🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 06 Feb 1997 22:25:05 -0700, Gordon K Wilson
<gkwi...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>> > Obviously this gamerX, whoever they are, have no clue. His review said
>> > Diablo could only be played on battle.net. Well, do your homework next
>> > time gamerX; You can play Diablo on Kali too.
>> >
>> 
>> Also, the Gamecenter review that he mentions in his posting doesn't
>> exist.
>
>     Sadly, it does exist. I did get the address wrong though and for
>that I do apologize. The correct address is:
>http://www.gamecenter.com/Xperts/Gamerx/013097. Sorry for the confusion.


Gord,  you're still confused (no offense) but that *ISN'T* the
Gamecenter review.  The actual review was written by Hugh Falk and may
be found, funnily enough, in the Reviews section. :)

Here's the URL for the review, which btw gave Diablo a GamerX rating
of *FIVE* Xs (out of 5).
http://www.gamecenter.com/Reviews/Item/0,6,470,00.html

The article you're referring to addresses several disappointments
GamerX (whoever that is) had with Diablo, meaning, to my mind s/he
just expected more out of the multiplayer implementation.  Don't know
why you're so upset with the comments anyways as the writer seems
clearly to have tongue firmly in cheek, what with lines like "OK, so
Diablo's a mighty fine game otherwise" and "when I finally get to
level 666 (rumor also has it there are this many levels of hell)".

And to address another poster's comment re: playing Diablo over the
internet using Kali, when Diablo was first released in early January,
Kali couldn't work with it out of the box.  Now with the 1.1 betas, it
does but with varying degrees of success.  So far in my experience,
games initiated via Battlenet seem to work better than ones started
using Kali.  However, that may change as Kali continues to be tweaked
by its programmers.  GamerX is no doubt referring to the fact that
Quake has already set a precedent by allowing internet games without
requiring logging into a single specific server (or a third-party
program like Kali which GamerX forgot about).