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- Subject: Re: Endings to PastFinder, Necromancer, Shamus, Ghostbusters
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.131744.12461@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
- From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins)
- Date: 1 Sep 92 13:17:43 -0500
- References: <199208312002.AA00548@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu> <greg.715355075@duke>
- Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"
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- In article <greg.715355075@duke>, greg@Quotron.COM (Greg "Maddog" Knauss) writes:
- > norlin@ESSEX.ECN.UOKNOR.EDU (Norman Lin) writes:
- >
- >>In Pastfinder, after you complete each stage, you get a new "ranking". The
- >>last "ranking" says "YOU ARE GREAT" and it doesn't change after that.
- >>(BTW, IMHO, Pastfinder has some of the best character graphics and animation
- >>I've ever seen. Very creative 3-D effects!)
- >>
- >>In Necromancer, after you complete the last graveyard, you get a not-
- >>too spectacular screen with horizontal bars of color flowing up and down
- >>from the center of the screen with a powerful fading musical chord in the
- >>background. Then you are returned to the title screen.
- >
- > The most disappointing end-screen I've ever seen was for Caverns of Mars.
- > After WEEKS of playing the stupid thing over and over and over, I finally
- > finished the hardest mission and... got the score list, just like if I'd
- > died. NOTHING special. I don't need half-hour animated movies and I played
- > the game because I enjoyed it, not because I just wanted to see the end
- > sequence, but games that have endings should have ENDINGS -- something,
- > anything. Even text wrapping up the story line. After weeks of enjoying
- > Caverns, I felt let down after I'd finished it...
-
- I really liked the ending to Goonies though!!!
-
- Later.......
-
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