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Article #104850Re: Has the sci-fi genre completely died?
From: dawg
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 19:32
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 19:32
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Pretty much on life-support. Star wolves looks decent though it's alot like Privateer. "justin credible" <highpurity@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1141836745.306258.216430@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com... > After reading all the over-rated hype about Galactic Civ 2 and hoping > it would revive > the genre and inspire creative programers but alas,this sim GC will not > impress *experienced* players much imo,it's just another "civ" type > game and certainly not *creative*. When you compare it to the real > classics such as Game of the Year: Starflight > it seems so shallow, unfortunately gaming in this genre has NOT > progressed but actually regressed especially when compared to classics > like Starflight which had actual storylines with depth..did all the > creative minds in this genre die..if you don't believe me,read some of > the SF links especially: > > http://necrobones.com/starflt/ > > > ..you do the numbers! >
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