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- From: gsnow@clark.edu (Gary Snow)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.video
- Subject: Re: Wing Commander
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.194338.8361@clark.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 19:43:38 GMT
- Article-I.D.: clark.1992Dec21.194338.8361
- References: <1992Dec18.222747.19957@clark.edu> <BzKoup.Kn2@unix.amherst.edu>
- Organization: Clark College, Vancouver, Wa. USA
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- In article <BzKoup.Kn2@unix.amherst.edu> dethomas@unix.amherst.edu (Dennis E Thomas '**) writes:
- >
- >: I'll try, but I don't think it will work, its actually quite a bit different
- >: then the IBM version, and better in my opinion. You can't shoot up the
- >: asteroids as easily as you can in the IBM version either.
- >
- >Whoa! Are we talking about the same game? I found the controls of the
- >SNES version abominable. They are complicated, and almost impossible to
- >pull off in the middle of combat. It would be nice to be able to use the
- >communications, without having to take so long that your going to get
- >shot all to hell.
-
- I didn't think the controls were all that bad, they were logically layed out,
- theres just alot of them......its much the same situation on the IBM version,
- the first time I played it, I though the controls were out of hand.
-
- >Another problem I had was that the colors are pretty blah. They were
- >much too muddy to be useful on any number of occasions during a mission.
- >They have that wonderful SNES quality of fuzziness that someone at
- >Nintendo seems to equate with good graphics. I like anti-aliasing, but
- >bad anti-aliasing looks much worse than none at all.
-
- The colors look pretty good on my video montior, quite comparable to a SVGA
- 486 with .28 dot pitch color monitor. And I have seen the term "fuzziness"
- describe SNES graphics before, but I find that most people say that because
- there is so much color blending going on that they can't see the edges of
- different colors, unlike on my Genesis where there is only 64 colors
- available on the screen at once, so it appears to look sharper because color
- edge it more defined (less colors to work with in blends). All in all its
- not "fuzzy" at all.
-
- >As for kicking in the afterburners, I think that staement is missing
- >something. If you try to burn throught the asteroid feilds, I can almost
- >guarentee that something will smack you into oblivion. Unless of course,
- >you're flying around the field, rather than through it, which is what I
- >usually do.
-
- Yeah me to......why go through them when you have enough fuel to go around
- them.
-
- Gary
-
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