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navynuke04 wrote:We actually scripted a large portion of the spell casting before we aquired official permission from Vivendi. Because of this, we had already changed some of the spell text to avoid giving out the original copyright protection information. When you play the game, you'll see that some of the incantations are altered from their original KQ3 form. This is the reason.
In Redux, we set things up so that if you climb up the tree and the bandit is awake, leaving and coming back ups the odds of him being asleep the next time.Worst part: the stupid bandit tree. I'd spend something like fifteen minutes going in and out of the treehouse until the stupid bandit fell asleep every single time! I know this type of puzzle was typical of the earlier King's Quest games (like Grandma/the wolf in KQII or the troll caves in KQIV) but for some reason it bugged me more here. Probably because the time wasted actually counted against you in this game.
This exact same thing bothered me when I first played KQ3. What's the logic in raising an infant to be a slave, if you only get a few years of useful labour from him. Just imagine Manannan taking care of a small toddler, feeding him, teaching him to read (Alexander apparently knows how to) etc. This problem of logic was partly taken care of in the third episode of The Silver Lining, where a more reasonable explanation is given to Alexander's kidnapping than just Manannan's cruelty or need for a slave.DarkJaguar wrote: Oh! On a storytelling point, as much as the story of a slave to an evil wizard plotting escape was an interesting one, I have to admit I never did much buy that wizard's reasoning for using human slaves. The manual DOES state he "preferred slaves to conjured spirits" because apparently spirits are too much trouble (and admittedly, the conjured spirits Mordack uses kinda prove the point, being as incompetent as they are). However, what we're basically being told is that Mananan actually found it easier to raise a human being FROM INFANCY to an age where they could actually be useful for doing chores, training them to do the chores WELL instead of making a mess, and then having maybe a couple of years of actual useful slave work before killing the slave and starting all over again. It seems like he'd be spending more time raising and training his slaves than actually having slave work. At that point, is it really worth it? Maybe if there was some plot point about him abducting the slave, then sending the child off to some horrible camp to be trained and then going to fetch the slave when he was "ready" it would work, and heck he could kidnap them more often to offset the time without a slave if it worked that way, with one slave trained while another was still being raised at some anonymous location. Of course if there's some group raising slaves, then the question comes as to why the wizard would be doing the abducting instead of that slave trading group, but that's at least something a little easier to swallow. Any thoughts on this, or did I just think about this way too much?
