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- From: jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AT UK redundancies
- Date: 24 Jan 1996 16:04:21 GMT
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- Chris Hall (chall@clover.cleaf.com) wrote:
-
- : They need to be a bit harsh with their ratings of games because it's
- : going to take that to get some of the game companies to realise that they
- : need to make their games for all Amigas, not just PAL 1200s with no hard
- : drive or fast ram. On top of the other game rating criteria, they should
- : do hard drive installability (20%, with given 20% for CD games), cross
- : model usability (20%), and PAL/NTSC/DBL/GFX card detection/support (10%).
- : With games that support those, that would have at least a 50% rating. I
- : would bet that many people would buy games based on those three rating
- : criteria.
-
- Percentage ratings are, quite simply, nothing but trouble--especially in
- the all-important "Overall" category. I can actually accept the rankings
- for "value for money", "graphics", "sound", etc. because those can be put
- against some sort of reasonable benchmark...but over time, grade
- inflation is going to catch up with any magazine, any publisher, and any
- game...
-
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