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> If you wrote down an objective standard to measure an adventure or text game by There is such a standard, devised by Andrew Plotkin (edit: in 1996). Quite a
by schoen 8y ago
> If you wrote down an objective standard to measure an adventure or text game by
There is such a standard, devised by Andrew Plotkin (edit: in 1996). Quite a few games have been rated on it.
http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Cruelty_scale http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Cruelty_scale
- jerf 8y agoAh, yes, thank you. HHGttG rates a "Cruel" on this scale: http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_... It's been a while since I played it and had detailed memories of all the solutions and details, but I think there's a solid case to be made for Evil on the extended scale, and I wouldn't be surprised it could qualify for Hell, I just don't recall enough to be sure. I am not saying this merely to slur the game; I am referring to the objective characteristics of the game. (It definitely does not qualify for the "Ninth Circle"; it is beatable with a walkthrough, though, as I said earlier, it's still a bit of a challenge because you need to be very details-oriented, as does the walkthrough author.)
- notahacker 8y agoHHG2G is beyond cruel. Even the simple bits were designed to irritate, like a couple of bits where you have to repeat an action until the text prompt admits the original description was a lie... (and yet at the other end of the scale, a couple of puzzles which would be quite confusing in normal games are trivially simple if you remember what happened in the books)