Kyka
Loser
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Maes said:
Well, surprisingly I still have the original .TXT files I typed looong ago, to print with my dot matrix printer :-p
I now discovered that I had actually written TWO such letters: one was written before that Final Doom "review" and was milder in tone, probably written in response to a perceived Doom-bashing wave that had began to emerge from that magazine's pages (in practice, the didn't hide the hope that every new FPS on the market would be the "Doom killer". Yeah right).
I mostly (calmly) debated the technical merits of Doom over contemporary FPS such as Duke Nukem 3D, Quake etc.
However, the "angry" letter was based on that one (certain portions are copied verbatim), but was much more harsh vs the magazine, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D and random shovelware :-p The timestamp on both files is wrong, but the issue of the magazine where the "terrible deed" was committed was issue 78, so that's about February 1996, but taking into account that only one issue came out during July-August that's probably off by some 5-6 months, so the real date must be closer to September or October 1996.
In retrospect, I can see what a hothead know-it-all I was, I wasn't everybody's cup of tea, I didn't always argue rationally but I got some things dead-on nevertheless, like it or not.
The letter is in Greek, and about 10k of pure .TXT rage :-p
I can translate it all, with some patience, or just the important bits.
That's cool dude, don't go to heaps of trouble over it. But yeah, perhaps just a couple of the parts you think are the most relevant, from either of the letters would be interesting.
Thanks dude. I remember well when final doom came out. TWO new megawads!! And i remember it being put down by the critics too. So it would be good to see a "defender of the faith" sticking it to those critics.
And even if you were a "hothead know-it-all", lets face it; so are most of those self professed gaming 'experts' anyway. o_0
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