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Article #34640Re: Is Risk available for the ST
From: Paul Kerchen
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1988 06:37
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1988 06:37
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In article <1719@nunki.usc.edu> jjung@nunki.usc.edu (John Jung) writes: > > Are you insane? I tried Lords of Conquest in the store, and I think it >stinks. I had seen the ads, and I knew the graphics weren't going to be much, >but when I actually saw it, the graphics looked like *bad* Atari 8-bit >graphics. The game interfaced wasn't too bad, but I didn't like it. The sound >(which I prefered off) was bad and annoying. > > I would not reccommend this game to anybody who likes/loves Risk. I am a ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >devotee of Risk, and I didn't like Lords of Conquest one _single_ bit. > > John I don't have Lords of Conquest, but it seems to me that the idea behind it and Risk is not to be an action-packed, flashy game but a cerebral, plotting game involving strategy and thought. All the bells and whistles are just extra fluff. Therefore, who cares what the graphics look like or what noises it makes if all one is interested in is good game of Risk? Paul Kerchen | kerchen@iris.ucdavis.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ucdavis!iris!kerchen From: kerchen@iris.ucdavis.edu (Paul Kerchen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Is Risk available for the ST Summary: There's more to life than graphics... Message-ID: <3201@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Date: 24 Oct 88 06:37:05 GMT References: <8313@trwrb.UUCP> <6726@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1719@nunki.usc.edu> Sender: uucp@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu Reply-To: kerchen@iris.ucdavis.edu (Paul Kerchen) Organization: U.C. Davis - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Lines: 24