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Editorial The Digital Antiquarian on Quest for Glory 1 and 2

RK47

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Great site still I hope I never ran out of material to read from that site. Battery at 56%.
 

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Wow, I just learned that you can actually travel to Rasier yourself, before the story takes you there. However, you're not allowed to enter: http://lparchive.org/Quest-for-Glory-1-5/Update 35/

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Apparently you can also return from Rasier to Shapier in the endgame, but the game doesn't expect you to do this and glitches out (the caravan sequence plays again): http://www.agdinteractive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12869
 

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Text parser games and 80s tv american series made me learn English.

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Love these, one of the best-written sites on the web.

In bizarro world.

Too bad he doesn't know the slightest thing about games, that probably would have helped.

I see your point. His opinion on individual games notwithstanding however, his research on the people who made the games, the companies, and how they made them is quite interesting.
 

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QFG1 was a fucking great game for a 12 year old. I had an old Tandy 1000 HX in my basement and that game -- along with Bard's Tale -- was my first foray into RPGs. But no art on a computer game before or since has been as cozy and neat as that 16 color EGA coolness.
 

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What's not so great about the Digital Antiquarian is how he's letting his political agenda infuse his writing. Early on it was a factual history with a neutral narrator, but since he's developed a following he's had the courage to put more of himself into the blog, with the result that anyone who is female, has mental problems, or is somehow 'different' gets an uncritical pass and he seems to be trying to spot examples of discrimination or misogyny where they don't exist. Infocom's Plundered Hearts and his issues with the female protagonist of the Starglider novella spring immediately to mind. With that in mind, his later articles should be taken with a pinch of salt.

I can't read the Digital Antiquarian. Even though the subject matter is interesting, she just rubs me the wrong way.
 

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I enjoy his articles, but lately I have noticed some kind of agenda creeping in. On the other hand, I respect the fact that he refers to trans people by the gender they were, when they were making history with their games (even so, check the comments to see some hysterical people that disagree, and demand that he writes shit like "Daniel Bunten did blah blah blah, then SHE did blah blah blah." Come on dude, at that time Daniel Bunten was a fucking man, man. Referring to him as a "he" when it is 100% historically accurate is FINE
Also, any grown man who calls himself "Jimmy" is weird as far as I am concerned. It's a a fucking kid's name or at the very least, a nickname you use in high school/college. Once you are an adult, own your fucking name and call yourself Jim ffs.
 

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What's not so great about the Digital Antiquarian is how he's letting his political agenda infuse his writing. Early on it was a factual history with a neutral narrator, but since he's developed a following he's had the courage to put more of himself into the blog, with the result that anyone who is female, has mental problems, or is somehow 'different' gets an uncritical pass and he seems to be trying to spot examples of discrimination or misogyny where they don't exist. Infocom's Plundered Hearts and his issues with the female protagonist of the Starglider novella spring immediately to mind. With that in mind, his later articles should be taken with a pinch of salt.

I can't read the Digital Antiquarian. Even though the subject matter is interesting, she just rubs me the wrong way.
Yeah, I discovered both Digital Antiquarian and CRPG Addict through this forum, and while the subject matter is interesting, the way in which they keep forcing their politics into their articles is extremely off-putting. If there is even a slightest occasion for the writer to display his "leftist virtues" in his article, he'll do so with glee...
 

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Yeah, I discovered both Digital Antiquarian and CRPG Addict through this forum, and while the subject matter is interesting, the way in which they keep forcing their politics into their articles is extremely off-putting. If there is even a slightest occasion for the writer to display his "leftist virtues" in his article, he'll do so with glee...

I've not found that to be a problem with CRPG Addict. He may be a letfist, but he's not some SJW constantly shoving his political agenda down your throat.
 

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