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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!mbs110
- Organization: The Leader Desslok School of Diplomacy
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:16:35 EDT
- From: Norman St. John Polevaulter <MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <92246.141635MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
- Subject: Re: Wing Commander Demo [thoughts]
- References: <l9vqcuINNgso@aludra.usc.edu> <92242.190633MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu>
- <1992Aug29.205152.58504@cc.usu.edu> <310@nsq.uucp>
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- In article <310@nsq.uucp>, entity@nsq.uucp (cybernetworx) says:
-
- >The reason the starting intro graphics looked good is because they were done
- >on teh amiga originally anyhow. Maybe they got the original artwork and
- >plopped it in directly. The 256 color conversions on the other hand sucked
- >big time!
-
- Actually, I think you may have this backwards. I recall reading that the
- spacecraft, etc. images were ray-traced on an Amiga 3000 before being brought
- over to the IBM... nothing about the intro animations being Amiga as well.
- (Geez, if they're doing all the graphics and sound on Amigas first I wonder
- why we never got a conversion... :-/)
-
- >I also SERIOUSLY doubt that they will be 'vastly' improving the graphics. If
- >they were, they would wait until they've done that and THEN release the demo.
-
- Well, I was just reporting what I read -- there was a picture taken from
- the demo, with a typically ugly dithered ship in a dithered cockpit, and
- the text was a brief interview in which a rep for the programmers admitted
- that the in-flight graphics were rather weedy but insisted that they'd
- be vastly improved. Perhaps they're leaving in-flight conversion for last.
-
- >As it stands, they are committing commercial suicide.
-
- I absolutely agree -- releasing this ugly demo has killed a lot of optimism
- amongst the Amiga community, and I can see why. If the ultimate game looks
- like this, nobody should buy it.
-
- [Your blood pressure just went up.] Mark Sachs IS: mbs110@psuvm.psu.edu
- DISCLAIMER: If it ain't money, Penn State doesn't care about it.
- "Ladies and gentlemen, I've suffered for my music! Now it's your turn!"
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