Invisible escreveu:
> Let's look at Abe's Odyssey again. Basically it's a 2D platformer. You 
> know, like Manic Miner or Sonic the Hedgehog or Super Mario.

It's got nothing to do with arcade platformers like Sonic or Mario. 
It's much closer to the "realistic" platform style of Prince of Persia 
or Another World/Flashback.

> But unlike 
> any of these, it has lush fantasy-world computer graphics and truly 
> atmospheric soundscapes.

Its lush fantasy-world CG and atmospheric soundscapes are as good and 
dated as those of Sonic or Mario.  Well, slightly less dated since it's 
a 32-bit game and you're obviously comparing to the old 8 and 16-bit 
Mario and Sonic games.

> And it has bizarre alien lifeforms. It's an 
> audio-visual experience that you keep playing just to see what's on the 
> next screen.

Just like good ol' Sonic... :p

> Yes, it's a 2D playformer. But no, it would have been impossible before 
> the era of 24-bit graphics and digital audio playback [not to mention 
> harddrives that can hold gigabytes of data].

It was released for Playstation 1 on CD and no HD.

> In short, there are people who think alpha games are obsolete, and 
> people who take them seriously. I'm now going to talk about a couple of 
> alpha games.

Just like in cinema, there's space for all -- AAA big-budget 
blockbusters, indies, authoral...  Movies began short and fun with many 
pies on faces.  And yet it progressively adopted much drama from 
theather and developed its own media language.  Yet, we still have many 
pies on faces today, despite not being B&W anymore.

> Perhaps most annoying, the demo uses the same three 45-second music 
> loops for all its levels (of which there aren't many). But the full game 
> uses... THE EXACT SAME THREE MUSIC LOOPS! >_< Jesus, I got so sick of 
> hearing them!

Some days I loop some music piece all day long.  ah, the marvels of 
technology.  I believe Sam would take his gun and shoot you if you asked 
him to play it again for the 10th time straight... LOL

so, have you played the damned Angry Birds already after all? :p

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