/vr/ - Retro Games

Pic related is from a neat little LoTR game made back in the early 90s. As an adaptation of Tolkien's books, it's unsurpassed, but as a game in and of itself, it has some flaws.

Pic related has us with a party of Frodo, Sam, and Pippin at a chasm. You'd need to use the jump skill to get the party across, but as long as someone in the party has the skill, you have an 100% success rate and everyone can jump over from the skill of one party member. A lot of the non-combat hazards in the game are structured like that, which means that as you expand the Fellowship, the amount of things that can actually hurt you drop lower and lower and lower, leading to the trivialization of all challenge somewhere at the point of 6 fellowship members. It's a shame, because they had some really neat ideas, counterbalanced with a whole lot of utter crap.