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men...@hydra.unm.edu (Kevin C. Dorff) writes:
>I don't see why people are bitching so much about cd rom games.
>I personally vowed a couple months ago not to buy any games that
>WEREN'T on cd, unless they were just PHENOMINAL and there was
>no cd rom version coming out ever.
>K

	I can give you one reason: there ARE people out there who do NOT have
CD-ROMs.  I am one of those people.  The major reason I guess is that I have
yet to see or hear of _A_ particular game that is GOOD on CD-ROM compared to
the HD version.  Most CDROM games out there are basically floppy releases with
full speech usually... big deal; there's still 550 MB of stuff on the CD left
unused... talk about waste of space and opportunity.  Other games like
Rebel Assault are just glorified shootem-ups.  I wonder if there is ANY person
out there who has finished the entire game and has gone back to it, from the
START, repeatedly because they enjoyed the experience.  Still others are
basically what the old 8-bit compter graphic adventures were without the
text (and just a wee-bit enhanced).  I am of course referring to things like
"Myst" and "The 7th Guest".  Sure they looked pretty.  Sure they sounded
pretty.  But the gameplay was just above average, and that only because of
the great puzzles... now tell me there haven't been any floppy releases with
equally satisfying if not better puzzles.
	Maybe what is coming around the corner may warrant a need for a CDROM
purchase for me... WC3, System Shock (I would honestly prefer to play the game
in a 1024x768 mode compared to the floppy's 320x200 - IF that is a true claim,
actually), Under a Killing Moon (The game's claim to give you the ability to
explore EVERY single inch in a room is something else... poor man's VR perhaps?
:-) - I just hope it is true and not just false advertisment)... and that's all
for now.  But for now, since there's nothing out there worth getting a CD-ROM
for, why bother?
	Why buy a 100-foot yaght if you are never going to leave your desert
house?

							- Falcon