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To: Mister Pink who wrote (1826)	3/24/1998 1:03:00 AM
From: Chris McConnel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2319

Mister Pink: >>> Nowadays the closest thing to a 3D standard is the Voodoo chipset made by 3Dfx <<< Have you tried out Intel 740 3d based card yet (assuming game developers get the stuff first.) Over in John Carmack's plan he seems to be giving it great reviews, saying it's as good or better then Voodoo1. Wondering if Intel is going to clobber everyone else. Since they make most motherboards, they will probably start putting the 740 right on the motherboard, and nobody will need one of the other 3d cards. Seems to me there will be a real shakeout for the 3d card makers. Also should be a boon to game developers. DirectX seems to be problematic for many and if the 740 captures most of the market, developers could write to it directly or use the 740 OpenGL driver. >>> I'm familiar with the multiplayer game industry, and they've been talking about how much money they will make "someday." <<< What do you think will be the hit games, going forward. Someone (think it was Buddy) on this thread suggested that FPS were becoming boring. Not sure if that's true, but it seems like there is glut of these games coming out, thanks mainly to Epic's and Id's licensing deals. Thinking out about, given the 3d performance and processing power available now, seems like there must be ways of using that power that no one has thought of yet. Wonder if, for the industry to grow, they will need to start thinking up new kinds of games. - Chris

To: Mister Pink who wrote (1826)	3/26/1998 11:11:00 AM
From: RJC2006	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2319

<<<I'm not sure I would go this far about game companies in general. Entertainment is big business. I think the problem is that no one is doing it right.>> Then it sounds that you agree with Buddy. To me the problem isn't that no one is doing it right but rather too many people are doing it wrong. I review games so I get a myriad of packages and half I send back to the editor and tell him not to bother. If I can't say anything good then I don't bother with it. What I have noticed is that no one game company's product line is completely bad but rather almost every game company puts out a couple of products that are truly inventive and then bury them under an avalanche of clones and non-sense. For me I have been able to play any game out there on the Cyrix 150+ with a 4 meg graphic card. Quake II is a good benchmark. If you can run that game well then you are probably good to go for at least a couple of years. Where the industry stumbles is in relying on technology rather than story to sell its wares. I look at Lucas Arts offerings and I see a product line that isn't hardware intensive and yet the background of most of their games holds your interest. I look at SSI and there is a perfect example of a couple of good buried under a pile of mediocre. Imperialism I really thought was good but then you look at WarWind and Final Liberation and the old cliche "been there, done that" springs to mind. Most gamers are intelligent. For some people, logging on to a computer is daunting so playing a game usually interests computer literate people and yet many game companies produce elementary school material.