Re: Must-Play IF?

[jcmason@uwaterloo.ca (Joe Mason)]

Dan Schmidt <dfan@thecia.net> wrote:
>| >1.  Varicella             9.2   3 votes
>| >2.  Anchorhead            9.1   4 votes
>| >3.  Photopia              8.8   3 votes
>| >4.  Christminster         8.7   8 votes
>| >5.  Trinity               8.6   12 votes
>| >6.  Spider and Web        8.6   4 votes
>| >7.  Curses                8.5   11 votes
>| >8.  Cosmoserve            8.4   3 votes
>| >9.  Spellbreaker          8.4   6 votes
>| >10. Mind Forever Voyaging 8.4   7 votes
>| 
>| So Far is notably absent.
>| 
>| Also Losing Your Grip, The Edifice, and B@d MAc|n3,
>
>What four games would you move out of the top ten to make room for
>those?

Christminster, in a heartbeat. Put _So Far_ #1, and drop the top three by a
spot each.

AMFV, with misgivings.  On the one hand, it has some really great moments.
On the other hand, it falls very short of what it could have been.  Gripping
hand is, great game, but not Top 10 material.  That puts The Edifice or 
Bad Machine on (toss up as to which).

Cosmoserve, since I haven't played it.  It's probably brilliant, but I've
never gotten around to finding out.  (I haven't gotten around to Varicella 
yet either, but since I'm familiar with the author I'm not gonna cut it.)
The other one of Edifice / Bad Machine.

I have to drop Spellbreaker too, since again I haven't played it.  But I've
heard enough about it that it'd probably be tied with Losing Your Grip if I
had, anyway.

Joe