Subj : Re: Retro shooters
To   : boraxman
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Mar 23 2022 10:31:37

  Re: Re: Retro shooters
  By: boraxman to Arelor on Wed Mar 23 2022 11:12 pm

 >  Ar>  > Heretic is on my "to play" list.  I did finish Hexen for the first time recently,
 >  Ar>  > having started it years ago and giving up because of the puzzles.  I ha played th
 >  Ar>  > first two or three levels of the shareware version, but it is time to g it a pro
 >  Ar>  > go.
 > 
 >  Ar> Did you beat the Hexen expansion too? I am still to beat that one. The expansion was
 >  Ar> brutal since it was not only Ettings which respawned, but more powerful monsters too.
 > 
 > 
 > No, I don't have the expansion, am tempted to get it.  I'm not sure whether I liked Hexen or not.  It was often frustrating, tedious, at other times it was quite good. I found it a very unev
 > playing experience.

Hahaha, it is certainly like graphic adventures, in which if you got stuck it sucked and it all became a bit tedious.

Then there is also the preasure that enemies keep respawning, but ammo and powerups are finite, so you know there is a soft time limit clocking away. I don't really like to play under preasure
but in Hexen it worked somehow. Probably because most respawned enemies you could crush by depleting little or no resources.

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