vagsancho
Knight
Posts: 810
Favourite Gamebook Series: CRYPT OF THE SORCERER
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Post by vagsancho on Nov 16, 2020 21:22:44 GMT
4 Fabulous books of Ian Livingstone - for me all 4 very similar: Which one is better? For me, undoubtably, the order is: Lizard King.... 7 Temple Terror.. 8 Snow Witch..... 9 Crypt Sorcerer. 10
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kieran
Baron
Posts: 2,547
Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy
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Post by kieran on Nov 16, 2020 21:27:26 GMT
From best to worst in my opinion:
ToT CotSW IotLK CotS
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vagsancho
Knight
Posts: 810
Favourite Gamebook Series: CRYPT OF THE SORCERER
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Post by vagsancho on Nov 16, 2020 22:57:15 GMT
I am a big fan of all 4 books - all similar to me - but when I think on things like: Yaztromo, The Lake, the Gargantis and Razaak, I know which one is the better.
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Post by a moderator on Nov 17, 2020 13:43:45 GMT
With the four titles listed, the later the publication, the lower the ranking.
In other news, the title of this thread made me aware that I have spent a depressing amount of time combating spam posts recently. For a moment I thought those strings of letters must be something else in Vietnamese, rather than a bunch of gamebooks' initials.
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Post by johnbrawn1972 on Nov 18, 2020 23:55:25 GMT
With the four titles listed, the later the publication, the lower the ranking. In other news, the title of this thread made me aware that I have spent a depressing amount of time combating spam posts recently. For a moment I thought those strings of letters must be something else in Vietnamese, rather than a bunch of gamebooks' initials. That seems about right. Is there an author who is the reverse Ian and started with poor efforts and then delivered masterpieces? Though I would rate Jonathan Greene as the obvious example I believe there is an element of age and wisdom there which is not what I was really driving at namely did somebody rocket up a learning curve? I do not know all the books.
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Post by tyrion on Dec 1, 2020 22:06:23 GMT
I suppose Stephen Hand? Not that dead of night is poor, far from it, but shadow warriors is excellent and moonrunner a masterpiece.
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Post by Pete Byrdie on Dec 14, 2020 16:50:02 GMT
I have to say, Temple of Terror was my introduction to gamebooks, and remains among my favourites. It's my favourite of these four.
I found Island of the Lizard King varied and great fun, so I'll place that second.
Caverns of the Snow Witch was a fun dungeon crawl, but, for obvious reasons, the journey at the end felt incongruous and an anti climax.
Sorry, Vag. Though I enjoyed much about Crypt of the Sorcerer, it's too difficult. It could have been great.
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