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Article #52Re: Stick to Military concepts.
From: umba... Brian Bagnall
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 1995 14:46
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 1995 14:46
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Harry Halladay <hall...@ug.eds.com> writes: >Please don't make Quake 'Dungeons and Dragons' Doom. >I hear a lot of talk of chainmail and other fantasy role >playing concepts. And some are in Heretic. To >me these are a turn off. My favorite weapons in Doom >are the 'real' ones. Chainsaw, Shotgun, Double-barrel shotgun, >and rocket launcher, in that order. I don't care for the fantasy >motif of Heretic at all. The violence becomes more unbelievable >and cartoonish. And just plain isn't as fun. I have faith in what they are coming up with. The weapons they will make are probable going to kick ass compared to Heretic. I didn't really like the scenario for Heretic either. It just didn't resonate the way Doom did. Quake will be all powerful warring Gods, with awesome evil stuff. I like that concept.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!news.cc.swarthmore.edu!psuvax1!news.ecn.bgu.edu!siemens!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca!dyn2-151.cc.umanitoba.ca!umbagna0 From: umba...@cc.umanitoba.ca (Brian Bagnall) Newsgroups: alt.games.quake Subject: Re: Stick to Military concepts. Date: Sun, 1 Jan 1995 14:46:13 Organization: University of Manitoba Lines: 20 Message-ID: <umbagna0.372.000EC5AC@cc.umanitoba.ca> References: <3ecj3i$h06@picasso.ICSI.Net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyn2-151.cc.umanitoba.ca X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit