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- From: Mat Bettinson <mat@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: AT UK redundancies
- Date: 24 Jan 96 21:36:41 GMT
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- Salutations Chris for on the 24 Jan 96, verilly did you scribe;
-
- CH> Paul M Venkatesh (pmv@bnr.co.uk) wrote:
-
- CH> : I agree with the sentiments but it is a bit harsh. I would advocate
- CH> reducing : the rating of a non-hard disk installable game by 20+%
- CH> depending on the : amount of disk swapping/waiting required. Why all
- CH> these Amiga magazines : which are supposed to be advocating the serious
- CH> use of Amigas don't take a : stand on this issue to try and bring a lot
- CH> of the games publishers into the : 90's, and to encourage the readers
- CH> to upgrade, I don't know.
-
- CH> They need to be a bit harsh with their ratings of games because it's
- CH> going to take that to get some of the game companies to realise that
- CH> they need to make their games for all Amigas, not just PAL 1200s with
- CH> no hard drive or fast ram. On top of the other game rating criteria,
- CH> they should do hard drive installability (20%, with given 20% for CD
- CH> games), cross model usability (20%), and PAL/NTSC/DBL/GFX card
- CH> detection/support (10%). With games that support those, that would have
- CH> at least a 50% rating. I would bet that many people would buy games
- CH> based on those three rating criteria.
-
- The vital flaw with this otherwise reasonab theory is that the Amiga
- market is barely big enough to warant the development that you see NOW on
- the games front, let alone by decreasing that market. That's what you do
- when you move away from a stock Amiga in the games market.
-
- Applications requiring specced up Amigas is all very fine for games but
- those of us into the serious side of it don't constitute much of a market
- when it comes to games I'm afraid.
-
- That was until the Doom clones and XTR came along etc. These are from tiny
- software houses you'll note that's made out of Amiga enthusiasts.
-
- As for having HALF the rating of a game on those purely technical points.
- That's just ridiculous. Gameplay is far more important than those things but
- they SHOULD enter into it where it's relevant of course.
-
- Now if you want to bitch about something, have a look into the press
- treatment of the brilliant XTR. It's been slated in several magazines
- BECAUSE they couldn't/wouldn't run it on a specced up Amiga and because they
- couldn't even be bothered to read the docs on how to change the screen mode.
-
- That is a much more viable argument and a greater evil that lurks unnoticed.
-
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