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- From: chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AT UK redundancies
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 09:10:54 GMT
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- Mat Bettinson (mat@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk) wrote:
-
- : 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.
-
- But if you can't get the games to run, then what good are they. I've seen
- so many games that are trash. Whether or not a game is hard drive
- installable or works with many different configurations is a good mesure
- of how didicated the programmer is to making a quality game. Granted
- there are some exceptions but most of the time this is true. I only
- buy hard drive installable or CD based games.
-
-
- : 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.
-
- If their really Amiga enthusiasts, then they should understand the need for
- hard drive installablity.
-
-
- : 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.
-
- If game companies are so out of touch that they can't see that track loaders
- and copy protection are useless these days, I will not even consider if
- their games are playable or not, I'll just bypass it. If it can be
- installed and will work with different configurations, then I'll
- consider the game play.
-
- Try selling a non-hard drive installable game to IBM clone users. They'll
- laugh you out of the market.
-
-
- : 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.
-
- I haven't even heard of XTR. You have to remember, unless the news is on
- the net, it usually takes months for us in the US to hear about it. Is it
- hard drive installable and can it run on different configurations? If so,
- they what kind of game is it and how good is it? Otherwise, I don't want
- to hear about it.
-
-
- : That is a much more viable argument and a greater evil that lurks unnoticed.
-
- The greater evil is that trash games will force more and more people to
- either get game machines or other computers...
-
-
-
- Chris Hall
-