jfunk wrote:
Judging from the responses accumulating here, I think this really is boiling down to a basic performance issue. The timing seems to be affected by poor performance. In other words, the "game time" and the graphics updates do not slow down at the same rate, so those experiencing sub-par performance are actually losing relative "action time" in the process.
I think too that this is the key issue. Performance drop doesn't affect the player and the game the same way.
However since I reduced or turned off some gfx options, the game works really fine and I don't feel such a loss in visual aspect. The keystroke buffering problem is no more an issue as the responsiness is so much better. (I also think it buffers only one stroke).
Here I think that better informations about this issue could reduce the frustration experienced by some players.
I've been playing this kind of game since Wizardry I, in the early 80, to DM, Black Crypt, and EotB on Amiga and I don't remember any of those titles were testing my dexterity so much. I don't despise arcade adventure games (or any other genre, if I don't play them for personal reasons), but again this is a case of properly advertising the game for what it is, just take a look at the game official page. So I don't expect a Tomb Raider type of game.
The game brings back the oldschool challenge with highly tactical real-time combat and grid-based movement, devious hidden switches and secrets as well as deadly traps and horrible monsters. Legend of Grimrock puts an emphasis on puzzles and exploration and the wits and perception of the player are more important tools than even the sharpest of swords could be
Also note that the game is vaunted as an
Old-school dungeon crawling game inspired by Dungeon Master. So implicitely, but not exclusively of course, it targets
Old- school players who have played DM. And, as the word imply,
Old- school players are not as young as they were when DM was released. The dexterity and coordination of a 40 year old player is not the same as a 20 years old one