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From: hclausen@adspdk.UUCP (Henrik Clausen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Pool of Radiance bug infestation (was Re: DON'T BUY FUTURE WARS)
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Date: 12 Jan 91 09:12:19 GMT
References: <QbWWrmW00WB_MZ234z@andrew.cmu.edu> <5188@bwdls58.UUCP> <4f1b9675.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
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In article <4f1b9675.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>, Robert Moynihan writes:

> In article <5188@bwdls58.UUCP> keithh@atreus.bnr.ca (Keith Hanlan) writes:
> >	
> >	I'm sick of being robbed by these incompetant boobs who have never 
> >	heard of play-testing or beta-testing. SSI's much vaunted Pool of
> >	Radiance falls into the same category: A good game, that is
> >	hard-drive installable to their credit, which fails miserably
> >	because nobody tried to play the goddam thing before they shipped it.

   [Reports of PoR crashing a lot]

> All in all, I think SSI is going to take a major bath in red ink from their
> poor performance in producing this game.  I know my once-high opinion of their
> software has taken a big tumble.  So, until you hear of a new release of PoR,
> *DON'T* buy it!

   I bougth it a few months ago, and while it certainly ain't bugfree, I
have never experienced all the problems you have. I have played the game
from scratch twice, (to get at all details), and it's certainly workable.
   Wild boars take the machine with them when they roll over and die, so be
quick on those. When finishing the game, one of my fighters died so badly
it crashes with a division by 0 on raising him. Annoying, but I certainly
had my fun with the game.

   Now, with Chaos Strikes Back in order, and SimEarth coming Real Soon Now
(I hope), I don't intend to spend any cash on SSI games for some time to
come.

> If you do, it'll be money wasted.

   In fairness, it wasn't for me.

   BTW, it ran fine and fast off my A3000's harddisk. A few problems with
some CPU bound timing where noted, but no big deal.


                                               -Henrik
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