"Philosophical" questions, What is a cheesy method? Bug or feature? Options

[Vuki]

I created this topic to discuss the "philosophical" aspect of the game. We can discuss here questions like:

- is a modification really needed or not?
- is something cheesy or cheeting or just a clever trick?
- game balance
- is an actual gap a bug or a feature?
- and so on ...

This topic will be maybe a bit too theoretical but I do not think it is a problem. We need such a place - as the discussions from the last 2-3 weeks prove it.

This post has been edited by Vuki: Aug 11 2008, 08:34 PM

[Hoppy]

Improved Anvil requires a lot of patience and time as Sikret forewarns in the Readme of IA ever since the beginning version, I would assume. Some players may get disturbed at the increased amount of time to complete the game compared to the regular ToB game. For me, if I get overly frustrated at a video game, I don't play it for a week or more, or even quit playing it all together. That is too much time to be consumed (for me) and then I don't get the satisfaction of:

(1) We learnt from something, we improved ourselves; from something which we would not have done if we hadn't been forced to do it.
(2) The feeling of success after hard work, after a challenge.

what Baronius wrote and I have seen Sikret justify the same concept although maybe not the exact same words.

Although the above points are very true, they do not necessarily apply to everyone that plays this game/mod or any other game for that matter. Some players play BGII (or video game of choice) for relaxing benefits and or "cool downs" just like other hobbies. They may get too angry at IA and then have negative opinions towards Sikret or IA. We're only human and sometimes we misjudge out of frustration or anger.

IA has fantastic and brilliant scripting with mages where there is no slowdown in spell triggers or contingencies. Even with all of the classes for that matter. The attitudes of the enemies really make sense like thieves will not try to backstab a Barbarian over and over like in the original game. That kind of thing and other similar scripting actions bring IA to the realm of "making sense" in any form of combat.

IA has a very "fast thinking" playing style and may not be satisfying to some looking for a more relaxed game atmosphere. It just takes too much patience for me and it is not for my casual game playing. Maybe I speak for others of the same mindset...I don't know