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Article #46Re: Doom is DEAD
From: gmi... Gordan Miller
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 1994 03:39
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 1994 03:39
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There seems to be some confusion between "strategy" and "tactics" here.
I'll fully agree that DOOM is not just a mindless shoot-'em-up, but the
decisions the player must make (especially at difficulty 3 & 4... only
psychos play 5... it's a joke, okay?) i.e., do I dodge and sprint across
the room or hole up in a corner?, do I take out the Caco with the RL and
the Imps with the chaingun, or vice versa?, are tactical ones, rather
than strategic ones.
That said, let me be the first to express the belief that the
previous paragraph was a classic case of "pickin' gnat-shit out of
pepper." Doubtless, there are those who sneer at tactical games and love
strategically oriented ones, and vice versa, just for the sake of
principal, but I would guess that most people feel that one is not really
intrinsically superior to the other.
I would also guess that most people would not equate "number two"
with "dead", either.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!midget.towson.edu!gmiller From: gmi...@midget.towson.edu (Gordan Miller) 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 DEAD Followup-To: alt.games.doom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc Date: 24 Jul 1994 03:39:57 GMT Organization: Towson State University, Towson, MD Lines: 15 Message-ID: <30snqd$avj@news.umbc.edu> References: <30eje6$ceu@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <30ergb$d7m@news.bu.edu> <16FF7EA19.GRUNLOH@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: midget.towson.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit