourite - You can only fire one.. poxy... slowly.... bouncing..... bomb...... at....... a........ time