Wednesday, September 9, 2015

I fucking hate the open roads game

Ok, if you don't know what the open roads game is, here is the lowdown.  In 1992, a DOS game came out called, "SkyRoads," (that's free on the web right now) and it's a game that should be a cult classic at least and deserves an update with new levels and a level editor.  Long story short, it's a game that deserves more attention than it gets.  You need DOSBox, a DOS emulator to play it because it's so old, but that's not the bullshit part, it relates to the bullshit part though.

Here's the bullshit part, it's actually two bullshit parts, but they come together to form a repugnant turd sandwich.  The first bullshit part is that there are people who are computer literate enough to stream on PC, but can't perform the relatively simple (compared to setting up a stream on your computer) task of entering a file directory (IE. C:\example) into dosbox to start up the game.

Now the second bullshit part is that there's a flash remake on the internet called the Open Roads Game that —everyone who I request to play SkyRoads— plays instead of the original version, because they don't have to DOSBox, because obviously you have to be a rocket scientist to figure out how to use it.  Now the bullshit part about that isn't the fact that people would rather do that instead of using DOSBox, but rather the fact that that version sucks, the controls are way too sensitive and people play that game and assume that the original version has just as shitty controls, when it doesn't.

The original version had a steep difficulty curve, but it was never because of the way the controls work.

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