🚀 go-pugleaf

In <dprice.10...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> dpr...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Don Price) writes:

>In article <30eje6$c...@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> egg...@physics.ubc.ca (Sebastian Eggert) writes:

>>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. 

>-blah,blah,yak,yak.

>You want votes?  How about a count of the number of people posting 
>about a given game.  I haven't done so myself, but I think DOOM would 
>still come out quite high.

>But just for the sake of argument, how many times has the info to vote
>been posted to a.g.d? 

>And finally, so what?

Exactly, so what?  So why does reading this get the people in this group
so aggravated/fired up?  Does it personally hinder your ability to play
DOOM?  I play and love DOOM deathmatches.  I just recently discovered
the networking side of DOOM.  But I also was just able to get X-COM, and
I must say that it is one of the best games I have ever played.  It is
really difficult to compare these two games, being so different, but
game popularity waxes and wanes, and while it will probably always be
popular (until QUAKE), it will become less so.  Its just kind of amazing
the fanaticism this game generates.  Its great, but just because some-
one posts a message proclaiming the death of DOOM being #1, it doesn't
mean it will drop off the face of the earth.  The original post may or
may not have been flame-bait, but I don't see where it could have 
possibly been so compelling as to have generated the amount of traffic
I can see right now.  Instead of filling the net with useless game
war posts, it seems a better use of time and resources to just keep 
playing our favorites game(s) (whatever it/they may be) and keeping
the flame wars to a minimum.  
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