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Article #580Re: Negative review of Diablo by Gamecenter!
From: Craig Fletcher
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 00:00
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The review I read there was highly positive. But the initial link you gave here didnt work so maybe the took off that reveiw and put in a nicer one? They did mention some drawbacks of the game but thats what reveiwers are supposed to do for even the best of games. Gordon K Wilson <gkwi...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in article <32F8F3...@ix.netcom.com>... > For any of you who are interested, a negative review of Diablo can > be found at http://www.gamecenter.com/Xperts/GamerX/013097. Check it > out. I would like to take this opportunity to answer some of the > question posed by GamerX in his review. > > 1. Q: One- to four-player multiplayer play? > > A: Yes. > > 2. Q: That's it? > > A: Yes. > > 3. Q: And you can't play it over the Internet unless you use battle.net? > > A: Correct. Be happy you can play it over the Internet at all. It > (battle.net) is free. Quit bitching. > > 4. Q: Making matters worse, spawned versions and the CD version can't > see each other. > > A: So? Who says they should? Where on the Diablo packaging is the word > "spawn" or "spawning" even mentioned? Good luck trying to find it > because it isn't there. > > 5. Q: And what's up with battle.net allowing only one- to four-player > contests? I was expecting something meatier, more in line with Meridian > 59 or TEN's Dark Sun world. > > A: If you were expecting something more then you obviously didn't check > out the free demo that has been in circulation for about 5 months now. > You also must have never checked the battle.net forums > (http://www.battle.net) where the capabilities and the limitations of > the game are discussed openly and often. Also, Meridian 59 and Dark Sun > are pay for play services. Battle.net is free. To compare the two is not > really fair or objective. Also, the play that takes place once players > join a game from battle.net is peer to peer. The game is not played on > the battle.net server. I doubt you could get more than four people in a > game with the lag becoming unbearable. Blizzard realized this as well > and limited the amount of players to four in a multiplayer contest. > > Thanks. I feel better now. ;) > > > Gordon Wilson > gkwi...@ix.netcom.com > IronWill on battle.net and KALI >
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From: "Craig Fletcher" <quak...@airmail.net> Subject: Re: Negative review of Diablo by Gamecenter! Date: 1997/02/06 Message-ID: <01bf7039$b269fb00$6e0f42ce@quakeman> X-Deja-AN: 214790692 references: <32F8F372.1963@ix.netcom.com> organization: INTERNET AMERICA newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,alt.games.diablo MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit