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Article #54Re: Origin - CD-only forever!
From: szu... Chris Szurgot
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 05:10
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 05:10
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In article <391gii$h...@cascade.pnw.net>, har...@pnw.net (Eric Harding) wrote: > IF anyone here thinks Origin/EA is gonna allow the former depth that > existed in Origin games to continue in their new PC/3DO videowares, > you're mistaken. Armada has lousy gameplay, U8 is just plain bad, and > Privateer wasn't that good. WCIII is not going to be much more than a > movie, with combat sequences ran by a bad combat engine, if it's anything > like the one in Armada. I think this is the most unfounded statement I have ever heard... While I can't comment on the Armada/Privateer, I know that although U8 had an arcade engine, it still had a very rich and detailed world... And System Shock, Origin's most recent game is probably the best Single Person RPG I have seen... Interact with the entire enviroment, Runs great on my 486/33 w 8Meg. Origin may just be experiencing growing pains, but don't discount them just yet...
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!news.infi.net!larry!szurgot From: szu...@infi.net (Chris Szurgot) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim Subject: Re: Origin - CD-only forever! Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 00:10:22 -0500 Organization: InfiNet Lines: 18 Message-ID: <-m7jk4g84YSS073yn@infi.net> References: <38ep3g$5gj@adam.cc.sunysb.edu> <Cy6wCC.A22@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <1994Oct25.041940.10700@pimacc.pima.edu> <391c43$ngm@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> <391gii$h07@cascade.pnw.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: larry.infi.net Originator: szurgot@larry MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit