>Ahhh, Magnus, don't bother whining at all. Frankly, I found Gareth's
>comments about the writing in Zebulon and the other games to be pretentious
>claptrap.
Well, that's not a very productive comment...
>For example, many people consider Steinbeck to be a great writer. Sorry,
>but a 25-page description of a wheat field just puts me to sleep, no matter
>how vivid.
What Steinbeck have you read? On the basis of The Grapes of Wrath alone, I
never liked him. But once I read some of his shorter works (like The
Pearl, Of Mice and Men, and Tortilla Flat) I came to think of him as one of
the best writers I've read, and certainly *not* long-winded or pretentious.
>Both Theatre and Christminster have great plots. I love the way things are
>revealed little by little. And they both have good puzzles, making them
>really memorable games.
You think Christminster is a great game, yet you call Gareth's comments on
writing claptrap and predict that you'd be bored to tears by anything he'd
write?!
Personally, I think Gareth (along with a few others, like Carl Muckenhoupt)
has done the IF community a great service by writing well-thought-out and
reasonably in-depth reviews of many games, instead of the typical knee-jerk
"best game ever" or "sucks" responses we usually see.
I only wish I could find the time to play Christminster and return the
favor!
Dave Baggett
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