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Article #60Re: Origin - CD-only forever!
From: gme... GM Enierga
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 1994 05:22
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 1994 05:22
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jhen...@jonh.wimsey.com (John Henders) writes: >In <391j64$6...@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> j-h...@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (James Hogan) writes: >>har...@pnw.net (Eric Harding) writes: >>>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. >>It's amazing how people continue to jump to conclusions when they haven't >>seen the game, especially when all the information they've released about >>the game so far indicates that it very well may not be that way... > At least the conclusions are backed by a bit of past history, >where all your expectations have to rely on is media hype. > John Henders - Wimsey Information Services Exactly. How many times has Origin's pre-hype proved them wrong when the actual game eventually came out? Didn't Strike Commander's history work along these same lines? :-( - Falcon
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