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- From: finn@higgins.ak.planet.gen.nz (finn)
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
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- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 00:07:44 GMT
-
- >On 15 Mar 1996 14:13:27 GMT, kcci1@central.susx.ac.uk (Alan L.M.
- >Buxey) wrote:
-
- >>they have been, and are MUCH better than wolf ever was
-
- >What's "wolf"? Wolfenstein was old 3 years ago. You're seriously
- >still talking about that?
-
- I think you have missed the point here... The computer games market these days
- seems to have dropped the idea of playablee games, in favor of things like
- "interactive movies", and lots of 3D texture mapped shoot 'em ups... now, is
- it just me, or is doom a sort of _very_ hi-tech version of an old mainframe
- game based on text... Now, what makes a good game a) 99999999 texture mapped
- polygons a second or b) good gameplay?
-
- >>play Gloom Deluxe on bare A1200 v's Wolf on DX2-66 486 ;)
-
- >Hmm??? The DOOM clone? Doom's old. Beat Hexen. :)
-
- yeah, but Doom is still the benchmark.... and I think AB3D2 is even better
- than hexen...
-
- >>now, there are DOOM games available, and Breed 3D II is IMHO much better
- >>than DOOM I/II the atmosphere is better, the gfx are better....th
- >>playability is better.
-
- >I'll have to check it out...if I only knew of someone with an Amiga.
- >Oh well...
-
- You still probably wouldn't be able to see it properly if you did know someone
- with an Amiga, as you need a pretty hefty (040 minimum) system to run it at
- any decent speed and res... cool game though.
-
-