NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/comp/sys/amiga/games/18453

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From: [e-mail] (Michael Robert Bromery)
Subject: Re: Wing Commander flames and fun
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     Well, the theory I was trying to involve in my last post to you was
that this kind of thing belongs in advocacy and not in comp.sys.amiga.games.
Remember I said again and again that my post was a review about the game, I
made fair statements about it, I had no intention to turn it into a flame
war. Why does everything have to become a flame war?? I can't write one single
innocent post on this thing without rash comments. This is not comp.sys.amiga
.games. This is comp.sys.amiga.flames in my opinion and I won't stand for this
kind of stuff on this newsgroup. If you want to talk IBM, I would say this is
not the newsgroup for you. People need benchmarks to know speed, I could only
compare Wing commander justfully with other ports of it. By the way, 256 colors
does not a game make. But if all you can do is turn down the machine in this
newsgroup, I'd say (like a popular line from Raiders of the Lost Ark), "You're
digging in the wrong place!"

     Now for a constructive part of my post. I tried the Gunship 2000 demo, but
that copy crashes my system after a few minutes. Looks fun with a nice frame
rate, but does anyone know the commands to select a new target, or do something
other than move around, select, and fire? I got some pretty wicked views, some
are new to me and I'm still not sure what to call em. I just name some,
David Letterman's thrill cam 1 and David Letterman's thrill cam 2 and so on.

   -- The Mikester
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