Re: Why are Looking Glass/Ion Storm games not more popular?

On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 23:52:39 +0100, Mean_Chlorine
<mike_noren2002@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You mean apart from the extremely weak sound, the even for its time
weak graphics, the silly plot, the "always exactly two routes from A
to B, only one of which, the sneakway, is viable all the way" maps
which meant that at the start of each new map you looked around and
said "hmm... where's the sneakway? Ah, there it is.", the god-awful
inventory management, the fact that you were given choices but your
decision didn't matter at all, and the unbalanced weapons and skills?

Sound was fine for me. Graphics weren't state of the art, but were
completely functional and set the mood very well. I don't know how
many routes there were, it just felt like I had enough choices and had
plenty of things to explore. I didn't mind the inventory apart from
getting fed up with picking up the umpteenth knife that I don't want
and having to keep discarding it. Balanced weapons in a single player
game? Why? real life isn't like that.

Wild guess: Could be because you were more forgiving about the things
listed above.

None of them bothered me, it was a stunning game IMO.
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