Re: Side Scrollers and 3D..... Stay in your territories, please.

[Marc Hernandez <marc@ias.jb.com>]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Matthew Kodatsky wrote:

> Hi There,
> 
>         I would just like to say that I completely Agree with what your
> saying.  3D games arent as great as they are hyped up to be.  Dont get me

	I think they are both fun.  Most of the fun is in the game design,
rather than the perspective.
	There is also somewhat of a definition issue.  You can have a game
use 3d hardware accelerate an essentially 2d game.  Dungeon Keeper falls
in this category a bit.

> wrong, there are some good 3D games out there, but in most cases, it ruins
> the game play.  I think most 2D games were the best.  RPG/Adventure games

	Most cases?  

> are only good in 2D as are most other games.  3D is really not that

	I like RPGs in 3d.  System Shock II is an awesome 3d game.  Duke
Nukem will also probably be fun (but then it is more of an 3d arcade
game).  Might and Magic was fun and 3d.  Eye of the beholder, Bard's Tale,
Dungeon Master were all 3d and were great games.

> practical unless its an easy to play world. Until Virtual Reality games
> become existent, 3D will be lacking in many areas I think.  Virtual reality
> would be the only way to give the player the actual feeling of being in the
> game world like thr 2D ones did.

	Being in the world is much more of a mental state than a display
state for me.  I have been in worlds that were: text (books/muds), ASCII
(a simple space trading BBS game), 2d (StarFlight numerous others), 3d
(Wolf, Doom, Quake I, System Shock).

--
Marc Hernandez

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