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After some technical difficulties, Desslock's site has been updated again today. Included with the update is some rambling about Pool of Radiance - Ruins of Myth Drannor. As you may know, Desslock was the first to fully review the game, and gave a mediocre rating of 6.3/10. I always wondered if he would do a follow up on that, because (despite my own fairly negative first impressions) I thought that the longer you play, the more fun you can find in the game. Well, Desslock indeed updated us with more on his experience in his latest ramblings:
Since my review was so lengthy, I'm not going to bother reiterating my thoughts on the game here, other than to state that notwithstanding the review rating (and the technical problems), I did enjoy the game. Gameplay is almost entirely combat, and I generally enjoyed the battles in the game, even though the game has a lot of problems. Some of the technical problems are inexplicable:
- how can any gaming company produce a game that runs ineffectively on Nvidia Geforce cards, when they're currently the dominant choice among gamers?
- How could the QA department miss the fact that the game will only install to the c:/program files directory (and, even worse, if certain applications interrupt the installation, subsequently uninstalling the program may wipe the C: drive)?
- How could the QA department miss the fact that saving the game while a party member is invisible or blinking will instantly destroy your ability to resave the game? Almost everyone I know who has played the game has encountered this bug. |
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Desslock's Follow up on PoR
