You're right. I think the bigger problem isnt that those traps are bad but that the narrow corridors and the lousy pathing AI makes that part a grind. That is, you often find party members not doing … (View Post)

This is simply not true. The point system for skills offers far more choice than the BG games did and an infinite number of party compositions. You may not have liked that system, but it's undeniably… (View Post)

Another great example of this is the recent XCOM reboots. The two-move system is, superficially, more simplified than the original game's action point system. And it allows for some less diversity of… (View Post)

Eh, I've never heard anyone call Durlag's Tower "shitty game design". Quite the opposite. Again, I can kind of see where you're coming from with a dungeon like Firewine, but I think you're … (View Post)

Yep, I still don't get this curdmudgeonly attitude about how games just aren't what they used to be. There is such a diversity of games you can have access to today that it just doesn't seem like a f… (View Post)