"Lunarian needle guns" have nothing on launchers - but by lategame you absolutely needed them, because it was your six dudes against 30+ badguys (or half a dozen nigh-invincible robots).Rings of Power had some serious problems, but it was completely freeform and quite hands-off, letting you work shit out for yourself. Of course, I was 10, and if there hadn't been a walkthru in the manual I'd have been boned on several of the ring quests. It had a wraparound map (hilariously the north and south poles wrapped around too
) vehicles, food management, and staggeringly difficult puzzles.Starflight took that idea WAAAAY too far. Almost no instruction at all, a few dozen planets out of thousands had useful things on them... that you had to FIND or already know the general area of. Again, without the walkthrough provided I would probably never have got anywhere - but the planetside tank driving parts were awesome. Fit pontoons! Fit ice-skates! Dig in to avoid storms! Hopelessly inaccurate 'mineral scan' that didn't update to remove minerals you'd already extracted and had to stop to use!
I also hate the "look, you can be evil if you want" games, because, as people have said, the "evil" choice is generally the "be a dick for no reason" choice. I even hate making my own character in CRPGs - I can never think of them as more than a collection of stats. At least in a JRPG, they're "the main character", even if they're mutes called McHero, because the game designers didn't give them a default name.
