Re: [IF Book Club] Call for suggestions

["Avrom Faderman" <Avrom_Faderman@email.msn.com>]

chadschultz@my-deja.com wrote in message <7ph1ic$rkc$1@nnrp1.deja.com>...
>In article <uNx4iIi6#GA.117@cpmsnbbsa05>,
>  "Avrom Faderman" <Avrom_Faderman@email.msn.com> wrote:
>>
>> Lucian Paul Smith wrote in message <7pg87c$guj$1@joe.rice.edu>...
>> [possibilities for IF book club, including...]
>> > -Bad Machine (though I did find 2 of the endings, at least)
>> >
>> >Seconds?  Objections?  Other Nominations?
>>
>> Big second to that one from me.  It seemed to me that Bad Machine
>>
>> 1)  was a great game and
>> 2)  suffered massively from an awkward release date (just before the
>> holidays, IIRC) that I think may have deprived it of a lot of well-
>deserved
>> recognition and discussion.
>
>It kept locking up on me. Was I the only one with this problem?


How patient were you with it?  There is a spot in the beginning with an
unexpected timed delay, which might (?) be different on different machines.
I thought it was locking up on me the first time too, but about 4 seconds
later it kicked back into gear.  (I pretty quickly figured out I'd want a
savegame from right after the lock; after about twice the delay is quite
unfun.)

Best,
Avrom