At the moment installation is a bit of a shag too, which has probably stopped a few people. The biggest problem for me (other than finding my old DX CD) was installing the official patch, which doesn't seem to like my version (it prompts to overwrite a bunch of files, and corrupts the game if I allo...

I had problems finding it too

Me too! Which is odd as it's not at all hidden. It has its back to you as you approach the shuttle, and then somehow I just never looked in the right direction after that.

TNM couldn't really enumerate your options. First off there were too many, second it would make no sense This was a problem I had with DX:IW, it would lead me through the possible options by the nose, instead of letting me think I'd thought of a clever way around. ISTR the very first challenge had ...

Yeah the Leviathan sequence was the one part of the game where we took the liberty of railroading you. Ah. Yeah, I think I'd just been conditioned to expect multiple solutions to everything by that point. We just thought that sequence was so awesome, you'd be okay with being forced to go through it...

TNM is quite good, actually. Did you know that? Just a pity so few people will (probably) play it, being as it is a slightly-annoying-to-install* mod of an old and generally-considered-ugly game, with an unpromising-sounding plot, and that. Have you considered kidnapping people, locking them in a wa...