Re: Keys of Medokh

From: madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)

Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 14:35:03 +0000

>>Since Peter isn't here to defend himself I thought he was doing a
magnificent jobs of getting the code to work...<<

Hey!  Fair play!  I wasn't saying he wasn't!  its the original code that was a
nightmare, not Peter's work.  I have nothing but respect for Peter and Dynamic.
 Its that bloody awful Rampage code that sucks.

>>Okay so there were large areas (Magic, Dungeoneering, Combat, Sieges...)
that didn't actually work, but the game did look fantastic and the ideas
behind it were great....<<

With all due respect, its very easy to make a game look fantastic and many
companies have had great ideas... but a game isn't a game until those things
actually work.  Sure, Medokh was a good idea (and I say as much in my recent
Flagship article) and to this day people speak of it in hushed tones... but it
didnt **work**.

>>Surely the infamous Madhouse has the balls to resurrect this game ;-) I know
that they'd get a signup from me pretty sharpish...<<

I'd love to.  An exciting idea.  But the code, in my humble opinion, is never
going to work.  It needs to be rewritten from scratch, and I'd rather work on
my own designs than somebody elses, in the long run.  If it were fixable I
would have done it, but that code was like something Dante would have written
about.  Kudos to Peter for being able to do as much as he did, but Im not
surprised he gave it up in the end.  not his fault at all, and a worthwhile
attempt.

Steve T.

References

Re: Keys of Medokh
"James Blessing" <james@zen.co.uk>
Mon, 14 May 2001 12:14:20 +0000

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Re: Keys of Medokh
"James Blessing" <james@zen.co.uk>
Mon, 14 May 2001 12:14:20 +0000