Re: The group charter (Sep 8, 1998)

In article <46dc9f9a$0$14231$ba620e4c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, omni5@xxxxxxxx
says...
Gerry Quinn <gerryq@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Good luck to those who dare to criticize authority,

By "authority" you mean "games you disapprove of (for somewhat obscure
reasons) but which have been successful in the marketplace".

What a veritable little hero you are, standing up to the vile thugs who
play the games they enjoy and oppress you with their brutal
indifference to your opinions on what they should prefer to buy!

Yet another blind, faithful embrace of 2007 corporatism by the Neo-ConQuinster:
"the current market configuration is perfect, MUCH preferable to the Rpg
diversity present from 1995-2002 (in North America). The status-quo is NOT
to be scrutinized or questioned or opposed, unless you are a delusional communist.
If we end up with a unilateral, conformist formula, where every Rpg is an
FPS clickfest with megadoses of eye candy, then that is what the Gods of
greed want, and we must blindly FOLLOW..."

There's plenty of diversity present, and as far as I can see the
European and North American markets for pC games in that era, as now,
were essentially one and the same.

For the record, the most recent game I bought was Geneforge 4, an old-
school party-based CRPG, with rather basic graphics. Spiderweb alone
produces these games faster than I could play them.

I'm very glad that the broken Infinity Engine is no longer used, even
if it produced one classic game. I *do* think MMORPGs with great
graphics are a really good idea - it is hardly surprising that they are
popular. They are *not* FPS clickfests - to call them such is to
betray your ignorance of both the CRPG and FPS genre (the only
significant genre that can reasonably be accused of often being a
clickfest is the misnamed RTS genre).

According to the OED, the word 'sophomoric' means "pretentious,
bombastic, inflated in style or manner; immature, crude, superficial".
I think it admirably sums up your posts.

- Gerry Quinn









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