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From: ifarqhar@sunb.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Ian Farquhar)
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Subject: Re: Sierra Games
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Date: 14 Feb 91 10:16:47 GMT
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In article <1991Feb14.043508.8221@disk.uucp> specter@disk.uucp (Byron Max Guernsey) writes:
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>I doubt that someone who buys games just for the graphics could solve one.
>I wanted a serious reply. The graphics suck on zork too, but it stills sells.
>:) Geez and how graphic is the card game poker? People play them for fun, not
>just graphics. If I wanted graphics I would go buy SOB II. 

But Infocom never advertised Zork as having realistic "3D" graphics, and
Sierra do.  One thing that could have been said about Infocom is that
when they were beig, they were at the forfront of technology.  I mean,
that parser looks pretty good even today, and it was first released in
the early 70's on DEC machines.

>But for those that still damand graphics, Sierra ahas made Kings Quest V and
>is working on Space Quest IV. They already screwed up big time by taking
>out the command interface and replacing it with icons. 

Although I agree that icon-driven adventures are an abomination, the
Sierra parser looked as if it had been written by a first year CS
student in Basic (well, maybe not that bad, but it is extremely dumb.)
They haven't done much damage, because there was nothing worthwhile to
damage anyway.

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