: The M1 Pfhor ship levels for me. It's dark, the motion tracker isn't working,
: and strange, sinister things are scuttling about in the shadows between
: the pools of green slime. No terminals to provide guidance, sometimes not
: even a save point. And once you've killed everything and are wandering the
: empty corridors, trying to figure out why Durandal hasn't beamed you out
: yet...
Agreed. The original Pfhor levels have a distinctive errie feel to them. A lot of this was down to the fact that Reg set up the geometry for all of them apart from Jason's introductory level. He gave them a claustrophobic feel with pulsating lights and textures. At some parts it feels like you are inside a living organism.
This is what Jason Jones had to say about Reg's Pfhor levels:
"All of the other Pfhor levels were started by Reg and then Greg and I took them in shifts and cleaned them up (took out the teleporting polygons, etc.). Reg did a great job setting up the geometry and creating a distinctive style for the ship, but Greg and I spent a lot of late nights saying things like "How did he connect 39 polygons all to the same line like that?" Reg's mind worked in a way totally unlike Ryan's, who created the original Vulcan, and Reg found bugs which we never could explain and are probably still in Forge today."
Of course they are not everyone's cup of tea. Some folks truly hate them. But maybe that was the point.
Cheers
Hamish
