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Article #107Re: Doom is NOT Dead; The Rating System is Skewed
From: gt3... Todd Elsbernd
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 1994 18:04
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 1994 18:04
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In article <30n7dk$q...@mozz.unh.edu>, The Rink <s...@kepler.unh.edu> wrote: >Not really. Doom is "just another shoot em up" with great graphics. >Beyond the graphics, there is not much of a game. It has modem support >which is cool, but this could be added with virtually any shoot em up >game and you'd get similar results minus the graphics. Personally, I >look for more in a game than graphic displays. Raptor kicks Doom's butt >on both gameplay _and_ graphics; it just doesn't have the modem support -- >and Raptor isn't much for gameplay either, though I enjoy it a lot. You have the right to foolishly state your opinion that Raptor has better gameplay than DOOM. However, "it kicks DOOM's butt on graphics"??? I do not see how you could possibly come up with such a statement. Beyond the obvious, Raptor's graphics have less detail, less variety, and less depth. Todd -- "Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and move on." --Winston Churchill
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!gt-news!prism!prism!not-for-mail From: gt3...@prism.gatech.edu (Todd Elsbernd) Newsgroups: alt.games.doom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc Subject: Re: Doom is NOT Dead; The Rating System is Skewed Date: 23 Jul 1994 14:04:06 -0400 Organization: Lemur Lovers Anonymous (LLA) Lines: 20 Sender: gt3...@prism.gatech.edu Message-ID: <30rm2m$ai@acmex.gatech.edu> References: <30eje6$ceu@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <30jtr3$dj5@cronkite.cisco.com> <BC.94Jul21115536@cygnus.lnec.pt> <30n7dk$qcq@mozz.unh.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: acmex.gatech.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit