I sure wish I could meet others like you guys! I was sent to this wonderful posting area from another who shares my visions of this game. DW's site is being trashed by TONS of really over nutty people. Windows just plain STINKS! I met a man who lives here in Illinois. He lives in Wonder Lake and his son had me meet him one day and this story is a kicker!
Anyway, the gentleman was bedridden. He had a 50in monitor on a swivel arm and a system with Dos and Windows 95 on it. Needless to say this was only 8 years ago, but he showed me LINE FOR LINE how many errors Windows 95 had. I was awestruck as to the amount. He had made a patch disk to fix all the errors and there were over 15,000 lines of code that were corrupt in Win 95 alone. The REALLY made me rethink my situation about who to use at a later time with an OS. At that time there was Windows and Unix/Linux.
Linux WAS NOT popular at the release of Windows 95, but Dos WAS. Dos is STILL THE KING of normal OS'es! I can't find a single thing that Dos can't do that Windows can! Dos 5.0 and 6.22 was so perfect. If you all need to know, without Dos ALL THE WINDOWS PROGRAMS CAN NOT RUN!!!
Hehe! It's TRUE! Windows NEEDS Dos to boot or it can't run. SURPRISE!
Anyway, I wish I was a reviewer; graphics DO NOT make a game. The reviewers of the magazines make me want to be sick - I can't understand what got into all of them. I immediately read what they had to say and just said to myself "well, what the hay I'm going to try it since the name DW Badley is on the cover. It has to be good!" So naturally I went onto Ebay and purchased the full game and installed it without a single hitch - I didn't even install direct x 7! It ran without it so perfectly. Of course I had to tweak my swapfile to be an even 300 on each area, but it was all worth it. Once I started the game it WAS TOUGH like all of them are. But, after a few hours of hackin' and slashin' my characters were royally running around creating havoc. The game is SO EASY to play and yes, the graphics are dated but I realized that it took this guy a LONG TIME and four long years of his life to write this. By that time 3D was just at it's infancy! I can say this; it makes Doom look like a pile of barf!
Anyway, my point is that this game is PERFECT in everyway no matter how you look at it. I can't find one single thing to say bad about it. The graphics do not bother me! The storyline is so deep that I've been playing almost 6 hours a day! Haha! I LOVE THIS GAME. It doesn't have extra crisp or flashy graphics and so what!!! I think this game DESERVES to be put into the hall of fame in PC Gamer. If they don't do it, I'll truly be disappointed.
One other note; I'm sure the people at these magazines haven't even tried to write games. They have no idea how good this game is. They look at it by graphics, crashes and installation. Heck, it's NOT that hard to run this and install it! I'm so disgusted with all the mags right now. The media have NO IDEA how hard it is to devote four years of your life to consider making a masterpiece like this. Hats off to DW for a piece of gaming history! We all love ya DW!!! Keep up the excellent work and PLEASE (I'm begging ya!) give us an add-on or even another release! I'll beg ya until my hands are raw! PLEEEEEEEEEEEEESE!
Thanks guys for the nice words. I just can't fathom that people CAN'T read a simple manual. They all wonder why the USA is so reader illiterate! I just don't understand people much anymore. They can't check to see they have 85% of open memory, they can't figure out where the swapfile settings are located....I'm really bothered by people like that. They have no patience and just are downright lazy! I'm NOT going to be like that and I'll now go enjoy my Wizards and Warriors! HAIL TO ALL THOSE TRAVELLERS THAT PLAY! HOPE TO SEE YOU IN THE FORESTS IN THE GAME!!!
Sincerely;
Druadic