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From: brian@sky.COM (Brian Pelletier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Quality
Keywords: Amiga graphics?  They look OK to me...
Message-ID: <740@sky.COM>
Date: 12 Oct 90 19:44:43 GMT
References: <1990Oct11.164358.20406@warwick.ac.uk>
Reply-To: brian@sky.COM (Brian Pelletier)
Organization: SKY Computers, Chelmsford MA
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In article <1990Oct11.164358.20406@warwick.ac.uk> esucv@warwick.ac.uk (Blitter) writes:
>Hi,
>   I find that most Amiga games are INFERIOR to many which appeared on the 64,
>not just in gameplay terms but GRAPHICS also. This is because almost all 64

Really?  Have you put a C64 next to your Amiga and really viewed them side-
by-side lately?  I had the same impression you did for a while, but once I
saw them running together there was really no comparison.  The Amiga graphics
are almost *always* better, usually by quite a wide margin.  Games like
Shadow of the Beast (I & II) and Turrican have tremendous character animation
as well. 

>   Also, while the sound on the Amiga is technically superior to the 64's,
>most of the music tends to use the same old Soundtracker voices, hence giving
>a 'samey' feel to the music. The 64 had some great composers working on it
>(Rob Hubbard, Martin Galway), where are they now???

This was a pet peeve of mine for a while too.  With the ability to easily 
store 'digitized' sounds, it seemed all the creativity was taken out of many
game soundtracks.  Advertisers even *boasted* the amount of digitized 
sounds in their games.  I always thought that a few tastefully done 
digitized sounds enhanced a game, while a whole digitized soundtrack usually
ruined it.  Again, the titles I mentioned above (as well as a lot of others)
have much better music/sound effects than similar games from a year or 2 ago. 

Just my opinion....

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