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Article #45529Re: Assault Rigs
From: M.B.
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 00:00
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Dave Glue wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Apr 1996 20:04:49 GMT, t...@skyenet.net (Mark Smith) wrote: > > >My advice to you is to return Rigs and STAY WAY from direct ports of > >home video games. Of course if you do not have a PlayStation THEN GO > >BUY ONE because the games cannot be beat or duplicated. In fact some > >PC games are being ported to PSX that are EVEN better than their PC > >counterparts - namely DESCENT - CREATURE SHOCK - JOURNEYMAN PROJECT > >and many more. I now wait to find out if a title is scheduled for > >release on PSX before I purchase the PC version because it will always > >be worth the wait for the PSX version. > > The PC port of Destruction Derby is quite good, Wipeout and Assault > Rigs are not. But the games "cannot be beat"? Wipeout is good, DD > and Assault Rigs are yawn-a-thons. Staying away from console ports > should be a rule, why get one of those when you can get a game made > specifically for the PC's abilities? Duke Nukem, Wing Commander IV, > etc. > > And Creature Shock and Journeyman Project?!? ROTFL! Creature Shock is > a streamed-video off of CD game, worthless. JourneyMan project is > years old, it's a slow moving point and lick adventure you twit. And > who cares about Descent when PC users are playing Descent _2_ right > now in 640*480? How that modem play coming on the PSX? How about > editing levels? How's the control with that gamepad? Yep, always wait > for the PSX version eh? Idiot. WOO HOOO strike one up for the PC! You said it dude, these console players always doggin the PC. When a console system comes out with some type of storage and expandability then it would be worth playing some games.
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From: "M.B." <grnn...@mcn.net> Subject: Re: Assault Rigs Date: 1996/04/25 Message-ID: <317F3137.7484@mcn.net> X-Deja-AN: 152059314 references: <317415ae.523669@news.cdc.net> <Dq0vvr.8vs@iquest.net> <4lduj3$ss0@steel.interlog.com> organization: Montana Communications Network mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit