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Article #190Re: Origin - CD-only forever!
From: con... Lord Soth
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 1994 04:08
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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