Comments on: Citadel of Chaos : The Walkthrough

By: Khaxzan

Khaxzan — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:00:16 +0000

http://www.onyxprophecies.com/onyxprophecies/index.php?

fighting fantasy 2008!

By: TyrannosaurusFlex

TyrannosaurusFlex — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 16:52:10 +0000

My two other favourites were “Trial of Champions” (the sequel to “Deathtrap Dungeon”) and “Portal of Evil”, the latter having a magnificent illustration of an evil caveman leading an evil stegosaurus out through the titular evil portal:

http://homepages.tesco.net/~parsonsp/assets/images/ff37.jpg

This brave fellow has catalogued all of our favourites. To be frank it gave me an erection:

http://homepages.tesco.net/~parsonsp/html/fighting_fantasy.html

On the down side I realised that I owned nearly all of these titles at one time and never completed a single one.

By: hello_spiral

hello_spiral — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:32:34 +0000

Weirdly enough i was rooting around in my attic the other day and came down with a copy of Forest of Doom by Mr. Jackson.
I never heard of Citadel of Chaos though, I think that one was too advanced for the likes of me. With the simple CYOA books i would keep my fingers in last few pages as mentioned above by robertdee.
when it came to the ones that required a fucking DICE(!) it seemed far too much like hard work or navigating your local park with a compass and ordinance survey map.

By: SickONut

SickONut — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:22:02 +0000

I don’t think anyone has ever successfully completed Citadel of Chaos. I reckon they all just cheated, like when I got to the end of Deathtrap Dungeon, but found that I had the topaz, not the diamond, and so couldn’t open the door, so I just pretended that topazes and diamonds are so much alike that your average magical door probably couldn’t tell the difference, and that the door got tricked into opening.

By: IOYC

IOYC — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 03:16:09 +0000

Shit yeah. I was just thinking about a Lone Wolf book yesterday where one of the attacks you could do was YELLING at your enemy so loud their mind literally fucked up into pieces and they fell off a ladder.

By: grilly

grilly — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:10:46 +0000

my fighting fantasy books are boxed up and ready for sale on ebay, as they have been for the last three years. i can’t remember finishing a single one. even ‘battle blade warrior’, with all the robots and dinosaurs.

By: pantsofdeath

pantsofdeath — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 13:45:52 +0000

Oddly I came across a copy of the Citadel of Chaos the other day, no not like THAT (although I must admit the image of frantically pumping jizm over a cheezy ’80’s fantasy book is… not outside the realms of possibilities) anyway - the thing was I moved to a new desk at work and there it was, in the drawer of my new desk. Which makes me wonder, when I see people staring at their screens with furrowed brows, are they really designing a new database schema or trying to decide whether to levitate (p200) or throw the Orb or Zorb (p12).

By: robertdee

robertdee — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 13:35:42 +0000

Aah. Forgot about that. They used to put “mazes” in them. There was definitely one in “Citadel” that would send you round in fucking circles. I used to hate those in adventure games too:

“You are in the forest of Gondor. You see paths leading in all directions.

Exits are N NE E SE S SW W NW UP DOWN

>>>”

I remember filling graph paper pads up with this shit before realising it didn’t make any difference to chart a map, you simply had to hit the right combination in a row.

Cunts.

By: soulless

soulless — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 13:15:25 +0000

I used to love these books. But I remember I once got in a frustrating cycle, going through the same six or seven pages over and over and over again. I thought I was trying different answers, but I always ended up back where I started. Of course, I may have just been shit at CYOA books.

I always wanted to write one too, but instead of being set in a fantasy kingdom, it guides you through the awkwardness of adolescence. YAY!

By: spumeofginge

spumeofginge — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:40:51 +0000

That’s dragged up a rather unpleasant memory. For reasons that escape me now, I used to do these with my mother. One night she caught me placing the die in the cup such that when I “rolled” said die, it alighted on an advantageous number. She was outraged and the game ended, accompanied by disapproving tutting from my sofa-bound Dad. My life summed up in a shit anecdote.

By: robertdee

robertdee — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:05:21 +0000

Citadel of Chaos - That takes me back. I remember nearly finishing it once (getting to the top of the Citadel) before chosing the wrong option and getting sent right back to the fucking start. I developed a tactic of keeping a finger in the pages I had been through so I could retrace my steps which never worked as I couldn’t remember which finger represented which step in the chain and I looked like some weird book feeler with the fingers of both hands embedded deep within the pages like a word-baker kneading book bread. “Citadel” is the four colour problem of Interactive Fiction. Its just not possible.