Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!gumby!umich!vela!lmbailey From: lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Laurana Bailey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Psygnosis Missed the Point! Message-ID: <7258@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Date: 15 Jun 91 04:21:24 GMT References: <16827@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <1991Jun8.131754.5246@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <11760@mirsa.inria.fr> Organization: Lemming-Aid 1992 - Benefit Concert To Save The Lemmings Lines: 100 In article <11760@mirsa.inria.fr> buffa@mirsa.inria.fr writes: | | I'm really pissed by this discussion against Psygnosis, as there are many many | worse companies on the market. Sorry to have upset you... | | What you should do: | | -Buy an IBM or a MAC, and stop posting bloody ennoying messages. Have you ever | played games on these machines ? There is not even one good arcade game, only | boring simulations that are better on the Amiga. If the price to pay is copy | protection, I accept it. IBM and MAC are not good for gaming. Not true. There are several games on the IBM that were disasters when they were ported to the Amiga. Chuck Yeager's AFT is one I can think of. Bloody well great on the IBM, sick as a mule on the Amiga. In general, the Amiga has better games, but that is not an absolute. | | -I bought my amiga in 1986 and never had any problem with my drives. I have | seen no game that destroyed or changed my head drives alignment. I haven't either, but then I've been lucky. I have friends who have had to have their drives re-aligned a few times becuase of copy protection gronking the hell out of them. | | -I have an HD, but I can not put all games on it. The only games that need to | be on a HD, like Sierra games or Stellar 7 or other IBM ports don't woth the | price of their box. If people suppose that everybody has an HD, has an | accelerator card, has a 3000, we won't see games like starglider 2, Carrier | Command that have a better 3D on a simple 68000 amiga than the flight sims on | IBM 486. Programmers must have constraints to be good. Give me a break. If it's written for the Amiga it should at LEAST take an assumption that SOMEONE out there has bought an A3000 and just MIGHT like to play that game inbetween doing whatever major important things they are doing with their machine. Even if it doesn't support an HD it should at least run on a 68030 or 020 based machine. It doesn't take that much more effort and they won't piss anyone off in the process. HD installability is a nice feature to have, but isn't an absolute must have (IMHO). It should work on all machines though. | | -Stop flaming Psygnosis please, they enjoyed me so much with a lot of their | games... Thats like saying: Stop flaming the U.S. Government! Sure they're not perfect, but their trying! If we don't let them know what we want, they won't have any reason to get better. Why should I settle for almost everything I'd like to have when I can have it all? Why do you think I bought an Amiga instead of an IBM? IBM was almost everything I wanted, the Amiga WAS everything I wanted. | | -Flame Electronic Arts for Chuck Yeager flight sim awful IBM port (but HD | installable !) We have, and will continue to do so in the future. | | -Flame Dynamix for awful IBM port of Stellar 7 (But Hd installable !) I haven't seen this one so I can not comment. | | -Flame US gold for their continuity in selling bad games. No one buys US Gold games around here anyways so whats the point of flaming them? They aren't anywhere near perfect and no amount of flaming will change that. | -- | ------------------------------------------ | Michel Buffa: Projet Robotvis, INRIA, France | | Internet: buffa@sardaigne.inria.fr | Surface Mail: Michel BUFFA, INRIA - Sophia Antipolis, | 2004, route des Lucioles, 06565 Valbonne Cedex -- FRANCE | Voice phone: (33) 93.65.78.39, Fax: (33) 93 65 77 65 | ------------------------------------------ Laurana -- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ |Just another lemming... | Yet another Amiga maniac set loose | | | on the world...and you thought things| |lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu | couldn't get any worse. |