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In article <39kjc9$9...@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>,
GM Enierga <gme...@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au> wrote:

>the HD version.  Most CDROM games out there are basically floppy releases with
>full speech usually... big deal; there's still 550 MB of stuff on the CD left
>unused... talk about waste of space and opportunity.  Other games like

This last statement  just shows that  you know very  little about  how
much space full speech would  take up.  Given that  a CDROM has 600 MB
of free space, you're saying that a game  WITH  free speech would take
up only 50 MB?  Gimme a break!  I was very much  suprised to  find out
that  the CD-ROM  version of Quest   For Glory 4   takes  up _544 MB_!
That's the cost of full speech!

Anyway, on the issue, I think that even  if all that  is added is full
speech, that enhances the experience so much.   Now whenever  I play a
floppy-based game, I feel that I'm missing out on so much just because
there's no speech!!!   It's  like going back to  those  old  black and
white movies with no  speech...  So MUCH more  can be conveyed through
the human voice (read: EMOTION) than can ever be conveyed through just
reading the  words.  That's of course if  it's done well...  And there
are CDROM games that are done well  -- John Rys-Davies is EXCELLENT in
QFG4, and I have high expectations for his acting in WC3.

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