"Review" in Computer Games
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 12:29 am
WitP makes a columnist's head explode. Article basically complains that the game is too complex and detailed, lol.
George
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RE: "Review" in Computer Games
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 12:36 am
link?
RE: "Review" in Computer Games
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 1:32 am
No link, its a paper mag.
Online site is www.cgonline.com.
No article online tho....
George (who knows quite a few other nukes
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Online site is www.cgonline.com.
No article online tho....
George (who knows quite a few other nukes
)RE: "Review" in Computer Games
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 3:56 am
"Stay on the bomb run, boys. Im gonna get those doors open if it hair-lips everyone on Bear Creek" - Major Kong
"Dr Strangelove"
George
Remember Slim Pickens on Bonanza - playing a character called "Muley?" That and "Blazing Saddles" were classics.
RE: "Review" in Computer Games
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 4:25 am
I thought that was the best part of the game personally.
Doing a review of it myself for SimHq. I actually had it written (almost) but decided to wait until 1.3 before I finish it and post it.
Doing a review of it myself for SimHq. I actually had it written (almost) but decided to wait until 1.3 before I finish it and post it.
RE: "Review" in Computer Games
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 5:31 am
Well that guy they have replacing Trotter in PC Gamer said that wargame design has been going down hill ever since Panzer General...guess that tells you where the industry is headed.
RE: "Review" in Computer Games
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 5:45 am
Isn't CG magazine the old Strategy Games magazine that has gone through a few morphs to it's present form? Man at one time that mag was predominateley about war games.
RE: "Review" in Computer Games
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 10:18 am
It used to be called Strategy Plus.
They did a damn fine strategy guide for Second Front.
Shame they do reviews on a playstation now.
They did a damn fine strategy guide for Second Front.
Shame they do reviews on a playstation now.
RE: "Review" in Computer Games
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 6:00 pm
"Strategy Plus" was the ONLY mag I subscribed to in the early '90's,till they started pandering to the "lunchbox at recess" crowd..Then it went to "shoot-em ups" and "Doom" and "To the friggin' zoo with Elmo"(etc)..
RE: "Review" in Computer Games
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 10:24 pm
ORIGINAL: rlc27
Well that guy they have replacing Trotter in PC Gamer said that wargame design has been going down hill ever since Panzer General...guess that tells you where the industry is headed.
[:@]
RE: "Review" in Computer Games
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 10:40 pm
I was in Paris last week and browsing a newsstand and saw a computer mag there that had some sort of WITP article, at least the name of the game was on the cover. Unfortunately, I know about 10 words of French so I didn't buy it! [:D]
RE: "Review" in Computer Games
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 10:46 pm
It was the last issue of PC4WAR![8D]You should learn French...[;)]
RE: "Review" in Computer Games
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 5:11 pm
ORIGINAL: Zorfwaddle
WitP makes a columnist's head explode. Article basically complains that the game is too complex and detailed, lol.
George
(1) The item in question was not a review - it was the back page column, "Three-Finger Salute." It's usually a humor column, or makes its points using humor.
(2) He was simply observing that while he used to love super-detailed wargames that took forever to complete, he no longer does. It's a fair point, and one I have hard expressed by friends of mine that used to play these games back in high school, but have lost interest in them.
RE: "Review" in Computer Games
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 5:47 pm
The thing that I *love* about WITP is its detail, though I don't like micro-management. The problem as it stands is that you really have to micro-manage everything. If only features like auto-convoy, auto commander selection, automatic Jap industry optimization, and AI taking over UK/China/Russia worked better/existed, you wouldn't need to pay so much attention to every little detail, which would make the game a lot better for "groglites" whose attention span approximates commercial breaks on MTV [:)]
RE: "Review" in Computer Games
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 5:58 pm
ORIGINAL: rlc27
The thing that I *love* about WITP is its detail, though I don't like micro-management. The problem as it stands is that you really have to micro-manage everything. If only features like auto-convoy, auto commander selection, automatic Jap industry optimization, and AI taking over UK/China/Russia worked better/existed, you wouldn't need to pay so much attention to every little detail, which would make the game a lot better for "groglites" whose attention span approximates commercial breaks on MTV [:)]
100% agree.
Plus...Groglite. Love it. That's me.
RE: "Review" in Computer Games
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 6:55 pm
1. Hence the quotation marks.
2. No comment.
2. No comment.