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got...@regiss.optera.com (ABHOTH DAIMONIZOMAI) wrote:

>Is it just me, or are Origin programmers just really lazy and stupid? The
>reason I say this is because they hype their games as being
>oh-so-high-tech and state-of-the-art-push-the-envelope stuff, but yet
>their games really aren't all that much more spectacular than some of the
>stuff already out. The only difference, of course, is that Origin's games
>are generally slow and require the current top-of-the-line PC to run at a
>reasonable speed. Origin likes to put big hefty system requirements on
>their so-called state-of-the-art games, and I guess that makes them feel
>special or something... that you need a Pentium to run their games, even
>though they are EXTREMELY over-rated. Case in point, Cybermage. Huge 9 meg
>demo. The game is pitifully slow on a Pentium 90 at high res with all
>detail on. And what's so special about it? Graphics are nothing exciting,
>and everything is still 90 degrees.

As far as I can remember since Ultima 6 and Wing Commander 1 Origin
has always produced games which require state of the art machines. (I
can remeber everybodys complain about WC1 that you need a 386 machine
to play it). And they were always great games. I like even Ultima 8
with the new patch of course which takes a lot of jumping out of the
game.


Werner Punz
we...@inflab.uni-linz.ac.at