Dune II and the three rules of a good licensed game
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Dune II and the three rules of a good licensed game
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Re: Dune II and the three rules of a good licensed game
#2That read... forced. More to plug this guy's company than to offer any actually interesting insight.
Re: Dune II and the three rules of a good licensed game
#3Am I the only one who saw IP mentioned like a hundred times without knowing what it meant?
Re: Dune II and the three rules of a good licensed game
#4Am I the only one who saw IP mentioned like a hundred times without knowing what it meant?
Intellectual property, i.e. the Dune branding/universe in this case.
Re: Dune II and the three rules of a good licensed game
#5That read... forced. More to plug this guy's company than to offer any actually interesting insight.
Actually I've played Dune-II for a very long time on my 486, and have many fond memories from that era.
Maybe because of that, the read didn't feel forced. It also enlightened me, why everything in the game clicked so well in my head.
I still play it in DOSBox sometimes. It's worth a spin.
Re: Dune II and the three rules of a good licensed game
#6That read... forced. More to plug this guy's company than to offer any actually interesting insight.
Actually I've played Dune-II for a very long time on my 486, and have many fond memories from that era. Maybe because of that, the read didn't feel forced. It also enlightened me, why everything in the game clicked so well in my head. I still play it in DOSBox sometimes. It's worth a spin.
it definitely is an angle through the lens of someone who cares about licensing IP.
That’s what I found interesting because the combination of licensing aspects + creativity + execution is what makes these game (book, and movie) adaptions amazing evergreen pieces or really bad.
so few examples that transitioned well from medium to medium (just think of all the movies turned/forced into video games and vice versa).
Re: Dune II and the three rules of a good licensed game
#7I played it on 386 with CM8330 sound blaster clone, and although I've heard the soundtrack many times later on, different versions too, it never sounded as good as it did back then. I wonder if it is just my imagination.
Re: Dune II and the three rules of a good licensed game
#8Am I the only one who saw IP mentioned like a hundred times without knowing what it meant?
Intellectual property, i.e. the Dune branding/universe in this case.
Re: Dune II and the three rules of a good licensed game
#9I played it on 386 with CM8330 sound blaster clone, and although I've heard the soundtrack many times later on, different versions too, it never sounded as good as it did back then. I wonder if it is just my imagination.
(rough as hell memory here), I'm almost certain there were two different versions due to the same reason myself!
Re: Dune II and the three rules of a good licensed game
#10I played it on 386 with CM8330 sound blaster clone, and although I've heard the soundtrack many times later on, different versions too, it never sounded as good as it did back then. I wonder if it is just my imagination.
Wikipedia has a bit about the different versions (e.g. the Mega Drive version also had quite different unit graphics).