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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 6:01AM (Unverified) said

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No Way. In my second year of uni I created a game based on this book. A point and click game and we had to record all our own scenes. Awesome!!!!
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 6:11AM (Unverified) said

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The first 2 books of Lone Wolf are available as homebrew for the DS already, and they're pretty amazing. You can check it out at http://www.projectaon.org/staff/frederic/index.php
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 9:53AM (Unverified) said

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They are amazing! They're a completely faithful translation, down to the illustrations and mechanics and they retain the best Lone Wolf feature: your character/equipment/abilities carry over from the first game to the second.

This is reason why I bought an R4 card.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 4:24PM (Unverified) said

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Agreed. Having never read/played the original books, I actually prefer being introduced to them by way of DS homebrew. The fact that you don't need to carry around paper, pencil, or dice in addition to the book make it much easier to take with you. Plus, the music gives it a much better ambiance and sets the mood. These could work really well for value or DSi download titles.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 6:27AM ShirowShirow said

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Ha! Old fantasy gamebooks (And tabletop RPGs in general) really make you think about how far we've come in crafting believable worlds and adventures. Like, in the old days Dungeons where just a series of rooms with monsters and traps and features interconnected with no rhyme or reason. A bottomless pit with a bridge guarded by a troll would lead to a restaurant run by three dwarves. I'm not kidding. Something very much like that popped up in one of the gamebook suppliments. Guess the dwarves where really paranoid about security or something.

I suppose a bad DM or a video game intentionally self-parodying itself (I'm looking at you, nippon ichi.) can still invoke this chaotic feel. Warlock on firetop mountain certainly had it. Wonder how the DS game will treat it.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 6:41AM (Unverified) said

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Wow I loved the fighting fantasy books, also I have the Board game of Warlock of Firetop Mountain at home :o

Looking forward to this :D
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 11:16AM Shagittarius said

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Loved this book and enjoyed the series! I hope it's good and we get more of these.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 10:08PM chispito said

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The Lone Wolf series already are games. They're game books.
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