While I can ssee your obligation to them, it might be worth
taking a round-about method to point out some of those things. IN
addition to what you said, there's no way to stop the speech.
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From: "dark" <[email protected]
To: <[email protected]
Date sent: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:42:48 -0000
Subject: [Audyssey] I'm appauled!
I must admit I've been very slow about writing entries for the
Azabat games for audiogames.net, basically because most of the
games are pretty much available in better versions elsewhere and
azabat are ridiculously overpriced, ---- in fact as I've said
before I think the only reason they've got where they are is
because they present "audio games for pathetic old blind people!"
Nevertheless, unfortunately the job of maintaining the database
means playing and writing about bad games as well as good ones,
and sinse Azabat did send me both their demo cd and some free
copies of their games so that I could write about them, I do feel
I need to give them a reasonable run for their money, however
today I really! had trouble when writing up the entry for their
second volume, word games.
We all know that everyone from jim kitchin to even the online
game alien adoption agency has versions of Hangman, and other
than ntoicing that the azabat version of the game actually has
fewer customizations (and deffinately fewer fun sfx), than jims,
I'll move on.
then there is Targit, exactly the same game as bg word targit,
but with no fun sfx or music, and fewer customization options.
Anagrams, the count down letters and numbers game where you form
words from random letters or a targit number from random numbers,
and a game called link words resembling Dan Z's chainlink game.
What appauled me here, is that none! of these games has even a
scoring system! you don't type in solutions, you just get
presented with an anagram, a number targit and that's it. The
technology is planely there to create one, sinse Hangman and word
targit have a score system, and the computer even has the ability
to work out solutions to all the problems meaning that it could!
determine whether your right or wrong, but for some completely
insane reason you don't type in your answers, you just are
supposed to solve them in your head!
In the name of all that's reasonable, why is a score! system! so
hard to manage!
As I said, I do want to try and make the best of azabat because
they did send me some free stuff, but when the quality of their
games is so insanely low my job is extremely difficult!
Yes, making games that are not complex for computer novices is a
worth while aime, ---- but how novice are we talking here?
heck, my mum is about as computer novice as you get (she
regularly phones me to ask things like how to copy files or open
mail attachments), yet I've got her Ian Humphries psudoku games
and she's quite able to play them, indeed was able to install
them pretty easily too thanks to the microsoft install wizard.
What planet are Azabat on?
Even their one really unique game backgamman now has a far
superior version thanks to Manu of Pontes games, with online
play, sfx, music ambience and lots of other great customization
features (I'm quite a fan of the game actually).
The only really sad thing, is that while people like Jim Kitchin,
7-128 Manu and Ian humphries have done far better things even in
the traditional games line, at a far more reduced price, Azabat
are the ones the bloody rnib sponsor!
this! is! ridiculous!
Sorry about the wrant, but I really! needed to get that out of my
system.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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