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From: mat... mathew
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1994 12:52
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1994 12:52
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In article <30mbsm$r...@netaxs.com>, Brian Trosko <btr...@netaxs.com> wrote: >second problem was that there was absolutely no objective or plot to the >game whatsoever. Your only objective is to make money, so you can buy a >bigger ship, put more guns on it, carry more cargo, so you can make more >money, so you can buy a bigger ship, etc. Maybe I've just been spoiled >by the Wing Commander series, but I tend to expect a plot in a game that >costs me $40+. Perhaps you missed the military missions, assassination missions, cargo runs, asteroid mining, surface mining, piracy, and all the other things you can amuse yourself doing in Frontier? Nothing beats the satisfaction of evading four Mafia ships, couriering incriminating evidence into a system they think they have sewn up... True, the game doesn't give you a single goal. It's like life, you have to decide on your own goals. mathew [ See WWW home page for profile ] -- http://www.mantis.co.uk/~mathew/ Looking for: Bug-tracking systems for UNIX, DOS and Windows which aren't GNATS
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!uunet!pipex!mantis!mantis!not-for-mail From: mat...@mantis.co.uk (mathew) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc Subject: Frontier Date: 22 Jul 1994 13:52:27 +0100 Organization: Mantis Consultants Ltd, Cambridge, UK Lines: 24 Message-ID: <30ofeb$1vl@sunforest.mantis.co.uk> References: <Ct5wo4.IxD@metronet.com> <30g9ob$ghn@mercury.kingston.ac.uk> <1994Jul21.092327.33657@hulaw1.harvard.edu> <30mbsm$rkj@netaxs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sunforest.mantis.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit