Maxvorstadt: I never understood why pople wanted to draw maps. Back then, we bought gaming magazines which contained a printed version of all the maps for those games, including markers where to find special things, traps and so on.
BreOl72: Well, and I don't understand today's people watching "Let's plays"...I rather play the games myself - and the same went in the past for the drawing of the maps.
I also bought magazines, mind you...to be informed about the new, upcoming games.
But not, to have somebody else do the map-drawing for me.
Which would not have made much sense, anyway - you still had to walk on your own in-game to the "points of interest", and on your way there, you still had to succeed in the encounters, that the game threw at you.
To use premade maps, I would have thought of as lazy, and it would have deprived me of half of the fun.
Well, we didn`t see map drawing as a part of the game/fun, but as some kind of work. And you know, youths don`t really like work. :-D
And of course, we really played the games, solving puzzles, surviving fights and so on. We didn`t see using those printed maps as cheating, but as some work, that the developers should have done. I still know how happy I was, when I played Doom for the first time. An Automap? Yayyyyyyy! :-D
