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Article #279Re: Origin - CD-only forever!
From: swif... Aubrey Chen
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 1994 06:25
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 1994 06:25
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Hello, fellow flight-simers!
>>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.
>What was wrong with the first two WC games? Most people agree that
>they're great. WC2 was recently inducted into CGW's hall of fame, even...
No kidding, has this guy even played WC yet? I haven't met a single WC
player who didn't like the game even if they did prefer the SW series or
complained about its lack of "realism."
Also, how about WOU, U7, U7.5? They were excellent titles too.
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