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Article #64Re: Doom is DEAD
From: hard... Hardball
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 1994 05:42
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 1994 05:42
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: I dont think so. I must say that doom is still the best so called : doom-like game, but it lacked depth of game, which UFO surely : offers. Most of adult people dont antwant just another mindless shoot- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ : em-up game. I think that DOOM shares will start heavily rise, but ^^^^^^^^^^^ : thats for (I mean doom II) it nneeds some deeper gameplay, not only : if-it-moves, shoot it. I myself expect the whole world, where r If the above highlighted part is true, then WHY is the projected earnings of the folks at id expected to be $8 million dollars from DOOM, in the first year alone? And WHY are so many systems wanting to have DOOM ported to their platforms? Sega, Atari, Windows, OS/2, you name it, they want it. Any game can simulate action to a far better degree than it can simulate intelligence. I don't play a game to act out a story. If I wanted to act out a story I'd read a book.
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