Paul Ambrose wrote in a message to All:
 JR> That'd be MIGHTY cool as a 3d game, but an updated 
 JR> side-scroller would be  interesting as well.
 EB>  
 EB> I was thinking the same thing.  Maybe something like 
 EB> Donkey Kong Country for SNES or Lost Vikings: Norse by 
 EB> Northwest would be pretty cool since it's got the 3D 
 EB> rendered graphics as a side scroller.
 EB>   Eric
 PA>       
 RF> ACK!  No!  Why go for a dull, standard side-scroller when so
 RF> many possibilities exist with 3D?
PA>      I agree 3D has far more realizem than 2d for graphics and all
PA> action I've played Duke Nukem2d and DN3D and nomourus other
PA> games which are in both 3&2d. To stay interested in a game
PA> nothing keeps the excitement of 3D.
 A decent story beats the heck out of 3D.
 To use your logic, someone could make a 3D rendering out of, say,
 the DOS prompt and it would be better than the plain old versions,
 and that's just not so.
 It seems to me the weakest spot of -any- game is the story.  Get that
 right and people will even forgive less than perfect graphics or funky
 sound effects or weird music.
 That's not to say 3-D automatically = bad game.  Duke 3d is simply one
 of the best games ever made, period, but it's the sum of all it's parts
 that makes it that way.
 It is possible to get the same sum in 2-D as well.  Afterall, it took
 2 decades of 2-D computer games to get where we are now.  Some of them
 were even good games.  (horrors!)  
PA> Mind you it would be nice if we could upload that are on SNES
PA> ,SEGA  ect.on to computer format. If it is possible I'd like to
PA> hear about it. You have to admit there were some cool games out
PA> there.      
 Console emulation is already being done for NES, SMS, etc, and hundreds
 of arcade machines, but it's not exactly *legal*.  And very off-topic
 for this echo (and probably all of Fidonet) anyway.  Nothing to do
 with Apogee either.
 Patrick
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