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Re: Rubicon Rating in Arkives
Posted By: ScifitekiDate: 10/9/02 4:31 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Rubicon Rating in Arkives (:: Beer Can ::)

: >Have you noticed that it is mostly mapmakers
: >that have rated it low?

: Why is that, I wonder...?

: Hmmm.

Well, I can think of three reasons:
1) Mapmakers wanting to close ranks with Frigidman™, because of his legend status among the mapmaking community, (Slightly lessened in my eyes, after seeing this). After all, if *he* thinks it's crap, it *must* be crap, right? This explains why all the bad comments are basically the same thing repeated.
2)Mapmakers are not quite as appreciatative of a good story and eye candy as the rest of us, becuase that's what THEY do, anyway. Things that might look good to us look like child's work to them. And they never read terminals, becuase they're MAPMAKERS.
3) They're all secretly jelous of Rubicon, becuase they know they'll never make something quite so perfect. 'Nuff said. : )

It's interesting to note that, yes, Rubicon can be less than linear in parts. Heck, in the second level, there are a whole bunch of areas which you don't even need to go to at all, just as an example. And it took me ages to figure out how to finish *just that level*. But, hey, I don't play my maps 'cause they're pansy. I can play rougecx's stuff any time I like if I want that.
: ) (Just kidding, rouge. I don't think you're stuff's *that* bad. Nearly: ))

The nonlinearity, I think, adds to the experience, in any case. Many of the levels *feel* like they're real places, something which many maps sacrifice to preserve the ideal of "Linearity". Few things in the real world are just a single, winding corridor, with an occasional puzzle along the way. I mean, what kind of idiot Ph'for commander would make something like that? : )
(Note To Wannabe Mapmakers: This does not mean you have permission to make lots of dead end passages. This still sucks.)

I've played EVIL. It's pretty good. Certainly, it is not the work of children. But it starts of great, (Drevilins were cool, and VERY scary. Brought me back to what M1 was like when I first played.) But then it drifted away from it's roots very quickly, and eventually came to this garbled mess at the end. What *was* that all about? They really just should have stuck with eeire corridors and Drevlins waiting around every bend. The mystics were silly and boring, in my opinion.

And the Rubicon terms just make it so much cooler. Few mapmakers, I think, realise how much a good story can make or break your map. But really good, concise, mysterious terms...
Gah...
: )

Service With A Smile: ),
Scifiteki

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Rubicon Rating in Arkives:: Beer Can :: 10/8/02 4:33 p.m.
     Re: Rubicon Rating in ArkivesRincewind MoG 10/8/02 6:51 p.m.
           Re: Rubicon Rating in ArkivesYossarian 10/8/02 8:54 p.m.
                 Re: Rubicon Rating in ArkivesD-M.A. 10/9/02 1:06 a.m.
           Re: Rubicon Rating in ArkivesSean 10/9/02 11:30 a.m.
                 Re: Rubicon Rating in Arkives:: Beer Can :: 10/9/02 12:29 p.m.
                       Re: Rubicon Rating in ArkivesSean 10/10/02 2:53 a.m.
     Re: Rubicon Rating in ArkivesSteve Levinson 10/8/02 10:02 p.m.
           Re: Rubicon Rating in ArkivesYossarian 10/8/02 11:56 p.m.
                 Re: Rubicon Rating in ArkivesSteve Levinson 10/9/02 9:38 a.m.
     Re: Rubicon Rating in Arkivesgoran 10/9/02 2:58 a.m.
           Re: Rubicon Rating in Arkives:: Beer Can :: 10/9/02 3:05 a.m.
                 Re: Rubicon Rating in ArkivesScifiteki 10/9/02 4:31 a.m.
                       Re: Rubicon Rating in ArkivesSteve Levinson 10/9/02 9:45 a.m.
                       Re: Rubicon Rating in ArkivesC Lund 10/9/02 5:04 p.m.
                             Re: Rubicon Rating in ArkivesScifiteki 10/10/02 1:31 a.m.
                 Re: Rubicon Rating in Arkivesgoran 10/10/02 2:39 a.m.
                       Re: Rubicon Rating in Arkives:: Beer Can :: 10/10/02 9:42 a.m.
                             Re: Rubicon Rating in Arkivesgoran 10/11/02 1:37 a.m.
                                   Re: Rubicon Rating in Arkives:: Beer Can :: 10/11/02 7:55 a.m.
                                         Re: Rubicon Rating in ArkivesSteve Levinson 10/11/02 9:39 a.m.
                                   Re: Rubicon Rating in ArkivesBen A. Potter 10/11/02 2:14 p.m.
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           Re: Rubicon Rating in ArkivesC Lund 10/9/02 4:56 p.m.
                 Re: Rubicon Rating in ArkivesTru7h 10/9/02 8:10 p.m.
                 Re: Rubicon Rating in ArkivesScifiteki 10/10/02 1:30 a.m.
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           Re: Rubicon Rating in ArkivesSteve Levinson 10/10/02 3:12 p.m.
                 Re: Rubicon Rating in Arkives:: Beer Can :: 10/10/02 4:24 p.m.
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                 Re: Rubicon Rating in ArkivesAnthony Surace 10/10/02 5:43 p.m.
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                             Re: Rubicon Rating in Arkives:: Beer Can :: 10/11/02 7:58 a.m.
                             Re: Rubicon Rating in ArkivesSteve Levinson 10/11/02 9:37 a.m.
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