tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post3652747097194941386..comments2024-03-28T13:59:51.408-04:00Comments on The CRPG Addict: Wasteland: I Will Show You Fear in a Handful of DustCRPG Addicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-22091079868526476962020-10-23T19:29:26.152-04:002020-10-23T19:29:26.152-04:00I got the TOAST riddle wrong too. Damn as well.I got the TOAST riddle wrong too. Damn as well.Dan from across the pondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03761873828173991740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-68262907525137515992016-02-05T19:06:23.447-05:002016-02-05T19:06:23.447-05:00I remember getting stuck in a few situations where...I remember getting stuck in a few situations where I was trying to use a skill/attribute/item in a direction that made sense to me, but the game wanted me to press the space bar instead of an arrow key to use it in my current space. That was always unintuitive to me, so it's worth keeping in mind.asimpkinsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-63042323724033932692011-11-13T23:07:09.589-05:002011-11-13T23:07:09.589-05:00Illarion, I really appreciate the tips. Keep comme...Illarion, I really appreciate the tips. Keep commenting!<br /><br />William, thanks. I'll get past this slump soon.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-91805266130238683852011-11-11T13:13:27.419-05:002011-11-11T13:13:27.419-05:00You will never lose me as a reader, no matter how ...You will never lose me as a reader, no matter how long your gaps go. I know that salves your worries, so I made sure to tell you. I hope you sleep better now. I am enjoying every one of your wasteland posts. Excellent work!williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13165046805752023823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-63543822771501864502011-11-11T11:00:32.989-05:002011-11-11T11:00:32.989-05:00Hey, great blog! As a long time fan of this genre...Hey, great blog! As a long time fan of this genre - ever since I first saw Ultima IV as a kid - I'm really enjoying reading as you go through classics I remember fondly, as well as games I never played.<br /><br />Wasteland is a particular favourite of mine - I bought it on the c64 on release, and have played through it a number of times in the decades since. Obviously it has dated, but for its time I think it was sublime - and still enjoyable today.<br /><br />Regarding your progress - there are several major areas still to come, including some you probably haven't even heard about. You've made good progress - but the game isn't about to finish.<br /><br />I would advise you to return to the sewers and explore more thoroughly. While IIRC that isn't the only way to progress the story, it's pretty important. I won't say more for fear of spoiling you.<br /><br />Re melee - I didn't see you mention it, but melee kills give double experience over ranged. That said, at the stage you're at, it becomes pretty challenging to reach enemies hand to hand, as you've found. IIRC, level 8+ pugilism + 8+ brawling makes a barehanded fighter do obscene damage. Proton Ax is deadly also.<br /><br />Re weapons - you'll struggle to go too much further with assault rifles, nevermind weaker conventional weapons, especially if you haven't been training the skills. But note that, unlike conventional clips, you cannot buy energy clips anywhere. Without cheating, they are scarce and precious (and not worth wasting on weaker laser weapons, nor full auto).Illarionnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-30238362845046404632011-11-06T18:43:49.360-05:002011-11-06T18:43:49.360-05:00Yep, the sex thing. I read a Let's Play on RPG...Yep, the sex thing. I read a Let's Play on RPG.net way back. They made up bits of the plot, so I can't comment on that, but I remember some things, mostly amusing ones. <br /><br />They did Needles before the other cities, with lots of grinding, then walked through everything else with ease. Even then, I don't remember the bloodstaff bit making sense.Canageekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03770924810559440307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-71252224030089537692011-11-06T14:34:15.281-05:002011-11-06T14:34:15.281-05:00samtam90 and d3dbetc., thanks for the hints. I was...samtam90 and d3dbetc., thanks for the hints. I was able to find Ace and use the car and to talk to Head Crusher. The latter was a little counterintuitive, though.<br /><br />Fred, I really appreciate your tip. Based on it, I started using pick lock and medic multiple times, and you're right: it eventually works. Usually. I couldn't save two people from dying from radiation poisoning, unfortunately.<br /><br />Petrus, I also appreciate your tip. I might have skipped some otherwise. Kennon, thanks for explaining the skills. I did finally find a library in Needles.<br /><br />Akhier, you make a decent point about cars, I guess. I just realized the manual doesn't specifically tell you how long after the nuclear war the game occurs. Without electricity, cars would soon become fairly useless after the gas pumps stopped working.<br /><br />Stu, I think the game has brilliant ELEMENTS, but I don't know whether I'd call it a brilliant game. I'll try to reserve judgment for my final rating, but right now I'm just not sure all its innovations fit together well. And combat is a bit of a bore.<br /><br />Canageek, I assume you're referring to the sex thing--see the post I just put out today. If it's something else, I'm very curious.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-30426142827162552392011-11-05T22:20:03.320-04:002011-11-05T22:20:03.320-04:00Hehehe. You've made at least one mistake in th...Hehehe. You've made at least one mistake in the above post, but it is something that you will uncover with time, so I'm not going to correct you --Don't worry, it isn't a gameplay mistake or anything like that.Canageekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03770924810559440307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-70545386791983508412011-11-05T13:32:45.587-04:002011-11-05T13:32:45.587-04:00The repetitive empty buildings is one of the dumb ...The repetitive empty buildings is one of the dumb things about some of the areas. However, as boring as it is, there ARE occasionally buildings with things in them, so you really should search them all.<br /><br />To raise your skills, you can either use them in the "real world", or you can find somewhere to "exercise the mind". You'll figure it out once you come across the first one.<br /><br />Pugilism is only used when you fight with your bare hands (IIRC, as explained in the manual), brawling is your main base melee skill. It WILL go up, but it just takes awhile.<br /><br />As far as the "undead" goes, the Fallout series retconned the ghouls into being radiation mutated humans. If it makes you feel any better, you can think of the "undead" in Wasteland this way too :-)<br /><br />I think the open-endedness of the Quartz encounters was what blew my mind when I first played this game as a kid - it was the first experience I had with multiple solutions to solve the same problem, where you actually could, you know, *role play*. I suppose it wasn't the first CRPG to do this, but it was the first one that I played.kennonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-82962368728230580972011-11-04T22:22:39.418-04:002011-11-04T22:22:39.418-04:00"In Quartz, I found a ton of abandoned buildi..."In Quartz, I found a ton of abandoned buildings like this, with nothing in them"<br /><br />So did I. So in Vegas I didn't bother, and missed a lot of important info. So when you get to Vegas, make sure you explore every inch of the town.PetrusOctavianusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-27346566755445134162011-11-04T22:00:16.392-04:002011-11-04T22:00:16.392-04:00Really good read... this is one that I started yea...Really good read... this is one that I started years ago and never finished. I will have to put it on my list to get back to...Bandaxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-25778435293825046412011-11-04T21:06:31.959-04:002011-11-04T21:06:31.959-04:00You mentioned in your previous post difficulties w...You mentioned in your previous post difficulties with the Medic skill, so I'm going to share a tip from my own days playing Wasteland: if you use a skill and it fails, that doesn't mean you can't try (try, try, try, try, try) again. Use Medic, like, a dozen times on each injury, and if you make some progress, try it some more. You'll very quickly make progress in the skill; by the time I got to the end game, my specialist Medic could nearly raise the dead.<br /><br />As for spending skill points, I THINK you need to find specific locations for that... libraries, maybe? It's been a while.Fred M. Slonikerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00160266344815166217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-38945552304557889162011-11-04T20:50:44.206-04:002011-11-04T20:50:44.206-04:00your starting to see why wasteland is a brilliant ...your starting to see why wasteland is a brilliant game, the openness, the ability to not just hack/blast through everything, talking works too.<br /><br />a lot of what you have brought up become more apparent laterStuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03746769788742751281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-88507234376827857522011-11-04T20:40:59.240-04:002011-11-04T20:40:59.240-04:00Well, as for Head Crusher, look at it like this. ...Well, as for Head Crusher, look at it like this. would you want to talk to someone standing over you?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-69883045007906179552011-11-04T20:13:14.864-04:002011-11-04T20:13:14.864-04:00All of your skills will increase with use, the dif...All of your skills will increase with use, the difficulty is in finding a way to exercise themAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-15895398881061350462011-11-04T20:09:43.809-04:002011-11-04T20:09:43.809-04:00Honestly having cars just laying around so long af...Honestly having cars just laying around so long after "the End", or at-least cars that are still car shaped never made sense to me. I always figured that they would either have already been salvaged for parts and pieces or have rusted away.Akhier the Dragon Heartedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01982936563965623813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-1844882646116983702011-11-04T18:57:49.124-04:002011-11-04T18:57:49.124-04:00Good update, I was eager to see you play this mast...Good update, I was eager to see you play this masterpiece. And yes, this is one of the first RPGs allowing you to solve quests and approach problems in different ways, mainly based on your character skills (the skill system was definately a first, as well) - I bet you'll be even more suprised when you play Dragon Wars, which not only allows you to approach situations in different ways, but also gives you consequences for your actions (e.g. you can decide to sell your party to the slave market and the games becomes MUCH harder, you can destroy cities if you do something stupid, the slave camp goes deserted if you attack someone, etc.) - another masterpiece of RPGs which unfortunately got far less attention than it deserved, mostly because people dismissed it as yet another BT clone... and here's my usual wall of text :D<br /><br />Ace isn't in another city by the way - you just have to search thoroughly Ugly's Hideout. Oh, and the broken car you find near Quartz has something to do with him (it's pretty useless, actually, but still nice, at the very least because it reminded me of Fallout 2's car)samtam90https://www.blogger.com/profile/07507672363541221184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-92166049521576933622011-11-04T18:55:06.564-04:002011-11-04T18:55:06.564-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.samtam90https://www.blogger.com/profile/07507672363541221184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-9600044562999936532011-11-04T17:08:26.408-04:002011-11-04T17:08:26.408-04:00Yes, I've had to use that a couple of times to...Yes, I've had to use that a couple of times to pick up NPCs. But it doesn't work in the case of Head Crusher.CRPG Addicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-48162581088627758252011-11-04T17:06:12.347-04:002011-11-04T17:06:12.347-04:00Just checking: you do know how to initiate an enco...Just checking: you do know how to initiate an encounter, correct? I believe in the Apple II version it was the E key. I remember being very frustrated at first when I'd see people standing around that I couldn't talk to and that wouldn't initiate conversation with me. I'm guessing you do know how to do this based on the recap, but I thought I'd mention it.Scottnoreply@blogger.com