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Article #7Re: Doom is DEAD
From: al... Alexander Schonfeld
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 19:13
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 19:13
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In article <30eje6$c...@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>, Sebastian Eggert <egg...@physics.ubc.ca> wrote: >Finally: Doom is DEAD. > >Soon, Doom will drop even further since it has only a limited >replay value for most people. It was a good game, but the best game >yet? Most people don't think so. >You may say that it is not fair to compare Doom to a strategy game, >which is generally more addictive and has much deeper gameplay. >But Doom has also an advantage: it is shareware and therefore more >accessible for voters. Technically Doom is the best yet. Replay value? I don't see people setting up networks to play X-com... (can it even be played against a human opponent?) As cool as strategy games are, I personally feel nothing compares to the thrill of real time action! Was that message "flamebait"? Alex.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!redstone.interpath.net!ddsw1!news.kei.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!usenet.ee.pdx.edu!not-for-mail From: al...@cs.pdx.edu (Alexander Schonfeld) Newsgroups: alt.games.doom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc Subject: Re: Doom is DEAD Date: 18 Jul 1994 12:13:50 -0700 Organization: Portland State University, Portland, OR Lines: 19 Message-ID: <30ek9e$ssb@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> References: <30eje6$ceu@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: sirius.cs.pdx.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit