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Re: Origin - CD-only forever!

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From: con... Lord Soth
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 1994 04:08
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In article <39ma4m$e...@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>,
yc...@mhoro.cc.columbia.edu (Yung Jin Chew) wrote:
> 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.
> 

How is QFG4CD anyway?  Is it worth getting if I already own QG4?

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