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Re: Origin - CD-only forever!

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From: pfle... Nightfox
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 1994 00:43
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: 	Is this a 128-bit graphic card or something else?
I got the impreesion that it was a graphic card. I really can't remember
where I read it though. Maybe they'll get getting bigger busses with every
new motherboard, until the get one that stretches from here to the moon :)

: 	:-) Fair enough... I am of a similar mind, but I keep forgetting
: something which I know not the answer at this time since nothing has caused it:
: it is called "Temptation". :-)

Aaah yes, my master plan to get around this is to purchase a game once every
3 months. WC3 December, System Shock CD Februrary/March, Bioforge June. With
occasional older game picked up on the cheap somewhere, like Lands of Lore
CD is one that I'm looking for. I think Wing Commander 3 will be good for
quite a number of replays (I'm still not bored with the demo) and before I
know it, I'll be right when upgrade time comes :)


: 	Something that needs clarification here: does the term "interactive"
: mean one can step outside the plotline of a game like in Mechwarrior, Space
: Rogue or Privateer (though these are poor examples, since you only ever
: basically traded and fought and nothing else - no character development away
: from the main game story... Arena (Elder Scrolls V1) I think was SUPPOSED to
: do this but I suspect they did not - I am not sure)?  To me, that is what total
: interactivity means.
: 	So basically I need to know if my definition is the same as Origin's.

For me an interactive movie means that I have some control over how the
story line unfolds. In Bioforge for example, some of the decisions end up
how the character turns out to be. One good thing about Pacific Strike is
how they did that with the story line as well. Repeated failures and the
moral drops, and I didn't play long enough to win.


: 	I should have been more precise: an SBAWE32 to be exact.

That I know nothing about :)
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Subject: Re: Origin - CD-only forever!
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