tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post5383551966298247961..comments2024-03-29T02:34:55.592-04:00Comments on The CRPG Addict: The Return of Werdna: 229 Shades of GrayCRPG Addicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01238237377918550322noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-10703535813115041392022-07-28T12:22:59.225-04:002022-07-28T12:22:59.225-04:00PK Thunder dropping some truth bombs in this threa...PK Thunder dropping some truth bombs in this thread. I agree wholeheartedly: TOS S3 is not as bad as everyone says. The latter half of S2 is, IMO, worse.Tipihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11416637333851125884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-70194193530428707792022-07-09T23:09:58.393-04:002022-07-09T23:09:58.393-04:00The other kids in my elementary school were very d...The other kids in my elementary school were very disappointed in my Space: 1999 lunchbox for not being Battlestar Galactica. (Not the one with Edward James Olmos!)Matt Weinerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15731711604182232484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-11953226580723232842022-07-09T10:53:30.422-04:002022-07-09T10:53:30.422-04:00Very influential on the early rpg scene. One of th...Very influential on the early rpg scene. One of the co-founders, Steve Perrin, worked with Chaosium, giving us <i>RuneQuest</i>, helping out with <i>Call of Cthulhu</i>, and other classics, all of which then went on to influence further developments in rpgs on tables and computers.thekelvingreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01928260185408072124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-10435288442805255772022-07-09T10:48:26.267-04:002022-07-09T10:48:26.267-04:00Space: 1999 "poorly remembered"? Get in ...<i>Space: 1999</i> "poorly remembered"? Get in the sea! ;)thekelvingreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01928260185408072124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-35654466582443734392022-07-08T23:03:38.970-04:002022-07-08T23:03:38.970-04:00DankeDankeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-12165696679484039362022-07-08T18:34:19.742-04:002022-07-08T18:34:19.742-04:00[7 Priests of Fung]
[2 Gas Dragons]
"Five gol...[7 Priests of Fung]<br />[2 Gas Dragons]<br />"Five golden riiiiiiiings!!"mecha-nekohttp://www.twitter.com/mecha_neko/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-28822737733440088132022-07-08T18:33:08.848-04:002022-07-08T18:33:08.848-04:00I've been playing a game called La-Mulana 2 fo...I've been playing a game called La-Mulana 2 for most of the time you've been covering Werdna (this second run, at least) and many of the same rules apply there too: you really have to pay attention and take notes on every hint found, every key item acquired, and every puzzle left unsolved. Also have to get used to always dying and losing progress, taking some small solace in knowing you've learned something from it. <br /><br />Very different genres, but a similarly punishing (though "fair") approach to its many challenges. These updates are helping me stay motivated to finish it.Mentohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12666135395522594894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-88098110537476987482022-07-08T09:31:25.720-04:002022-07-08T09:31:25.720-04:00@Busca Spock's Brain is bad, but it has an out...@Busca Spock's Brain is bad, but it has an outsized reputation in part because it was the first episode of the third season, and a terrible disappointment to fans who'd worked (fruitfully or not) to bring the show back. It's probably bottom 5, but it didn't make us want to stop watching the way Omega Glory and Way to Eden did -- those were much, much harder to get through -- and it's not stupider than a half-dozen other episodes.<br /><br />Spock's Brain is relatively brisk and the sheer bizarreness of it helps to keep it interesting, but Omega Glory is downright offensive in its stupidity, implausibility, and cloying phoniness, and every minute of it is worse than the last. It's padded to hell, and the fact that it starts out OK actually makes it worse -- it hooks us with a somewhat intriguing premise, and then betrays that interest. Plus it was a script that Roddenberry had been pushing for years, one that everyone knew was a stinker yet no one had the backbone to tell him so.PK Thunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14416777230563913195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-73068195188480344292022-07-08T07:41:28.274-04:002022-07-08T07:41:28.274-04:00Shatner has a big problem that he is capable of th...Shatner has a big problem that he is capable of these amazing multilayered theatrical performances, but he seems to get bored easily. As bad as "Turnabout Intruder" is, you can actually get a good sense of his acting chops as he really does transform himself and convey very different characters when he's playing Kirk, Lester-pretending-to-be-Kirk, Lester-being-herself and Lester-having-completely-lost-it. <br />(my main take on Shatner is "He would be a highly respected actor if it weren't for the fact that 1920s german expressionism is not a major style of 1960s television."Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09703211229982182936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-18025429249685077712022-07-08T05:14:52.944-04:002022-07-08T05:14:52.944-04:00@PK Thunder: It's been a while since I watched...@PK Thunder: It's been a while since I watched all of TOS, but worse than "Spock's Brain"? That seems to be the dumbest of all and to me would only not qualify as the worst if you give it points for (unintended) hilarity.<br /><br />Regarding ST, I found the reviews/analysis on this site often worth reading and some discussions in the comments interesting: https://www.jammersreviews.com/.Buscanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-88699047769968417062022-07-08T02:24:31.380-04:002022-07-08T02:24:31.380-04:00It's in this version. You can see it in the fi...It's in this version. You can see it in the first screenshot here: http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-return-of-werdna-spin-black-circle.html<br /><br />I dug around in the game files and it looks like the character that's printed as "of" is in fact encoded as a "/" in the data. It seems likely that "Masters/Dragons" was intended to render as "Masters(of)Dragons" but nobody got around to updating the code to do that (the game rather infamously had a lot of production troubles).stepped pyramidsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-651958924717757752022-07-07T23:46:49.037-04:002022-07-07T23:46:49.037-04:00The "Save Star Trek" campaign didn't...The "Save Star Trek" campaign didn't actually do much to save the series. What actually saved the series was NBC being owned by RCA, RCA having the patents for color TVs, and Star Trek doing a very good job at selling color TVs. That's even part of why Season 3 wasn't particularly great, NBC was only airing it because they were being forced to and did what they could to make it fail.Twibathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11872080022551062309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-19915677832764952742022-07-07T23:43:57.674-04:002022-07-07T23:43:57.674-04:00Jumping ahead from where I am on the blog because ...Jumping ahead from where I am on the blog because I saw this conversation on the side. I just watched through TOS in order.<br /><br />Season 3 grated on my nerves because it's when the Shat started his annoying trademarked acting style. He was perfectly fine in the first two seasons.<br /><br />I liked the episodes with Harry Mudd and the episode where they brought down the Nazis.<br /><br />I couldn't decide if Spock and McCoy hated or loved each other. The Animated Series didn't help.<br /><br />Maybe the movies will be helpful.<br /><br />(I'm a TNG person. Didn't watch all of TOS until the past month.)Zack Macomberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18077050078436768492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-77994811883458151852022-07-07T20:45:36.587-04:002022-07-07T20:45:36.587-04:00My other half and I watched the full series not so...My other half and I watched the full series not so long ago. We found Season 1 the best <b>by far</b>, Season 2 OK but not nearly the peak it's often claimed to be (for one the Spock/McCoy banter got irritating and formulaic), and Season 3 not nearly as bad as it's often claimed to be. I'd add the elegiac All Our Yesterdays to the list of good S3 episodes; if TOS ended there, instead of with the crummy Turnabout Intruder, that would have helped the rep of S3. (And at least S3 doesn't have The Omega Glory, aka the worst TOS episode of all, and doesn't end with a backdoor pilot for another show.)PK Thunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14416777230563913195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-34209439851876520812022-07-07T17:18:45.801-04:002022-07-07T17:18:45.801-04:00Even ignoring that, TOS Season 3 had some of the f...Even ignoring that, TOS Season 3 had some of the franchise's greatest episodes in it. Also several of the worst, of course, but without S3 we wouldn't have "The Enterprise Incident", "For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky" (which would also mean Might And Magic wouldn't exist), "The Tholian Web" or some others.Gnomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13920812227941556716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-52487419332965901852022-07-07T13:00:40.213-04:002022-07-07T13:00:40.213-04:00Thanks for telling me about something I didn't...Thanks for telling me about something I didn't know about which also madee think the world is a better place.Peonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-56934658198940807612022-07-07T12:13:03.643-04:002022-07-07T12:13:03.643-04:00Without Season 3, there wouldn't have been eno...Without Season 3, there wouldn't have been enough episodes to enter syndication. More people watched Star Trek in reruns than ever watched it during its original run. Reruns are how Star Trek became a cultural icon instead of a poorly remembered sci-fi series like Space:1999. <br /><br />Yes, actually, we really did need Season 3. Non-ironically, and without a frowny face. Harlandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-51362858635511922952022-07-07T06:37:38.394-04:002022-07-07T06:37:38.394-04:00Unfortunately not. Would've been pretty awesom...Unfortunately not. Would've been pretty awesome if there was, though.Adamanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12424537596238450467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-24702660431244498782022-07-07T05:14:08.284-04:002022-07-07T05:14:08.284-04:00The single "of" glyph may not have exist...The single "of" glyph may not have existed in the Apple II version (although I lack the ability to verify this), so that's also a thing. Reiskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09444824451578560746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-37509452047248370392022-07-07T04:53:53.535-04:002022-07-07T04:53:53.535-04:00Is there a Richard Garriott based cameo in Wiz4? L...Is there a Richard Garriott based cameo in Wiz4? Lord British? Shamino?Pedro Q.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03572150497835442981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-28354748603703052312022-07-07T03:42:48.237-04:002022-07-07T03:42:48.237-04:00My guess is that the single "of" glyph o...My guess is that the single "of" glyph only works in item names, not monster names, and it wasn't worth the time to modify the engine to support it for just a couple of monsters. It's definitely a reference to the D&D monks, though.stepped pyramidsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-10836577573181362612022-07-07T02:04:09.336-04:002022-07-07T02:04:09.336-04:00I still appreciated it...I still appreciated it...Iffy Bonzooliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07519858732154180575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-33464090924617355432022-07-07T00:04:28.140-04:002022-07-07T00:04:28.140-04:00Ahem. *that's* the trouble with Trimbles. (And...Ahem. *that's* the trouble with Trimbles. (And that's the trouble with typing too fast to be the first to post what seems like the most obvious low-hanging fruit joke that I'm surprised no one else made).judd9https://www.blogger.com/profile/05775399294060687430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-44899604926673244502022-07-07T00:02:10.292-04:002022-07-07T00:02:10.292-04:00I guess that the trouble with Trimbles.I guess that the trouble with Trimbles.judd9https://www.blogger.com/profile/05775399294060687430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-77844355307722728172022-07-06T23:30:01.753-04:002022-07-06T23:30:01.753-04:00Wasn't the whole deal with OG monks that there...Wasn't the whole deal with OG monks that there was just the *one* Master of , and your PC had to go defeat him in single combat to achieve the next level? Not that anybody sane played it that way, but it doesn't seem to be a name that lends itself well to a dungeon mob you'd mow down by the dozens.Xnoreply@blogger.com