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Article #22967Re: RA PATCH NEWS [Re: RA update (fwd)]
From: Andrew Chen
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 00:00
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Ky...@708644668.neo.lrun.com wrote in article > Ok first I would like to state that Red Alert is very poorly writen. *How so? > The game loads and runs so slow. *Get a better computer. > Warcraft runs better overall, and much better online and it was made how many > years earlier? *But Warcraft sucks. Also, it is a DOS game and works poorly online, even with a cable modem. > What I mean is Westwood is just out to make a date and not a > quality program. Why does Blizzards battle net have over 7000 people > on it with no lag and Wchat has a shit load of lag with 400. *First of all, Diablo is very much different than RA. That game needs it since the replay value is nonexistant. > I tell ya programming and lack of good beta testing. *Nothing is perfect. Can you do better? > No points make this game good or a crappy expansion that includes things > that should ahve been in the origonal version. *What about Beyond the Dark Portal? Just a bunch of maps and a few heroes. >They just want more money. *Who doesn't? > I think the game its self is very poor and heavly biased toward > the russian side. *That's why is it a STRATEGY game. If you want balence, play Warcrap. > Which makes multiplayer suck. *Actually, I can beat my Russian friend every time w/Allies. > I am not just a bitcher, I have been up to 400 on cases ladder out of 4000 people so > i am good at the game, but am very dissapointed with some aspects of it. If you hate it so much, why do you play? > I think DARK REIGN is going to blow every multiplayer strategy game off the > NET! *That remains to be seen. Betas are coming out on April. > Check out some of the info on it. All and all some companies like > Westwood just write crap (and put more time into the stupid movies and setup > than the actual game) ie serria and others. *The movies help further the plot of the game. If you don't like them, press that ESC key. > I don't plan to ever buy another westwood product *That's nice. >considering the few i have now all suck compared to the 10 > other games i have. * Wow! 10 whole games! > The question I ask is WHY WHY WHY? *Because you are an asshole, that's why.
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From: "Andrew Chen" <red...@geocities.com> Subject: Re: RA PATCH NEWS [Re: RA update (fwd)] Date: 1997/03/26 Message-ID: <01bc3981$3f5aa200$e5450118@C1000818-A.frmt1.sfba.home.com> X-Deja-AN: 228461398 References: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970312140351.3953E-100000@curly.cc.utexas.edu> <01bc2f42$471c1120$679edaa5@marka> <332d3a6d.5683380@news.powerup.com.au> <5gfv2d$2tq@tofu.alt.net> <3335b898.2385628@news.inet.it> <01bc37a5$3fed9e80$936ab4cc@EricAdams> <33377A4E.4C84@tpgi.com.au> <NEWTNews.859291806.29992.kkopp@neo.lrun.com> Organization: Computech Consulting Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,alt.games.redalert,alt.games.command-n-conq MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit