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Dhruin
Stranger In A Strange Land
Joined: 20 May 2002
Posts: 1825
Location: Sydney, Australia |
Gaming Illustrated has <a href="http://www.gamingillustrated.com/toee.php" target="_blank">reviewed</a> The Temple of Elemental Evil. The score final score is a disappointing 62% and here's a snip:<blockquote><em>Unfortunately, these annoying but not fatal glitches were only the start of something worse. TOEE crashed to desktop a few times on me before, but after a good 10 hours into the game, the game now consistently crashes to desktop every time I try to access the overland map. Thus stumped, I went looking for technical support at the official site and found a number of other bugs, glitches, and other inconsistencies in TOEE. One of these is a spell bug, one of which – a silence spell that never wears off – can completely nullify a player’s mage character. Numerous quest and skill bugs, erratic NPC behavior, and generally poor performance have also been documented. This heaped on the impression that TOEE was released far too early. Being hardly hardcore enough to restart and pray to the various Greyhawk deities for it to work, TOEE got shelved. Atari and Troika are working on a patch, but until then, TOEE is as disappointing as the other D&D bug casualty, Pool of Radiance. At least TOEE’s RPG game will be a lot more interesting than the latter once the patch (hopefully) fixes most of the problems.</em></blockquote> |
Wed Oct 29, 2003 8:20 pm |
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Dhruin
Stranger In A Strange Land
Joined: 20 May 2002
Posts: 1825
Location: Sydney, Australia |
I know not everyone will agree but a good review isn't based (at least in part) on forum posts rather than the reviewers own experience.
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Wed Oct 29, 2003 8:25 pm |
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DeusIrae
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> I know not everyone will agree but a good review isn't based (at least in > part) on forum posts rather than the reviewer's own experience.
To play devil's advocate: isn't it also irresponsible to not mention issues that you are aware of but that you did not personally encounter? If Baldur's Gate 2 had shipped with major plot-breaking bugs in the "evil" branch of the main quest, wouldn't this be something a reviewer should mention, even if he personally had played through the "good" path? Especially given the multitude of computer configurations these days, a single amateur reviewer isn't going to be able to provide a very useful assesment of a game's stability judging only by its behavior on his machine. Certainly a reviewer should identify which issues he didn't directly experience, but I don't think any mention of such things automatically renders a review suspect. |
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Wed Oct 29, 2003 9:14 pm |
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