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So I am installing the /Jedi Knight II Collector's Edition, /which I
picked up cheap on Amazon.com's auctions, and it includes the older
games /Dark Forces /and /Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight. /Remember the good
old days before realtime CGI, when everybody assumed that in a few more
years high production value games would come on half a dozen CDs?
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"Richard Clayton" <reZIGclaytonZIG@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> So I am installing the /Jedi Knight II Collector's Edition, /which I
> picked up cheap on Amazon.com's auctions, and it includes the older
> games /Dark Forces /and /Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight. /Remember the good
> old days before realtime CGI, when everybody assumed that in a few more
> years high production value games would come on half a dozen CDs?
> --

Damn, now I have to re-install Wing Commander 3 & 4. (Never got 5, and my PS
versions were sold by my idiot brother).

Of course, most games anymore do come on at least 2 CDs. Throw in expansions
and it can climb to a full dozen. Then many are on DVD (for consoles
anyway). Do any of those have decent multiplayer? Only Jedi Academy supports
Live...

 

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JJ wrote:
> "Richard Clayton" <reZIGclaytonZIG@verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:c6rl6l$fsvvg$1@ID-224727.news.uni-berlin.de...
>
>> So I am installing the /Jedi Knight II Collector's Edition, /which I
>>picked up cheap on Amazon.com's auctions, and it includes the older
>>games /Dark Forces /and /Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight. /Remember the good
>>old days before realtime CGI, when everybody assumed that in a few more
>>years high production value games would come on half a dozen CDs?
>>--
>
> Damn, now I have to re-install Wing Commander 3 & 4. (Never got 5, and my PS
> versions were sold by my idiot brother).
>
> Of course, most games anymore do come on at least 2 CDs. Throw in expansions
> and it can climb to a full dozen. Then many are on DVD (for consoles
> anyway). Do any of those have decent multiplayer? Only Jedi Academy supports
> Live...

True, but I find it amusing to reflect on forecasts from ten years ago,
when "interactive movie" was a hot phrase in the gaming industry, and
everybody thought the next step in gaming evolution would be a
forty-hour game with thirty-eight hours of professionally acted
digitized cutscenes. It reminds me of the famous computer engineer from
the early forties who said something like "By the year 2000, computers
will be one hundred times as big and nearly TEN TIMES as fast!"
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"Richard Clayton" <reZIGclaytonZIG@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> True, but I find it amusing to reflect on forecasts from ten years ago,
> when "interactive movie" was a hot phrase in the gaming industry, and
> everybody thought the next step in gaming evolution would be a
> forty-hour game with thirty-eight hours of professionally acted
> digitized cutscenes.

It worked for Wing Commander, I wonder why nobody else managed? Ohhh...
right. Nobody else tried. (The key combination of words being
'professionally acted').

> It reminds me of the famous computer engineer from
> the early forties who said something like "By the year 2000, computers
> will be one hundred times as big and nearly TEN TIMES as fast!"
> --

Ohhhh... now I want to put WC on my new laptop...

 

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JJ wrote:

>
> "Richard Clayton" <reZIGclaytonZIG@verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:c7bgg0$1arkh$1@ID-224727.news.uni-berlin.de...
>
> > True, but I find it amusing to reflect on forecasts from ten years ago,
> > when "interactive movie" was a hot phrase in the gaming industry, and
> > everybody thought the next step in gaming evolution would be a
> > forty-hour game with thirty-eight hours of professionally acted
> > digitized cutscenes.
>
> It worked for Wing Commander, I wonder why nobody else managed? Ohhh...
> right. Nobody else tried. (The key combination of words being
> 'professionally acted').

I seem to recall several imported japanese video games that were
acclaimed for doing such a thing, so "Nobody else tried" isn't quite
right.

Now, if you consider that some people (like myself) find this to be
PAINFULLY BORING ... one might find another reason that such a thing
didn't take off.

 

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James Stein wrote:
>
> Now, if you consider that some people (like myself) find this to be
> PAINFULLY BORING ... one might find another reason that such a thing
> didn't take off.

I think the "painfully boring" has it.

Not always, but if the game is more cut scene than game, it's not a
game.

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Julie d'Aubigny wrote:

> I think the "painfully boring" has it.

> Not always, but if the game is more cut scene than game, it's not a
> game.

Hey, I /like/ Metal Gear Solid 2!
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