Posted November 15, 2015
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I booted up Wasteland for the first time in many years, and remembered basically nothing. I enter Highpool, walk around, and talk to a crying kid. It asks me to type a subject, Ultima IV style. No matter what I type, he just goes "I dunno." Things like NAME, JOB, and BYE don't work. Neither does BOY, KID, WHAT'S WRONG, CRY, or anything else I can think of.
Looking at a walkthrough, he responds to DOG, JACKIE, and CAVE.
How are you supposed to know to ask about these things? The only clue I can find for DOG is that in the shop, if you bust down the locked door, you find a pile of notes and one of them just says 'a note mentions hydrophobia.' This seems really tenuous; there ought to be some other clue. Just because some note, in a pile of notes, mentions hydrophobia, wouldn't make me deduce that this particular kid is sad because his dog has rabies. Plus, if you're playing a "good" playthrough, roleplaying as scrupulous rangers who don't break into other people's property without good reason, you shouldn't even know about that. As for JACKIE, when is Jackie even mentioned? You don't even meet Jackie until entering the cave, and asking him about the cave (which is how you learn how to get in) makes him run away.
I booted up Wasteland for the first time in many years, and remembered basically nothing. I enter Highpool, walk around, and talk to a crying kid. It asks me to type a subject, Ultima IV style. No matter what I type, he just goes "I dunno." Things like NAME, JOB, and BYE don't work. Neither does BOY, KID, WHAT'S WRONG, CRY, or anything else I can think of.
Looking at a walkthrough, he responds to DOG, JACKIE, and CAVE.
How are you supposed to know to ask about these things? The only clue I can find for DOG is that in the shop, if you bust down the locked door, you find a pile of notes and one of them just says 'a note mentions hydrophobia.' This seems really tenuous; there ought to be some other clue. Just because some note, in a pile of notes, mentions hydrophobia, wouldn't make me deduce that this particular kid is sad because his dog has rabies. Plus, if you're playing a "good" playthrough, roleplaying as scrupulous rangers who don't break into other people's property without good reason, you shouldn't even know about that. As for JACKIE, when is Jackie even mentioned? You don't even meet Jackie until entering the cave, and asking him about the cave (which is how you learn how to get in) makes him run away.
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