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Moose (Mo...@mitt.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: discover that I was completely immersed. That's the beauty of the game, 
: when you're playing it you are there. Someone fires at you, and you 
: step out of the way, bring up your shotgun, and BAM he's dead. Or 
: whatever. In Descent, (and System Shock, and, for some reason, Heretic, 
: but not Dark Forces which is WAY COOL), someone fires at you and you 
: press a button, press another button, hear a sound effect...
: Stop me if I'm overstating my case.
: I don't want to seem like one of those Doom=religion types, but the 
: game is just so _satisfying_. The instantly responsive control
: system - satisfying. The death sequences - satisfying. The corpses lying 
: around giving evidence of your work, the sound effects, the broad range 
: of weaponry - all of them so satisfying.
: Whatever it may be that defines gameplay, Doom has it. And since Id 
: seem to know what it is, we can reasonably expect it to be present in 
: Quake.

I feel the same way, and add to it that the palette and the textures
are dark and earthy.  Heretic is too video-gamey with colors compared
to Doom.

chris
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