[MUD-Dev] Re: Simulation (Was Re: Room descriptions)

[Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt]

On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Adam Wiggins wrote:
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> Interestingly enough, the reverse is true with graphical games.  Descen=
t
> melee fighting didn't show up in arcade games until the genre with over=
 a
> decade old.  Now that 3D is all the rage, the vast majority of
> combat-centric games are based around projectile weaponry (Quake et al)=
,
> since it is much easier to implement.

Well, not really. Lots of very successfull melee fighting games have been=
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made with 3D ..Tekken (I?,II,II) (hand2hand), Soulblade(swords etc.), and=
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so on.. Ofcause i'm talking mainly console games, not PC games. I'd actua=
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_love_ to see something like Soulblade handle the melee in a MUD-like gam=
e.
As you point out tho' controlling that with commands on a keyboard in
'traditional' MUD-style would be kind of hard. It would require a merging
of technologies, making some kind of hybrid game with both joy-pad and
keyboard commands available.

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