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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: FAUG demo of Powermonger by E.A. -- long review
Keywords: simply incredible
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Date: 14 Dec 90 18:54:33 GMT
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In <4244@vela.acs.oakland.edu>, hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland) writes:
>I don't know why everyone is sweating about this whole thing so much. I mean
>granted, there are aspects of the game that are poorly done in terms of
>lack of multitasking, HD Installability, etc, but the basic thing I think
>MOST folks want to know is: How good is the GAME?
>
> [ ... deleted ... ]
>
>So, to get to the bottom line: How's the game?

A friend of mine loves onions.He likes them cooked, raw, steamed, fried, and in
soups, salads, casseroles, and on hamburgers. He like some kinds of onions more
than others. When raw, he especially likes the large, sweet, spanish onions.
When cooked, he likes the yellow-skinned, medium sized onions.

Unfortunately, onions don't like him. If he eats a hamburger with onions on it,
he knows he will suffer some gastointestinal discomfort a few hours later. If
he eats a raw, spanish onion sandwich, he will suffer a lot more.

In the interest of furthering rational discussion, I asked him if he buys
onions a lot. He said he didn't, because he knew they would cause him grief,
and said grief was in a way that was very noticable to him, and thus, very
important to him. I replied that yes, I understood that, but still, how did the
onions taste? I mean, if he liked them, he should buy them, regardless of the
effect they had on him. He said that no, he felt that the discomfort was more
than he cared to put up with, and that no matter how good the onion tasted, it
was just not a sufficient reason for him to eat it. I pressed on, insisting
that the taste of the onion was the important factor, not whether it made him
ill, or how it looked, or whatever other criteria he might apply.

Funny... I couldn't convince him. I wonder why?

If you like a game, and it doesn't have other characteristics that annoy you
enough to matter, by all means buy it, for that is your right.  For me, I will
not buy it if it has enough annoying characteristics, and that is my right. I
won't bore you with the details of what I consider to be too much to bear in a
game, but I will say that if it first does not meet my minimum criteria, I will
never find out what the game plays like, and frankly, it would not matter if I
did. If a company wants me (and many others with the same feelings), to look at
the game, and to buy it, they must first get rid of its annoyances. Otherwise,
I will let those who don't care, support the product. They will get what they
deserve, which is what they will put up with in the interest of playing the
game.

-larry

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