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Chris Szurgot (szu...@infi.net) wrote:
: 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.

System Shock was an out-of-house game, so was Ultima Underworld I and
II.  U8 Wingcomander Series, Strike comander, etc were all in-house.  As
far as I'm consered that last time there was a good inhouse games from
Origin it was Ultima 6. over 5 years if I remeber correctly, and i
expect it to be the same for a while.  However I have no doubt that they
 will continue to have games with excellent graphics.  not much gameplay
tho.


Will

: Origin may just be experiencing growing pains, but don't discount them
: just yet...