Ladonna
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I just got to thinking, after reading some horrible reviews,about a game I enjoyed, that it might be amusing to have a thread where you let the cat out of the bag on 'that game' (or games...) that you enjoyed...yet just about everyone else thinks is shit.
My first entry is;
Origin Systems Windwalker.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/windwalker
Everywhere I turn, everybody seems to think this game is rubbish. Yet I remember clearly wanting this game badly, watching a friend play it, and finally purchasing it for myself (when I had the money). I played the thing for many, many hours on my C64, and enjoyed it quite a bit. The combat encounters took some getting used to, and not everything was picture perfect, but the exploration, the ways to accomplish objectives, and the various hidden areas to find (that included new characters and quests) always made it worth while sailing off into uncharted waters.
The game had an air of mystery and adventure, and you never new what you were going to find. It was quite an achievement after all the time I had spent exploring and completing all sorts of different quests, when I stranded the alchemist in the astral plane and kicked the Evil Warlord (tm) down the stairs. Good times.
I recently read the Addicts playthrough of this game, and thought he had given it short shrift. And the 'storm effects' that he carries on about didn't seem to have the same ill effect on the C64 version. But there you go. This is my 'shit' game.
Whats yours?
My first entry is;
Origin Systems Windwalker.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/windwalker
Everywhere I turn, everybody seems to think this game is rubbish. Yet I remember clearly wanting this game badly, watching a friend play it, and finally purchasing it for myself (when I had the money). I played the thing for many, many hours on my C64, and enjoyed it quite a bit. The combat encounters took some getting used to, and not everything was picture perfect, but the exploration, the ways to accomplish objectives, and the various hidden areas to find (that included new characters and quests) always made it worth while sailing off into uncharted waters.
The game had an air of mystery and adventure, and you never new what you were going to find. It was quite an achievement after all the time I had spent exploring and completing all sorts of different quests, when I stranded the alchemist in the astral plane and kicked the Evil Warlord (tm) down the stairs. Good times.
I recently read the Addicts playthrough of this game, and thought he had given it short shrift. And the 'storm effects' that he carries on about didn't seem to have the same ill effect on the C64 version. But there you go. This is my 'shit' game.
Whats yours?