Re: try HEXPLORE and you will blow Diablo away !!!!!!!!!!!!

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From: Xay Voong
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 00:00

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MJ wrote:

> > > HEXplore and Diablo both BLOW. If Diablo is an RPG then I'm fucking
> > >Santa Claus, which I ain't.
> > >You want a real RPG wait for EverQuest or Ultima9 baby!
> > If you read the writeup about Diablo II in CGW then you'd have seen
> > the quote, "We thought about making a RPG, but decided to make Diablo
> > instead."
> >
> > Cynic
>
> The Genre is defined by the way the game plays or is, not by what the
> producers call it. I could write a childrens book and call it a
> psychilogical thriller but it would still just be a picture book
> �

�very good point.� i mean people still call Rogue-like games RPG, even
though
it has no role-playing involved, just exploring and fighting.� Diablo seems
like
a modern Rogue to me, albeit enhanced graphically and interface-wise,
realtime
and multiplayer and all.

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Reply to 'kattdood at pacbell dot net'
Xay Voong
PFC, USMC
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dungeon/1149
Computing and games and stuff
�

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From: Xay Voong <REMOVEk...@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: try HEXPLORE and you will blow Diablo away !!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 1998/04/21
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