JonesCrusher on 19/4/2010 at 22:54

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alsolook in the boots too ;)

nightshifter on 19/4/2010 at 23:04

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and finaly I made it all the way through the mission..

a great experience..

Zontik, you did a marvelous job here and created another milestone in tafferland..

the gameplay/puzzling was hard sometimes ( but we've been over that more than enough here) but it was great fun and kept me, in a very entertaining way, busy for many hours..

the cutscenes were gorguous and I loved the way you inplemented the motions.. very good and convincing ( and I know how hard it is to get it timed right..) :thumb:

what realy suprised me.. that sarcastic grin on anger's face that popped up when I came up after switching the score
great:thumb: and I did have to replay it because I was thinking I must have imagined it :cheeky:
btw: I likd the little anagram in his name W. Anger -> Wagner ( allthough in the readme you spelled it as Vagner :joke:( good choice of music too ))

great job, many thanks from a satisfied taffer...:thumb:

Queue on 20/4/2010 at 01:56

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I liked your original post better when you were more insulting to me personally.

Truly, I wasn't referring to you at all. In fact, I didn't even read your post until you replied to mine--in which I too was simply posing a question to the general populace from an honest opinion I had formed after reading all the other folks complaining about how difficult the thing is and giving the impression of not liking difficult missions, and doing so also in a relevant thread. So I'm not sure why you have your panties in a bunch, but here we are.

And I was posing my question in a very much non-confrontational manner, with all the best intentions. You see, I too have been creating (and am near releasing) an FM that requires a lot of thought and is, in my opinion, difficult and unconventional as one can't just run through it looking for some swag and a few inside jokes like so many recent FMs. So, I'm now questioning what is the point of releasing it if no one is going to enjoy it due to its difficulty (beyond my own giddiness of course in the knowledge that I will have pissed off a great number of people who are unwilling to give it a chance and puzzle the damn thing out), and am honestly looking at just tossing the thing the trash bin at this very moment because to make it "simpler" would be too much work and wouldn't be the vision I had for it (being the author), thus creating a "What's the point?" question in my mind.

So, do you feel better for being over reactionary for really no good reason? Because I honestly meant you no harm or ill-will. So I'm sorry if you took it that way. :)

Or, were you expecting something such as, 'I'M A COMM CHATTER! YOU WILL BOW DOWN BEFORE MY MAGNIFICENCE! DONG JOKE!!' to come out of me because I'm not a regular Thiefy-friend?

Queue on 20/4/2010 at 03:15

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I can't even tie my own shoes and chew gum at the same time--how am I to operate two threads!? ;)

Honestly, though, it's a mission in which I've taken great care to ensure that the answers are not easily found--and in which it was designed to frustrate those who are careless and, for lack of a better term, are unimaginative when it comes to puzzle solving. It's designed to frustrate the living hell out of those who want to rush through a level--because in my mind they have lost the whole meaning of playing Thief.
But, after reading recent comments, I just don't see a reason to take the time and effort to finish polishing the damn thing up. It's honestly a physical strain for the most part to sit in front of the computer for that long, or focus on too much--I'm ill enough as it is without trying to add anything additionally exhaustive for an audience who won't give a shit, or will be blatantly petty because it's not what they want in an FM.
Not that it has ever mattered to me before (with my writing, I've never written to appease an audience), but I honestly don't know if I'll ever get better (still up in the air, though I am doing well at the moment) and don't know if I like idea of what could possibly be my one and only FM being so poorly received because (in my perception, remember) players no longer want to take the time to enjoy being frustrated and figuring it out regardless of how long it takes.

Sagittal on 20/4/2010 at 07:14

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Someone should look into that..