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Apr 13, 2007, 04:14 PM
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Hotel Jackrabbit 2

The name sounds silly, doesn't it?

If I were to describe playing jj2 online, its game-play would mostly consist of 'doing nothing in levels known as hotels'. Yeah, that's jj2, doing nothing.

I've decided to write this rant, because I feel this little rabbit game's potential is being wasted in such an incredibly sad way. Since the server-list has been redirected, there are, of course, plenty of new players, and excuse my choice of words here, but these players are pretty much unskilled. You might think there would be more interesting players since the switch, but we can assume a game consisting of players doing nothing in 'hotels' would make them lose interest before they would learn more about the community. I don't care if hotels are hosted, but it's the only game-type that 90% of them seem to like trying besides tests. What's more mind boggling is that I'm describing the hotels that do not even use the concept of collecting coins. No real gameplay, nothing.

Speaking of tests, these things provide a nice challenge and a good sense of accomplishment, but boy are these some of the blandest levels I've ever seen. There is no other sense of interaction besides focusing on a few blocks! - I mean geez, I enjoy playing them sometimes, especially when they are designed well, but like hotels, players only seem to care about playing these all the time.

I wrote this post to hopefully stir some conversation on this subject. I am truly boggled as to why these levels are so interesting to them, yet they won't even touch other game-types.

Last edited by FireSworD; Oct 5, 2016 at 11:05 PM. Reason: edited for fquist