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From: hilman@ichips.intel.com (Harlan Hilman)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: APOGEE = Sore Losers
Date: 2 Sep 94 13:00:03 GMT
Organization: Intel Corporation
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Message-ID: <hilman.778510803@ichips.intel.com>
References: <ZW3TVPr.nrr@delphi.com> <1994Aug26.163348.2755@exu.ericsson.se> <lsmolyanCvHA3t.Aqp@netcom.com>
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lsmolyan@netcom.com (Larry Smolyansky) writes:
>Craig Christian (exucc@exu.ericsson.se) wrote:
>: In article nrr@delphi.com, Jay Iscariot <nrr@delphi.com> writes:
>: Hi,
>: I can't wait to see it either. I must ask, why are you so negative?
>: Apogee will probably surprize you. Doom is the best, IMO, when it comes
>: to 3d, RIGHT NOW. But I hear Triad will be awesome. I hope so.
> ^^^^
>Key point. As someone else already brought up, Terminator Rampage was
>pretty much a flop but I "heard" it was pretty cool. Then I played it.
>That says it all.
Ask Hank Leukart. He has the thing sitting on his hard drive(legally). Ask
him how awesome it is.
>: Before too long I'm sure there will be alt.game.triad, and I
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>I really hate being negative, but what the heck....There's a newsgroup
>called alt.sex.beastiality.barny or something. What does that say about
>basing the importance of a topic on the existence of a newsgroup for that
>topic? I mean, if sex with a fictitious purple dinosaur can spark interest
>then that says it all.
All right! Does this mean there probably WILL be an alt.games.triad? Now
we just have to see if it'll meet HALF a.g.d's traffic.
>: as well as hundreds of other people will be there drooling! >8-)
>: I look forward to seeing Apogees, "Triad" as well as any other
>: 3d games they produce.
>I'm not saying that Apogee isn't capable of making good 3D games but
>seeing is believing and from what I've seen in the past, I don't believe.
>iD's games improved, although there weren't many, but Apogee's flatlined.
Apogee hasn't made any 3D games. This is their first attempt(Not bad for a
first attempt) at making a Doom-like game all by themselves.
>It was admirable of Chris (not acting as an Apogee rep) to jump in and
>defend Apogee's position in all this, but until the vaporware becomes
>software it's pointless to discuss what might be.
>--
> lsmolyan@netcom.com
> Larry Smolyansky