Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.games:6829 rec.games.misc:17010 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!rochester!kodak!uupsi!dorsai!hotline From: hotline@dorsai (Anthony Palestrini) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games,rec.games.misc Subject: Re: Eye of the Beholder Keywords: 3000 Message-ID: Date: 30 May 91 02:53:52 GMT References: <11356@mirsa.inria.fr> Organization: The Dorsai Diplomaitc Mission (+1.212.431.1944) Lines: 41 colas@celeste.inria.fr (Colas Nahaboo) writes: > In article <726@digigw.digital.co.jp>, manjit@digigw.digital.co.jp (Manjit Be > writes: > > Does anyone know when Eye of the Beholder by SSI will be released? > > I say they would which claimed it was a new dimension in > > RPG or something like that. > > It is just a copy of dungeon master. Apparently SSI stole the whole game > mechanics from FTL, and got good review from the IBM press since they apparen > are better known in the IBM world than FTL. I am against copyrights on > user-interfaces, but SSI lies makes me sick. > > The REAL innovators are FTL. Play Dungeon Master and Chaos Strikes Back to se > what EoB is. DM & CSB makes full use of the amiga (you can track monsters by > listening to stereophonic noises, no disc access, even between levels!!!). To > bad Sundog wasn't ported to the amiga (or was it?). SSI has made really crapp > software before, FTL have produced ONLY true masterpieces. > > I don't mean EoB is crappy, only all good things in it comes from FTL, not SS > > Colas Nahaboo, colas@sa.inria.fr, Bull Research, Koala Project, GWM X11 WM > Phone:(33) 93.65.77.70(.66 Fax), INRIA, B.P.109 - 06561 Valbonne Cedex, FRANC Ahem. You are truely wrong there, FTL only make 2 of these such masterpieces. SSI has many many many masterpieces, such as their AD&D Interfaces (Pool Of Radiance, Curse Of The Azure Bonds,etc.) Not to mention their war games and simulations. (Dragonstrike!, Renegade Legion Interceptor,etc..) Now I'm not putting down FTL, I finished both DM and CSB and loved both, but they are now no longer up the standards. Both DM and CSB lacked different backgrounds, friendly people, NPCs, talking,etc. EOB included all that plus many new features (the Inventory screen is much neater, and you can walk around while in the inventory screen!), the spell system is alot easier than all those runes (though you get used to them but they are hard to learn at first), plus alot more things. Dont put down SSI because it happens to be a great company! As for the IBM version of EOB, I think the amiga kicks it away! s