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jmeyer7000both -> (8/26/2003 11:43:57 PM)
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John, re your query:
I’ve got a nice Sony 19” CRT. There is nothing wrong with the images. They are fairly crisp, though tiny. The issue for me is that the current display just seems too remote and un-engaging for resolving local situations. It’s simply easier and more pleasing to see all of the details I need with a smaller area of the map filling the screen. I wouldn’t have to cycle through all of the hotkeys to see what’s really present. For me, it’s just accessibility and ease of use equaling less work and more fun. (Okay, I want it all. I like to play around with/look at maps of different scales not only in games, but in history tomes as well.)
Of course I don’t play a board game on a lamp table, but then again, I can stick my nose into the map to help my aging eyes bring the details into focus.
Let’s say you’re a divisional commander and you’ve been ordered to cross the river, breach the minefields, overrun the pickets, seize the heights, take the city by storm and break-out along the paved road running NNW through the forest until you reach the next phase line, and by the way, don’t’ worry about a low-scale map, we already got this nice theatre display for you to use, thank you.
As Humphrey Bogart said to Edward G. Robinson in Key Largo, “I know what you really want. It’s more, isn’t it?” And Edward G. responds, “Yeh, more. That’s it. I want more!” Me, too - I want more, if at all possible, simply for a more satisfying gaming experience.
Cheers,
Jim M
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