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I just caught this, posted today at PCGamer:

https://www.pcgamer.com/remembering-one ... respasser/

Apparently the article is a preview of another Trespasser article. Fun to see it still get attention, and even a recommendation to play it.

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Active project: Trespasser: Isla Sorna - Working on PH2-IT (and experimental BE-IT).

"...there used to be more benches, but InGen's workers removed them during the evacuation in the name of framerate."

As well, multiple links to TresCom. Noice. I wonder how many of us laugh when we read these reviews of the arm mechanics, after so many years of training in proficient Anne-arm operation.

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->Tres2020 Starter Kit

"Well, as long as you're under there, you can check the breakers," Thorne said. ... "There's a box right behind the front bumper. Over on the left."
"I see it." [said Sarah]
...
"The box is in backward. Flip all the switches the other way. Are you dry?"
"No, Doc. I'm soaking wet, lying in the damn mud."
~Michael Crichton

*raises hand*

So funny that Tres still gets attention like this. It's really fascinating though that even 20 years later, people still talk about it and remember it well - not something you can say about many things in the past 20 years. There really just isn't anything else like it since.

I still think people are too harsh on the arm, though. Once you've gotten used to the controls - usually by the time you reach IT or LAB - it's really not that bad. I've had friends play it, complain about the difficult controls all the way through BE and JR - but by the time we've reached the Summit about 4 or 5 hours later, everyone seems to be of the opinion that "it was actually quite fun"! You learn the quirks of the game pretty quickly, and once you know what to do and what not to do, everything sort of falls into place and comes together. It's just too bad that this seems to occur for most people halfway through the game.

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Personally, I never found any difficulties in controlling the arm...

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I still believe it's one of the most realistic approaches to interacting with an environment
ever achieved. Even in most of today's xbox games, you either pick things up by walking
over them or accessing a menu, hardly realistic.

Too bad the reviewer doesn't give some of our redos a fair look. At the least, someone
should give him Lee's work.

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TresCom Anthology _FINAL_CE Only (04/16/21):
https://www.trescom.org/download/tresco ... -act-i-iv/

tc_prequel walkthru: https://www.mediafire.com/file/8s0cspop ... u.txt/file

Trescom Anthology_Final_CE Only Patch 1.1: https://www.mediafire.com/file/9x78b3vl ... 1.zip/file

That applies to more than Xbox games

As mention in the article, he says he is using Lee's CE patch. And will be back with a full length article soon

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Active project: Trespasser: Isla Sorna - Working on PH2-IT (and experimental BE-IT).

"...there used to be more benches, but InGen's workers removed them during the evacuation in the name of framerate."

My bad. I have a habit of trying to speed read and missed it-

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TresCom Anthology _FINAL_CE Only (04/16/21):
https://www.trescom.org/download/tresco ... -act-i-iv/

tc_prequel walkthru: https://www.mediafire.com/file/8s0cspop ... u.txt/file

Trescom Anthology_Final_CE Only Patch 1.1: https://www.mediafire.com/file/9x78b3vl ... 1.zip/file

It was YEARS before I got to play this game again and by the time I left the BE construction site I was good to go. If you really want to talk about difficulty try playing with no sound....ay good times .

IIRC I originally played most or all of the original game sans sound.

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->Tres2020 Starter Kit

"Well, as long as you're under there, you can check the breakers," Thorne said. ... "There's a box right behind the front bumper. Over on the left."
"I see it." [said Sarah]
...
"The box is in backward. Flip all the switches the other way. Are you dry?"
"No, Doc. I'm soaking wet, lying in the damn mud."
~Michael Crichton

Here is another one:

https://www.pcgamer.com/trespasser-a-gr ... rformance/

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Active project: Trespasser: Isla Sorna - Working on PH2-IT (and experimental BE-IT).

"...there used to be more benches, but InGen's workers removed them during the evacuation in the name of framerate."