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ad...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (William Lachance) writes:


>-This could all be false! I take absolutely no reasonability for this!
>-Before you shout out Quake suggestion No. 3021, remember this, Id's games
>are designed to immerse you in the enviroment, that means NO LOOKING AT
>KEYBOARD. Using spells will probably be handled in the same way as
>weapons...and there will likely NOT be an inventory.

This is good and bad. While the "immersion" can be quite nice (the
scenery in DOOM is quite interesting), there is a level of immersion
being left out of a lot of games. No game has immersed me as much
as the Ultima Underworld games -- these provided the pretty scenery
AND an interesting story with interesting people that I could talk
to and interact with. Wolf and DOOM and games like them are meant to
provide a different type of immersion (one where you blow everything
to hell and have a heck of a time doing it too!), but there is still
something missing. This is not to say that I find anything missing
from DOOM (except a bug-free VM system - mine dies at the most
inoportune times) - It's just that there is the possibility in games
of the fantasy (Tolkein) genre for much more immersion by providing 
more than action Action ACTION! I would hope that, if Quake doesn't
provide more depth, that someone (hopefully Id) will take their kick-butt
engine and make a game that takes weeks to finish (wistful memories
of the great Dungeon Master...)

It is possible to have both.

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