12/15/2023 0 Comments Trap dungeons 2 unblocked![]() ![]() Because all it asks of you is time investment, and I don't derive any enjoyment from repeatedly grinding the same encounters over and over again. That's the kind of "difficulty" that frustrates me. And of course, there have always been badly designed RPGs that require you to slog through dozens of samey random encounters just to scrounge up enough experience to be able to defeat the next boss, who is mathematically impossible to beat unless you grind, even if you use perfect tactics. ![]() But they're often designed in a way that you have to grind playthroughs in order to get enough upgrade points to even stand a chance in the lategame challenges. There's a lot of roguelites these days with an upgrade mechanic that lets you permanently improve your future characters after your current one dies. When it gets frustrating for me is when a challenge doesn't take much creativity or skill to surmount, but merely an investment of time. Tough platformers and oldschool FPS games are just as much up my alley as difficult tactical games, wargames, adventure games with tricky puzzles, etc. I enjoy a good challenge, be it a mental one or a physical one (I guess that means I like to be. For example, Wizardry 7 is one of the longest-played games on your list, but it has nowhere near the space of, for example, Skyrim. It takes more time to traverse the same space in TB than in RT, thus the gameworlds of RT games generally tend to be bigger. I would also say that TB games have different scale from RT games since combat typically takes much longer. ![]() If this were Might and Magic, those same 3,600 squares would comprise 14 map areas-more than half of the outdoor game world-and there would have been enough content in there to blog about for weeks. If you don't equate content with plot and lore and consider complex setpiece puzzles part of the latter, then Legend of Grimrock 2 qualifies as well, but that's a long way off. Anvil of Dawn is more open and has much better puzzles than LoL, but also less dense, somewhere in-between M&M and DM plot densities. Lands of Lore has a lot more plot and NPC encounters than a typical DM-style game, but the trade-off is it being very linear and I've never found its puzzles terribly interesting. Several games qualify to different extents. If anyone knows of such a game, please share. One of these days, it would be interesting to see a hybrid of the two approaches-something with the real-time combat and puzzles of Dungeon Master and the density of content of Might and Magic. In a more serious Dungeon Master game, I would map everything I could without touching anything so I could be sure exactly what effect everything had. This generally means that I can solve puzzles in the order I encounter them. If you see one, you press it, because it's going to open a passage that's otherwise closed. So far, there's no mystery to buttons or plates. This game seems to be repeating the pattern, or at least the fist half of it. A button might open one door but close another. (That sometimes makes it hard to map, however, as you can't always be sure what button opened what area.) Later in the game, it got more complicated. When you saw one, you almost always wanted to activate it. Back in the original Abandoned Places, I noted that in the early levels, there was no complexity to buttons or pressure plates. Trying to approach the game without mapping would be a nightmare, but when you're making careful maps, none of this is terribly bothersome. ![]() There are lots of secret doors, buttons, pressure plates, teleporters, spinners, and corridors with spells whizzing by. Getting back to the dwarven mines, the first two levels have not really expanded the game's bag of tricks. ![]()
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