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| 10 MAR 2008 at 8:10pm |
Jenny100Guild Master
Posts : 3510
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | I might use an old map, just so I don't have to strain my horrible artistic disabilities.
For the most part, I want to start from scratch though, and make new notes.
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| 10 MAR 2008 at 8:13pm |
colpetSchattenjger
Posts : 1630
Joined: 12 APR 2003
Status : Offline | For me, the note taking forces me to pay attention to detail. In a game as involved as BD, that really helps.
Occasionally visiting Uru Live (KI 0063722 .&&
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| 10 MAR 2008 at 8:25pm |
Jenny100Guild Master
Posts : 3510
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | I've never been a terribly consistent note taker.
Sometimes I'll start out assiduously taking notes, then get bored of all the writing and start skipping things I should be writing down.
Other times I'll start out all sloppy and sketchy, wanting to see more of the gameworld before I slow down and start writing. Then I'll get stuck and have to go back.
I tend to write on whatever's handy, and I try to conserve paper by using the back of used papers. So my notes can be all over the place.
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| 10 MAR 2008 at 10:38pm |
VolkanaIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 33
Joined: 14 FEB 2008
Status : Online | And everybody was laughing at me because i keep notes . I don't keep them when i'm done with the game so i don't use them again...
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| 10 MAR 2008 at 10:40pm |
AndromusGuild Master
Posts : 5538
Joined: 6 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | I don't reuse my notes when replaying a game. It's more fun (and challenging) to start from scratch. In some cases, it would be almost impossible anyway. My writing is often....cryptic. For example, I was stuck on Mean Streets for a bit because I could barely decipher my notes! I shudder to think of using them a second time.
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| 10 MAR 2008 at 11:48pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | My note taking is erratic and I often lose them so when I came to look for them to replay Obsidian I came up short and had to dip into a w/t. As I've only ever replayed about 4 games I guess the answer has to be no as in each case my notes were either insufficient or missing.
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| 11 MAR 2008 at 3:08am |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
Posts : 4038
Joined: 27 SEP 2004
Location: US, NJ
Status : Offline | I take lots of notes, but if I'm copying something complicated, I'll take a screenshot of it and print it out, then make notes in the margins. I keep my original notes in a folder for that particular game, but I like starting from scratch when I replay it. If I remember a puzzle as being very tedious or unfair, I will look at my original notes again to save myself the aggravation.
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 11 MAR 2008 at 4:16am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | OMG Jenny. I nearly bashed my screen. Your avatar is infuriating..... eeek!
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| 11 MAR 2008 at 11:05am |
WimliGuild Master
Posts : 3259
Joined: 14 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Jenny100 (10 MAR 2008 8:24pm)
I've never been a terribly consistent note taker.
Sometimes I'll start out assiduously taking notes, then get bored of all the writing and start skipping things I should be writing down.
Other times I'll start out all sloppy and sketchy, wanting to see more of the gameworld before I slow down and start writing. Then I'll get stuck and have to go back.
I tend to write on whatever's handy, and I try to conserve paper by using the back of used papers. So my notes can be all over the place.
Sounds very familiar.
In general I never keep old notes from games I've played. I rarely replay games, except when I've really, really loved them, and in that case I want to capture the fun again by starting all over again without notes from previous playing sessions.
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| 11 MAR 2008 at 11:57am |
stevemacIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 91
Joined: 15 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I have notes (and maps) of every game I own - initially scrawled on bits of paper and then redrawn usually when I've finished the game ...but only in b/w and kept in folders. It's also handy to check them out and help someone who posts a hint request but doesn't want to check out a walkthrough as they are too tempting to just look that little bit further.
Unlike Wimli, I usualy replay the game once I've finished to make sure that my notes are correct, especially with games that include slider puzzles etc, but I draw the finished picture as I'm not sure how to take screen shots whilst in the middle of a game.
Also, in a non linear game, I'll often replay it to discover the 'quickest' route ..a habit I picked up from the early Dizzy games.
I really liked Jenny's wandering ant, I thought it was one on the most eye catching profile pics I've seen recently ...and The Traveller's new (ish) woman with horns picture with the initial comment about 'spiking a plunger' made me chuckle ...and am so jealous of InlandAZ having Larry Laffer!! Sad to say I have checked to see whether I can identify people's profile pics with very little success.
I'd like to change my rather dull picture of a hand-drawn 'Lewton' from Discworld Noir - somebody once told me how to do this, but I didn't take notes and have totally forgotten how, just a vague memory of having to upload a picture to a website.
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| 11 MAR 2008 at 7:06pm |
GonchiSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 337
Joined: 24 SEP 2007
Status : Online | Gosh, notes... I haven't take any of those since the days of the parser, and most of the time they were so I could type words without errors. My English was really awful back then. Good times.
But I'm not so complicated as to flee, &&or stand here in silence. &&But I'm not so simple as to not caution, &&that there aren't three minutes, or a hundred words, that could define me.&&&&[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlR-6Tw-5bE]Brief description of my person[/url] - Cuarteto de Nos
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| 11 MAR 2008 at 9:59pm |
Jenny100Guild Master
Posts : 3510
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Caroline (11 MAR 2008 4:16am)
OMG Jenny. I nearly bashed my screen. Your avatar is infuriating..... eeek!
I know. I'm a previous victim myself and felt I had to share.
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| 13 MAR 2008 at 8:59pm |
SusanGuild Master
Posts : 5485
Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Location: 0
Status : Offline | I do, but with some puzzles, you've got the solution right there in your notes, which kind of takes the fun out of that puzzle. It's like, do I re-scramble the words or just look up what the word is?
I miss my Bubba: 1986 - 2006.
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| 13 MAR 2008 at 9:58pm |
ShanyGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 19 JUN 2003
Status : Online | I don't like taking notes in games. It's boring and tedious, and puzzles that require notes are usually not fun.
If I need to take a lot of notes, I will usually give up and go to a walkthrough instead. If the puzzle is random, then re-using my notes has no effect whatsoever.
In the rare occasion that I write reusable notes, they are usually very messy and not worth keeping.
So no, I don't reuse my notes.
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| 14 MAR 2008 at 6:24pm |
| Deleted User | Because I very rarely replay games, my notes are usually very informal- scribbled all over the place if I wasn't expecting to do notes, but if I do them formally, I'll staple them together and keep them in a folder for at least the duration of the game.
If it's a game like Myst where you have to take notes in one location to execute them in another location, yes, then I'll keep my notes, but with certain games my scribbled notes don't make sense anymore if I lose their context in the game due to the lapse of time.
So I guess for me, it depends on the game. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Sometimes I don't even make notes.
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| 15 MAR 2008 at 1:08am |
MelboIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 36
Joined: 15 NOV 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | I replay Dreamfall and various versions of Uru once in a while. The notes for Uru are extensive for things like using the communication device Ki online. I know in a few weeks Uru online will be canceled. The solo version is still worth a few revisits. The Dreamfall notes are mostly for the in game locations of my saves. I sometimes replay from the middle or after.
I can understand others having more fun by not using notes when returning. For example online in Uru if you forget some functions it can be more interesting to relearn them from those willing to help. But a nice feature of notes for me is the nostalgia brought back from the games and life at the time as I review the little things I jotted down over the years of playing adventures.
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| 16 MAR 2008 at 3:14am |
SusanGuild Master
Posts : 5485
Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Location: 0
Status : Offline | I just thought of something:
In Myst 3, I jotted diagrams that were to be used later in some sort of viewer-type thing. One of them I could not get to work. I checked a walkthough (with screenshots) and it turns out my diagram was WAY off. I guess when it comes to drawing certain things, for the non-artist, their previous notes will do them no good!
They come in handy when you're re-visiting a tricky maze, though.
I miss my Bubba: 1986 - 2006.
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| 17 MAR 2008 at 3:46pm |
jalexSchattenjger
Posts : 2503
Joined: 5 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | I don't use old notes. When I replay a game I almost always try to do things in a different order so I might see something I missed before. The old notes wouldn't help too much this way but I do keep them. I have lots of notbooks I use only for games with lots game notes in them.
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