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In article <38qg2u$2...@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>, th...@merhaba.cc.columbia.edu (Tom  Hong) says:
>
>In article <38nh69$h...@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>,
>GM Enierga <gme...@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au> wrote:
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>>       As for Privateer... well, what can I say?  The voice acting was
>>terrible, and that would be one of the game's compliments I think!  And anothe
>>thing I cannot understand: when you release a speech pack for a game, don't yo
>>EXPECT to mean FULL speech throughout the game, not just in the battle scenes?
>>Or is it just me?
>
>        No, it's not just you.  But many others like you never bothered to
>see the situation from the programmer's point of view.  I think it's *too*
>much to expect full speech throughout the game.  Why?  Because in the
>beginning of the Wing Commander games (the ones released thus far, in any
>case) and Strike Commander as well, you customize the game by putting in
>your name and callsign.  These are then used throughout the plot in dialogs
>with other characters.  It would be totally unreasonable to ask Origin
>programmers to digitize every known name and callsign in the universe just
>so you can hear uninterrupted speech in the game.
>
>        In all fairness though, I do agree with you that the small amount
>of sounds added by the speech pack should have been included in the first
>place.
>
>        That's why in Wing Commander III you will not have the luxury of
>being able to choose your own name and callsign.  That's why ol' Bluehair's
>name is now Christopher Blair.  So that Origin can implement full-speech
>throughout the game for your listening pleasure.
>
>TRH Sends

I can't believe that companies are still trying to rip off buyers for an extra $20/30
bucks by making speech packs available, instead of just putting them in the game
and making it an install option. I mean really, when these guys (big game companies
put out games that need 486/66, 8 megs ram, 100 megs hd space, do they really
believe that you wont have a sound card in that machine as well? Maybe I'm just
echoing old sentiments, but it just gets really upsetting when I see Origin and 
the rest of the big game makers putting out speech paks and forcing gamers to
buy them. My $.02.

Relax
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