OK, we disagree on DL but a question for you: how much do you trust DWB (or Dreamcatcher or whoever) to deliver the feature list on the box?
Not at all.
In fact, the light you shed in this thread on why you feel a little extra burned by DWB makes me trust him even less. Thus the "
probably" in my previous post. Unlike DL, the sequel will
not be a release day purchase for me. However, I'll be looking for lots of reasons in the reviews and feedback from players after release to
stop me from buying it, rather than looking for reason
to buy it. If that makes sense.
Strictly speaking, no, it doesn't to me. Don't get me wrong. As I've said all along, I think folks have every right to be angry at DWB to the point of boycotting his games (and you especially) after the crap he pulled with totally misleading people before release, then pretending everything was hunky dory after the release ("people want a mini-map? really?! gosh, we thought it would be more realistic without one, but if you insist...") and delivering the final insult of asking them to buy the game just to get most of what they should have gotten with the original game. But I'm not in that camp. I understand it, but I'm just not there. I really, really enjoyed the game. For me, it was money well spent, even if I spent it twice. And that's what matters the most to me. Not whether DWB lied or whether the caves mentioned on the box actually existed or any of that. So I'm hoping there will be a demo that will give me a good flavor of what the sequel’s like, and I'm hoping the feedback from players is not overwhelmingly negative. As long as those two conditions are true, I'll probably be buying it.
You know... I love how people love to trash DW... but did all of you know that Andrew Greenberg... that's right... Werdna... the co-creator of the first 4 Wizardry games... shared the writing credits with DW on Dungeon Lords. It's true... read your manual if you have one.
Not sure why they didn't try to hype that when marketing the game... maybe Greenberg was smart enough to want his name left off of it... but he's to blame for what many of you call a terrible game (not me), just like DW.
I think this is another example of the confusion on where people are critiquing the game on its own merits and where they're angry at DW for his persistently poor treatment of his customers. IMHO, the strongest "hate" comes from the latter. As far as I know, that particular problem had nothing to do with Andrew and everything to do with DWB.
