Phml
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entryway said:
As you can see on video - it's just impossible to start it for 10 minutes! :)
What I see on this video is you're doing all kind of weird stuff I don't even understand (and some of it I'm pretty sure is pointless, such as typing "heh" or "i don't want models" rather than, you know, fixing the problem). You really shouldn't claim to talk for the common man as, being a programmer, your experience with any kind of program is going to be completely different than for an average user.
I'm not even defending the launchers ; as I said, I feel they are clunky. I much prefer the drag-and-drop stuff I can do with ZDoom-based ports and PrBoom+.
That doesn't change the fact that, as a dude with no computer knowledge whatsoever, I had no trouble getting the launchers to work. My guess is you have files set up differently than what is recommended, or you're trying to do something specific, honestly I don't know, all this stuff is mandarin to me.
What I clearly know and remember however is my first experience with PrBoom+. I launched the program and it gave me an error message box saying "IdentifyVersion : IWAD not found.". That made absolutely no sense to me at the time, and there wasn't even any text documentation relating to this with the program that I could find. Eventually, I looked it up on the Internet, but getting the program to fetch it for you is much more user friendly than this approach for computer novices. I still haven't figured how to use any other IWAD than Doom2 with PrBoom+, heh (mostly because I don't care enough to look it up, I'll give you that).
By now you're probably rolling your eyes and groaning "omg how can you be so dumb don't you know how to use a computer" and well, yeah, that's the point. I don't know how to use a computer. Normal people, as you allude to in your first post, aren't computer fluent and would rather have programs holding their hand, at least at first.
In the end, you don't have much room to complain about Risen3D and Doomsday being hard to use for normal people. If anything, most casual players tend to gravitate towards these ports, partly because of the graphics, partly because it's simply easier to use than the other alternatives for newbies.
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12-21-09 12:06 
