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Article #119Re: Doom is DEAD
From: Justin Pinder
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1994 16:04
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1994 16:04
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>From article <30eje6$c...@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>, by egg...@physics.ubc.ca (Sebastian Eggert): > Finally: Doom is DEAD. > > This weekend the TOP100 games chart, compiled by the readers > of the internet has declared the strategy game: UFO, Enemy Unknown > as the highest rated game above Doom. That means that the highly > celebrated "Doom" was the number one for only 28 weeks (compared to > Civilization which was number one for 44 weeks and is still number 3). > > Soon, Doom will drop even further since it has only a limited > replay value for most people. It was a good game, but the best game > yet? Most people don't think so. > You may say that it is not fair to compare Doom to a strategy game, > which is generally more addictive and has much deeper gameplay. > But Doom has also an advantage: it is shareware and therefore more > accessible for voters. I think that maybe DOOM players are too busy playing DOOM to vote :-) (Which may not be far from the truth, really!) Cheers, Justin
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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.dell.com!tadpole.com!uunet!emba-news.uvm.edu!bajoran.emba.uvm.edu!pinder2 From: pinder2@emba-news.uvm.edu.UUCP (Justin Pinder) Subject: Re: Doom is DEAD Message-ID: <1994Jul21.160424.5435@emba.uvm.edu> Originator: pin...@bajoran.emba.uvm.edu Sender: ne...@emba.uvm.edu Organization: EMBA Computer Facility, University of Vermont References: <30eje6$ceu@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1994 16:04:24 GMT Lines: 23 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit