Adventure Boomers?
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I guess maybe I'm a rare breed. I'm 44 years old ( going on 12 ), because I love adventure games , but I also love games like Halo , Splinter cell , Grand Theft Auto and Silent Hill. Most of the people who read this have probably never heard of those games unless they happened to see a TV advertisement. I can remember the first time I ever played an adventure game. I was shopping through my local Sam's Club when I saw the game Myst on sale. The title and the picture on the box drew my attention, so I picked it up and examined it more closely and bought it out of curiosity. Well, after playing it I was hooked. It wasn't long after that I found myself in a computer game store looking for more adventures. That was about 8 years ago and I was 37 at the time. But getting back to my original point. Though I love adventure game , I also love a lot of other genres too. Am I a rare breed ? Are there others of you who love a good fight occasionally ? Are all adventure gamers over the age of 35 ?
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Re: Adventure Boomers?
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robert, no i don't think you are a rare breed. i love adventure games too but i also love rpgs and enjoy action adventures such as silent hill, outcast, etc and enjoy FPS games ( but not very good at them due to severe arthritis- need cheats to help me out but do try to go without as long as possible) i only do single player even though the fps games have such a big multiplayer component.
oh and i am older than you.
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Hi Robert, I'm 55 and like the pure adventures. A little action is okay but nothing too repetiive. If it hurts, it's not fun. Shooters & war games hold no interest for me. I work all day and don't want to do gymnastics at the pc by the time I finally get some time for me. I may try god mode on some RPG's soon, but that's the only way I could play them without hurting. So far, I'm very content with adventure games and in between, I play pc jigsaw puzzles, mahjong, spider solitare and other puzzle games. Melanie
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Re: Adventure Boomers?
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You do come up with some intriguing questions, Robert! I'll be 49 this year, and I do enjoy many adventure games. To be honest though, nothing grabs me like a good RPG. Perhaps that stems from some of my earliest game playing being the Quest for Glory series, when I had no clue there were different genres. But to me, there are a few RPGs that are adventure games, only longer and more immersive (and ok, with lots of fighting) - a few recent ones to come to mind are Sacred Plus, Heretic, and the golden grail of them all, Divine Divinity. There are lots of folks who claim themselves to be adventure only who slyly have tried DD, and found themselves firmly hooked with RPGs. A huge congratulations to everyone who tries another genre without dismissing it out of hand! If you cast your eyes upon our RPG/other forum, you will see that there are new people every day trying them out. I also like a few strategy games like Ghost Master, Tropico Pirate, and the like, but don't play the genre much because it seems they last a lot longer than my attention span.
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Re: Adventure Boomers?
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Hi Robert I love allsorts of genres. My favourites are 3rd person point and click,but I also really enjoy all adventures,Action/Adventures, and puzzley games, and some shooters! I absolutely love Medal of Honour (AA) and DoD online. At one time (not so much now) I used to on both of those every night! (And I have to admit I was quite good at it) Basically I am a total game addict. As well as my PC I have every console around big and small and I love them all
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Hi Robert, I am 55 and I am going on 12 like you. My favorite genre is the FPS. I also like in order: Action/Adventure, Sim/Strategy(The Sims, RCT, etc), RTS, Adventure, Arcade/Platform, and last RPG. I do not like flying or driving games, Strategy war games or text adventures.
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Robert, I am 45 and my favorites are the first person, all alone, exploration games like Myst and Alida.
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Hi Robert I am 52 and always considered myself a purely adventure game type...I didn't mind a little action as in Blade Runner...But my daughter plays Dark age of Camelot on-line and I have watched her, and became intrigued by it. So now I must confess...I am one of those 'sly' people that Nickie was talking about...I obtained a copy of Divine Divinity, to see what everyone was raving about...I loaded it up...and WOW!!! I just can't leave it alone...4.30am every morning, I have to force myself to stop playing and go to bed...I guess this is my initiation to the 'Dark Side' Sue
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I "was" an adventure only gamer until about two and a half years ago when I decided those folks on the RPG forum were having waaaaay too much fun with those games they were playing. I asked which one would be a good starter for an RPG novice - The Quest for Glory Series was mentioned (which I had had for years and years but never tried). I played them all and have been hooked on RPGs ever since. I'm right now playing Gothic II and while my reflexes are still a bit shall we say "rusty" my cursing has improved by two hundred percent I haven't tried too many FPS - not sure if Outcast counts or not but I played that and loved it (god mode since not only are my relfexes rusty but I am also a whimp) Oh and I'm 51 and female.
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I grew up playing card games and dominoes--dh and I played board games and card games---watched the kids play Sega but never had time--and finally when the kids were all gone had watched my PS2 son play enough to think it might be fun--so bought a console---talked enough with my sister who is an adventure gamer and started playing an adventure game with her---then got an Xbox to play some of the Xbox games with my other son--and decided to try DD with the Dark Side folks--I even like platformers--but I am not very good at them--
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Re: Adventure Boomers?
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I'm 42. I started out playing Actiony games in the local arcade (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, etc) 20 years ago or so, the progressed to actiony-shooter-adventure-exploring dangerous places games like Duke Nukem, Cosmo, HOcus Pocus--don't really know what you would call those games. But anyway, my true love is the first person adventure a la MYST. Following that, puzzle heavy (rather than conversation heavy) third person. I don't like things jumping out and killing me repeatedly anymore. I also play lots of puzzle games.
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Re: Adventure Boomers?
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I don't really know what defines an RPG. Is it the turn-based combat ? I've played , or tried I should say , a couple of critically acclaimed RPGs like Star Wars-Knights of The Old Republic and Final Fantasy. I don't really care for the turn-based combat. I would rather do my own fighting. I played a game called Beyond Good and Evil recently , which plays like an RPG in every respect , except the combat ( i.e. fighting ) was real-time , but that game is considered to be an Action-adventure. I agree about the keyboard controls being awkward. If I had to rely on mouse and keyboard controls for the 3D action-adventure games I wouldn't like it much. I have a PS2 and Xbox for those type of games , and since there's really no replay value in them for me , I rent them instead of purchasing. I can usually beat one in a few days , return it , and move on to the next one. I just played Uru recently using mouse and keyboard , and navigating was a bit awkward , but there was no combat so it was ok. They make an adapter to connect an Xbox controller to the PC USB port. I think most of the 3D style games support a gamepad or joystick control. To date I've finished over 100 PS2 and Xbox titles , and a couple of dozen PC Adventure games , mostly games similar to Myst , the 2D slideshow presentation type. I'm leaning more toward the PC Adventures these days as I have alot of catching up to. I was glad to see " The List" posted in this forum so I make a nice long wish list of games I want to play.
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Re: Adventure Boomers?
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Originally posted by Robert: I don't really know what defines an RPG. Is it the turn-based combat ? No. There are plenty of real time RPG's. Usually what distinguishes an RPG is the stats management - getting experience points from winning battles and completing quests and assigning these points to various abilities to improve your character(s) fighting ability. Also, you often have a group of characters in an RPG instead of just one. I've played , or tried I should say , a couple of critically acclaimed RPGs like Star Wars-Knights of The Old Republic and Final Fantasy. Try Divine Divinity.
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Re: Adventure Boomers?
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Excellent suggestion for DD. Another plus is that it is mouse, more or less point and click controlled, with a few keyboard commands should you want to use them, like hitting the space bar for pause. A really easy learning curve too. Another that just came out that doesn't have the humor of DD, but is a much shorter RPG and easy to learn is Heretic. One that a bunch of us are playing right now is Sacred Plus (and the expansion Sacred Underworld), and it is a bit harder than the other two, but chockfull of humor that is keeping us laughing hysterically. You don't die really, you just get resurrected, LOL. I think playing with a party is much more difficult, and I would sure recommend starting with a single character RPG like the ones I just mentioned. If you enjoyed Beyond Good and Evil, which went from easy to hard by halfway through the game, you won't have any problem whatsoever with those, I don't think.
EDIT : Oh no, I am repeating myself! I've become my mother!
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Re: Adventure Boomers?
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To Jenny100 , Thanks for clarifying the RPG thing for me. Also , I read your review of Dark Fall - Lights Out. I had read a review of this game at Gamespot and based on that review , I wasn't going to play it. That was before I found GameBoomers. After reading your review and Beckys' review of the DF1 , I changed my mind and sure enough , you guys were more on par than Gamespot. I thought Dark Fall was great and I'm about to start on Lights Out. To Nickie, Do these games you mention have real-time combat ?
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Re: Adventure Boomers?
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I started with Myst at age 61, a year after getting my first computer(2002) Got totally hooked and have been merrily BAAGing and playing ever since.Started with only point & click adventures, then played my first action adventure-Indiana Jones Infernal Machine, then the Thief games, Outcast,Anachronox and Noone Lives forever. Playing games keeps me thinking young,never bored,and mind alert. It's the best thing since sliced bread! I like to switch back and forth between adventure and action. I like the heart thumping, exciting pace of action games as well as the slower paced more relaxing puzzle based ones as long as they are beautiful and interesting to look at. 64 going on 10
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Re: Adventure Boomers?
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robert,
for a fps game like NOLF the mouse/keyboard combo is the way to go. a gamepad is awkward. that is why so many do not like playing these type of games on the consoles as you a gamepad just doesn't give the same type of control as the mouse/keyboard does. once you try it this way and get used to it you will never want to play an fps wih a gamepad again uness you just have to play halo 2 when it comes out and not wait for the pc port.
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Robert, I am 58, female and I like Adventure games as well as Action,FPS and RPG'S. I am attempting to play Sentinel, I keep getting stuck, Psychotoxic and Cold Fear now. Some of my favorite non adventure games are: Max Payne,RTCW,Call Of Duty, Medal of Honor, HL2, Painkiller,Doom 3, Morrowind,Icewind Dale and Gothic. The love of all these games knows no age or gender.
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robert,
good, i am glad you are going to give NOLF2 a try using the mouse/keyboard.
by the way, IMHO, the first game was much better but you can decide for yourself.
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Re: Adventure Boomers?
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Originally posted by Skeeter22UK: I have Sacred, i downloaded the free bonus pack thing as well but it had crc errors so have to redownload it.
Can you download the expansion pack for free or is it a pay thing as I was going to say i'd play a team game with you nickie if i could get expansion pack for free as i dont think you will be willing to play without it. Hi Skeeter! Yes, you have to purchase Sacred Underworld, although Sacred Plus is free if you have the original Sacred. But if you get Sacred Plus up and running, a bunch of us are still playing it. Come on down, the more the merrier! Robert, to answer your question, yes, those games all use real time combat, except DD does have a pause feature if you want (where you can drink potions, decide what to do next, etc.)
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Hi Robert: I loved NOLF! I have NOLF2 and am savoring the chance to play it. The humor is great, especially if you're a fan of those old sixties James Bond spy movies.I think Kate Archer beats Lara Croft hands down.She's feisty and funny-much more sense of humor than Lara. I have never played games on anything except PC. I find the mouse and keyboard combo less awkward to control than the keyboard only (a la Tomb Raider games)
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@ nickie Was on sacred plus last night. What is your character name? Mine is Skeeter/Mobious. Which servers do you go to? Open or closed? And which server in them? Im at level 5/6 i think so far at the end of the day yesterday, hope ur a low level as i dont like playing with high level players as they leave me lol. But i hope to play with you on the campaigne if possible, perhaps we start together some new characters? Let me know if u wana do any of this.
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Hi Glynn I love all the Tom Clancy games , Splinter Cell is one of my favorites too , I just finished "Chaos Theory" a couple of weeks ago. Have you tried the "Ghost Recon" series ? , they're pretty good too . If I can get games like that on PS2 or Xbox , that's my preference , since I can rent them from Gamefly.com . I would go broke buying all the types of games I love to play . Right now I'm playing Psychonauts on my Xbox and Dark Fall: Lights Out on the P.C. and have Black Mirror , The Longest Journey , Zork : Grand Inquisitor , Beyond Atlantis and Runaway all waiting to be loaded after I finish Dark Fall 2. I went crazy at Amazon and Ebay , but BaaGed some really good deals .
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Robert here is a small review and pic of my gamepad its a bit like xbox's but i think with more buttons. here Also if those that liked psx controllers then play.com have some adapters for about 9.99 i think.
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To Glynn, Plilipp,Ditlihi, Teresa, and anyone else out there(besides me) who's 60 and over: Wow, I didn't realise there are so many of you and even more over 50 playing computer games! I don't know anyone personally who plays. The people my age all think computer games are "all violence" , "a waste of time", "crazy", or "why do they play them anyway" or any other negative remark they can come up with. Needless to say, when I'm around that talk, I keep my mouth shut and think how boring life would be without this great entertainment. I also am a reader and a traveller, maybe that has something to do with it-many do not do these things either.
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I'm 35 & was strictly adventure until this past year. I, too, was one of the Boomers enchanted by Divine Divinity & now I can't get enough of RPG's. I generally play one RPG & one adventure at the same time, so if combat gets too hairy I can relax & twitch my brain instead of my fingers. RPG's last sooooo much longer so I usually go through 3 adventures in the course of one RPG. I don't usually like shooters or action/adventures unless there's a god mode. But I have been enjoying Beyond Good & Evil, which is a very odd, but fun, game. Loved Outcast. Can't seem to get the hang of surviving in NOLF, but I've got death down pat! I don't play anything that requires jumping. I'm a total klutz & spaz out every time. Love, Jen
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I'll be 74 this month, and the only non-adventure game that I care for is Diablo/Hellfire. My son got me started on that even before I discovered adventure games, and I still enjoy popping in the CD and play one of the characters I've created. But I don't play on-line (got tired of those foul mouthed little twerps propositioning me ) and I didn't really care for Diablo 2, because of the saving system...
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Hi Sandy Yes come try DD, we'd love it and you'd be a riot--I can just imagine all the trouble you could get into--and AND there are BIG hairy spiders and some pinchy bugs too. Oh and bees and wasps. Yicks I didn't realize when I started to tease you, that there were ALL your scary bugs in the game. They are a tiny part of it though. I'm 51 and when I joined Gameboomers (not long ago) I was a strict adventure game player and then came the fall...and now I keep a very open mind about all kinds of games. (Now my favorite game would be Real Myst with Loot! )
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Hi Sandy.........DD is totally addictive and Ana should be ashamed of herself for getting someone else hooked on it. I'll admit it, it's totally immersive and I'm loving it. I reek at it but it's fun. I'm warning you though, save your games and save often! Also, set a timer so that you will leave the game in a reasonable period of time to take care of other matters..........like child care, meal preparation. bill paying, just the little things that must be done. It looks like it could take a looooong time to play this one. Oh, warning....don't let your child be in the room while you're playing if he's squeamish. Ana strikes again!
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Sue...I believe in sharing the fun And the real thanx go to reading all fun between Nipomo, Looney4Labs and DoreenS in the darkside. I just had to try it! Ana
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So you are passing the blame to Nipomo, Doreen and L4L?
Sue
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Re: Adventure Boomers?
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06/01/05 09:16 PM
06/01/05 09:16 PM
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Robert
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Hi dithika and welcome to the forums dithika writes , quote: "I am female and just turned 30. I used to play computer games as a kid but stopped for years. It was Myst that got me back into playing games and now I play adventure games the most." I'm glad to see younger people like yourself playing adventure games and you can always count on other members of Gameboomers to help if you get stuck or need tech-support with a game. To jen in chgo : I've seen alot of posts about Divine Divinity and have decided I'm gonna have to get it I played Baulders Gate a while back and had a lot of fun with it. DD looks like a similar type game , but with more depth . I thought Beyond Good and Evil was a wonderful game . The last boss fight is pretty hard , but very rewarding when you beat him .
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Re: Adventure Boomers?
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06/02/05 12:49 AM
06/02/05 12:49 AM
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Originally posted by Robert:
My problem with "Knights of the Old Republic" is the turn-based combat. I'd rather do my own fighting .
you do all your own fighting in KOTOR. it is NOT turn based. it is not as fast paced as action games or games like diabo or other action rpgs. but nor it is as slow paced like the combat in turn based games which include fallout and wizardry.
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Re: Adventure Boomers?
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06/02/05 09:47 AM
06/02/05 09:47 AM
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Robert, DD & BG aren't of the same cloth. BG you control a party. DD you are a lone character. I also think the fighting might be disappointing to you in DD. Another person I recommended it to didn't much care for it. They said it wasn't "free" enough with character creation/advancement & fighting. In DD you just click on an enemy once & you automatically fight. You can pause the battle to drink health potions, etc.. but it's mainly one click & go. It's a great starter game but if you've already played many RPG's, you may think it's limiting. You'll have to remember that for many of us it was our very first RPG. It's much closer to an adventure than others in it's genre & the combat isn't complicated. I don't want to stop you from trying it, just warning you that you may not feel the same. I'll still love it regardless. Love, Jen
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Re: Adventure Boomers?
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06/02/05 12:41 PM
06/02/05 12:41 PM
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Robert, you can do that with DD. You can click to use a spell, and then you can click to bash them with a sword, and you can direct et al to your heart's content. You want to target one monster and not another? Not a problem! But, if I am remembering correctly and interpreting what Jen says correctly, your character will also continue to fight without you doing more actions so as to not be defenseless. The beauty of the game is that it is what you want to make it - it can be a lot more complicated for those who wish it to be so, or gentle for those who don't. That said, if the user friendliness that it has is something that is not what you're looking for, another game that I would heartily recommend is Sacred Plus. It has all the humor of DD, but the game won't help you out with the fighting, there's no pause available, and the action is all very much quick time. Now on these games that we're talking about, your fighting actions are limited to casting a spell or bashing with a weapon. If you're looking for even more complicated maneuvers like Drakhan, where you actually choreograph your actions with a roll, a kick, a stab, etc, then I don't have a new game for you.
"How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Re: Adventure Boomers?
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06/02/05 01:26 PM
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nickie
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Originally posted by Skeeter22UK: I didn't really get into BG&E. I found it too bizare and there was no real intro as to who you were and what your supose to do at the begining. Tho i kept playing for abit longer i just gave up. This is on the xbox i tryed it on as i recommended it to my bro as i thought it would be a sorta adventure game but in 3d and a bit of action but its mainly action/platform sorta game. Big let down from what i thought it would be like. It's always interesting to me to see people's reactions to BGE. For me, I loved the first half of the game, and it seemed an adventure with fighting. I hated the second half of it (after you lose the pig), which to me felt like a repetitive platformer. Plus I had a game ending glitch,so it didn't further endear the game to me. But I would play the first half again!
"How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Re: Adventure Boomers?
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06/02/05 02:22 PM
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nickie
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Originally posted by Robert: Hey Nickie My mages are always masters of the running away tactic! In DD, when I hit the pause it would be to survey where I could run to get out of a hopeless fight. You can actually hide in houses to talk to folks, and the monsters will usually be so polite and wait until you once again emerge, always cracked me up. Not so in Sacred Plus, they will pursue you, rude monsters.
"How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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