roddi@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Roddi Walker) (04/11/91)
Hi there! I was over at a friend's house last night trying out some of his new (Amiga) Software - Bard's Tale III and Das Boot. Both of these are hard-disk installable (the Das Boot disk had ERRORS on it - luckily Disk Salv fixed it). The graphics on Bard's Tale III are AWFUL - while the main screen panel is well drawn, the animated monsters are appalling - poorly drawn, lo res with black lines around them (like they've come out of a colouring book). Yech. Definitely inferior to the animations in BT I, II and Dragon Wars (the best Bard's Tale game so far, imho - although it no longer has graphics for armour shops etc etc :-( ). Two trivial questions tho': While I was playing Bard's Tale III, I didn't notice any sound after the intro scene. Is this normal? As for Das Boot, how do you use the deck gun effectively? Seems to me it's "hit and miss" when you're blasting away as ships. Roddi.
am66@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Alexander Maldutis) (04/11/91)
In article <3976@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> roddi@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Roddi Walker) writes: > > >Hi there! > I was over at a friend's house last night trying out some of his >new (Amiga) Software - Bard's Tale III and Das Boot. Both of these are >hard-disk installable (the Das Boot disk had ERRORS on it - luckily Disk Salv >fixed it). >> As for Das Boot, how do you use the deck gun effectively? Seems to >me it's "hit and miss" when you're blasting away as ships. > >Roddi. You're right, it really is hit and miss, but after a while you can "read" the distance to the enemy ship and get it after one or two shots. Kind of like Silent Service sans deflection controls. ****************************************************************************** HA HA! YOU THINK THIS IS THE REAL .SIGNATURE? IT IS! Total Computing!**********************************am66@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu*
mnfriedr@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (M Friedrich) (04/12/91)
roddi@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Roddi Walker) writes: [...] >book). Yech. Definitely inferior to the animations in BT I, II and Dragon >Wars (the best Bard's Tale game so far, imho - although it no longer has >graphics for armour shops etc etc :-( ). ahem - Dragon Wars IS NO Bard's Tale, it just the next project by Interplay after Bard's Tale, but it has never been intended to belong to the Bard's Tale series! /Efchen --- /~\ | Martin Friedrich C oo | Postfach 1602 _( ^) | 8520 Erlangen InterNet:mnfriedr@informatik.uni-erlangen.de ~\ | GERMANY BITNET :98B116@DOLUNI1.BITNET ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IRC/FN/BITNET: Efchen NightFall: Sir Efchen, Knight of Elvendar