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Article #87Re: Problems with Descent (long post)
From: ac... Gordon Stewart
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1995 17:56
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1995 17:56
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In a previous article, pbre...@world.std.com (Patrick M Brennan) says: >Although in general I feel that DESCENT rocks, I have two main problems >with the game. One is not so important, but one is a real >show-stopper. I don't expect to register DESCENT if they insist on >keeping it. > >* Of course, I'm referring to the save game "feature". I understand >Interplay/Parallax's philosophy on this issue, it's just wrong. OK, >so they think that allowing the player to save at arbitrary times would >allow the player to use save-game as a super-equalizer and defeat >any enemy by repetition. To which I reply, "So what?" > >Sorry for the length, but I need to get this out. Anybody want to >tell me how to get these ideas to Interplay? Do they read this group? > The folks at Parallax (one, anyway) can be reached at: ad...@netcom.com I sent a similar message earlier today - there's no way I'm buying a game without a reasonable save feature.
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Newsgroups: alt.games.descent Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!uunet.ca!uunet.ca!torfree!freenet.toronto.on.ca!ac604 From: ac...@freenet.toronto.on.ca (Gordon Stewart) Subject: Re: Problems with Descent (long post) Message-ID: <D1zwIw.5v0@torfree.net> Sender: ac...@torfree.net (Gordon Stewart) Reply-To: ac...@freenet.toronto.on.ca (Gordon Stewart) Organization: Toronto Free-Net Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada References: <D1syD0.291@world.std.com> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 17:56:55 GMT Lines: 23 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit