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Jessica,
When you said "My serious review of the Demo version is written more
for today's IF community, unlike the above reviews" what, exactly, did
you mean?
Why does YOUR amateurish review (amateurish by your own admission on
your own website) nullify the reviews of TWO professional sources?
What's more sad is how you trumpet your review of a FIRST RELEASE DEMO
and say it is more authoritative than reviews made by people who
actually played the entire game right to the end. What were you
thinking, sweetheart?
Who appointed YOU the official spokesperson for the Interactive
Fiction community, anyway?
How can YOU speak for today's IF community for that matter?
My dear Jessica, I am the one who sets the tone and standards for
today's IF community.
Right now I am exhibiting Malinche titles at GenCon in Indianapolis.
Because of my efforts and my efforts alone, I am putting Interactive
Fiction in front of over 25,000 people.
I'm doing it again at DragonCon in Atlanta in two weeks where I will
present Interactive Fiction to another 25,000 people.
In October I am presenting Interactive Fiction to about 250,000 people
at the New York City Book Festival.
All in all, I will have put Interactive Fiction in front of over
400,000 people at the venues I attend this year alone.
I won't even bother to explore all the exposure I've generated through
front-page newspaper articles, radio interviews, my website, etc. etc.
What do YOU do for the IF community apart from being obnoxious and
manipulative?
With all of the people I've met out there, some startling observations
have been made.
When everybody OUTSIDE of these two newsgroups played BOFH it earned
rave reviews and has become a cult classic. In stark contrast, BOFH
rated somewhere towards the bottom of the list in IF Comp 2002. Isn't
it funny that THOUSANDS of people enjoy BOFH despite its low ranking
by just a few people? I think it's hysterical. I was signing
autographs today for people who thought it was so cool to meet the guy
who wrote BOFH.
I've come to the conclusion quite some time ago that these two
newsgroups and the websites that extend from them are some sort of
Bizarro world of inverse operations. (e.g. good is bad, evil is good,
dark is light, etc. etc.) No other theory explains how thousands upon
thousands of people OUTSIDE of the Bizarro world of these newsgroups
and related websites love my work and bless all things Malinche while
the very small population of Bizarro world holds the majority view
that my work is garbage.
Poor Mr. Panks has almost gone into seizures trying to convince all of
you his work is good. OUTSIDE of Bizaro world his works are quite
good. In the twisted little universe in here, his work is trash. The
poor man must be on the verge of a breakdown. I hope this message
reaches him in time.
A very elite club with a tiny membership can co-exist both in Bizarro
world and the real world and retain their sense of equilibrium. I
think they know who they are. <wink>
Here's a glimpse of the real world outside of the twisted, bizarre
world you and many others choose to live in.
When attendees sat down at my booth at GenCon and tried First Light,
the uninitiated were curious at trying something new. They walked
away converted with their new Malinche games in hand. They obviously
thought my games were good enough to pay for, especially when they can
spend their money at dozens of different booths offering every kind of
game imaginable.
When Infocom fans froze in front of my booth and saw that brand new
commercial IF is back on the market they were dumbfounded. A couple
of die-hard fans were looking for prayer mats to place in front of my
booth. No prayer mats could be found in the convention hall so they
proceeded to try out my games. A number of people clearly enjoyed
themselves as they made their way through First Light, Greystone and
Endgame. Seeing the packaged software, complete with feelies, sparked
them anew. Everyone was happy to have me autograph their games. They
left happy and content. Only good products can do that, darling.
Pentari: First Light was the biggest seller at the show. Greystone was
a very close second.
Obviously, First Light must be good if people played the full version
and then made a decision to purchase the game to take home away with
them.
I'm not going to operate in PanksMode and attempt to persuade you or
anyone else here that my work is good. I know my work is good. The
masses outside Bizarro world know this also. Like usual, my purpose
here is to present the facts and correct the horrendous inaccuracies.
Facts and truth are too powerful for the forces of chaos in Bizarro
World. You and the others of your kind are rendered powerless against
them.
Also as usual, I am not going to bother to check for responses. The
posts tend to be one sided and more than occasionally border on the
hysterical. I expect that to be doubly-true of anything you have to
say.
If Mister Woodward would care to make up his own mind about things, I
invite him to my website at
http://www.malinche.net and let him judge
for himself. I extend that invitation to anyone with an open,
non-negative mind.
Everyone is invitied to visit
http://www.malinche.net and take a look
around. Read all the testimonials and game reviews. Look at
everything. Try out the demos. And then decide for yourselves. Don't
let the forces of this Bizarro world hold sway over you.
Howard Sherman
Implementor
http://www.malinche.net
Live on location in Indianapolis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jess Knoch" <jessicaknoch@mindspring.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.int-fiction,rec.games.int-fiction
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: [SPAG] Make your voice heard!
> Bob_Woodward <soenke_k@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> "James Bond" <wildblinker007@hotmail.com> wrote...
> >>> I'm lazy and forgetful, what's the Dave Letterman (TM)-style top
> >>> ten list of
> >>> games that need to be reviewed? I've been meaning to do this for a
> >>> while now.
> >>>
> [snip list]
> >
> > Shoudn't Pentari: First light be on the list? I'd really like to see a
> > serious review of the full version someday.
>
> I'm not sure where the games on the list come from, but if it were open to
> debate, I would disagree that P:FL "should" be on the list. Some reviews:
>
>
http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/Pentari/Pentari.shtm gives it an A.
> http://www.pcgameworld.com/game.php/id/1590/Pentari:_First_Light/ uses two
> exclamation points.
>
> My serious review of the Demo version is written more for today's IF
> community, unlike the above reviews:
>
http://www.strangebreezes.com/if/reviews/pentaridemo.html
>
> The 16 people who voted on it at www.ifratings.com give it an average of
> 1.5:
>
http://www.carouselchain.com/if/index.php?searchtitle=pentari
> The comments on that site might be worth reading as a review.
>
> Jess
>
>
>
> Shoudn't Pentari: First light be on the list? I'd really like to see a
> serious review of the full version someday.
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